clty become an harlot! It was full hand over thee, and have dimin. 1 them to ert, and they have gono of judgment; righteousness lodged ishod thine ordinary food, and de. a whoring from under their Gol. in it: but now murderers. livered thee unto the will of them Hosea v, 3, 4. I know Ephraim, 18a. xxiit, 17. And it shall como that hate thee, the daughters of and Israel is not hid from me: for to pass, after the end of seventy tho Phillistines, which are asham now, o Ephrain, thou commillest years, that the LORD will visit ed of thy lewd way. Thou hast whoredom, and Israel is defiled. Tyre, and she shall turn to her played the whore also with the They will 'not frame their doings hire, and shall commit fornica- Asyrians, because thou want un to turn unto their God: for the tion' with all the kingdoms of sallabio; yea, 1.ou hast played the spirit of whoredoms is in the the world upon the face of the harlot with them, and get could midst of them, and they have not earth. est not be satiatied. Tuou bast kuown the LORD. Isa. Ivil, 7, 8. Upon a lofty and lion in the land of Canaan unto moreover multiplied thy fornica Hosea vi, 9, 10. And as troops bigh mountain last thou set thy Chaldea; and yet thou wast not of robbers wait for a man, 80 llie bed, even thither wentest thou satisfied herewith. Before thy company of priests murder in the up to offer sacrifice. Behind the wickedness was discovered, as at way by consent: for they commit doors also and the posts hast thou the time of thy reproach of the lewdness. I have seen au horrible set up thy remembrance: for thou daughters of Syria, and all that thing in the house of Israel: thero bast discovered thyself to another are rouud about her, the daugh. is the whoredom of Ephralm, than me, and art gone up; thou ters of the Philistines, which Israel is defled. hast enlarged thy bed, and made despise thee round about. Thou thee a covenant with them; thou hast borne thy lewdness and Israel, for joy, as other people: Hosca ix, 1. Rejoice not, O lovedst their bed where thou thino abominations, saith the for thou hast gone a whorlug from Bawest it. LORD. thy God; thou hast loved a reward Jer. ii, 20. For of old time I Ezek. XX, 30. Wherefore gay upon every corn-floor, have broken thy yoke, and burst unto the bouse of Israel, Thus thy bandy; and thou saidst, I will saith the Lord God, Rev, xvii, 1-5, 15--18. And there Are yo came one of the seven angels not transgress; when upon every polluted after the manner of your which had the seven vials, and high hill and under every green fathers? and commit ye whoredom talked with me, saying unto me, tree thou wanderest, playing the after their abominalins? Come hither, I will shew unto barlot. Ezek. xxill, 2, 3, 7, 8, 11-13, 17, thee the judgment of the great Jer. ill, 2, 6,9. Lift up thine 35. Son of man, there were two whore that sitteth upou may eyes upto the high places, and see women, the daughters of one waters: With whom the kings where thou bast not been lien mother, And they committed of the earth have committed fur. with. In the ways hast thou eat whoredoms in Egypt; they com. nication, and the inhabitants of for them, as the Arabian in the mitted whoredoms in their youth: the earth have been made drunk wilderness; and thou hast pollut- there were their breasts pressed, with the wine of ber foruication. ed the land with thy whoredoms and there they bruised the teats so he carried mo away in the wi thy wickedness. The of their virginity. Thus she spirit into the wilderness: and I LORD said also unto me in the committed ber whoredoms with saw a woman sit upon a scarlet. days of Josial the king, Hast them, with all them that were the coloured beast, full of names of thou seen that which backsliding chosen men of Assyria, and with blasphemy, having seven headis Israel hath done? she is gone up all on whom she doled; wih all and ten horns. And the woman upon every high mountain and their idols she defiled herself. was arrayed in purple and scarlet Unler every green tree, and Neither left she her whoredoms colour, and decked with gold, and there hath played the harlot. brought from Egypt: for in ber precious stones, and pearls, having And it came to pass, through the youth they lay with her, and they a golden cup in her hand full of lightness of her whoredom, ibat bruised the breasts of her virgin- abominations and filthiness of her she defiled the land, and com- ity, and poured their whoredom fornication: And upon her foremitted adultery with stones and upon ber. And when her sister head was a name written, MYSwith stocks. Aholibah saw this, she was more TERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, Ezek. Ivi, 7, 16, 25-29, 57, 58. corrupt in her inordinate love THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS I have caused the to multiply as than she, and lo ber whoredoms AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE the bud of the field, and thou hast more than her sister in her whore- EARTH. And he saith unto me, increased and waxen great, and doms. She doted upon the Ag. The waters which thou sawest, thou art come to excellent 'orna- syrians her neighbours, captains where the whore sitteth, are peo ments: thy breasts are fashioned, and rulers clothed most gorge- ples, and multitudes, and natious, and thine hair is grown, whereas ously, horsemen riding upon and tongues. And the ten horns thou wast naked and bare. And horses, all of them desirable which tbou sawest upon the beast, of thy garments thou didst take, young men. Then I saw that she these shall hate the whore, and her desolate and and deckedst thy high places was defled, that they took both shall make with divers colours, and playedst one way. And the Babylonians naked, and shall eat her flesh, and the harlot thereupon: tre' like came to ber into the bed of love, burn her with fire. For God hath things shall not come, neither and they defiled her with their put in their hearts to fulfil his shall it be so. Thou hast built whoredom; and she was polluted will, and to agree, and give their thy high place at every head of with them, and her mind was kingdom unto the beast, until tho the way, and hast made thy beauty alienated from them. Therefore words of God shall be fulfilled. to be abhorred, and hast opened thus saith the Lord God, Because And the woman which thou saw. thy feet to every one that passed thou hast forgotten me, and cast est is that great city, which reign. by, and multiplied thy whore-me behind thy back, therefore ell over the kings of the earth. doms. Thou hast also committed bear thou also thy lewdness and Rev. xviil, 8. For all nations foruication with the Egyptians thy whoredoms. have drunk of the wine of the thy neighbours, great of flesh; and Hosea iv, 12. My people ask wrath of her fornication, and the hast increased thy whoredoms, to counsel at their stocks, and their kings of the earth have committed provoke me to anger. Behold, staff declareth unto them: for the fornication with her, and the therefore I have stretched out my spirit of wboredoms bath caused merchants of the earth aro waxod rich through the abundanco of therefore your daughters shall | pleaseth God shall escape from her delicacies. commit whoredom, and your her, but the sinner shall be taken Rev. xlx, 2. For true and right spouses shall commit adultery. I by her. eous are his judgments: for he will not punish your daughters Eph. v, 5. For this ye know, that bath judged the great whore, when they commit whoredom, no whoremunger, nor unclean which did corrupt the with nor your spouses when they com- person, nor covetous man, who is her lornication, and hath avenged mit adultery: for themselves are an idolater, bath any inheritance the blood of his servants at her separated with whores, and they in the kingdom of Cbrist and of hand. sacrifice with harlots: therefore God. PROSTITUTION. By POVERTY. Gen. xxxviii, 15, 16. When Judah saw her, he thought her to Gen. xxxvIII, 24. And it came to Prov. V, 8-10... Come not nigh be an harlot : because she bad pass about three months after, that the door of her house. Lest thou covered her face. And he turned it was told Judah, saying, Tamar give thine honour unto others, and unto her by the way, and said, Go thy daughter in law hath played thy years unto the cruel; Lest to, I pray thee, let mo como in the harlot; and also, behold, she strangers be filled with is with child by whoredom. And wealth, and thy labours be in the she was his daughter-in-law.) And thy unto thee; (for he knew not that Judah said, Bring her fortb, and house of a stranger. she said, What wilt thou give me, let her be burnt. Prov. xxix, 3. Whoso loveth that thou mayest come in unto Exod. xxil, 16, 17. And if a man wisdom rejoiceth his father, but mo? entice a maid that is not betrothed, he that keepeth company with Lev. xix, 29. Do not prostitute and lie with her, he shall surely harlots spendeth his substance. thy daughter, to cause ber to be a endow her to be his wife. If her father utterly refuse to give her BY LOSS OF HEALTH. whore; lest the land fall to whoreunto him, he shall pay money Prov. II, 18, 19. For her house wickedness. dom, and the laud become full of according to the dowry of virgins. Inclineth unto death, and her Lev. XXI, 9. And the daughter paths unto the dead. None that Lev. xxl, 7. They shall not tako of any priest, if she profane her- go unto her return again, neither a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman self by playing the whore, she take they hold of the paths of life. put away from her husband; for bo profaneth her father: she shall be Prov. V, 11-14. And thou mournis holy unto his God. burnt with fire. at the last, when thy flesh and thy Num. XXV,7,8 And when Phine- body are consumed, And say, Judges xvi, 18. And when has, the son of Eleazar, the son of How havo I hated instruction, and Delilah saw that he had told hier Aaron the priest, saw it, le rose my heart despised reproof; 'And all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Pbilistines, up from among the congregation, have not obeyed the voice of my and took a javelin in bis hand teachers, nor inclined mine ear to saylug, Come up this once; for ho liath shewed me all his heart. And he went after the man of them that instructed me! I was Israel into the tent, and thrust almost in all evil in the midst of Then the lords of the Philistines both of them through, the man the congregation and assembly. came up unto her, and brought of Israel, and the woman through money in their band. Prov. vii, 26. For she hath cast ber belly. So we plague was down many wounded: yea, many two women that were harlots unto 1 Kings iii, 16. Then came there stayed from the children of Israel. strong men have been slain by the king, and stood before him. Deut. xxii, 21, 28, 29. Then they her. shall bring out the damsel to the By Loss OF CHARACTER. Prov. ii, 17. Which forsaketh door of her father's houso, and the Gen. xxxiv, 31. And they said, the guide of her youth, and formen of her city shall stone her should be deal with our sister as getteth the covenant of her God. with stones that she die; becanse with an harlot ? she bath wrought folly in Israel, Prov. V, 6. Lest thou shouldest to play the whore in her father's Gen. xxxvill, 23. And Judah ponder the path of life, her ways house: so shalt thou put evil away sald, Let her take it to her, lest are moveable, that thou canst not from among you. If a man find a we be shamed: behold, I sent this know them. damsel that is a virgin, which is kld, and thou hast not found her. Prov. vii, 10-12. And, behold, not betrothed, and lay hold on Job xxiv, 17, 18. For the morn- there met him a woman with the her, and lie with her, and they be ing is to thein even as the shadow attire of an harlot, and subtil of found; Then the man that lay with of death: it one know them, they heart. (She is loud and stubborn; ber shall give unto the damsel's are in the terrors of the shadow her feet abide not in her house: father Atty shekels of silver, and of death. He is swift as the Now is she without, now in the she shall be his wife; because he waters; their portion is cursed in streets, and lieth in walt at every hath humbled ber, he may not the earth: be beholdeth got the corner.) put her away all his days. way of the vineyards. Prov. xxii, 14. The mouth of PUNISHED IN PROVIDENCE. BY DAMNATION. strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall Hosea iv, 10, 11, 13, 14. For they bitter as 'wormwood, sharp as a Prov. Y, 4, 5. But her end 18 fall therein. shall eat, and not have enough: Prov. xxill, 27. For a whore is they shall commit whoredom, vnd two-edged sword. Her feet go a deep ditch; and a strange woman shall not increase; because they down to death; her steps take is a narrow pit. have left oil to take heed to the hold Isa. xxill, 15, 16. And it shall LOBO, Whoredom, and wine, Prov. vil, 27. Her house is the come to pass in that day, that and new wine, luke away the way to hell, going down to the Tyre shall be forgotten seveniy heart. They sacrifice upon the chambers of death, years, according to the days of one tops of the mountains, and burn Eccles. vll, 26. And I ind more king after the end of sevenly incense upon the hills, under biller than death the woman years shall Tyre sing as an harlot. oks and poplars, and elms, be- whose beart is snares and nets, Take an harp, go about the CuUse liio sui low thereof is good:' and ber bands as bands: whoso city, thou barlot that bast been 449 on hell. none no forgotten; make sweet melody. I know that the seed should not be in the palace of 1 limo sing many songs, that thou mayest Lis: and it came to p:169, when he Babylon. be remembered. went in unto his brother's wife, Isa. xxxix, 7. And of thy song Jer. iii, 3. Therefore the showers that he spilled it on the ground, that shall issue from him which have been withholden, and there best that he should give seed to tho! shalt beget, shall they take bath been no litter rain; and thou his brother. And the thing which away; and they shall be ennucus ha Ist a whore's forehead, thou re- he did displeased the LORD; where in the palace or the king of Budva fusedst to be ashamed. fore he slew him also. lon. Ezek. xvi, 33-33, 41. They give Exod. xxll, 19. Whosoever lieth Dan, 1, 3, 9, 11. And the king giits to all whores; but thou givest with a beast shall surely be put spake unto Aslıpenaz, the masa thiy gifts to all tliy lovers, and to death. ter of his eunuchs, that be should hirest them, that they may come Lev. XV, 16, 17, 32. And if any bring certain of the chilren of unto thee on every side for thy man's seed of copulation go out Israel, and of the king's seed, and whoredom. And the contrary is from him, then he shall wash all of the princes; Now God bad in thite from other women in bis flesh in water, and be unclean brought Daniel into favour and thy whoredoms, whereas until the even. And every gar- tender love with the prince of the followeth thee to commit whore- ment, and every skin, whereon is eunuchs. Then said Daniel to dums: and in that thou givest the seed of copulation, shall be Melzar, whom the prince of the a reward, and reward is washed with water, and be un- eunuclis bad set over Daniel, given unto thee; therefore thou clean until the even. This is the Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. art contriry. Wherefore, o har-law of him that hath an issue, and Matth. xix, 11, 12. But he said lot, hear the word of the Lord of him whose seed goeth from him, tinto them, All men cannot receive And they sliall burn thine houses and is deliled therewith. this saying, save they to whom it with fire, and execute judgments For there are somo is given. upon thee in the sight of many Lev. xvill, 23, 24, 26, 28-30. women: and I will cause thee to Nelther shalt thou lie with any from their mother's womb; and eunuchs, which were SO born cease from playing the harlct, and beast to delile thyself therewith; there are some eunuchs, which thou also stalt give no hire auy neither shall any woman stani before a beast to lie down thereto: there be eunuchs which have were made eunuclis of men, and more. it is confusion. Defile not ye BASTARDY. made themselves eunuchs for the yourselves in any of these things: kingdom of heaven's sake. Ho Deut. xxiii, 2. A bastard shall for in all these the nations are that is able to receive it, let him not enter into the congregation defiled which I cast out before receive it. of the LORD; even to his tepth you. Yo shall therefore keep Acts viil, 27. And he arose and generation shall be not enter into my statutes and my judgments, the congregations of the LORD. and shall not commit any of went: and, behold, a man of great Judges xi, 1, 2. Now Jephthan these abominations; neither any Ethiopia, an eunuch of the Gileadito was a mighty man of your own nation, nor any authority under Candace queen of Valour, and he was the son of stranger that sojourneth among of the Ethiopians, who had the an harlot: ant Gilead begat Jephi- you. That the land spue not you charge of all lier treasure, and had thah. And Gilead's wife bare him out also, when ye defile it, as it come to Jerusalem for to worship. sons: and his wife's sons grew up, spued out the nations that were and they thrust out Jephthah, before you. For whosoever shall sonom. and said unto him, Thou shalt not commit any of these abominations, Gen. xlii, 13. But the men of inherit in our later's house; for even the souls that commit them Solomn were wicked, and sinners thou art the son of a strange shall be cut off from among their before the Lord exceedingly. woman. people. Thereforo shall ye keep Gen. xviii, 20 - 22. And the Isa. Ivil, 3. But draw noar not any one of these abominable Sotom and Gomorrah is great, hither, ye sons of the sorceress, custoins, which were committed and because their sin is very the sced of the adulterer and the before you, and that ye defile not griepous, I will go down now, whore. yourselves therein: I am the LORD and see whether they have done Hosea ii, 4. And I will not have your God. mercy upon her children; for they altogether according to the cry of be the children or whoredoms. Lev. xx, 15. 16. And if a man lle it, which is come unto me; and if with a beast, he shall surely be ot, I will know. And the Hosen v, 7. Thay have dealt put to deaths; and ye shall slay the turned their faces from thence, treacherously against the Lord; beast. And if a woman approach and went tonard' Sodom: but for they have begotten strange children: now slull a month de- thereto, ihou shalt kill the woman LORD. unto any beast, and lie down Abraham stood yet before the vour them with their portions. and the beast. Gen. xix, 4-11. But, before they Zech. ix, 6. And a bastard shall Deut. xxvii, 21. Cursed be he lay down, the men of the city, dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off that lieth with any manner of eren the men of Sodom, compass. the pride of the Philistines, beast, and all the people shall say, ed the house round, boh old and Amen. John viii, 41. Ye do the deeds young, all the people from every quarter. And they called unto of your father. Then said thoy EUNUCHISM. to hiin, We be not born of furni Lot, and said unto him, Where cation; we have one Father, even Deut. xxiii, 1. He that is wound thce this niglit? bring them out are the men which came in to God. ed in the stones, or hath bis unto iis, that we may know them, 17eb. xii, 8. But if ye be without privy member ent off, shall not And Lot went out at the door un. chastisement, whereof all are parenter into the congregation of the to them, and shut the door after takers, thien are ye bastards, and LORD. him, And said, I pray you, breth. nut sous. 2 Kings xx, 18. And of thy sons ren, do not so wickedly. Behold that shall issue from thee, which now, I have two daughters which AGAINST NATURE. thou shalt beget, sball they take have not know man; let me, I Gen, xxxviii, 9, 10. And Onan away; and they shall be eunuchs' pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good men, leaving the natural use of Sodom was not mentionel by this in your eyes: only unto these men the woman, burned in their lust mouth in the day of thy priue. do nothing, for therefore came one toward another; men with Matth. xi, 23, 24. And thou, Cethey under the shadow of my men working that which is un pernaum, which art exalted unto roof. And they said, Stand back. seemly, and receiving in them- heaven, shalt be brought down to And they said again, This one selves that recompeuce of their hell: for if tho miglity works, fellow came in to sojourn, and he error which was meet. which have been done in theo will needs be a jnrige: now will 2 Peter 11, 7, 8. And delivered had been done in Sodom, it would we deal worse wit. thee than just Lot, vexed with the filthy have remained until this day. But with them. And they pressed conversation of the wicked: (For I say unto thee, That it shall bo sore upon the man, eren Lot, and that righteous man dwelling more tolerable for the land of Socame near to break the door. But among them, in seeing and bear dom in the day of judgment, than the men put forth their hand, and ing, vexed his righteous soul for thoe. pulled Lot into the house to from day to day with their unlawthem, and shut to the door. And ful deeus. PUNISTUENT. they smote the men that were at Gen. xix, 13, 17, 24-28. For wo the door of the house with blind *Isa. I, 10. Hear the word of the will destroy this place, because ness, both small and great; so Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear the cry of them is waxen great that they wearied themselves to unto the law of our God, ye peo- before the face of the LORD; and find the door. ple of Gomorrah. the Lord hath sent us to destroy Lev. xviii, 22. Thou shalt not Isa, ill, 9. The show of their it. And it caine to pass, when lie with mankind as with woman countenance doth witness against they had brought them furth kind; it is aboinination. them; and they declare their siu abroad, that he said, Escipe for Deut. xxiii, 17, 18. There shall as Sodom, they lide it not. Woe thy life; look not behind theo, be no whore of the daughters of unto their soul? for they have re neither stay thou in all the plain: Israel, nor a Sodomito of the sons warded evil unto themselves. escape to the mountain, lest thou of Israel, Thou shalt not bring Lam. iv, 6. For the punishment rained upon Sodom and upon Go be consumed. Then to LORD the bire of a whore, or the price of the iniquity of the daughter of morrah brimstono and fire from of a dog, into the house of the my people is greater than the the Lord out ot hoiven: And he LORD thy God for any vow: for punistinent of the sin of Sodom, overthrew thoso cities, and all the even both these are abomination that was overthrown as in a plain, and all the inliabitants of unto the LORD thy God. moinent, and no hands stayed on the cities, and that which grew Deut. xxxii, 32. For their vine her. is of the vine of Sodom, and of upon the ground. But his wife the fields of Gomorral: their thine elder sister is Samaria, she and she became a pillar of Bult. Ezek. XVI, 46 - 50, 53- 56. And looked back from behind him, grapes are grapes of gull, their and her daughters that dwell at clusters are bitter. Aud Abraham gut up early in tho thy left hand; and thy younger morning to the place where ho Judges xix, 22-24. Now, as they sister, tha dwelleth at thy right blood before the LORD: And he were making their hearts merry, land, is Sodom and her daugo- looked toward So lom and Gomorbehold, the men of the city, cer- ters.' Yet hast thou not walked rah, and toward all the land of the tain sons of Belial, beset the after their ways, nor done alter plain, and belield, and, lo, tho house round about, and beat at their abominations; but, as if thct smoke of the country went up as the door, and spake to the master were a very little thing, thou wast the smoke of a furnace. of the house, the old man, saying, corrupted more than they in all Bring forth the miu that came thy ways. As I live, saith the Deut. xxix, 22, 23. So that the into thine bou:0;, that wo may Lord God, Sodom tly sister hath generation to come of your chilo know him. And the man, the not done, she nor ber daughters, and tho stranger that shall como master of the house, went out as thou hast done, thou and thy from a far landshall say, when they unto them, and said unto them, daughters. Behold, this was the Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray iniquity of thy sisier Sodom, pride, see the plagues of the land, and you, do not so wickedly; seeing tulness of bread, and abundance the the that this man is come into mine of idleness wis in her and in ber bath laid upon it; And that ilie hvuso, do not this fully. Beholu, daughters, neither did she streng, whole land thereof is brimstone, here is my daughter, a maiden, then the Land of the poor and and salt, and burning, that it is not and his concuvine; them I will needy. And they were haughty, sown, nor beareth, nor any ET-93 bring out now, and bumble ye and committed abominition be groweth therein, like the overthem, and do with them what fore me: therefore I took thom throw of Sodom and Gomorrah, seemeth good unto you: but unto away as I saw good. When I Admah and Zeboim, which tho this man do not so vile a thing. shall bring again their captivity, in his wrath. LORD overthrew in his anger, and 1 Kings xiv, 21. And there the captivity of Sodom and her were also Sodoinites in the land: daugliters, and the captivity of 1 Kings xv, 12. And he took and they did according to all the Samaria and her daughters, ihen away the sodomites out of the abominations of the nations which will I bring again the captivity of land, and renoved all the idols the LORD cost out before the chilothy captives in the midst of them: that his fathers had made. dren of Israel. That thou mayest bear thine own 1 Kings xxii, 46. And the reme Rom. I, 24, 26, 27. Wherefore shame, and mayest be confounded nant of the sodomites, which reGod also give them to unclean- in all that thou hast done, in that mained in the days of his father ness through the lusts of their thou art a comfort unto them. Asa, he took out of the land. own bearts, to dishonour their When thy sisters, Solom and her own bodies between themselves: daughters, shall return to their 2 Kings xxiii, 7. And he brako For this cause God gave them up former estate, and Samaria and down the houses of the sudomites, unto víle affections: for even their her daughters shall return to their that were by the house of tho women did change the natural tormer estate, then thou and thy LORD, where tho women wovo use into that which is against daughters shall return to your hangings for the grove. Dature; Aud likewise also the former estate. For thy sister Jer. xlix, 18. As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye cities of Sodom and Gomorrha and the neighbour cities thereof, were as a firebrand plucked out into ashes, condemned them with saith the LORD, no man shall abide of the burning: yet have ye pot an overthrow, making them an there, neither shall a son of man returned unto me, saith the ensample unto those that after dwell in it. LORD. should live ungodly. Jer, I, 40. As God overthrew Sodom' and Gomorrah, and the day that Lot went out of Sodom Luke xvil, 29, 30. But the same Jude 7. Even as Sodom and neighbour cities thereof, saith the it rained fire and brimstone from Gomorrha, and the cities about LORD; 80 shall no man abide there, heaven, and destroyed them all. then in like manner, giving themneither shall any son of man Even thus shall it be in the day selves over to fornication, and go dwell therein, ween the Sun of man is revealed. ing after strange flesh, are set Amos iv, 11. I have overthrown forth for an example, suffering some of you, as God overthrew Pet. 1, 6. And turning the the vengeance of oternal fire. 446 |