DIAL. XV.
Verses 26, 27.For this cause, God gaue them vp to vile affections: for euen their Women did change their naturall vse into that which is against Nature: and likewise also the men, left the na∣turall vse of women, and burned in lust one towardes ano∣ther.
VV Hat doth this Text containe in it, for drift, order, and matter?
The Apostle, to the end he may better cleere and free from exception and reproach, the Iustice of God, in punishing the Gentiles, and more thoroughly beate downe and tame their pride and ouer-weening (a maine stop and enemy to the Iustifying grace of Christ) he now so toucheth their punishment, as that their shameful vn∣cleannesse (not to bee named but with detestation) is withall more particularly and fully laide out, yet with much modesty, most foule and vnhonest thinges being vttered in seemely and honest tearmes. In which, he de∣scribeth their more then beastly impurity; First, by the mouing and meritorious cause thereof, in the first tearm of the text [For this cause,] that is; for their Idolatry sake, because they chaunged the most glorious God, contu∣mcliously