And they haue cast lots for my people, and haue giuen the child for the harlot, and sold the girle for wine, that they might drinke.
* 1.1AN amplification of this villanie or despite and wrong done by these heathen or infidels, not vnto men, but vnto God himselfe, which amplification is taken from this notorious despite of theirs. For these Gentiles breaking both that priuiledge and authoritie which God had peculiarly ouer this people: and also the generall lawes and teaching of nature and humanitie, handled and vsed the Church of God most shamefully, nay most cruelly. For they did not only make that whole nation captiues, and diuided them amōg themselues by lot, as couetous Souldiers are wont to doe their pray and bootie, and as they did with the garments of Christ Matth. 27. but also they intreated the godly so despitefully and villanously, that they sold the boyes and the girles as the drosse of the world, for a most small and low price, the which afterward they conuer∣ted or turned vnto lewd and wicked vses, as namely into whore∣dome and drunkennes.* 1.2 So in times past the captiue Sardians in re∣proch were called Saleable, or (as we may terme them) dog-cheap slaues, who because of their cheapenes, and great numbers of them were sold for a farthing a piece, or for a matter of nothing. And truly in such sort commonly doe the vngodly handle the godlie, when as they fall into their hands, that they esteeme not so much of them, as they doe of other slaues of other infidell and vnbeleeuing nations: nay, many times they make not so good reckoning of them, as they doe of most vile and filthie dogges. But because of such crueltie of men against men, God is most grieuously angrie Amos cap. 1. and 2. So one day will God destroy the Turks, because of the like crueltie against Christians.