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New inventions of Sin, condemned. [ 1277]
SArdanapalus,* 1.1 that wretched Epicure, made Proclamation through the Coasts of Assyria, that he should be well rewarded, who could devise some new way of delight, never thought on before; And as he was industrious to find out new wayes of Pleasure,* 1.2 so was Perillus as carefull to invent a new way of Punishment, by the making of a brazen Bull at the command of a Tyrant, by whose means he was the first that bellowed out his life in the same. Thus it is with us, We are all for invention, and new devices of Sin, altogether unknown to the Ages of our Forefathers; New Lords,* 1.3 new Laws; new lights, new doctrines; new fa∣shions, new faces; nay almost new kinds of Men and Women, Hic mulier, haec vir,* 1.4 scarce discernable by their habits whether Men or Women, or neither, or some kind of Monster betwixt both; new devices for gain, new wayes of cheat∣ing, new wayes of breaking; So that without all doubt, God is devising some new manner of Iudgment, as was said of Korah and his complices, Numb. 16. 29.