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A19261	A white sheete, or A warning for whoremongers A sermon preached in the parish church of St. Swithins by London-stone, the 19. of Iuly, anno Domi: 1629. the day appointed by honorable authoritie, for penance to be done, by an inhabitant there, for fornication, continued more then two yeares, with his maide-seruant. By Richard Cooke B: of D: and parson there.	Cooke, Richard, 1574 or 5-1639.	1629 (1629)	STC 5676; ESTC S108659	25,390	52

forbidden here or no where in the morall Law The same Father in his booke de 10. Chord cap. 9. answereth an obiection which might seeme to defend it Vxorem non habeo ad meretricē vado I am vnmarried and make vse of an harlot S. Augustine answers In Deum peccas eius imaginem per diffluentias libidinis in te violasti thou dost sinne against God whose image in thee thou defacest in thy selfe by thy overflowing lusts Dominus qui scit quid tibi vtile sit vxorem concessit hoc praecepit h●c iussit The Lord who knoweth what is best for thee hath granted thee a wife this he prescribed thus he hath commanded it is therefore surely a sinne against God Tostatus argueth well to proue it a sinne every naturall act not vsed or imployed to the right end is evill as to eate and drinke non propter conservationem individui not to preserue the body but for riot and excesse is evill so to vse carnall copulation of lust not propter conservationem speciei per generationem not for the preserving of the kind by generation for the which it is appointed must needs be evill and so it is in fornication Reverend M. Latimer maintaines it to bee a sinne against God out of this text thus ex quo discimus Deum benedixisse coniugio where wee reade that God blessed marriage it is easie to gather on the contrary that all other companying of man and woman not in marriage is accursed and proues it by the wordes of my text and concludes thus seeing therefore the sanctitie and chastitie of marriage is commanded in the Law and the contrary is forbidden and all other acts of vncleanesse whatsoever which are a violation of marriage adding also to this reason the testimony of Hosea Whoredome and wine take away the heartes and the punishment of the Israelites for their fornication out of 1 Corinth 10. 8. But we must giue these Apes leaue to hug their owne and these crowes to thinke their owne birds the beautifullest It is one of the Popes purviors that carrieth in his provision no marvaile then if they haue so many Champions to mainetaine it and so many monstrous whoremongers and adulterers amongst them to practise it and so they doe both agere and docere who knoweth not this that hath read any thing concerning the filthines of both Popes and Priests in the Church of Rome Theodoricus of Niem will tell vs that in Norway and Ireland it hath beene lawfull for the Bishops and Priests to keepe their Concubines and when twise a yeare they visited the Parrish Priests that were vnder them they were wont to carrie their Concubines with them yea their Concubines would not suffer them to visit without them Here was good doing this was good stuffe and singular holines Vdulricus B. of Auspurg reports that when a certaine Pope sent to draw a Pond for fishes there were taken vp and brought him aboue six thousand Infants heads Alvarius Pelagius complaineth that the Priests liue incontinently and wisheth they had neuer vowed continencie Alvarus Chartier The ministers of the Church leaving the use of marriage follow wandring dissolute and vnlawfull lusts Nunn Bridget Priests and Deacons keepe whores that with their great bellies walke vp and downe with other women and Pieus Mirandula to name no more speakes as broadly and truely of them The Priests once lay with the women at the doore of the Tabernacle alluding to the sinne of Elies sonnes but in our time they breake into the sacred houses and Fie for shame women are to be brought in to satisfie their filthie lusts and no marvaile then if it be not sinne with such that are such egregious and shameles beastes What meanes their common Stues and open bawdie houses allowed by the Pope and even vnder his nose out of which sinne hee suckes no small advantage perswaded that dulcis oder lucri ex re qualibet Gaine is sweete howsoever it comes in as he said of the ill sent of Vrine yea the hire of an whore and the price of a dog which were had in detestation and held a thing abominable to be brought into the house of God must not misse his mouth nor shall scape his greasie chops All that bring such greest come welcome to his Mill amici curiae bed and bosome friends though never so base or beastly to the Court of Rome and Chamber of the Pope But leaving these like Swine to wallow in their own mire or like Boares and Beastes to satten in their owne filthinesse let vs in a word or two see how this Commination concernes our selues The use for vs may be in a word by the severitie of the punishment to be deterred from the filthines of the offence against which it is threatned recollect but briefly the particulars already dispatched and you shall soone see reason sufficient to disswade you from it Is vncleanes a sin come not neare he that toucheth this sinne must needs be defiled he that commeth too neare this fire shall surely be scorched for the house of an whore is the way to hell going downe to the chambers of death Againe will God be avenged of it if no body else will punish it is it that God from whom we cannot hide it nor from whose power we can not be delivered will it light so terrible first or last either in our soules or bodies goods good name or posteritie or in one of these perhaps in all of these are we lyable to such deadly strokes of Gods hand here and in danger of eternall torments in hell fire for ever after all the plagues and judgements either by God or men to be inflicted shall neither Whoremongers nor Adulterers inherit the Kingdome of heaven shall no vncleane thing enter into that new Ierusalem shall dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers be without then let him that hath an eare to heare heare what the mouth of the Lord hath spoken Flee fornication Mortifie your members which are upon the earth fornication uncleanes c. fornication and uncleanes let it not be once named amongst you c. know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ make them not the members of an harlet For if any man defile the Temple of God him will God destroy I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living Sacrifice holy and acceptable vnto God for this is the will of God even your sanctification that you should abstaine from fornication and that every one should know how to possesse his vessell in sanctification and honor And as those shall be sure with Psalmes in their mouthes and Palmes in their hands as conquerours to follow the Lambe wheresoeuer he goeth which haue not defiled themselues with women but are virgins so those that haue given themselues over to fornication in going after strange flesh as Iude speaketh shall

iudge And as for the manner how God will punish them that also is as he will and how he pleaseth Non desunt Deo vlciscendi modi God never wanteth weapons to wound his enemies or rods in pisse to whip vngratious and rebellious children Fire and brimstone for Sodome and those Citties when God sees the old world so foule with sinne he knowes how to wash it with a floud of waters he hath a tenne stringed whipp for Pharaoh The earth to swallow vp Corah and his Company Leprosie for Miriam and Gehazi The sword famine and pestilence for Israel Lice and wormes for Herod and the like and what not indeed to meete with sinners Oh that we could ever thinke of that after-reckonning for sinne Or that we knew the worst or what it would cost vs before God hath done with vs who knowes who can presage how God may deale with him when by his sins he hath once provoked him What punishment originally and by that first law that God made against Adulterers you know was no lesse then death The mercy of the Gospell in some Churches hath mitigated that severitie into more milde and mercifull proceedings not taking away allcensures or punishments from that sin but hath left it in the wisedome and power of Authoritie to haue that sinne severely and sharpely punished though not with death God grant this sinne may finde no hole to hide his head in nor that there may be no daubing nor dallying no dandling of it Wee see where this mans sinne was lately censured it hath had but little countenance and lesse incouragement The blessing of him that dwelt betwixt the bush reward them seuen-fold into their bosome for their singular Iustice and Sinceritie But shall I tell you how this sinne hath prospered and what entertainement it vsually findes at Gods handes I must tell you then but them especially that finde such pleasure in this sinne that God neuer giues other then sower sawce to such stollen meate as will pregnantly appeare by those fearefull presidents and examples of Gods heauie hand in revenging and punishing this sin of vncleanesse what a pitifull massacre followed vpon the deflouring of Dinah Iacobs daughter by Sechem the sonne of Hamer how dearely did Amnon pay for his incest with his sister When though full two yeares after yet God nor man and not yet forgottē it he was suddenly murthered by the servants of his brother Absalon as he sate at the Table What an heauie time was it what a black day in the Campe and Congregation of Israel for this very sinne when not onely Zimri and Cosbi perished by the hand of Phinees but twentie and foure thousand of the people besides were swept away suddenly by the hand of God Yea the very heathen haue had this sinne in such detestation that they thought no punishment bad enough for the committers of this sinne Zaleucus King of Locris adjudged them by Law to loose their eyes both man and woman and so strickt was hee to see his Law observed that when his owne sonne was taken in Adultery and should haue lost both his eyes the people importuning his Father to forgiue him rather then iustice should not be done he commanded that one of his owne and another of his sonnes eyes should bee put out and so they were as Peter Martyr upon the 2. of Sam Nebucadnezzar hearing that one Acub and Zedekiah Iewes had committed fowlenesse with two married women broyled them both to death on a gridiron Amongst the Egyptians the man that was taken in Adultery was beaten with a thousand stripes and the woman had her nose cut off as Dio Siculus reporteth The Ancient Germanes vsed to set the Adulteresse naked before her kindred and to cut off her haire and then her husband was to driue her before him through the Citie beating her with cudgels The Cumeans placed the Adulteresse in the open market place vpon a stone in the publique view of all the people that shee might be derided and scorned of all and then setting her vpon an asse to ride through the streetes and shee was ever after called in mockage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an asse-rider and that stone shee stood on was ever held and abhorred as a thing filthy and vncleane as Plutarke hath related And hath God at any time beene lesse friendly or favourable to this sinne then so hath his sight beene weaker that he cannot see or his power wasted that he doth not smite now as of old his anger is not now turned away but his hand is stretched out still wee see enough every day to make vs beleeue it How many fearefull sights are daily in our eyes representing Gods iustice vpō such offenders in their soules bodies goods good name and in their issue and posteritie of these if any be for by some of these ever by many of these often by all these now and then God meetes with them and payes them home for their beastly living Looke vpon his iustice in their soules what impressions of his wrath he hath left there by the substraction of his grace a plaine presager of a Precipitation and downefall into sinne blinding their vnderstanding besottiug their affections hardning their heartes delivering them vp to a reprobate sense and giving them vp to vncleanesse through the Iusts of their owne heartes as S. Paul speakes of the Gentiles and at last in his iustice suffering them to perish in the vanitie of that sinne and to carrie it with them to the graue from which while they lived neither Lawes of God or man could possibly reclaime them Looke vpon them in their goods and estate though faire and great how God hath blowen vpon it and how soone hath it beene blasted brought to nothing That which Salomon speakes of another sinne the sinne of drinkenes a companion I am sure if not Cozen-German to the sinne of filthinesse That the drunkard and the glutton shall come to povertie I am sure he tells vs it will be no better with whoremongers For by meanes of an whorish woman a man is brought to a morsell of bread whores and Iesuits I may well couple them together like Simeon and Leui brethren in euill for those as well as these are if not carnall yet spirituall fornicators those I say haue ever beene wheresoever they come the onely soakers sinkers of the fairest inheritances Horse-leech-like ever crying giue giue That which Diogenes sometime said of a drunkards house with a bill on it to signifie that it was to be let I thought as much said the Cynck that ere long hee would spue vp his house also And so will these doe that follow this it is a thousand to one if they leaue not that that will not leaue them worth a gray groat Miserie and beggery will be their end for if he that followeth vaine persons shall haue poverty enough they shall be sure to be

suffer the vengeance of eternall fire for whoremongers and adulterers God will iudge And now before we part I must speake a word or two to you not long and yet too late our unworthy neighbour I must say to you as Ehud sayd to Eglon I haue a message vnto thee from God but not with a Dagger in my hand to kill you but with good counsell from my heart to keepe you that you cast not away your selfe The words of the wise they are like goads and nayles not like Iaels nayles to be driven into your head but like S. Peters nayles to be fastned in the heart and I pray God they may haue no worse successe then his had for they were pricked in their hearts and sayd men and brethren what shall wee doe Sorrowfull and ashamed of the evill past and desirous how to learne to goe and sinne no more And while I shall performe this last worke of charitie to your soule which God make profitable unto you as my soule desireth let mee intreat this favour from you which Daniel desired of Nebuchadnezzar let my counsell be acceptable unto you and suffer a word or two of exhortation Account me not your enemie because I tell you the truth hate me not because I haue not used to prophesie good unto you dealing plainely when I found you faultie or if you doe it shal be all one with me Ego liberabo animam meam I will discharge my conscience before God and men and then your bloud be upon your owne head you shall fall or stand to your owne master You haue heard out of this text the foulenes of the sinne of fornication and how roundly and tartly God usually proceedeth in the punishment of it This hath beene your sinne and this sinne hath brought you to this dayes shame ut poena ad paucos timor ad omnes God grant it may doe you good and that others by your punishment may learne to be wise How long you haue loved and lived in this sinne your owne conscience can tell you best by your owne confession since October 1626. neere three yeares and that which is worst to keepe an whore under your wiues nose too long and too much if you bethinke you well if it had beene lesse and never so little You haue heard that Whoremongers and adulterers God will iudge if such a thunder-clap will not startell and awake you I may iustly feare you haue slept your last and that you are not only dead but with Lazarus stinke in the graue Rowse vp your selfe Awake thou that sleepest and stand vp from the dead that Christ may giue thee light I haue heard of that publicke protestation that you made where you first did pennance in that Honorable and Worshipfull presence at Pauls-crosse of an ample and large restitution and satisfaction to such as you had wronged even to threefold had you said more you had not promised too much and had you ever climed vp on a tree to see Christ as Zacheus did and with no worse heart then he you would haue enlarged your tongue whatsoever you would haue done with your handes and promised to restore foure-fold as he did But wordes will not carry it Good trees are knowen by their fruits and not by their leaues and good Christians not by their wordes but by their liues I will not wonder to see light eares of corne to prike and peare vp themselues aboue all in the furrowes or field not to heare an emptie caske to make the greatest noise I should thinke my selfe an happie man if I might presume to take you at your word in the meane time let mee tell you what I thinke that the world or wise men at the least will never beleeue it till they see it and till then you shall shew some wisdome to say lesse and doe more be not verball in your purposes and protestations but reall and royall in your performances Let me tell you plaine what I thinke and that is this that you haue run your selfe mightily in debt by this your sin vnto divers which must be discharged or you must lie by it a while and die for it at the last I speake not of your purse or charge before your filthinesse was found out while you lived closely in vncleanesse I haue heard then you were base and fordid enough perhaps so provident as to provide something against a rainy day I speake not of your expenses in Newgate or other prisons whither you haue beene most iustly committed by Authoritie I know you are not behind hand for paying these scores these you haue cleared But some other Creditors haue entred actions against you and will be paid before you can be discharged What doe you thinke you owe to God whom you haue so highly dishonored in the violation and transgression of that sacred and holy Law of his peremptorily forbidding the sinne of vncleanesse Item to the world I meane not by the world such as your selfe such as loue filthines as well as your selfe for I know that birdes of a feather will fly together those that runne with you to the same excesse of riot will easily forgiue you and not stand with you if it were a greater matter then this but I speake of those that professe Religion in truth and sinceritie and so cannot but hate this sinne wheresoever they finde it here you haue drawen bloud and that will beare an action and must be answered you haue wounded Religion given iust cause to the sonnes of Cham to laugh at your nakednesse and as Nathan told David by this deed you haue given great occasion to the enemies of God to blaspheme What satisfaction can you ever make to that servant of yours who by your base and beastly fornication with her came to a shamefull and vntimely death Blessed had you both beene if you had never seene each others faces for had shee never knowne your face nor you her body you might perhaps I say verely perhaps haue proved a better husband then before and she lived in time to haue beene a wife for as good a man as your selfe she lost her life and living and dying helpt to saue yours I dispute not by what meanes shee was wrought brought to it the Law was satisfied and I am contented What satisfaction can you make to God or the world for the bloud of that sweete new borne babe murthered and made away by her by putting it aliue by some secret conveyance into the house of office an office fit for a whore and no mother I do not say nor charge you to be privie to the putting of it into the privie I shall leaue that to God and your owne conscience who if you were will not goe behind your backe when time shall serue to tell you of it I iudge you not you were acquitted from the Law of man God grant you may come off as faire with God that he