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Worse then a Pharesite I may them call: which lawfull mariage doth disdaine: And seekes the truth to bring in thrall: all such doth Sathā quit their paine.
THe Fryer is Fallax: the Nunne Dedecus: the deuill in the tree superstition: and the other deuill Dicax, a reprocher of wickednes, and a rayler agaynst the veritie.
FOrnication ought to bee eschewed. Looke in the 1. Corinth. 10. chapter. The people satte downe to eate & drinke,* 1.1 and rose vp to play. Nei∣ther let vs be defiled with forni∣cation, as some of thē were defi∣led with fornication, and fell in one day xxiij. thousand. There∣fore to auoyde whoredome,* 1.2 let euery man haue his owne wife: and let euery woman haue her husband. Euery sinne that a mā doth,* 1.3 is without the body: But he that is a fornicator, sinneth agaynst hys own body.* 1.4 Wedlocke is to be had in honour amōg all mē, & the bed vndefiled. As for whorekepers & adulterers God will iudge. There go∣eth a common saying, that there is fornication among you, and such for∣nication,* 1.5 as is not named among the Gentiles: that one should haue hys fathers wife. And ye swell, and haue not rather sorrowed, that hee which had done thys deede, might bee put from among you. Therefore flie thys horrible sinne: and as for such as will cōdemne the lawfull estate of Matrimonie, and honest mariage of godly Ministers: such chaste and maidenly prelates of their doinges, shall bee shewed as followeth in the fourth part of this treatise of Le∣cherie. Fornication is enemie to God, and enuieth vertues. It consumeth all substance, and deliteth in the appetite present:* 1.6 it letteth that a man can not thinke on pouertie, which is not long absent.
If we will consider the excellencie of mans nature, and the dig∣nitie therof,* 1.7 we shall well perceaue how foule and dishonest a thyng it is to bee resolued in fornication, and to liue wantonly. Contrarywyse, how honest and fayre a thyng it is to liue temperately, continently, sad∣ly, and soberly.
1. Cor. 10.
1. Cor. 7.
1. Cor. 6.
Heb. 13.
1. Cor. 5.
Augusti∣••us.
Tullius.