AN
ESSAY
TOWARDS
A
General
History
OF
WHORING
,
&c.
THE
Original
of
the
Crime
which
is
the
Subject
of
the
following
Sheets
,
must
necessarily
be
deduced
from
the
Sin
of
our
first
Parents
;
for
there
is
no
doubt
that
Lust
,
or
the
inordinate
motions
of
the
Flesh
did
invade
their
Souls
at
the
same
time
when
their
other
Faculties
were
corrupted
:
And
it
appears
plain
that
Idleness
,
the
lust
of
the
Eye
,
and
intemperance
of
Appetite
,
which
ever
since
have
been
the
forerunners
and
ushers
of
bodily
uncleanness
,
did
precede
the
Eating
of
the
forbidden
Fruit
,
and
that
as
the
Natural
Consequence
of
such
Antecedents
,
the
first
thing
taken
notice
of
by
our
Parents
after
the
Fall
was
their
Nakedness
,
whereof
they
were
immediately
asham'd
,
and
endeavoured
to
cover
it
.
This
Nakeness
say
Commentators
that
they
were
so
speedily
made
sensible
of
,
was
not
only
that
they
felt
their
need
of
a
Cover
to
their
Bodies
,
both
for
Ornament
and
Defence
against
the
Injuries
of
the
Air
,
&c.
but
that
they
were
also
sensible
of
the
Rebellion
of
the
flesh
,
which
doth
not
only
war
against
the
Soul
,
but
hath
a
natural
tendency
to
the
dissolution
of
the
Body
,
there
being
nothing
which
sooner
extinguishes
the
flame
of
Life
than
an
immoderate
consumption
of
that
Oyl
,
which
nature
hath
provided
for
its
nourishment
.
This
impurity
of
the
affections
did
no
doubt
exert
it self
quickly
in
actions
,
which
in
our
first
Parents
could
not
fall
under
the
notion
of
Whoredom
,
they
being
married
by
God
himself
,
in
the
State
of
Innocence
;
yet
there
's
little
doubt
to
be
made
of
its
having
vented
it self
in
an
immoderate
use
of
the
Marriage
bed
;
and
thus
these
impure
desires
were
communicated
to
their
Posterity
,
who
were
thereby
polluted
;
and
conceiv'd
and
brought
forth
in
Iniquity
.
The
first
direct
breach
of
the
Divine
Institution
of
Marriage
betwixt
one
Man
and
one
Woman
which
we
find
Recorded
,
was
in
the
person
of
Lamch
,
one
of
Cain's
Posterity
,
whose
two
Wives
we
find
mentioned
in
the
fourth
of
Genesis
,
by
which
it
appears
plain
,
that
Murder
and
Whoredom
are
near
a
kin
,
had
both
of
'em
their
rise
from
one
and
the
same
Family
:
And
according
to
the
opinion
of
some
Interpreters
did
both
of
'em
center
in
this
Lamech
,
who
is
thought
to
have
been
a
bloody
cruel
Man
,
as
is
gathered
from
this
discourse
to
his
Wives
in
that
Chapter
,
viz.
I
have
sla●…n
a
man
to
my
wounding
,
and
a
young
man
to
my
hurt
.
This
bad
example
of
Lamech's
digamy
,
did
quickly
infect
the
Infant
World
;
for
we
find
in
the
next
Chapter
,
That
when
men
began
to
multiply
,
and
that
daughters
were
born
unto
them
,
the
Sons
of
God
saw
the
Daughters
of
men
,
that
they
were
fair
and
they
took
them
Wives
of
all
that
they
chose
.
It
s
still
to
be
observed
that
as
Whoredom
and
Uncleanness
began
in
Cain's
Family
,
so
there
it
continu'd
and
increas'd
;
and
by
their
Contagious
Example
,
the
Family
of
Seth
,
which
did
then
contain
the
Visible
Church
,
became
also
infected
;
and
the
Members
of
the
Church
having
more
regard
to
the
Beauty
and
Comeliness
of
the
Women
of
Cain's
Race
,
than
to
the
vertue
of
those
who
were
of
their
own
Religion
,
their
Eyes
betrayed
their
Hearts
,
they
lusted
after
their
Beauty
,
and
without
any
consideration
of
Religion
or
Laws
,
took
them
Wives
of
all
that
they
chose
,
by
which
Interpreters
understand
promiscuous
Marriages
,
Polygamy
,
unjust
Divorces
,
Rapes
,
and
all
manner
of
Lewd
and
Licentious
practises
,
which
brought
the
Wrath
of
God
upon
the
old
World
,
and
occasion'd
his
saying
,
as
in
the
3d
verse
,
That
his
spirit
should
not
always
contend
with
Man
.
The
occasion
of
this
General
Corruption
of
Manners
is
hinted
to
be
the
multiplication
of
Men
,
and
particularly
of
the
Women
of
Cain's
Posterity
,
who
being
under
no
discipline
,
and
wanting
the
benefit
of
pious
Instruction
and
good
Example
,
became
dissolute
and
wanton
,
and
no
care
being
taken
to
dispose
of
them
duly
in
Marriage
,
they
took
all
occasions
to
satisfie
their
brutal
desires
,
for
which
their
dwelling
in
Cities
(
whereof
Cain
was
the
first
Founder
)
amongst
multitudes
of
people
,
gave
them
great
opportunities
,
it
being
always
observ'd
that
in
Great
Cities
,
the
numbers
of
dissolute
persons
makes
them
to
despise
Laws
,
and
follow
such
practices
as
they
durst
not
venture
upon
in
Villages
,
and
Countries
where
they
could
be
more
easily
restrained
and
punisht
:
not
that
I
would
be
understood
to
be
against
the
building
and
maintaining
of
Cities
,
which
increase
the
Glory
,
Riches
and
Strength
of
Nations
,
but
would
to
God
that
the
great
Cities
of
Christendom
were
not
still
too
justly
chargeable
with
avowed
Impurities
of
the
same
nature
,
which
a
zealous
Magistracy
might
easily
prevent
.
It
is
also
the
opinion
of
some
of
the
learned
,
that
the
Cainites
did
first
build
themselves
a
City
that
they
might
strengthen
one
anothers
hands
in
Cruelty
and
Uncleanness
and
follow
such
practises
with
all
manner
of
impunity
,
which
gave
their
Women
opportunity
to
pamper
and
deck
themselves
that
they
might
be
the
more
agreeable
objects
of
Lust
;
and
this
might
also
render
them
more
amiable
in
the
Eyes
of
the
Posterity
of
Seth
,
who
living
as
't
is
presumed
a
Rural
Life
for
the
most
part
;
and
their
Women
being
kept
in
order
by
Laws
and
Religion
,
and
applying
themselves
to
the
Affairs
of
their
Families
,
that
they
might
approve
themselves
meet
helps
to
their
Husbands
,
according
to
the
design
of
God
at
the
first
Creation
of
Woman
,
did
not
mind
the
decking
and
adorning
of
their
Bodies
,
nor
the
pampering
of
their
Flesh
,
and
cherishing
their
Beauties
as
the
Cainites
did
,
and
therefore
were
not
so
pleasing
to
the
Eye
,
as
those
lascivious
Women
,
who
behaved
themselves
as
if
God
and
Nature
had
design'd
them
for
nothing
else
but
a
Man's
bed
,
whereas
the
Divine
Goodness
appointed
that
they
should
be
meet-helps
in
their
Religious
Conversation
,
Industry
,
Care
and
Education
of
Children
,
to
all
of
which
those
loose
practices
of
the
Cainites
were
diametrically
opposite
.
From
those
unequal
Marriages
and
promiscuous
Copulations
,
proceeded
a
contempt
of
Laws
and
Religion
amongst
the
Cainites
,
and
an
Apostacy
from
Godand
Religion
amongst
many
of
the
Posterity
of
Seth
;
and
it
hath
been
observed
amongst
all
Nations
since
,
that
when
Religion
decays
uncleanness
increases
,
and
that
a
love
to
Licentiousness
hath
always
been
a
great
cause
of
Apostacy
,
as
is
but
too
too
observable
in
those
that
are
called
Deists
and
Socinians
in
this
present
Age
,
most
of
their
New
Converts
or
rather
Perverts
,
being
people
of
a
loose
life
,
especially
as
to
the
point
of
Chastity
.
The
next
effect
of
those
unclean
and
beastly
Commixtions
,
was
an
off-spring
of
Giants
,
so
called
as
some
Interpreters
think
from
the
vastness
of
their
bulk
,
as
being
begot
in
raging
Lust
,
or
as
others
,
because
of
their
Barbarous
and
Salvage
Manners
,
and
filling
all
the
World
with
Rapes
,
Cruelty
and
Devastation
,
so
that
by
the
just
Judgment
of
God
the
Children
of
those
unlawful
Marriages
and
Promiscuous
Copulations
,
became
the
plague
of
their
Parents
,
and
the
scourge
of
Mankind
as
well
as
the
declared
Enemies
of
Heaven
and
Religion
:
Whence
the
old
doting
Poets
took
occasion
to
amuse
the
World
with
the
fabulous
War
of
the
Giants
against
Jupiter
,
&c.
Noah
,
not
being
able
by
his
preaching
of
Righteousness
,
to
reform
the
World
from
this
horrid
Debauchery
,
it
provok'd
God
to
bring
the
Deluge
,
which
drown'd
that
lascivious
and
wicked
Generation
of
Men
,
who
had
drown'd
themselves
in
all
manner
of
sensual
Impurities
,
with
so
much
obstinacy
,
that
when
that
fatal
Flood
came
it
surpriz'd
them
,
as
eating
,
drinking
,
marrying
and
giving
in
marriage
.
Thus
then
it
's
apparent
that
Whoredom
was
one
of
the
principal
Causes
that
brought
the
Wrath
of
God
upon
the
old
World
.
And
it
deserves
our
observation
,
that
God
by
his
Command
to
Noah
to
take
only
his
own
Wife
,
and
the
three
Wives
of
his
three
Sons
into
the
Ark
with
him
,
as
he
did
thereby
give
another
Testimony
of
his
honouring
and
approving
of
Marriage
,
he
did
also
plainly
testifie
against
Digamy
,
Polygamy
and
Concubines
;
and
that
as
the
World
was
peopled
at
first
by
lawful
Marriage
,
it
should
be
also
peopled
in
the
same
manner
a
second
time
.
To
come
next
,
to
the
times
after
the
Flood
,
the
first
instance
of
impurity
that
occurs
to
us
,
is
Ham's
deriding
his
father
Noah
's
nakedness
,
by
which
there
are
some
Interpreters
who
understand
that
he
not
only
told
it
his
Brethren
,
but
also
before
Women
and
Children
,
in
a
lascivious
and
filthy
manner
,
and
took
occasion
to
fall
into
foolish
Jesting
and
Sarcasms
;
Nay
,
if
we
give
credit
to
the
opinion
of
Berosus
and
the
Rabbins
,
he
inchanted
his
Fathers
Virile
parts
,
and
unman'd
him
;
but
however
that
is
,
this
is
certain
,
that
he
discover'd
a
frothy
,
unclean
,
lascivious
temper
,
for
which
he
was
severely
punisht
in
his
posterity
The
Canaanites
,
who
wallowed
also
in
those
fleshly
impurities
when
God
destroyed
them
by
the
Israelites
,
the
posterity
of
Sem
,
as
shall
be
taken
notice
of
in
its
proper
place
.
From
Ham
did
also
proceed
Nimrod
the
Mighty
Hunter
and
cruel
oppressor
,
who
was
the
first
that
laid
the
foundation
of
a
Tyrannical
Government
after
the
Flood
,
so
that
the
observation
still
holds
that
Uncleanness
,
Murder
and
those
other
Crimes
which
lay
Nations
wast
are
near
a
kin
,
and
generally
the
off-spring
and
product
of
one
and
the
same
Family
.
That
Abraham
seem'd
to
have
this
Notion
,
appears
from
his
advice
given
to
his
beautiful
Wife
Sarah
,
when
he
travelled
with
her
into
Egypt
,
viz.
to
say
she
was
his
Sister
,
because
the
Egyptians
he
supposed
would
have
kill'd
him
that
they
might
enjoy
her
.
Whence
we
may
likewise
observe
that
the
Holy
Patriarch
knew
that
lustful
persons
would
rather
commit
Murder
than
be
baulkt
in
the
satisfaction
of
their
Lusts
;
and
yet
,
tho
the
World
was
at
that
time
so
much
degenerated
,
it
's
plain
from
this
passage
,
that
the
Egyptians
look'd
upon
Marriage
as
Sacred
and
Inviolable
,
otherwise
Sarah's
calling
her self
Abraham's
Sister
could
have
been
no
defence
of
her
Husbands
life
:
Nay
,
it
is
manifest
from
the
History
that
Pharaoh
design'd
to
have
taken
her
to
Wife
,
so
that
those
Heathen
Egyptians
will
rise
up
in
Judgment
against
our
Christian
Debauchees
,
who
think
neither
Fornication
nor
Adultery
to
be
Crimes
,
for
it
's
evident
from
this
passage
,
that
both
he
and
his
Subjects
tho
abominably
lustful
had
a
great
regard
to
Marriage
,
which
it's
plain
he
thought
necessary
to
render
his
enjoyment
of
Sarah
lawfull
.
There
are
several
other
things
to
be
learned
from
this
remarkable
instance
,
as
that
the
vanity
of
matching
with
none
but
those
of
Royal
Extract
had
not
then
invaded
the
Thrones
of
Princes
—
But
at
the
same
time
it
is
as
plain
that
it
hath
been
an
old
and
wicked
Custom
amongst
Courtiers
and
Nobles
to
be
Panders
to
the
lusts
of
their
Monarchs
,
for
here
we
find
that
Pharaoh's
Princes
Commended
Sarah's
Beauty
to
him
,
which
occasioned
her
being
taken
into
his
House
;
and
would
to
God
that
no
such
thing
had
ever
been
justly
chargeable
upon
the
Court
of
England
.
There
are
only
two
Remarks
more
which
I
have
to
make
on
this
Story
,
and
shall
then
proceed
to
another
,
viz.
that
God
by
smiting
Pharaoh
and
his
Household
,
all
of
sudden
with
Plagues
,
did
both
give
a
Testimony
of
his
divine
displeasure
against
such
lustful
practices
,
and
of
his
being
a
protector
of
Conjugal
Chastity
.
What
the
nature
of
this
Plague
inflicted
upon
Pharaoh
and
his
houshold
was
is
not
agreed
upon
amongst
Interpreters
.
The
Hebrews
say
,
that
it
was
a
Gonorrhoea
or
Ulcer
in
his
secret
parts
,
which
prevented
his
design
:
Josephus
thinks
it
was
a
Pestilence
and
sudden
Sedition
in
the
Palace
;
Philo
Judaeus
says
it
was
a
Distemper
both
of
Body
and
Mind
,
and
Chrysostom
,
is
of
opinion
that
it
was
some
Bodily
Plague
inflicted
upon
him
,
just
as
Sarah
was
brought
to
his
Bed
;
but
however
those
things
be
,
this
is
certain
,
that
Sarah's
pollution
was
prevented
,
and
Pharaoh
oblig'd
to
own
that
it
was
not
lawful
to
take
another
Man's
Wife
.
The
next
instance
is
of
Abraham
himself
,
who
is
the
first
of
the
Posterity
of
Seth
after
the
Flood
,
that
we
find
to
have
been
guilty
of
Digamy
;
it
's
plain
that
the
occasion
of
his
taking
his
Handmaid
Haga
to
Wife
,
was
his
Wife
Sarah's
advice
,
and
the
Cause
of
her
giving
that
advice
,
was
her
own
Barrenness
,
advanced
age
,
and
fear
that
she
should
not
otherwise
have
the
promised
Seed
.
The
Causes
of
Abraham's
consenting
so
easily
were
no
doubt
the
same
,
and
Polygamy
being
then
Common
in
the
World
,
his
Practice
administred
no
occasion
of
Scandal
,
so
that
his
practice
of
marrying
his
Maid
in
those
times
of
Ignorance
which
God
winked
at
,
can
not
afford
any
argument
for
Polygamy
now
,
and
seeing
he
had
his
Wifes
consent
,
it
will
far
less
warrant
those
lascivious
Intrigues
which
many
Masters
have
now
a
days
with
their
Maid-Servants
.
But
that
this
practice
of
the
Holy
Patriarch
was
displeasing
to
God
will
easily
appear
from
the
punishment
inflicted
upon
his
Family
,
the
Peace
of
which
was
immediately
broke
,
by
Hagar's
despising
her
Mistress
,
assoon
as
she
found
her self
pregnant
with
the
promised
Seed
as
she
vainly
believ'd
:
Then
Sarah
upbraids
Abraham
with
the
wrong
whereof
she
her self
was
the
occasion
,
and
forc'd
him
to
a
breach
of
that
Marriage
Bond
,
which
by
her
own
advice
he
had
contracted
:
Hagar
was
also
punisht
for
her
unlawful
Consent
,
first
,
by
being
severely
dealt
with
by
Sarah
,
who
gave
her
for
a
Wife
to
her
Husband
,
and
then
by
being
thrust
out
of
the
Family
and
expos'd
to
the
World
,
and
though
she
was
brought
back
again
for
some
,
time
till
she
was
delivered
of
her
Son
,
Ishmael
,
yet
her
abode
was
of
no
long
continuance
,
for
she
was
thrust
out
again
with
this
additional
affliction
,
that
she
had
her
Son
to
provide
for
,
was
expos'd
to
the
cruel
necessity
of
seeing
him
die
of
thirst
as
she
apprehended
,
and
instead
of
his
being
the
promised
Seed
,
she
and
he
were
both
Ignominiously
thrust
out
from
partaking
of
the
Inheritance
with
Isaac
,
and
she
was
plainly
told
from
Heaven
,
that
he
should
be
a
wild
Man
,
having
his
hand
against
every
Man
,
and
every
Man's
hand
against
him
;
which
was
speedily
verified
,
for
he
became
a
profane
scoffer
at
Religion
and
the
promise
of
God
,
which
occasioned
his
expulsion
from
his
Fathers
Family
and
the
Church
.
His
crime
is
by
the
Apostle
Paul
called
persecution
,
and
his
Posterity
we
find
complained
of
by
the
Psalmist
in
the
83.
Psalm
,
amongst
the
other
persecutors
of
the
people
of
God
,
and
so
they
have
continued
under
several
denominations
to
this
day
,
as
Ishmaelites
,
Hagarens
,
&c.
of
which
latter
name
being
ashamed
,
as
denoting
their
Spurious
Original
,
they
assumed
to
themselves
the
Title
of
Saracens
,
as
if
they
were
Sarah's
off-spring
,
under
which
they
were
formidable
to
the
Christian
World
for
some
Ages
,
and
continue
irreconcilable
Enemies
to
the
Christian
Religion
to
this
day
,
under
the
name
of
Arabians
,
Turks
,
&c.
Such
unseparable
Vices
are
Uncleanness
,
Cruelty
and
Persecution
,
and
so
easie
and
natural
is
the
Transition
,
from
an
unclean
person
to
become
an
Apostate
and
Enemy
to
true
Religion
.
Nor
is
it
fit
to
let
it
pass
unobserved
,
that
a●…
he
himself
wa●…
unlawfully
begot
,
his
Posterity
to
this
day
have
continued
to
be
a
vile
and
lustful
people
,
and
itis
known
to
the
world
,
that
it
is
now
become
an
Article
of
their
horrid
Religion
,
that
they
place
their
chief
happiness
both
in
this
Life
and
that
to
come
in
the
enjoyment
of
those
impure
pleasures
.
Nor
is
it
fit
we
should
pass
over
what
is
commonly
observ'd
by
Divines
,
that
the
very
Ordinance
of
Circumcision
,
by
which
the
fore-skin
was
appointed
to
be
cut
off
,
was
a
mark
of
God's
displeasure
at
Incontinence
upon
the
Instrument
of
Generation
;
and
likewise
an
evidence
that
those
who
expect
his
favour
should
mortifie
that
Corruption
;
and
that
it
only
took
place
upon
Males
,
was
because
the
beginning
of
Generation
and
consequently
of
natural
Corruption
is
from
that
Sex
.
The
next
dreadful
Instance
of
God's
hatred
and
indignation
at
Whoredom
and
Uncleanness
,
is
his
raining
of
Fire
and
Brimstone
upon
Sodom
,
Gomorrah
,
Admah
and
Zeboim
,
&c.
the
cry
of
their
lewdness
being
such
,
that
it
seemed
to
drown
the
noise
of
all
other
Sins
at
that
time
.
This
is
the
first
Instance
we
meet
with
of
Lusts
arriving
to
such
a
prodigious
height
,
as
to
seek
after
Unnatural
Objects
,
and
it
would
seem
their
Incontinence
was
so
fierce
,
that
they
furiously
sought
after
every
opportunity
,
to
gratifie
their
brutish
desires
,
especially
upon
Strangers
;
for
they
had
so
mutually
polluted
one
another
,
that
it
's
probable
their
villainous
pleasures
that
way
,
had
lost
much
of
their
relish
:
Nor
is
it
unlikely
that
the
Comely
and
Beautiful
aspect
of
those
Angels
added
fewel
to
their
flames
,
and
it
deserves
particular
observation
,
that
the
whole
City
both
old
and
young
was
infected
with
this
lustful
Contagion
,
in
which
they
were
so
hardened
,
that
neither
Lot's
unadvised
proposal
of
his
own
Daughters
(
to
them
)
who
were
more
natural
and
fit
Objects
for
their
Lust
;
nor
the
remarkable
Judgement
of
God
upon
them
in
striking
them
with
blindness
were
able
to
divert
them
from
their
devilish
purpose
,
of
offering
that
unnatural
abuse
to
those
Messengers
of
God
,
who
at
last
after
having
set
Lot
and
his
Family
out
of
danger
,
became
the
executioners
of
Divine
Justice
upon
those
Monsters
of
Impurity
,
and
punisht
their
lustful
flames
with
storms
of
Fire
and
Brimstone
,
which
were
only
some
precursory
drops
to
those
showers
of
everlasting
fire
,
which
makes
the
smoak
of
their
torments
to
ascend
for
ever
and
ever
.
Neither
ought
it
to
pass
without
observation
,
that
God
did
not
only
punish
themselves
,
but
would
have
their
Country
which
they
had
polluted
to
remain
a
Monument
of
their
abominable
Impurity
,
and
his
just
Judgment
,
so
long
as
the
world
stands
:
nor
would
Divine
Justice
suffer
Lot's
Wife
to
pass
unpunish'd
for
looking
back
upon
the
place
which
she
left
with
a
reluctancy
,
and
could
have
wisht
to
have
been
spared
,
but
turn'd
her
immediately
into
a
Pillar
of
Salt
for
her
disobedience
and
inordinate
affection
to
her
Relations
and
Estate
,
which
God
had
justly
determin'd
to
destroy
,
and
not
for
having
withheld
Salt
from
the
Angels
her
Guests
the
night
before
,
as
the
Jews
have
fabulously
delivered
.
—
We
shall
conclude
this
passage
with
these
few
Reflections
,
viz.
That
the
places
being
converted
into
a
dead
Sea
,
near
which
no
Creature
can
live
,
andthe
Apples
and
Grapes
that
grow
upon
the
banks
of
it
,
which
are
grateful
to
the
Eye
,
but
when
touch
moulder
into
dust
,
and
send
forth
stinking
sulphureous
Exhalations
,
are
fit
Emblems
to
represent
,
not
only
the
vanity
,
but
the
deadly
effects
of
those
hurtful
and
foolish
Lusts
,
the
satisfaction
of
which
is
so
eagerly
pusued
by
Corrupt
Nature
.
The
next
Instance
we
meet
with
,
is
that
of
Lot's
Incest
with
his
own
Daughters
,
or
rather
their
Incest
with
him
.
This
passage
has
many
strange
Circumstances
that
deserve
our
observation
.
It
is
not
improbable
that
the
lewd
Conversation
of
the
Sodomites
had
before-hand
infected
the
minds
of
those
Damsels
,
for
it
's
a
hard
matter
to
touch
pitch
and
not
to
be
defiled
;
Divines
are
of
different
opinions
concerning
those
Women
,
some
believing
that
they
had
actually
been
married
,
and
others
,
that
they
were
only
betrothed
,
but
which
soever
of
'em
it
was
,
it
's
certain
they
had
lost
their
Males
;
and
perhaps
their
Fathers
offer
to
prostitute
them
to
save
his
Guests
,
and
their
having
been
ear
witnesses
at
least
to
those
unnatural
villanies
practis'd
by
the
Sodomites
,
might
possess
them
with
extenuating
thoughts
of
the
wickedness
they
had
in
design
:
Yet
it
appears
by
their
abominable
Intrigue
to
Intoxicate
their
Father
,
that
they
durst
not
propound
any
such
thing
to
him
when
he
was
Sober
,
their
wickedness
appears
to
be
so
much
the
greater
,
that
they
had
but
just
escap'd
from
that
storm
of
divine
Wrath
which
over
took
the
Sodomites
for
their
Vile
Lusts
;
That
they
had
but
a
very
little
before
seen
their
Mother
turn'd
into
a
Monument
of
God's
displeasure
,
for
having
a
hankering
mind
after
that
impure
City
,
and
her
wicked
Relations
in
it
;
That
they
had
no
doubt
been
often
times
witnesses
to
the
vexation
of
their
Fathers
Righteous
Soul
at
the
lustful
practises
of
the
Sodomites
,
and
yet
all
this
was
not
able
to
restrain
them
from
pursuing
their
unclean
design
,
and
commiting
one
sin
to
obtain
the
Commission
of
another
.
Their
pretence
that
there
was
no
Man
left
to
come
in
unto
them
after
the
manner
of
all
the
Earth
,
and
that
therefore
they
were
under
necessity
a
of
raising
up
Seed
to
their
Father
,
appears
to
have
been
an
ill
founded
suggestion
of
the
Devil
,
to
hide
their
sin
from
their
Eyes
,
for
they
could
not
but
know
that
they
had
left
men
behind
them
in
Zoar
,
they
might
have
seen
from
the
hill
,
that
the
whole
Country
was
not
ruined
,
and
those
divine
Judgments
had
only
swallowed
up
the
Cities
of
the
Plain
;
or
they
might
speedily
have
been
better
inform'd
by
their
Father
.
Their
wickedness
is
also
aggravated
by
this
,
that
as
they
were
Sisters
by
Nature
,
they
were
Sisters
in
Iniquity
,
and
they
had
no
regard
to
their
own
,
nor
their
Father's
good
Name
,
nor
the
scandal
which
by
this
lewd
practice
they
gave
to
the
Enemies
of
true
Religion
.
The
Scripture
is
silent
as
to
any
Judgments
inflicted
either
upon
their
Father
or
themselves
,
but
informs
us
plainly
that
the
issue
which
they
had
by
this
Unlawfull
Congress
,
were
accursed
,
and
their
posterity
like
other
spurious
brood
were
mortal
Enemies
to
the
people
of
God
,
and
perpetually
excommunicated
from
the
Church
by
Divine
Command
,
Deut.
23.
3.
And
thus
Lot
had
an
eternal
blemish
fix●…
upon
his
Chastity
,
which
did
formerly
so
much
distinguish
him
from
the
other
Inhabitants
of
Sodom
,
and
was
punished
by
being
the
Author
of
Debauching
his
Daughters
himself
,
whom
he
so
rashly
offered
to
be
Debauched
by
others
;
so
that
we
see
raging
Lust
leaps
over
all
the
bounds
of
Law
and
Nature
,
and
if
not
curb'd
in
time
may
rise
to
a
surprizing
and
prodigious
height
,
and
bring
down
stupendous
Judgments
upon
People
and
Persons
.
The
20th
.
Chap.
of
Genesis
gives
us
another
Instance
of
Abraham's
slavish
fear
and
distrust
of
God's
Providence
which
had
formerly
delivered
him
,
and
by
which
frailty
he
again
endangered
the
Chastity
of
his
Wife
;
but
God
took
care
to
preserve
it
by
keeping
Abimelech
from
touching
her
,
tho'
he
was
so
much
taken
with
her
Beauty
,
and
doubted
not
but
that
he
might
Lawfully
Marry
her
,
he
not
knowing
any
other
,
but
that
she
was
really
Abraham's
Sister
.
Yet
God
was
so
much
offended
with
Abimelech's
rash
attempt
to
which
he
was
doubtlesly
influenc'd
by
his
Lust
,
for
it
appears
that
he
had
a
Wife
already
,
that
he
punish'd
him
and
his
Family
with
a
grievous
distemper
,
as
Josephus
thinks
as
soon
as
he
brought
Sara
into
his
House
,
and
made
all
the
Women
belonging
to
him
barren
,
or
because
barrenness
properly
so
called
,
could
not
be
so
soon
discovered
,
inflicted
such
distempers
upon
them
as
must
necessarily
occasion
barrenness
,
so
that
by
his
Unlawfull
desire
of
issue
by
another
Man's
Wife
,
he
was
precluded
of
any
Lawfull
Issue
by
his
own
,
until
such
time
as
he
was
made
sensible
of
his
Crime
,
and
willing
to
restore
Sarah
to
Abraham
.
In
the
26th
.
of
Genesis
we
have
a
very
Extraordinary
Testimony
against
Adultery
from
an
Heathen
Prince
Abimelech
King
of
Gerar
upon
the
occasion
of
Isaac's
having
from
that
same
principle
of
slavish
fear
with
his
Father
,
called
his
Beautifull
Wife
his
Sister
,
to
avoid
being
killed
for
her
sake
,
but
the
King
perceiving
him
sporting
more
familiarly
with
her
than
't
was
decent
for
a
Sister
and
Brother
to
do
,
he
reproved
him
sharply
for
his
having
dissembled
her
being
his
Wife
,
whereby
he
not
only
endangered
her
Chastity
,
but
might
have
brought
wrath
upon
the
People
for
defiling
another
Man's
Wife
,
and
therefore
to
prevent
any
such
thing
,
he
forbad
any
of
the
People
to
meddle
with
Isaac
or
his
Wife
on
pain
of
death
.
Certainly
this
Heathen
Prince
will
rise
in
Judgment
against
those
pretended
Christians
who
pollute
themselves
with
promiscuous
Lusts
,
and
neither
Account
Fornication
nor
Adultery
a
Crime
.
The
next
Instance
offer'd
us
is
that
of
Esau
,
who
married
two
Wives
;
and
those
too
the
Daughters
of
Canaan
,
which
were
a
Grief
of
Soul
unto
his
Father
and
his
Mother
;
that
he
Married
two
Wives
at
once
,
considering
his
Grand-Father
Abraham's
Example
and
the
Custom
of
those
dark
and
ignorant
times
seems
not
so
Criminal
,
and
yet
his
Father's
pra●…ice
,
who
had
but
one
,
ought
to
have
had
more
influence
upon
him
;
but
his
marrying
Canaanites
,
Profane
Women
,
and
Heathens
,
contrary
to
the
Command
of
his
Grand-Father
Abraham
,
and
not
only
without
the
Consent
but
against
the
Inclination
of
his
Father
and
Mother
,
was
altogether
unexcusable
.
—
The
Impulsive
cause
which
mov'd
him
to
do
so
,
we
have
no
reason
to
doubt
,
was
his
Ungovernable
Lust
,
for
that
he
was
a
Man
of
intemperate
Appetite
,
and
by
Consequence
Libidinous
is
plain
from
his
having
profanely
bartered
away
his
Birth-Right
for
a
Mess
of
Red
Pottage
when
to
be
sure
he
might
have
had
other
Food
in
his
Fathers
House
,
or
if
he
had
rejected
Jacob's
proposal
there
's
no
great
reason
to
think
that
Jacob
would
have
been
so
unnatural
as
to
have
insisted
upon
his
demand
,
and
denied
necessary
Refreshment
to
his
Brother
,
but
he
did
so
much
idolize
his
own
Palate
and
Appetite
,
that
he
preferred
the
satisfaction
of
them
to
every
thing
else
,
and
we
have
the
same
reason
to
think
that
his
Concupiscence
was
as
Ungovernable
as
his
Stomach
,
and
therefore
he
married
two
Canaanitish
Women
at
once
to
satisfy
his
raging
Lust
,
the
fulfilling
of
which
he
prefer'd
to
his
Father
and
Mother's
good
will
;
and
this
no
doubt
had
no
small
influence
in
moving
the
latter
to
suborn
Jacob
to
deprive
Esau
of
his
Blessing
as
well
as
of
his
Birth-right
:
and
it
's
Remarkable
that
as
he
made
a
Cursed
choise
of
his
Wives
,
he
was
also
accursed
in
his
Posterity
;
who
,
as
it
appears
by
the
Sacred
History
became
irreconcilable
Enemies
to
the
people
of
God
,
and
were
always
their
most
Barbarous
and
Cruel
Persecutors
.
Esau's
Marrying
a
third
Wife
of
Ishmael's
race
,
while
the
other
two
were
alive
,
is
another
Argument
of
his
Unbridled
Lust
and
Enmity
to
true
Religion
.
It
'
true
that
Interpreters
disagree
in
this
matter
,
some
thinking
that
Esau
Married
this
Third
Wife
of
his
Father
's
own
kindred
to
please
him
,
because
the
Daughters
of
Canaan
were
hatefull
to
him
,
but
others
seem
to
have
more
Reason
,
who
,
think
that
he
did
it
out
of
Contempt
with
a
design
to
provoke
his
Parents
more
,
by
contracting
a
new
Alliance
with
another
wicked
people
,
who
were
as
much
Enemies
to
the
Church
,
and
as
much
or
more
irreconcilable
to
his
Father
as
the
other
;
seeing
,
it
's
apparent
that
Ishmael
mock'd
or
as
the
Apostle
Interprets
it
persecuted
,
Isaac
from
his
very
Infancy
.
And
thus
far
we
see
raging
incontinency
and
hatred
at
Religion
go
hand
in
hand
The
next
Instance
that
occurs
to
us
is
that
of
Jacob
,
who
well
may
be
charged
with
Polygamy
,
as
having
four
Wives
at
a
time
instead
of
one
.
The
first
occasion
of
this
good
Patriarch's
transgression
in
this
matter
,
was
the
Wicked
Craft
and
Deceit
of
Laban
his
Father-in-Law
,
who
instead
of
Rachel
whom
Jacob
Married
,
brought
Leah
to
his
Bed
,
and
so
was
the
cause
of
Jacob's
Digamy
and
Incest
,
and
tho'
it
's
true
,
that
Jacob
is
no
where
Condemned
in
Scripture
for
this
,
yet
it
's
plain
that
he
acted
contrary
to
Divine
institution
,
and
he
is
reproved
for
it
by
our
Saviour
amongst
others
when
he
told
the
Pharisees
,
That
from
the
beginning
it
was
not
so
.
There
were
some
,
and
particularly
the
Manichees
of
old
who
inveighed
against
this
Polygamy
of
the
Patriarchs
,
and
in
very
gross
and
foul
Language
accuse
them
as
Whore-Masters
and
their
Wives
as
Whores
,
but
their
scurrilous
Arguments
are
well
answered
by
Augustine
against
Faustus
and
others
—
There
are
some
who
think
that
this
Polygamy
of
the
Patriarchs
was
by
a
peculiar
instinct
,
and
particular
Dispensation
,
and
therefore
as
in
that
case
it
could
not
be
blamable
,
neither
can
it
now
be
ordinarily
imitable
,
the
chief
Reasons
they
assign
,
for
their
opinions
are
,
that
it
was
permitted
for
the
Increasing
of
the
Promised
Seed
,
that
Jacobs
Wives
,
&c.
were
acted
by
more
than
a
Natural
principle
,
and
much
self-denial
,
in
recommending
their
Maids
to
their
Husband's
Bed
,
which
in
ordinary
Cases
must
be
supposed
to
alienate
his
Affection
from
themselves
.
In
the
next
place
they
observe
that
they
pray'd
for
off-spring
by
their
Maids
and
brought
up
their
Children
upon
their
own
knees
.
It
must
be
own'd
that
those
things
were
Extraordinary
and
Contrary
to
the
Practice
and
Principle
of
the
generality
of
Women
;
yet
it
's
strongly
presumable
,
that
there
was
something
of
Custom
as
well
as
of
instinct
in
this
matter
,
and
that
the
people
of
God
were
polluted
with
the
bad
Example
of
those
amongst
whom
they
lived
.
But
however
these
things
were
,
this
is
certain
that
all
the
Persons
concerned
were
one
way
or
other
punish'd
for
their
Concurrence
in
this
Affair
.
Laban
had
not
only
the
mortifi●…ation
to
see
his
two
Daughters
Jarr
and
Disagree
,
and
Envy
one
another
,
but
also
to
find
his
Riches
and
Substance
decrease
and
to
be
conveighed
to
another
hand
;
Leah
,
she
was
severely
punish'd
by
finding
that
she
had
less
of
her
Husbands
Love
than
her
Sister
,
whose
Bed
she
had
unjustly
defiled
.
Rachel
was
punish'd
with
barrenness
for
some
time
for
consenting
to
live
with
Jacob
as
his
Wife
when
she
knew
that
her
Father
had
given
her
eldest
Sister
into
his
Bed
.
Jacob's
life
was
very
uneasy
betwixt
his
Jarring
Wives
,
who
did
each
of
them
Envy
the
others
Enjoyment
of
him
;
Nay
,
he
was
perfectly
Subject
to
the
Command
of
his
Imperious
and
Beautiful
Rachel
,
and
obliged
to
take
a
third
Wife
to
beget
Children
for
her
,
and
this
laid
him
under
a
necessity
of
obliging
Leah
in
the
like
manner
,
which
as
it
must
needs
Consume
his
Body
he
being
now
above
80
years
of
age
,
there
was
no
doubt
but
it
increased
his
care
how
to
provide
for
so
many
Wives
and
Children
,
at
the
same
time
he
was
also
plagued
with
a
Covetous
Oppressing
Father-in-Law
,
and
discontented
Brethren
who
envied
his
growing
rich
in
the
World
.
Nor
is
it
to
be
doubted
but
there
was
frequent
Quarrels
amongst
the
Children
of
so
many
different
Mothers
,
seeing
it's
Common
to
find
Children
by
the
same
Father
and
Mother
often
to
disagree
,
and
this
without
doubt
begot
mutual
Broils
,
Contentions
,
and
Heats
amongst
the
different
Wives
every
one
envying
the
prosperity
or
good
Fortune
of
anothers
Children
.
An
Instance
of
this
we
have
in
Rachel
who
was
so
much
taken
with
Reuben's
Mandrakes
that
there
's
no
doubt
but
she
could
have
wish'd
they
had
been
found
by
one
of
her
own
Sons
.
Hence
also
we
may
observe
,
That
as
the
Children
did
every
one
love
their
own
Mothers
best
,
it
must
needs
occasion
Quarrels
amongst
them
.
It
's
not
agreed
among
Interpreters
what
these
Mandrakes
were
,
some
will
have
them
to
be
Beautiful
Fragrant
Flowers
,
and
others
,
that
they
were
Beautiful
and
Delicious
Apples
which
promoted
Conception
,
and
that
therefore
they
were
so
much
desired
by
Rachel
,
which
,
if
it
were
so
,
she
was
however
disappointed
for
having
agreed
that
her
Husband
should
be
with
Leah
that
night
,
it
occasioned
her
Rival
to
have
two
Sons
Successively
one
after
another
,
and
also
one
Daughter
.
But
as
to
the
Mandrakes
themselves
,
St.
Augustine
against
Faustus
tells
us
,
That
he
has
seen
of
'em
,
Diligently
Inquired
into
their
Nature
,
and
says
,
they
were
Apples
fine
to
the
Eye
,
and
of
a
sweet
Scent
,
but
insipid
taste
,
but
very
rare
to
be
bad
,
and
on
that
Account
alone
he
thought
Rachel
did
Covet
them
.
The
sin
of
Jacob
and
Leah
,
is
also
very
legible
in
their
punishment
,
by
the
foul
Crimes
of
their
Children
Reuben
and
Dinah
.
Jacob
was
guilty
of
Incest
with
two
Sisters
,
and
to
the
great
grief
of
his
Soul
,
eternal
Reproach
of
his
Family
,
and
scandal
to
the
Neighbouring
Heathen
;
his
Son
Reuben
committed
Incest
with
his
own
Concubine
Bilhah
,
which
by
the
way
,
was
another
punishment
upon
her
for
consenting
to
Marry
one
who
had
two
Wives
before
,
and
whom
she
had
no
reason
to
think
could
ever
be
able
to
perform
Conjugal
duty
to
so
many
,
and
't
is
not
improbable
that
this
made
her
an
easy
prey
to
the
Tentation
.
—
Then
as
to
Dinah
,
her
being
polluted
by
Schechem
the
Son
of
Hamor
,
was
another
disgrace
to
Jacob's
Family
,
and
brought
a
fresh
scandal
upon
the
Church
,
as
well
as
ruin
upon
the
Schechemites
,
whose
destruction
was
occasioned
by
the
Lustful
Passion
of
their
Prince
,
in
dealing
with
Jacob's
Daughter
as
with
an
Harlot
,
which
so
enraged
her
Brethren
that
by
a
fraudulent
Covenant
they
obliged
the
Schechemites
to
Circumcise
themselves
,
came
upon
them
while
they
were
Sore
,
and
put
all
the
Males
to
the
Sword
—
And
thus
Dinah
was
also
punished
for
her
Conversing
with
the
Daughters
of
the
Land
,
who
were
Idolaters
and
of
corrupt
manners
;
her
Curiosity
which
is
so
common
to
young
Maids
was
fatal
to
her self
and
many
others
,
neither
is
there
any
thing
better
to
be
expected
from
those
Profane
Festivals
,
Revellings
and
Banquetings
,
which
Josephus
thinks
the
Schechemites
were
now
taken
up
with
:
—
And
that
Dinah
either
having
stole
away
from
her
Mother
to
see
how
the
Daughters
of
the
Land
were
adorn'd
,
and
behav'd
themselves
in
their
publick
Dances
,
or
being
so
far
indulged
as
to
have
Liberty
to
go
,
the
Libidinous
young
Prince
being
taken
with
her
Beauty
,
and
under
no
restraint
,
but
dandled
by
an
Indulgent
Father
,
violated
her
Chastity
,
for
which
himself
,
his
Son
,
and
all
their
Male
Subjects
quickly
after
lost
their
Lives
,
having
first
bee●…
by
the
Just
Judgment
of
God
punish'd
in
the
very
Instrument
of
their
Lasciviousness
.
The
wound
as
it
's
usual
putting
them
to
great
pain
,
and
making
them
unable
either
to
resist
or
fly
from
Jacob's
Armed
Sons
and
Servants
;
and
thus
also
the
Good
Old
Man
was
punish'd
by
the
Rape
of
his
only
Daughter
,
and
his
bleeding
wound
●…ipt
open
afresh
by
the
Treachery
and
Cruelty
of
his
Children
.
This
is
another
Instance
of
a
People
cut
off
and
destroyed
for
Uncleanness
The
next
thing
that
occurrs
,
is
another
affliction
to
the
Good
Old
Patriarch
,
from
the
Evil
Report
of
the
Sons
of
his
Concubines
Zilpah
and
Bilhah
,
who
being
the
off-spring
of
an
Unlawful
Marriage
were
also
of
a
Lewd
Conversation
themselves
,
and
according
to
the
opinion
of
some
of
the
Hebrews
,
guilty
of
Sodomitical
Impurities
;
But
however
,
that
was
,
this
is
plain
from
the
Sacred
Text
,
that
they
had
an
ill
fame
,
and
with
this
Joseph
acquainted
his
Father
,
which
occasioned
their
Conspiracy
to
kill
Joseph
,
and
at
last
to
sell
him
,
so
that
here
Jacob
was
remarkably
punish'd
for
his
Polygamy
;
The
Children
of
those
Concubines
being
both
wicked
and
haters
of
his
Children
by
Lawful
Wedlock
;
and
tho
it
be
not
directly
to
our
purpose
yet
it
may
not
be
perhaps
unpleasant
to
the
Reader
to
acquaint
him
that
the
Hebrews
think
Jacob
was
justly
punish'd
,
when
made
to
believe
that
the
blood
of
a
Kid
was
that
of
his
Son
Joseph
,
because
he
had
formerly
deceived
his
Father
and
made
him
to
believe
that
he
was
his
eldest
Son
Esau
,
by
putting
a
Kid's
Skin
about
his
Neck
,
&c.
Our
next
Instance
is
in
Judah
,
who
having
left
his
Brethren
and
his
Father's
House
,
and
by
Consequence
the
then
Church
,
and
Lodging
with
an
Adulamite
,
fell
in
Love
with
a
Canaanitish
Woman
,
and
Married
her
(
he
not
then
exceeding
14
Years
of
Age
himself
as
Chronologers
think
)
not
only
without
his
Father's
Consent
,
but
against
it
,
according
to
the
Example
of
Esau
.
—
How
he
was
punish'd
for
this
fault
the
following
History
acquaints
us
,
viz.
That
having
obliged
his
Son
Er
to
an
early
and
precipitant
Marriage
like
his
own
,
who
being
a
Wicked
Man
,
and
as
the
Hebrews
think
,
guilty
of
Sodomy
,
or
as
others
of
spilling
his
Seed
upon
the
ground
as
his
Brother
Onan
did
,
the
Lord
destroyed
him
.
Nor
was
Judah
any
happier
in
his
Son
Onan
abovementioned
,
who
being
given
to
his
Brothers
Widow
for
a
Husband
to
raise
up
Seed
to
his
Brother
,
did
maliciously
spill
it
on
the
ground
,
that
his
Brother's
Memory
might
not
be
continued
;
Whereas
to
die
Childless
had
not
only
a
Tendency
to
the
decay
,
and
ruin
of
the
Family
,
but
was
also
look'd
upon
as
Reproachful
,
and
therefore
it
is
the
opinion
of
Divines
,
that
that
temporary
Law
was
constituted
Deut.
25.
5.
The
Rabbins
according
to
their
fabulous
manner
,
alledge
,
That
Onan
did
this
because
he
would
not
have
Thamar's
Beauty
spoiled
by
bearing
Children
,
but
whatever
truth
there
be
in
that
,
't
is
certain
that
God
destroyed
him
for
that
Impurity
,
and
frustrating
the
End
of
Nature
,
which
is
next
akin
to
Muuther
if
not
a
species
of
it
,
seeing
it
destroyed
that
which
was
potentially
a
Man
or
Woman
.
But
Judah's
punishment
does
not
cease
here
,
he
is
plagued
with
raging
Lust
in
his
own
advanced
years
,
and
being
a
Widower
did
incestuously
pollute
his
own
Daughter-in
Law
Thamar
,
whom
he
took
to
be
a
Common
Harlot
,
by
which
he
incurr'd
a
perpetual
disgrace
,
and
brought
an
Indelible
blot
upon
his
Memory
.
From
that
History
we
may
plainly
also
perceive
that
Adultery
was
held
a
Capital
Crime
even
amongst
those
Canaanites
,
seeing
Judah
ordered
his
Daughter-in-Law
who
was
in
a
manner
betrothed
to
his
third
Son
Shelah
to
be
burnt
:
Nay
,
and
that
the
Crime
which
is
called
simple
Fornication
was
accounted
shamefull
amongst
them
,
seeing
,
when
he
sent
his
Friend
to
redeem
the
pledges
which
he
had
left
with
Thamar
,
but
could
neither
find
her
nor
them
,
he
said
,
Let
her
take
them
to
her
lest
we
be
ashmed
.
Thamar's
fact
some
have
endeavoured
to
excuse
,
because
say
they
,
It
did
not
proceed
from
Incontinence
,
but
to
revenge
her self
upon
her
Father
,
for
not
giving
her
Shelah
to
Husband
as
he
had
promised
;
and
others
alledge
that
she
had
some
knowledge
that
the
Messiah
should
descend
from
Judah
,
and
therefore
desired
to
be
impregnated
by
him
,
but
neither
of
these
Excuses
are
sufficient
,
and
therefore
we
find
that
she
was
punish'd
with
a
perpetual
Widowhood
for
her
Incontinence
;
and
also
by
a
dangerous
and
monstrous
Birth
of
twins
,
who
seemed
to
strive
which
of
them
should
be
soonest
rid
of
their
Impure
Mother
,
and
by
that
means
contributed
to
render
the
Memory
of
their
Father
and
Mothers
Crime
immortal
.
The
next
Scripture
Instance
is
of
a
mixt
Nature
,
and
contains
a
Glorious
Triumph
of
Chastity
in
the
person
of
Joseph
,
against
the
Tentations
of
his
Lascivious
Mistress
,
by
embracing
of
which
,
he
might
not
only
have
satisfied
the
invenile
heat
of
Concupiscence
,
but
also
have
expected
Riches
,
Preferment
,
and
what
not
by
means
of
a
Woman
of
her
Quality
,
and
opportunity
to
fulfil
the
Lusts
of
the
Flesh
with
Secrecy
and
Impunity
,
the
Repeated
attacks
which
she
made
upon
him
,
his
absence
and
unjust
Expulsion
from
his
Father's
Family
,
which
then
contain
d
the
visible
Church
,
the
Impure
Example
of
the
Egyptians
,
and
the
unavoidable
danger
which
he
must
needs
foresee
he
threw
himself
into
,
by
resisting
her
Unlawful
desires
,
set
his
Victory
off
with
the
Creater
L●…e
,
and
depaints
her
Crime
in
Placker
Colours
;
and
that
same
History
which
rewards
his
Chast●…y
with
immortal
Fame
,
punishes
her
Un●…ness
with
eternal
disgrace
,
and
Brands
her
with
a
sort
of
Rape
contrary
to
the
Common
Course
of
the
Sex
,
and
with
abominable
Cruelty
in
accusing
the
Innocent
youth
of
her
own
Crime
,
for
which
he
was
shut
up
in
Prison
and
brought
in
danger
of
his
Life
;
such
is
the
Rage
of
disappointed
Lust.
The
Rabbins
alledge
that
she
feigned
her self
to
be
sick
,
or
really
might
be
so
thro'
her
burning
Lust
as
Amnon
was
for
Tamar
,
and
finding
that
all
her
Sollicitations
by
words
could
not
do
,
order'd
it
so
as
he
should
find
her
a
Bed
in
a
Room
where
he
frequented
,
thinking
thereby
to
add
Strength
to
the
Tentation
,
and
if
that
would
not
do
,
was
resolved
to
make
use
of
Force
,
which
she
did
also
attempt
,
but
in
vain
.
And
it
is
also
remarkable
,
that
her
Husband
,
tho
no
doubt
incens'd
upon
her
accusing
Joseph
,
yet
was
so
far
over-rul'd
as
to
abstain
from
violence
towards
him
,
and
't
is
not
at
all
to
be
doubted
,
but
when
Joseph's
extraordinary
Favour
in
the
Court
of
Heaven
,
advanced
him
to
the
Court
of
Pharaoh
,
but
this
Unchaste
Woman
,
if
then
alive
,
became
a
Curse
and
a
Reproach
,
or
if
dead
that
her
memory
became
Vile
and
Contemptible
.
This
passage
brings
naturally
to
my
mind
that
well
known
Reflection
upon
the
Reformation
here
in
England
,
by
some
loose
Persons
,
viz.
That
it
came
from
Henry
VIII's
Codpiece
,
which
opprobrious
saying
,
was
probably
invented
by
Enemies
to
our
Religion
,
and
as
there
's
no
doubt
but
that
Princes
Incontinence
gave
him
occasion
to
Enquire
into
the
Pope's
Power
,
and
afterwards
to
break
it
when
he
oppos'd
his
divorce
,
so
we
see
it
is
no
new
thing
for
God
to
bring
about
his
own
holy
and
pure
designs
,
by
the
Impure
and
Wicked
designs
of
Mortals
,
for
here
this
Woman's
Incontinence
occasion●…d
Joseph's
Imprisonment
,
where
becoming
acquainted
with
some
of
Pharaoh's
Courtiers
then
under
disgrace
,
that
gave
occasion
to
his
being
sent
for
to
Court
,
and
laid
the
Foundation
of
that
Deliverance
which
the
Church
of
God
had
from
an
Universal
Famine
by
his
means
I
shall
conclude
this
History
of
Joseph
with
one
observation
,
that
as
he
is
Recorded
to
posterity
for
a
Mirror
of
Chastity
,
we
don't
find
that
he
was
so
much
as
he
tainted
with
digamy
or
polygamy
,
as
his
Father
and
Great
Grand-Father
were
,
whose
Examples
herein
tho'
they
were
Holy
men
he
never
followed
,
and
this
is
the
more
Remarkable
because
his
Dignity
and
Power
in
the
Land
of
Egypt
furnish'd
him
with
all
things
necessary
for
Pampering
the
Flesh
,
and
afforded
him
an
opportunity
of
keeping
as
many
Wives
and
Concubines
as
he
pleased
,
and
yet
we
find
he
contented
himself
with
one
,
by
which
also
we
may
perceive
that
tho'
a
Pattern
of
Chastity
,
yet
he
accounted
Lawfull
Marriage
and
Procreation
of
Children
no
violation
of
it
as
the
Mad
Popish
Monks
would
pretend
to
do
.
The
next
Instance
we
have
of
Divine
Judgment
upon
Uncleanness
is
in
the
punishment
inflicted
upon
Reuben
,
and
prophetically
foretold
by
his
Father
Jacob
in
his
last
words
unto
his
Children
,
or
in
his
last
Will
and
Testament
as
some
are
pleased
to
call
it
.
The
Judgment
pronounced
against
Reuben
is
this
,
Unstable
as
Water
thou
shalt
not
excell
because
thou
wentest
up
to
thy
Father's
Bed
,
then
defiled'st
thou
it
,
he
went
up
to
my
Couch
,
&c.
Chronologers
Reckon
,
that
this
was
40
years
after
Reuben's
Incest
with
his
Father's
Concubine
Bilhah
,
and
tho'
Reuben
had
no
doubt
repented
of
his
Crime
and
was
thereupon
pardon'd
by
God
and
his
Father
so
as
to
be
continued
both
in
the
Church
and
in
his
Father's
Family
,
yet
now
his
iniquity
is
called
to
remembrance
by
his
dying
Parent
,
who
puts
Reuben
to
shame
afresh
before
all
his
Brethren
,
and
declares
it
to
be
the
Will
of
God
,
that
Reuben
should
be
deprived
of
his
Birth-right
because
of
his
Impurity
,
and
that
whereas
being
the
Eldest
Son
he
ought
of
right
to
have
expected
the
Priesthood
,
Royalty
,
and
Preeminence
over
his
Brethren
;
he
is
now
told
that
he
should
not
excell
,
that
is
,
he
and
his
Posterity
should
neither
be
considerable
for
Strength
,
Valour
,
nor
Number
,
and
the
cause
is
subjoyned
because
he
was
Unstable
as
Water
and
had
defiled
his
Father's
Bed
,
or
had
been
acted
by
his
Impetuous
and
Raging
Lust
like
an
inundation
of
Water
which
over-flows
its
Banks
and
drowns
,
the
Country
;
and
thus
as
Esau
lost
his
Birth-right
by
one
sort
of
Profanity
,
Reuben
lost
it
by
another
;
and
as
he
had
resembled
an
Inundation
of
Water
for
Fury
and
Instability
,
so
God
poured
him
out
like
Water
,
and
made
his
state
Unstable
;
and
this
Judgment
was
pronounced
in
the
hearing
of
all
his
Brethren
as
the
last
and
irrevocable
Will
of
God
and
his
Father
;
which
,
there
's
no
reason
to
doubt
,
set
it
home
with
the
greater
pungency
upon
Reuben's
Soul
;
and
especially
because
not
only
he
himself
,
but
his
Posterity
also
was
set
up
as
a
Monument
of
God's
Judgment
against
Incontinence
.
There
are
some
who
fabulously
assert
,
that
Jacob
being
well
vers'd
in
Astronomy
,
did
read
the
destiny
of
his
Sons
in
the
Stars
,
where
they
will
have
the
prognostication
of
all
humane
Events
to
be
writ
down
as
in
a
Book
;
but
the
Event
hath
verified
that
he
was
acted
by
a
more
infallible
Author
.
The
next
thing
that
offers
it self
to
our
Consideration
is
the
Sentence
pronounc'd
against
Simeon
and
Levi
,
who
were
Brethren
to
Reuben
by
Leah
,
joyned
to
Jacob
as
hath
been
formerly
observed
by
Unlawfull
Wedlock
.
—
And
that
which
makes
the
Curse
inflicted
upon
them
fit
for
our
Remark
is
this
,
viz.
That
it
was
occasioned
by
their
Cruelty
against
the
Schechemites
,
of
which
the
Rape
committed
upon
their
Sister
Dinah
was
the
procuring
Cause
;
so
that
it
comes
naturally
to
be
taken
notice
of
as
one
of
the
Judgments
which
was
the
Consequence
of
Lust.
The
purport
of
their
Sentence
was
,
That
they
should
be
divided
in
Jacob
and
dispersed
in
Israel
.
A
very
proper
punishment
for
those
who
commit
Crimes
against
the
being
of
humane
Society
,
to
be
scattered
up
and
down
upon
the
face
of
the
Earth
:
And
if
we
may
give
Credit
to
the
Conjectures
of
the
Learned
,
their
Posterity
inherited
their
Fathers
Cruelty
;
for
the
Levi●…es
,
that
is
to
say
,
the
order
of
Priesthood
,
and
descendants
of
Levi
,
condemned
Jesus
Christ
;
and
Judas
who
betray'd
him
,
being
as
they
say
,
of
the
T●…ibe
of
Simeon
,
both
those
Tribes
had
a
hand
in
that
Condemnation
,
which
was
the
most
cruel
and
unjust
Sentence
that
ever
was
pronounced
in
the
World
.
The
next
thing
which
we
find
in
the
Sacred
Records
relating
to
our
Subject
is
,
That
God
to
Testify
his
abhorrence
of
this
sin
of
Uncleanness
,
gives
it
as
the
7th.
precept
to
his
peculiar
People
,
Israel
,
that
they
should
not
commit
Adultery
;
under
which
Term
,
Uncleanness
of
every
sort
is
forbidden
;
and
being
the
7th.
in
order
it
would
seem
that
the
Divine
Law-giver
did
thereby
intimate
that
they
should
be
as
frequent
and
particular
in
the
Remembrance
of
this
precept
as
they
were
to
be
of
sanctifying
every
Seventh
Day
,
which
tho
it
were
appointed
for
a
rest
,
yet
they
were
hereby
given
to
understand
that
they
were
not
to
spend
this
Day
in
Chambering
and
Wantonness
,
nor
make
it
the
principal
Day
of
their
impure
Assignations
as
our
Modern
Debauchees
do
;
and
tho'
this
precept
was
promulgated
from
Mount
Sinai
with
the
same
solemnity
of
Thunder
and
Lightning
as
the
rest
of
the
Law
was
,
yet
God
would
have
his
people
so
punctual
in
the
observation
of
it
,
that
he
added
a
further
sanction
to
it
,
by
appointing
particular
punishments
for
the
various
manners
of
breaking
it
:
as
he
that
enticed
and
defil'd
Virgin
should
certainly
take
her
to
Wife
;
but
if
her
Father
would
not
consent
to
it
,
the
Person
that
defiled
her
should
pay
her
Doury
;
but
if
the
Virgin
were
betrothed
and
defiled
in
any
place
where
she
might
have
help
upon
crying
out
,
then
both
Parties
were
to
be
put
to
death
;
but
if
the
betrothed
Virgin
were
surprized
in
the
field
,
or
where
she
could
not
have
help
upon
crying
out
,
then
the
Man
was
only
to
suffer
death
,
Exod.
22.
16.
Deut.
22.
from
14
to
the
end
,
but
in
case
any
Man
were
found
lying
with
another
Mans
Wife
,
then
both
the
offending
Parties
were
to
be
stoned
to
Death
;
and
if
any
Husband
could
prove
that
his
Wife
had
plaid
the
Whore
with
another
Man
before
his
Marriage
to
her
,
she
was
likewise
to
be
stoned
to
death
.
—
And
as
a
further
Evidence
of
God's
detestation
of
Whoredom
,
it
was
appointed
Deut.
23.
2.
That
no
Bastard
should
enter
into
the
Congregation
of
the
Lord
,
even
to
his
tenth
Generation
:
Nay
,
so
great
was
the
care
of
the
Divine
Law-giver
to
have
his
select
People
strictly
Chalte
and
Continent
,
that
he
orders
them
to
provide
against
all
occasions
of
Lasciviousness
,
or
Incontinence
in
their
very
Apparel
,
and
particularly
in
the
22.
of
Deut.
and
12.
he
commands
them
to
make
Fringes
upon
the
four
Corners
of
their
Garments
,
which
some
Commentators
understand
to
be
Points
or
Laces
to
fasten
them
so
that
their
Nakedness
might
not
be
discovered
on
any
occasion
,
Breeches
not
being
then
in
use
.
In
that
same
Chapter
Men
are
forbid
to
wear
Womens
Apparel
,
or
Women
Mens
,
lest
thereby
there
should
be
an
opportunity
given
to
promiscuous
Lusts.
By
this
,
Effeminate
Fops
and
Masculine
Virago's
are
also
rebuk'd
:
Nay
,
Common
Reason
teaches
us
to
despise
and
abhor
such
Unnatural
Monsters
.
A
Poor
Heathen
Poet
could
say
,
Quem
praestare
potest
mulier
gale
at
a
pudorem
Quae
fugit
à
sexu
.
What
Modesty
can
we
expect
to
see
In
Women
Armed
like
Soldiers
Cap-a pee
.
The
Almighty
is
very
particular
in
Exedus
,
Leviticus
,
and
Deuteronomy
,
in
enumerating
the
different
sorts
of
Uncleanness
,
which
he
would
have
his
People
to
avoid
,
and
after
having
forbid
under
severe
Penalties
those
more
usual
methods
of
Transgressing
the
Seventh
Commandment
,
he
forbids
Marriage
within
such
and
such
degrees
of
Consanguinity
,
lays
restrictions
upon
the
use
of
the
Marriage-Bed
it self
;
and
because
our
nature
is
so
deprav'd
,
that
when
Lust
has
the
Reins
laid
on
its
Neck
,
it
puts
Mankind
upon
the
search
of
Unnatural
Methods
to
satisfy
it
,
the
Divine
Goodness
consults
our
Welfare
so
much
as
to
make
those
things
plainly
appear
to
be
sinful
to
us
by
his
prohibition
,
which
Nature
it self
at
first
Glance
would
have
taught
us
to
be
so
,
if
we
did
but
make
use
of
Common
Reason
:
And
therefore
the
approaching
to
a
Woman
in
her
Uncleanness
;
and
Bestiality
,
or
Unnatural
Comixtion
with
Creatures
of
another
kind
,
Crimes
which
ought
to
have
been
Buried
in
perpetual
Oblivion
,
whose
very
Names
strike
Nature
with
fear
and
horrour
,
are
expresly
forbid
,
and
the
very
Brutes
as
well
as
the
Man
or
Woman
were
ordered
to
be
cut
off
for
having
suffered
such
a
transgression
of
the
Law
of
Nature
;
and
that
the
People
might
take
the
more
care
to
observe
both
those
positive
and
Negative
precepts
,
he
tells
them
that
for
such
Abominations
the
Canaanites
were
to
be
driven
out
before
them
and
cut
off
.
It
is
also
worth
our
Notice
,
that
the
Explanation
of
this
Seventh
Commandment
is
more
at
large
set
down
in
the
Sacred
Scriptures
,
than
that
of
any
other
of
the
Commandments
,
and
that
the
Law-giver
knowing
the
Frailty
of
humane
Nature
,
hath
been
particularly
Carefull
and
Indulgent
in
the
methods
appointed
for
Preservation
of
Chastity
,
as
well
as
Just
in
the
methods
for
discovering
and
punishing
Incontinence
.
The
Liberty
allow'd
the
Israelites
in
their
divorces
and
the
privilege
that
a
new
Married
Man
had
of
not
being
obliged
to
go
to
War
the
first
year
,
are
sufficient
proofs
of
the
●…enity
of
the
Law-giver
,
and
that
no
Person
could
pretend
any
Justifiable
reason
for
their
Incontinence
.
A
years
time
for
a
Man
and
a
Woman
to
cohabit
was
sufficient
to
establish
their
mutual
Love
,
and
to
prevent
that
Lubricity
of
the
flesh
which
is
discoverable
upon
first
Marriage
,
and
might
endanger
the
Womans
Chastity
if
too
soon
deprived
of
her
Husband
,
and
the
Man
's
also
if
all
of
a
sudden
taken
from
his
Wife
,
especially
to
follow
a
Military
Employment
,
which
generally
abounds
with
Tentations
to
Incontinence
,
and
many
other
Crimes
—
And
answerable
to
this
is
the
Command
of
the
Apostle
,
That
the
Husband
should
pay
all
due
benevolence
to
the
Wife
,
and
that
they
should
not
defraud
one
another
but
with
Consent
for
a
time
lest
Satan
tempt
them
for
their
Incontinence
.
Chastity
was
so
strictly
enjoyned
unto
this
select
people
of
God
,
that
they
were
not
only
forbid
to
suffer
any
of
their
Daughters
to
be
Whores
,
or
any
of
their
Sons
to
be
Whore-Masters
,
as
some
think
the
word
which
in
our
Translation
Deut
23.
17.
is
Sodomites
,
ought
to
be
rendered
,
but
all
manner
of
immodesty
was
strictly
forbid
;
and
therefore
if
any
Woman
seeing
her
Husband
and
another
Man
a
Quarrelling
,
should
be
so
impudent
in
her
Fury
or
Passion
as
to
take
the
other
Man
by
the
Secret'
Parts
to
oblige
him
to
forbear
Quarrelling
with
her
Husband
,
her
hand
was
to
be
cut
off
without
any
pity
,
tho'
every
Man
knows
that
a
Pressure
or
Gripe
in
those
parts
would
quickly
Force
her
Husband's
Antagonist
to
quit
the
Fray
.
—
And
by
much
more
reason
would
those
Judges
have
Condemned
Women
who
put
their
hands
to
those
parts
upon
a
Lustful
Account
.
The
Trials
appointed
in
the
Levitical
Law
to
find
out
whether
the
Jealousie
of
the
Husband
was
well
founded
,
was
likewise
admirably
Accommodated
for
the
Clearing
of
the
Innocent
,
and
condemning
the
Guilty
.
The
Tokens
of
Vi●…ginity
which
the
Learned
tell
us
never
failed
in
that
Climate
,
were
a
Convincing
proof
of
the
Brides
being
a
Maid
or
otherwise
,
and
therefore
the
Linen
in
which
the
Bridegroom
and
she
lay
the
first
night
was
carefully
kept
by
the
Parents
of
the
Bride
,
and
taken
from
the
Fed
before
proper
Witnesses
,
as
a
security
for
their
Daughters
Honour
.
If
the
accusation
were
found
false
,
the
Husband
was
to
be
Chastis'd
and
Fin'd
in
an
Hundred
Shekels
of
Silver
to
the
Father
of
the
Damsel
,
and
if
it
was
found
to
be
true
,
she
was
to
be
stoned
to
Death
for
having
wrought
folly
in
Israel
;
so
that
there
's
no
doubt
but
this
Custom
had
a
mighty
influence
upon
Parents
to
watch
carefully
over
their
Daughters
,
and
on
the
Virgins
themselves
to
preserve
their
Chastity
.
The
Trial
to
find
out
whether
a
Woman
had
committed
Adultery
after
Marriage
,
was
yet
more
solemn
and
terrible
,
as
may
be
seen
in
the
5th
.
of
Numbers
,
from
the
11th
.
to
the
31st
.
Verse
.
And
seeing
the
effect
of
the
bitter
Water
which
the
Woman
was
to
drink
on
that
occasion
,
was
altogether
Supernatural
,
viz.
to
make
her
fruitful
if
Innocent
,
and
her
Belly
to
swell
and
Thigh
to
rot
if
guilty
,
it
plainly
demonstrated
that
God
himself
was
the
Patron
of
Chastity
,
and
Revenger
of
Adultery
,
and
the
Person
found
guilty
upon
this
occasion
becoming
a
curse
among
the
people
,
it
shews
how
odious
and
abominable
that
Crime
then
was
in
the
Eyes
of
Man
as
well
as
in
the
Eyes
of
God
;
and
there
's
no
doubt
but
this
had
a
very
great
influence
upon
Women
to
be
Loyal
to
their
Husbands
,
and
careful
to
avoid
giving
'em
any
occasion
of
Jealousie
.
It
's
probable
that
the
Trial
of
Adultery
by
the
Fiery
ordeal
,
or
laying
so
many
hot
Bars
of
Iron
upon
the
ground
,
covering
the
Woman's
Eyes
,
and
making
her
go
over
them
with
her
bare
Feet
,
which
she
burnt
if
Guilty
,
and
came
off
without
any
hurt
if
Innocent
,
was
an
Apish
Imitation
of
this
solemn
and
severe
Jewish
Trial
,
as
many
other
of
the
Popish
Superstitions
are
foolish
and
unwarrantable
Imitations
of
the
Jewish
Ceremonies
;
but
as
they
have
not
the
Divine
Institution
for
their
Warrant
,
they
come
always
short
of
the
desired
effect
,
and
turn
to
the
disgrace
of
the
Inventers
and
Practitioners
.
It
also
deserves
our
observation
that
the
flux
of
the
Natural
Seed
in
Man
,
the
menstrua
in
Women
,
and
their
ordinary
purgations
after
Child-bearing
,
rendred
them
unfit
for
publick
worship
,
and
were
accounted
unclean
.
Nay
even
the
very
Lawful
Act
betwixt
Man
and
Wife
went
under
that
denomination
;
because
,
as
it
is
well
observed
by
Divines
,
the
Corruption
of
Nature
is
more
apt
to
discover
it self
in
that
Lawfull
act
,
than
perhaps
in
any
other
,
and
because
Original
Corruption
is
Conveyed
unto
us
in
our
first
Conception
by
that
very
substance
whereof
we
are
made
.
The
next
scriptural
Instance
that
Occurs
,
is
in
the
25th
.
of
Numbers
,
where
we
have
an
account
that
the
Moabites
and
Midianites
being
afraid
of
the
Children
of
Israel
,
the
King
of
the
Moabites
sent
for
Balaam
,
a
false
Prophet
and
Enchanter
,
to
Curse
them
,
that
he
might
the
more
easily
prevail
over
them
;
but
Balaam
finding
that
it
was
not
in
his
power
to
Curse
those
whom
God
had
Blessed
,
gave
them
advice
to
send
out
their
Beautiful
Women
among
the
Israelites
to
tempt
them
to
Uncleanness
;
which
if
they
could
,
he
knew
that
it
would
render
them
odious
in
the
sight
of
their
Holy
God
,
and
bring
down
Judgments
upon
them
from
the
Almighty
hand
of
Jehovah
,
who
had
given
them
such
Laws
for
the
preservation
of
their
Chastity
as
distinguished
them
from
the
polluted
Nations
of
the
Earth
.
We
must
take
notice
by
the
way
,
that
the
Moabites
were
the
Descendants
of
Lot's
Incestuous
Brood
by
one
of
his
Daughters
,
and
't
is
very
probable
that
they
lookt
upon
promiscuous
Copulations
to
be
sufficiently
Authoriz'd
by
the
unhappy
slip
of
that
Good
man
,
which
together
with
their
zeal
to
save
their
Country
,
made
them
ready
enough
to
prostitute
themselves
to
the
Israelites
—
And
they
notwithstanding
the
prohibition
and
Laws
of
that
God
who
had
chosen
them
for
his
peculiar
people
,
called
them
his
first
born
,
destroyed
the
Egyptians
and
Amorites
for
their
sakes
,
and
as
he
told
them
himself
,
because
of
such
pollutions
,
yet
they
,
whom
Balaam's
Magick
could
not
Enchant
,
were
so
much
bewitched
with
Lust
towards
the
Daughters
of
Moab
,
that
they
first
committed
Whoredom
with
them
,
and
then
committed
Idolatry
to
please
them
;
so
easie
and
natural
is
the
transition
from
a
wicked
Life
to
a
false
Religion
.
This
Lewd
and
Ungratefull
Practice
did
quickly
kindle
the
Anger
of
the
Lord
against
them
,
which
was
no
other
way
to
be
expiated
but
by
the
Death
of
those
who
had
been
Ring-Leaders
of
this
Uncleanness
and
Idolatry
,
and
therefore
God
Commanded
the
Judges
and
Magistrates
by
the
Mouth
of
his
Servant
Moses
,
every
one
to
slay
those
Ring-Leaders
and
Heads
of
the
people
in
their
own
Juridiction
,
who
had
polluted
themselves
,
and
to
hang
them
up
against
the
Sun
,
in
the
face
of
which
they
had
committed
these
Abominations
;
so
that
a
Thousand
of
those
profane
Great
men
were
hanged
,
as
the
Learned
do
compute
,
and
Twenty
Three
Thousand
of
the
Common
.
people
were
consumed
by
the
Plague
for
their
Whoredom
.
In
this
General
Instance
of
Uncleanness
there
is
one
more
particularly
taken
notice
of
by
the
Scripture
,
viz.
That
of
Zimri
,
a
Prince
of
the
Tribe
of
Simeon
,
with
Cozbi
the
Daughter
of
a
Prince
of
Midian
.
By
the
reading
it
would
seem
that
this
man
was
so
far
besotted
with
his
Lustfull
Passion
,
as
neither
to
regard
the
Command
of
God
for
hanging
up
other
Great
men
that
were
guilty
of
the
like
Crime
,
nor
the
hand
of
God
which
was
gone
out
against
the
Common
People
destroying
those
by
a
burning
Plague
who
just
before
were
burning
in
their
Lusts
,
but
in
the
very
heat
of
God's
Anger
,
and
while
the
Congregation
were
all
in
Tears
for
their
Sins
and
Judgments
,
as
if
he
would
out
brave
the
wrath
of
God
and
insult
over
the
Calamities
of
the
people
,
he
brought
his
Midiantish
Whore
in
the
sight
of
Moses
and
all
the
Congregation
into
his
Tent
,
and
as
he
made
himself
thus
a
Remarkable
Sinner
,
the
Lord
did
pursue
him
with
as
Remarkable
a
Judgment
,
by
sturring
up
Phinehas
to
go
beyond
the
ordinary
bounds
of
his
Vocation
and
become
Executioner
of
his
Justice
upon
this
Lustfull
Gallant
,
whom
together
with
his
Whore
,
he
thrust
through
with
his
Javelin
;
so
that
instead
of
sending
a
Priest
to
give
him
absolution
,
God
Commissioned
a
Priest
to
be
the
Messenger
of
dispatching
him
to
everlasting
flames
in
the
very
mids
of
his
own
Impure
flames
;
and
while
not
only
the
names
of
Common
Sinners
,
but
even
those
of
other
Great
men
who
were
hanged
for
the
same
Crimes
,
are
buried
in
oblivion
,
the
Name
of
this
Prince
and
his
Tribe
are
conveyed
down
to
Posterity
to
perpetuate
the
Memory
of
his
Infamy
;
and
this
Remarkable
Zeal
of
Phinehas
was
so
well
pleasing
to
God
,
that
the
Plague
amongst
the
People
did
immediately
cease
upon
it
.
It
's
an
observation
naturally
deducible
from
this
passage
,
that
the
Chief
Magistrate
ought
to
punish
Great
Men
in
an
Exemplary
manner
for
such
Great
and
Heinous
Crimes
as
Whoredom
and
Idolatry
.
Here
the
great
ones
are
hung
up
before
the
Sun
,
while
Sinners
of
a
lower
rank
are
suffered
to
rot
by
a
Common
Contagion
.
From
hence
also
we
may
observe
,
That
then
a
Reformation
may
have
prospect
of
Success
when
Ministers
and
Magistrates
concur
in
it
,
as
here
Phinehas
did
with
Moses
.
The
horrid
advice
of
Balaam
before-mentioned
puts
me
in
mind
of
the
Counsel
which
Cardinal
Mazarine
is
generally
charged
with
as
to
England
,
viz.
That
the
best
way
to
make
us
Papists
,
was
,
to
debauch
our
Morals
,
particularly
by
Whoredom
.
We
find
by
the
Instance
just
now
related
,
that
Uncleanness
is
a
strong
attractive
to
Idolatry
,
and
whether
the
Lewd
Example
of
the
Court
which
overspread
the
Nation
with
Debauchery
,
did
not
very
much
promote
the
Popish
Interest
in
former
Reigns
,
and
likewise
lay
the
Foundation
for
that
Atheism
,
Deism
,
and
Socinianism
which
doth
so
much
abound
in
this
(
now
that
the
Debauchees
cannot
find
their
Account
in
Popery
)
let
Experience
testify
.
If
the
Advocates
of
Lechery
should
object
,
that
the
punishments
abovementioned
were
inflicted
upon
the
People
because
of
their
Idolatry
,
and
not
upon
the
Account
of
their
Infamous
Commerce
with
the
Daughters
of
Midian
;
it
is
easie
to
answer
them
that
they
were
punish'd
for
both
in
Conjunction
;
and
the
Apostle
in
the
first
of
Corinthians
,
10.
and
8.
assigns
their
Fornication
as
the
Cause
of
their
Judgments
;
it
being
indeed
the
Original
Cause
,
and
as
has
been
said
already
,
Whoredom
and
Idolatry
have
a
Natural
Tendency
to
one
another
,
and
therefore
Cardinal
Mazarine's
Receipt
.
abovementioned
for
perverting
Protestants
to
be
Papists
,
may
very
well
pass
with
a
probatum
est
.
There
's
one
thing
more
to
be
taken
notice
of
in
this
Instance
,
and
that
is
,
the
Judgments
which
this
Whoredom
brought
upon
the
Midianites
as
well
as
upon
the
Children
of
Israel
.
It
is
well
enough
known
that
Corrupt
Nature
is
prone
enough
to
Revenge
,
and
there
's
little
reason
to
doubt
but
the
Israelites
were
incens'd
enough
against
those
of
Midian
for
this
Great
Injury
they
had
done
them
,
yet
the
Almighty
thought
fit
to
whett
their
Revenge
and
Commanded
them
to
Vex
the
Midianites
and
Smite
them
,
because
they
vexed
them
with
their
Wiles
,
and
beguil'd
them
in
the
matter
of
Peor
and
Cozbi
,
that
is
by
enticing
them
to
Idolatry
and
Whoredom
,
Peor
being
the
Mountain
where
the
Midianitish
Baal
was
worshipped
,
for
Baal
was
an
Appellative
Name
to
Heathen
Idols
,
as
Mary
is
to
the
Popish
ones
,
but
distinguish'd
by
the
places
where
the
most
Famous
Statues
or
Pictures
of
'em
were
worshiped
,
as
our
Lady
of
Loretto
,
Lady
of
Prague
,
&c.
now
a
days
.
So
that
here
's
a
War
declared
against
Midian
with
as
good
Authority
and
for
as
great
and
weighty
Causes
as
ever
any
War
was
declared
under
Heav'n
.
The
Execution
of
which
we
have
an
account
of
in
the
31.
Chap.
where
it
's
recommended
unto
Moses
as
the
last
Military
Exploit
that
ever
he
was
to
perform
to
Avenge
the
Lord
and
the
Children
of
Israel
of
the
Midianites
,
which
was
accordingly
done
by
an
Army
Contemptible
for
Number
,
viz.
12000
Men
,
who
destroyed
a
Numerous
People
,
Governed
by
5
Kings
,
put
all
their
Males
to
the
edge
of
the
Sword
,
their
Kings
not
excepted
,
and
amongst
the
rest
Balaam
the
false
Prophet
was
slain
as
a
just
reward
for
his
pernicious
Council
,
and
so
the
Riches
which
he
acquir'd
and
was
so
covetous
of
,
that
for
the
Lucre
of
'em
he
would
act
contrary
to
God's
Express
Command
,
became
a
prey
to
the
Israelites
against
whom
he
had
given
such
Hellish
advice
.
It
is
also
observable
that
Phinehas
who
had
formerly
signalized
his
Zeal
,
is
sent
along
with
the
Troops
,
which
was
both
a
great
Honour
to
him
and
an
Encouragement
to
them
as
fighting
under
the
Auspices
of
Heaven
,
and
had
it
been
otherwise
they
could
never
possibly
have
Conquer'd
such
a
great
People
as
the
Midianites
appear
to
have
been
3
by
the
Number
of
the
Women
saved
that
had
never
known
Man
,
viz.
32000
,
their
Sheep
which
were
675000
,
their
Beeves
72000
,
and
Asses
61000
;
so
that
God
powred
Contempt
upon
that
Effeminate
Whoring
Nation
in
destroying
them
by
such
an
Inconsiderable
Number
of
men
.
It
's
also
to
be
observed
that
Moses
was
very
Angry
with
the
Captains
for
having
saved
all
the
Women
,
and
the
reason
given
for
it
,
is
this
,
Because
they
had
enticed
the
Children
of
Israel
,
first
to
Whoredom
and
then
to
Idolatry
;
and
therefore
he
Commanded
every
Woman
who
had
known
a
Man
to
be
destroyed
,
and
thus
those
Women
who
thought
to
have
sav'd
their
Country
by
Prostituting
themselves
,
did
thereby
accelerate
the
destruction
of
themselves
and
their
Country
too
,
and
the
Midianitish
Men
who
consented
to
this
Hellish
Stratagem
of
exposing
their
Wives
to
save
themselves
did
thereby
procure
the
ruin
of
both
,
and
their
Virgins
became
a
prey
to
the
Conquerors
.
The
just
hatred
of
God
against
this
Impure
Nation
appears
likewise
in
this
,
that
their
Furniture
,
Gold
,
Silver
,
&c.
was
not
to
be
made
use
of
by
the
Israelites
'till
purified
by
Fire
and
Water
according
to
the
nature
of
the
thing
;
so
abominable
in
the
Eyes
of
God
are
all
those
things
spot●…ed
with
the
Flesh.
There
are
some
who
make
an
exception
to
the
truth
of
this
History
of
the
Total
destvuction
of
the
Midianites
,
because
they
afterwards
invaded
Israel
in
great
Multitudes
in
Gideon's
time
,
but
the
solution
is
eaise
;
by
the
Total
destruction
may
be
meant
that
of
the
Generality
;
or
some
of
them
might
escape
to
the
Neighbouring
Nations
,
and
return
again
with
Foreign
Colonies
to
re
inhabit
their
desolate
Country
,
which
the
Israelites
were
not
to
stay
in
,
but
press'd
forward
towards
the
Land
of
Canaan
,
and
so
the
new
Inhabitants
assuming
the
Name
of
the
Country
might
invade
the
Israelites
in
the
days
of
Gideon
.
We
have
seen
the
destruction
of
Midian
,
occasioned
by
their
Uncleanness
,
but
that
of
the
Moabites
was
respited
for
a
while
,
because
they
were
the
off-spring
of
Lot
:
Of
such
advantage
is
it
to
be
descended
of
Godly
Parents
,
tho'
in
an
illegal
manner
.
We
have
already
considered
Incestuous
and
Unlawfull
Marriages
,
as
they
were
forbidden
to
the
Israelites
,
whom
God
would
have
distinguish'd
from
other
Nations
,
not
only
in
respect
of
the
purity
of
their
Morals
,
but
even
in
their
Apparel
,
Hair
,
and
laudable
Customs
:
as
Maimonides
and
others
think
:
And
we
come
now
to
consider
those
Incestuous
Marriages
and
Promiscuous
Copulations
,
as
the
Causes
of
the
destruction
of
the
Egyptians
,
amongst
whom
they
had
dwelt
;
and
of
the
Canaanites
,
in
whose
Land
they
were
to
dwell
,
as
it
is
particularly
expressed
in
the
18th
Chapter
of
Leviticus
.
—
It
's
true
that
all
along
in
the
Book
of
Exodus
the
Chief
Crime
of
the
Egyptians
taken
notice
of
,
is
,
Oppression
and
Persecution
;
but
,
as
we
have
said
before
,
Persecution
and
Uncleanness
are
Generally
Companions
;
and
we
find
that
the
multiplication
of
the
Hebrews
was
one
great
Cause
of
the
Envy
and
Hatred
of
the
Egyptians
towards
them
,
which
being
the
usual
Blessing
and
Reward
of
Chastity
was
a
severe
Reproof
to
the
Lascivious
Egyptians
,
which
no
doubt
did
heighten
their
Enmity
to
the
Children
of
Israel
.
—
And
by
the
Prophet's
Reproof
in
the
20.
and
23.
Chapters
of
Ezeki●…l
,
That
Israel
had
plaid
the
Harlot
in
the
days
of
her
Youth
,
when
she
was
in
the
Land
of
Egypt
;
there
's
reason
to
think
,
that
too
too
many
of
the
Israelites
were
infected
with
the
corrupt
Example
of
the
Egyptians
,
who
for
their
Promiscvous
Venery
are
Compared
to
Asses
and
Horses
,
by
the
Prophet
,
in
these
words
,
Whose
Members
are
as
the
Members
of
Asses
,
and
whose
Issue
is
as
the
Issue
of
Horses
.
Historians
tell
us
,
That
it
was
usual
amongst
the
Egyptians
for
Brothers
and
Sisters
to
Marry
together
;
and
that
they
made
a
Statute
for
the
Lawfulness
of
it
,
because
Isis
their
Goddess
was
Married
to
her
Brother
Osiris
.
Then
seeing
the
Israelites
had
convers'd
amongst
them
200
Years
,
and
had
not
only
seen
but
learned
their
Corrupt
manners
,
and
been
witnesses
to
all
the
plagues
inflicted
upon
them
on
that
Account
,
there
could
not
be
a
more
proper
Caution
given
them
,
than
to
beware
of
their
Practices
.
—
It
is
also
to
be
observed
that
the
Arabians
,
amongst
whom
the
Israelites
wandered
,
married
none
but
their
own
Kindred
;
That
the
Persians
held
it
Lawfull
for
the
Fathers
to
marry
with
their
Daughters
;
and
the
Parthians
accounted
it
no
Crime
for
the
Mothers
to
marry
with
their
Sons
;
so
much
were
those
Eastern
Countries
drowned
in
Uncleanness
;
whence
it
is
plain
that
Whoredom
was
one
of
the
principal
Causes
of
their
destruction
.
It
's
true
,
that
in
Abraham's
time
it
would
seem
that
such
Incestuous
Marriages
were
not
Common
amongst
the
Egyptians
,
otherwise
his
advice
to
Sara
to
(
say
that
she
was
his
Sister
)
would
have
been
no
Argument
to
make
the
Egyptians
conclude
,
that
she
was
not
his
Wife
:
But
it
is
plain
from
Historians
,
that
afterwards
they
grew
more
licentious
.
And
thus
Ptolemy
Pihladelphus
married
his
Sister
Arsinoe
,
and
Soter
and
Philopater
,
Egyptian
Kings
,
did
also
marry
their
own
Sisters
:
And
it
's
a
known
Story
of
the
Persians
,
that
when
Cambyses
King
of
Persia
had
a
mind
to
his
youngest
Sister
,
and
ask'd
his
Judges
whether
there
were
any
Law
against
it
;
they
answered
him
,
That
they
knew
none
,
but
that
there
was
a
Law
,
that
the
King
's
of
Persia
might
do
what
they
would
—
Then
't
is
also
known
that
the
Messagates
,
Troglodites
,
Brachmans
,
and
other
Eastern
People
,
allowed
a
Community
of
Wives
,
their
Philosophers
taught
it
,
and
Crates
and
Cabades
Kings
of
Persia
,
made
L
aws
for
it
.
Another
of
the
Crimes
forbidden
to
the
Israelites
,
and
which
the
Canaanites
,
and
those
Eastern
People
were
guilty
of
,
was
,
causing
their
Seed
to
pass
through
the
fire
to
Moloch
,
by
which
some
understand
that
in
a
most
filthy
manner
they
consecrated
their
Sperm
or
Seed
to
their
Idol
Priapus
,
as
Baal's
Priest
offered
their
Blood
to
their
Idol
,
1.
Kings
18.
and
as
the
Manichees
and
Gnosticks
mixed
the
Eucharist
with
humane
Seed
;
tho'
the
Current
of
Interpreters
carry
it
for
making
their
Children
pass
through
betwixt
two
fires
,
and
sometimes
offering
them
as
a
burnt-Sacrifice
in
Honour
of
their
Idol
.
They
are
also
charged
with
Sodomy
,
or
the
Unnatural
Lust
of
Men
towards
Men
,
to
which
they
were
given
up
by
the
Just
Judgment
of
God
as
a
due
punishment
for
their
Idolatry
.
And
at
the
dissolution
of
the
Monasteries
here
in
England
,
our
Anti-Christian
Idolaters
were
found
to
have
polluted
themselves
in
this
manner
;
which
Crime
as
it
brought
Hell
upon
the
Sodomites
before
their
time
,
(
that
is
,
brought
Fire
and
Brimstone
upon
them
before
they
went
off
the
Earth
,
)
so
this
horrid
Uncleanness
of
the
Monks
procur'd
the
dissolution
of
the
Monasteries
by
Henry
VIII
.
before
their
Religion
was
discharged
out
of
the
Nation
.
The
Egyptians
and
Canaanites
are
also
charged
with
Bestiality
,
their
Men
and
Women
having
committed
Confusion
with
Beasts
,
and
thus
Pasiphae
is
accused
of
having
accompanied
with
a
Bull
,
Polyphantes
with
a
Bear
,
Semiramis
with
an
Horse
,
and
the
Women
of
Mendis
in
Egypt
with
Goats
.
—
Nay
if
we
may
believe
the
Fables
of
the
Jews
,
the
false
Prophet
Balaam
,
who
was
slain
amongst
the
Midianites
,
was
guilty
of
Bestiality
with
his
Ass
,
which
they
foolishly
collect
from
those
Words
of
the
Beast
,
viz.
Am
not
I
thine
Ass
which
thou
hast
ridden
upon
?
It
is
also
observable
,
that
those
brutal
Commixtions
were
punish'd
by
the
Infamy
of
the
Criminals
,
as
well
as
by
their
destruction
,
for
we
read
,
that
the
Monstrous
Births
have
many
times
discovered
those
Unnatural
Crimes
,
and
that
sometimes
they
have
been
betrayed
by
Heterogeneous
tho
perfect
Births
.
And
thus
Plutarch
tells
us
of
a
Boy
begotten
betwixt
a
Man
and
a
Mare
,
and
of
a
Girl
betwixt
a
Man
and
an
Ass
—
And
Olaus
Magnus
mentions
a
Man
begotten
of
a
Woman
by
a
Bear
,
who
was
thereupon
called
Ursus
,
and
of
whom
many
Great
Danish
Princes
did
afterwards
descend
—
It
's
true
that
Galen
denies
that
there
can
be
any
such
Generation
of
Mankind
,
but
others
maintain
it
upon
this
reason
,
That
the
Partial
Cause
being
more
Noble
prevails
over
the
less
Noble
,
as
it
is
many
times
seen
that
a
fair
Woman
hath
brought
forth
a
Black-a-moor
.
In
fine
the
Land
of
Canaan
being
polluted
by
those
abominations
,
Vomited
out
her
Inhabitants
,
the
Posterity
of
Cham
,
who
did
so
impudently
behold
and
revile
his
Fathers
Nakedness
,
and
is
thought
to
have
revived
the
Vitions
manners
of
the
old
World
in
his
Posterity
,
the
Sodomites
and
Canaanites
,
and
thus
we
have
an
account
of
two
more
Great
Nations
destroyed
by
their
Uncleanness
,
viz.
the
Egyptians
and
Canaanites
,
whose
Practices
the
Israelites
were
Commanded
to
avoid
,
as
they
would
not
run
the
hazard
of
the
same
or
greater
Judgments
.
The
next
Remarkable
Instance
we
meet
with
in
Scripture
,
is
that
of
Sampson
,
who
having
a
mind
to
take
one
of
the
Daughters
of
the
Philistines
to
Wife
,
for
which
some
Commentators
are
of
opinion
that
he
had
a
particular
Revelation
,
or
at
least
a
Divine
Instinct
,
she
proved
unfaithfull
to
him
,
and
as
Levi
Ben
Gerson
alledges
,
the
Philistine
youths
Committed
Adultery
with
her
,
and
by
that
means
came
to
the
knowledge
of
her
Husbands
Riddle
:
and
this
Interpretation
he
thinks
to
be
favoured
by
Sampson's
saying
,
That
if
they
had
not
Plowed
with
his
Heifer
they
had
not
found
out
his
Riddle
,
but
whether
it
were
so
or
not
,
this
is
certain
,
that
she
was
guilty
of
the
breach
of
Conjugal
Fidelity
,
which
issued
in
the
destruction
of
her
Family
and
People
,
that
she
thought
to
avoid
by
this
piece
of
Treachery
.
This
is
also
certain
,
that
she
afterwards
defiled
the
Marriage
Bed
,
when
Sampson
went
away
from
her
in
Anger
,
upon
the
Account
of
discovering
his
Riddle
which
makes
Levi
Ben
Gerson's
Accusation
so
much
the
more
probable
,
especially
if
we
consider
that
she
was
by
her
Father
bestowed
upon
Sampson's
Companion
,
viz.
one
of
those
that
had
accompanied
him
at
the
Marriage
solemnity
;
which
discovers
the
Loosnesses
of
the
Philistines
in
a
very
Emphatical
manner
,
and
made
Sampson
a
very
Just
instrument
of
Revenge
upon
'em
and
perhaps
the
Fulsomeness
and
Cunning
of
their
Crime
was
very
aptly
punished
by
tying
those
stinking
and
Cunning
Creatures
the
Foxes
tail
to
tail
with
Fire-brands
betwixt
them
,
by
which
they
burnt
the
Corn-fields
and
Vineyards
of
the
Crafty
and
Impure
Philistines
.
The
objection
which
some
make
against
this
Story
,
viz.
That
it
was
impossible
to
find
so
many
Foxes
,
is
frivolous
;
it
's
plain
that
those
Creatures
were
very
Numerous
in
Syria
and
Palestine
;
and
they
are
mentioned
in
the
Canticles
as
spoilers
of
the
Vines
,
for
these
Creatures
are
great
admirers
of
Ripe
Grapes
;
so
that
for
such
an
Extraordinary
Person
as
Sampson
to
catch
such
a
Number
of
Foxes
where
they
did
so
much
abound
,
was
no
hard
matter
;
It
's
certain
that
they
were
the
most
proper
of
any
Creature
for
his
purpose
,
seeing
they
frequented
the
Corn-fields
and
Vineyards
,
and
by
Consequence
run
straight
thither
;
whereas
if
he
had
made
use
of
Dogs
,
they
would
have
run
to
the
Houses
where
the
People
might
easily
have
Quenched
the
Brands
.
The
next
thing
observable
in
this
passage
,
is
,
the
Just
punishment
which
was
inflicted
upon
Sampson's
Treacherous
wife
,
and
her
Father
,
viz.
That
the
Philistines
burnt
them
with
fire
,
a
very
proper
punishment
for
such
a
Lustfull
Family
as
this
appears
to
have
been
,
both
by
Sampson's
Wife
's
proving
false
to
him
,
who
was
certainly
able
enough
to
perform
his
Conjugal
duty
,
and
also
by
her
Father's
incestuous
offer
of
the
younger
Sister
to
Sampson
,
which
shews
that
the
fear
of
God
was
not
in
the
Family
:
And
this
Villainous
practice
of
theirs
did
not
only
draw
destruction
upon
themselves
,
but
on
their
polluted
Country
,
and
therefore
this
Revenge
of
destroying
their
Corn
and
Wine
in
the
first
place
was
very
proper
,
idleness
and
fulness
of
Bread
being
great
provocatives
to
Uncleanness
,
and
the
old
saying
is
found
to
be
true
sine
Baccho
&
Cerere
friget
Venus
.
Take
away
Corn
and
Wine
and
Lechery
will
cease
.
But
this
was
not
all
the
punishment
inflicted
upon
that
Impure
People
,
for
he
smote
them
hip
and
thigh
where
ever
he
met
them
,
and
shortly
after
killed
a
thousand
of
'em
with
the
Jaw
bone
of
an
Ass
;
and
thus
a
Villainous
People
were
cut
off
in
an
Ignominious
manner
,
by
the
Jaw
bone
of
one
of
the
dullest
and
most
despicable
Beasts
.
The
next
Instance
of
Divine
Wrath
against
Fornication
is
Sampson
himself
,
who
tho'
he
had
been
the
Executioner
of
Gods
Justice
upon
the
Impure
Philistines
,
yet
fell
into
the
same
Crime
,
and
Repeated
it
to
the
eminent
danger
,
and
at
last
to
the
loss
of
his
Life
:
He
was
once
Besieged
by
the
Philistines
in
Gaza
,
when
he
was
with
a
Whore
,
and
tho'
God
had
not
deserted
him
then
,
so
that
he
escaped
them
by
his
great
strength
and
carrying
away
the
Gates
on
his
Shoulders
,
yet
he
was
so
far
from
taking
warning
,
that
he
becomes
enamoured
of
the
Strumpet
Delilah
,
and
was
so
much
besotted
with
his
Lust
,
that
tho'
she
had
given
him
many
demonstrations
of
her
Treacherous
design
to
betray
him
into
the
hands
of
the
Philistines
,
yet
he
could
not
rescue
himself
from
her
snares
,
but
at
last
became
a
Prey
and
Scorn
to
his
Enemies
,
a
Scandal
and
a
Reproach
to
the
People
of
God
,
and
an
occasion
of
Triumph
to
Idolaters
,
who
ascrib'd
their
Conquest
over
him
to
their
Idols
,
and
put
him
in
Prison
in
that
same
City
where
he
first
committed
Uncleanness
.
This
is
a
second
Scriptural
Instance
of
snares
laid
against
the
Church
of
God
by
Unclean
Women
,
the
first
being
by
the
Midianites
,
and
the
second
by
the
Philistines
which
tho'
they
prov'd
fatal
to
the
People
of
God
for
a
time
,
yet
both
of
'em
ended
in
the
destruction
of
the
Contrivers
and
Abettors
;
for
the
Midianites
,
we
have
heard
were
Totaly
destroyed
;
and
now
we
find
that
Sampson
destroyed
more
Philistines
at
his
Death
than
he
did
during
his
Life
,
and
those
the
Lords
or
Chief
of
'em
too
.
Nor
is
it
unworthy
our
observation
that
the
Papists
,
who
attack'd
the
Protestant
Religion
,
and
endeavour'd
to
undermine
it
in
Charles
II's
.
time
,
by
Court-Whores
,
and
others
;
tho'
they
had
success
for
a
while
,
yet
their
designs
have
turned
to
their
own
disgrace
,
and
come
to
nothing
at
last
.
We
proceed
next
to
the
Instance
of
the
Levites
Concubine
and
the
Men
of
Gibeah
.
This
Women
having
plaid
the
Harlot
left
her
Husband
,
whose
Anger
she
dreaded
,
and
went
to
her
Father's
House
in
Bethlehem
Judah
.
By
the
Levitical
Law
it
was
more
odious
in
a
Priest's
Wife
or
Daughter
to
be
an
Whore
than
in
another
,
and
therefore
't
is
probable
that
to
avoid
the
shame
and
punishment
due
to
her
for
her
Crime
,
she
fled
to
her
Father's
House
;
whither
the
good
Levite
,
being
willing
to
be
reconciled
goes
to
bring
her
home
again
,
and
being
benighted
in
his
return
,
would
not
lodge
amongst
the
Uncircumcis'd
Canaanites
in
any
of
their
Cities
,
but
turns
in
to
Gibeah
of
Benjamin
,
where
he
promis'd
himself
an
Hospitable
Reception
and
safe
Asylum
,
but
to
his
sorrow
found
it
far
otherwise
,
and
instead
of
a
Zoar
met
with
a
Sodom
,
the
Wicked
Inhabitants
took
no
notice
of
this
stranger
,
who
was
left
destitute
of
a
Lodging
in
their
Streets
,
till
a
certain
good
old
Man
,
who
came
from
his
work
in
the
Evening
,
did
Hospitably
take
him
in
and
entertain
him
:
But
immediately
after
,
those
Children
of
Belial
beset
the
House
,
and
offer'd
the
Levite
the
same
Unnatural
Indignity
and
Affront
that
the
Sodomites
offered
to
the
Angels
,
who
were
Lot's
Guests
;
and
this
old
Man
took
much
the
same
method
to
divert
their
wicked
purpose
,
that
Lot
did
to
divert
that
of
the
Sodomites
.
In
fine
,
the
poor
Levite
escap'd
from
having
any
violence
done
to
his
own
Person
,
but
his
Concubine
,
whom
he
so
entirely
loved
as
to
be
reconciled
to
her
after
her
having
defiled
his
Bed
,
and
for
whose
sake
it
's
probable
among
other
Reasons
he
would
not
lodge
in
any
of
the
Heathen
Towns
in
his
way
,
was
so
unnaturally
abused
by
those
Villainous
Inhabitants
of
Gibeah
,
that
she
died
.
The
method
which
was
hereupon
followed
by
the
Levite
does
sufficiently
discover
his
Resentment
of
this
affront
,
for
taking
her
Corps
,
up
,
tho'
he
knew
that
she
was
justly
thus
punished
by
God
for
her
former
Uncleanness
,
so
as
her
sin
was
easie
to
be
read
in
her
Judgment
,
yet
knowing
also
that
the
Inhabitants
of
Gibeah
had
committed
an
horrid
and
tremendous
piece
of
wickedness
,
he
divided
his
Concubine
into
twelve
parts
,
and
sending
them
to
the
respective
Tribes
of
Israel
appeals
to
them
whether
any
such
wickedness
as
the
violation
of
a
strangers
Chastity
and
Life
had
been
perpetrated
amongst
them
since
their
coming
out
of
Epypt
,
where
their
Forefathers
had
been
strangers
,
and
thèrefore
desires
them
to
Consult
what
was
fit
to
be
done
for
the
Expiation
of
that
unheard
of
Crime
.
Thus
this
poor
Womans
Limbs
were
sent
about
as
so
many
Monument
of
her
Infamy
and
Gods
Just
Judgments
against
her
Adultery
,
and
as
so
many
Evidences
of
the
profligate
manners
of
the
Benjamites
.
But
tho'
here
was
an
end
of
her
punishment
,
so
was
there
not
of
theirs
;
for
the
whole
Kingdom
of
Israel
assembled
against
them
,
and
the
Benjamites
being
so
wicked
as
not
to
punish
the
offenders
at
their
Brethrens
desire
,
but
to
stand
in
their
defence
,
the
matter
issued
in
a
Civil
War
,
which
,
tho'
unfortunate
at
first
to
the
Israelites
,
because
of
their
not
having
made
due
application
unto
God
,
and
that
they
relied
too
much
upon
their
own
strength
,
yet
ended
at
last
,
almost
in
the
utter
destruction
of
the
Tribe
of
Benjamin
,
who
together
with
their
Cities
were
destroyed
;
and
they
who
had
formerly
been
so
Unhospitable
to
the
poor
Levite
,
are
now
forc'd
to
shelter
themselves
in
a
Rock
;
and
they
who
had
been
so
inhumane
as
to
Ravish
another
Man's
Wife
,
had
never
a
Woman
left
amongst
them
propagate
or
continue
their
Name
to
posterity
;
so
bitter
are
the
Fruits
of
Uncleanness
in
the
result
and
digestion
,
how
pleasant
soever
they
be
to
Corrupt
nature
in
the
Enjoyment
and
thus
we
have
done
with
another
Instance
of
a
Peoples
being
ruined
by
Uncleanness
,
25000
Benjamites
being
cut
off
for
defending
this
horrid
Villany
,
and
the
stain
of
their
impurity
indelibly
fix'd
upon
them
to
all
Posterity
.
—
The
Rabbins
according
to
their
manner
,
assert
many
fabulous
things
concerning
this
passage
,
as
,
that
1000
of
the
Benjamites
fled
into
Europe
after
this
disaster
,
because
they
found
that
their
Brethren
had
sworn
their
destruction
,
that
they
had
killed
all
their
Women
and
vowed
they
would
give
them
none
of
their
Daughters
,
which
was
like
to
put
an
end
to
their
propagation
;
but
their
flying
into
Europe
being
contrary
to
the
Text
,
it
's
not
worth
taking
notice
of
,
only
this
we
may
observe
,
that
their
Lust
and
Uncleanness
hurl'd
them
headlong
from
one
Calamity
to
another
;
for
after
they
had
escap'd
the
Fury
of
the
Sword
,
they
were
reduced
to
very
pinching
straits
being
not
only
deprived
of
the
Conversation
of
Women
,
which
it's
natural
for
all
Men
to
desire
,
but
likewise
deprived
of
their
necessary
assistance
,
without
which
Men
cannot
at
all
subsist
,
or
if
they
do
,
it
s
but
very
uncomfortably
,
and
as
if
Divine
Justice
would
have
them
read
their
sin
in
their
punishment
:
After
all
the
endeavours
that
were
us'd
to
supply
them
with
Wives
they
were
constrained
because
of
their
want
of
a
sufficient
Number
to
take
Wives
per
force
for
themselves
,
to
answer
the
Ends
of
Nature
,
who
had
by
force
taken
away
another
Man's
Wife
to
satisfy
their
Unnatural
Lust.
The
horrid
Debauchery
of
Eli's
Sons
who
lay
with
the
Women
as
they
assembled
at
the
door
of
the
Tabernacle
of
the
Congregation
is
one
of
the
next
Instances
we
meet
with
in
the
Sacred
Scriptures
;
a
Practice
so
foul
in
the
Eyes
of
all
mankind
,
that
they
can
more
easily
bear
with
the
House
ofGod's
being
made
a
Den
of
Thieves
and
Robbers
than
a
Den
of
Harlots
;
nay
such
Practices
have
been
so
much
detested
amongst
the
more
refin'd
Heathens
,
that
tho'
we
read
of
Eleusina
Sacra
,
which
most
Authors
think
to
have
been
profane
and
Lascivious
Rites
,
and
tho'
we
read
also
of
Temples
and
Groves
dedicated
to
Venus
,
where
Women
prostituted
themselves
to
all
comers
,
yet
we
read
likewise
that
the
Temple
of
Isis
was
destroyed
and
his
Priests
dispersed
for
a
Villainous
Intrigue
of
Seducing
and
Debauching
a
Matron
under
the
Notion
of
the
God
Isis
having
desired
her
Company
.
The
Rabbins
,
tho'
the
Jews
be
known
to
be
a
Lascivious
Unclean
People
and
much
addicted
to
Polygamy
and
Whoredome
,
are
so
much
ashamed
of
this
Villainous
practice
of
Eli's
Sons
,
that
they
endeavour
by
their
Comments
to
have
it
thought
that
they
did
not
Debauch
the
Women
,
but
only
by
delaying
their
Sacrifice
obliged
them
to
sleep
or
stay
whole
nights
before
the
Door
of
the
Tabernacle
,
or
at
furthest
perswaded
them
to
lie
with
their
own
Husbands
,
if
they
were
legally
clean
before
they
performed
their
Sacrifices
.
Thus
Levi
Ben
Gerson
and
others
,
but
Josephus
the
Jewish
Historian
owns
plainly
that
they
Debauch'd
other
Men's
Wives
,
partly
by
Violence
and
partly
by
Bribery
,
and
by
that
means
rendered
the
Worship
of
the
Lord
Contemptible
and
brought
Judgments
upon
themselves
and
upon
the
whole
people
,
for
not
long
after
,
we
find
that
they
were
slain
in
a
Battle
against
the
Philistines
and
the
Ark
of
God
which
they
had
the
charge
of
,
was
taken
,
as
if
God
would
suffer
the
symbol
of
his
presence
to
be
amongst
the
Impure
and
Uncircumcised
Philistines
and
kept
by
them
,
rather
than
it
should
stay
amongst
the
Unclean
Israelites
who
by
their
Religion
were
obliged
to
Purity
and
Chastity
.
It
has
been
hinted
before
that
the
Lechery
and
Uncleanness
of
the
popish
Clergy
contributed
to
the
dissolution
of
their
Monasteries
in
England
and
elsewhere
which
,
we
shall
touch
upon
again
in
it's
proper
place
,
but
it
may
not
be
improper
to
take
notice
here
,
that
Socrates
gives
us
an
Account
,
that
private
Confession
was
abolisht
at
Constantinople
because
a
certain
Presbyter
to
whom
a
Matron
had
Confessed
her self
guilty
of
an
heinous
Offence
,
enjoined
her
to
stay
in
the
Church
and
apply
her self
to
Fasting
and
Prayer
,
under
pretence
of
which
she
was
found
to
be
naught
with
the
Deacon
;
whereupon
,
Nectarius
the
Bishop
of
Constantinople
abolish'd
that
method
of
Confession
.
But
to
return
again
to
Eli's
Sons
,
their
punishment
did
not
terminate
in
their
own
Persons
,
but
reach'd
their
Father
,
who
,
as
Josephus
thinks
wept
continually
after
God
had
revealed
to
him
that
both
his
Sons
should
be
slain
in
one
day
,
and
the
Scripture
tells
us
,
that
he
fell
backward
and
broke
his
Neek
upon
the
receipt
of
that
fatal
News
.
It
reach'd
also
the
Wife
of
one
of
'em
,
who
died
upon
the
News
of
her
Husband's
death
,
and
the
Arks
being
taken
;
and
it
reach'd
also
their
Posterity
who
were
for
ever
excluded
from
the
Priests
Office
and
had
a
perpetual
Poverty
entailed
upon
them
,
as
a
Curse
,
and
to
make
them
the
more
sensible
of
the
dignity
,
from
whence
they
had
fallen
,
they
were
condemned
to
be
a
sort
of
slaves
to
the
High-Priest
of
the
succeeding
Family
,
of
whom
they
were
to
beg
a
morsel
of
Bread
and
Employment
,
so
naturally
does
the
Curse
of
Poverty
or
of
bringing
a
Man
to
a
piece
of
Bread
follow
upon
Whoredom
and
Uncleanness
.
There
are
some
other
Instances
of
lesser
note
,
as
Sauls
forcing
his
Daughter
Michal
,
after
she
had
been
married
to
David
,
to
marry
another
Man
,
which
was
an
act
of
Unncleaness
and
Tyranny
too
,
and
had
no
doubt
,
its
influence
amongst
others
of
that
Prince's
Tyrannical
and
Impious
Acts
to
hasten
ruin
upon
him
.
The
Instance
of
Abner's
going
into
Rispah
,
Saul's
Concubine
,
which
Interpreters
think
he
did
in
an
Adulterous
manner
,
and
not
by
way
of
Lawfull
Marriage
,
deserves
our
Remark
;
for
hereby
Saul
suffered
in
his
Fame
after
his
Death
,
and
he
who
had
compelled
his
Daughter
to
defile
her
Husband's
Bed
,
had
this
Ignominy
and
punishment
inflicted
upon
his
Son
,
that
he
saw
his
Fathers-Wife
dishonourably
defiled
,
and
Abner
,
who
was
guilty
of
that
Villanous
Action
,
took
occasion
,
because
of
his
Reproof
,
to
Revolt
from
him
and
to
transfer
the
Kingdom
to
David
,
and
as
he
went
about
to
effect
it
,
fell
into
the
snare
which
Joab
had
laid
for
him
,
and
lost
his
Life
.
We
come
,
in
the
next
place
to
David's
Adultery
with
Bathsheba
,
a
Crime
,
which
hath
many
aggravations
,
to
be
committed
by
David
a
prophet
who
instructed
others
in
the
Law
of
God
,
and
did
so
grosly
break
it
himself
,
to
be
committed
by
David
,
a
King
who
ought
to
have
defended
the
Chastity
of
his
Subject
,
and
not
to
have
violated
it
himself
;
to
be
Commited
by
David
a
holy
Man
,
who
did
thereby
expose
Religion
ro
be
ridicul'd
,
and
laid
a
stumbling
block
before
others
,
to
commit
the
like
Crime
because
of
his
Example
,
then
if
we
consider
the
time
,
it
was
when
his
Generals
and
Army
were
expos'd
to
the
Fury
of
their
Enemy
in
a
Siege
,
when
he
ought
to
have
been
more
sollicitous
for
the
honour
and
dignity
of
his
Crown
and
for
the
safety
of
his
Subjects
:
Then
if
we
consider
the
Person
,
against
whom
this
Crime
was
committed
,
we
find
it
to
be
against
a
Brave
,
Valiant
and
Faithfull
Friend
and
Subject
,
who
would
not
indulge
himself
in
his
Pleasures
and
Accommodations
,
while
the
Ark
and
People
of
the
Lord
abode
in
Tents
;
tho'
David
,
who
was
his
Sovereign
,
allowed
him
,
nay
Commanded
and
Enticed
him
to
do
it
,
which
heightned
and
aggravated
the
Crime
of
that
Holy
man
,
who
acted
herein
Hypocritally
and
Scandalously
to
cover
his
Iniquity
and
gave
occasion
to
the
Israclites
to
think
that
as
for
Personal
Conversation
they
had
made
but
a
sorry
Exchange
betwixt
Saul
and
David
,
for
we
don't
find
that
Tyrant
accused
of
Personal
Uncleanness
.
But
the
bloody
part
of
the
Scene
is
still
to
be
acted
,
David
finding
that
he
could
not
effect
his
design
by
Hypocrisy
,
hath
recourse
to
downright
Violence
and
Murder
,
his
Intrigue
to
make
Uriah
drunk
,
which
he
thought
might
provoke
him
to
a
desire
of
his
Wife
,
having
miscarried
,
he
resolves
to
cut
him
off
by
the
Sword
of
the
Ammonites
,
and
that
too
,
in
a
fraudulent
manner
by
ordering
him
to
be
set
in
the
front
of
the
Battle
,
and
commanding
the
Men
to
retire
from
him
that
he
might
be
smitten
:
Nay
,
so
eager
was
he
to
have
this
Poor
Man's
life
,
in
order
to
cover
his
own
Uncleanness
,
that
he
was
content
to
Sacrifice
the
Lives
of
many
more
of
his
Subjects
,
so
that
this
could
be
but
effected
;
so
natural
is
it
for
Uncleanness
to
be
the
Parent
and
occasion
of
Murder
.
The
Crime
is
still
further
aggravated
if
we
consider
how
deliberately
it
was
committed
,
how
long
he
continued
without
Repentance
,
and
what
a
severe
Judgment
he
gave
against
himself
,
when
Nathan
the
Prophet
propounded
the
Case
to
him
by
way
of
Parable
.
So
much
for
David's
Crime
;
we
must
now
consider
that
of
Bathsheba
,
she
Wash'd
and
Bath●…d
her self
in
open
view
of
the
Palace
,
otherwise
David
could
never
have
seen
her
from
the
Roof
of
his
House
,
which
argues
her
to
have
been
very
Immodest
,
nor
do
we
find
that
she
made
any
opposition
to
the
proposal
when
't
was
made
to
her
,
so
little
regard
had
she
either
to
the
Law
of
God
or
her
own
and
her
Husbands
Honour
.
It
remains
then
that
we
come
to
the
punishment
inflicted
upon
both
.
The
Judgment
pronounced
by
Nathan
against
David
,
was
,
That
the
Sword
should
never
depart
from
his
House
,
that
the
Lord
would
raise
up
evil
against
him
out
of
his
own
House
,
that
he
would
take
his
Wives
before
his
Eyes
and
give
them
unto
his
Neighbour
,
who
should
lie
with
them
in
the
sight
of
the
Sun
,
and
that
the
Child
which
he
had
begot
in
Adultery
,
should
surely
die
,
all
which
was
exactly
fullfilled
,
as
we
shall
see
in
the
following
Instances
.
The
first
part
of
the
punishment
infl●…cted
,
was
the
Death
of
the
Child
,
and
how
near
that
went
to
David
,
may
easily
be
perceived
by
his
afflicting
himself
with
fasting
and
lying
all
night
upon
the
Earth
while
it
was
sick
,
and
there
's
no
doubt
but
this
part
of
the
punishment
reach'd
Bathsheba
as
well
as
him
,
seeing
't
is
reasonable
to
suppose
that
the
Death
of
a
Child
,
for
whom
she
had
broke
through
all
ties
,
Divine
and
Humane
,
must
go
very
near
her
.
The
next
part
of
the
punishment
displayed
David's
Sin
in
Legible
Characters
,
and
brought
an
horrid
Disgrace
upon
his
Family
,
viz.
The
Incest
of
his
Son
Amnon
with
his
Daughter
Tamar
,
the
Story
and
Consequence
of
which
is
as
follows
.
Tamar
,
being
a
fair
Woman
,
Amnon
,
her
Brother
fell
in
Love
with
her
,
but
knowing
that
she
was
within
the
sorbidden
degrees
of
Consangninity
;
he
found
he
could
not
Lawfully
enjoy
her
.
Before
we
proceed
any
further
in
the
History
of
this
affair
,
it
is
proper
to
consider
,
that
this
Damsel's
Mother
was
Maacha
Daughter
to
Talmai
King
of
G●…shur
:
Rabbi
●…hi
says
,
That
David
took
this
Lady
Captive
,
and
being
himself
Captivated
with
her
Beauty
,
defil'd
her
and
begot
this
Tamar
,
and
that
persevering
in
his
Love
to
Maacha
,
tho'
a
Heathen
,
he
made
her
a
Proselyte
,
and
did
according
as
it
is
prescribed
by
the
Levitical
Law
,
Deut.
21.
viz.
Shav'd
her
Head
and
Eyebrows
,
cut
her
Nails
,
&c.
and
took
her
to
Wife
.
Lyranus
and
some
of
the
later
Rabbins
say
,
That
when
Maacha
was
taken
,
she
was
with
Child
of
this
Tamar
by
another
Husband
,
and
this
they
think
,
favoured
by
her
saying
to
Amnon
?
Speak
unto
the
King
for
he
will
not
with-hold
me
from
thee
:
But
Modern
Interpreters
do
with
more
reason
think
that
she
only
said
this
to
put
him
off
,
for
if
they
could
have
been
married
by
Law
,
Amnon
would
not
have
pin'd
for
her
,
but
have
straightway
demanded
her
of
the
King
,
who
was
so
indulgent
to
his
Children
,
that
he
would
never
have
refused
it
,
if
it
could
have
been
Lawfully
Granted
,
and
therefore
Amnon
knowing
that
this
could
not
be
done
,
he
burned
and
consumed
away
in
his
Unlawfull
Love
,
which
prevented
his
sleep
,
disordered
his
stomach
,
hindered
hi
digestion
and
occasioned
a
paleness
in
his
Countenance
,
which
made
his
Friend
Jonadab
to
guess
at
his
Malady
and
put
him
upon
that
fatal
Intrigue
to
satisfy
his
Lust
,
viz.
To
feign
himself
sick
,
and
to
desire
of
his
Indulgent
Father
when
he
came
to
see
him
,
that
his
Sister
Tamar
might
come
and
make
him
some
Cakes
,
by
which
means
he
should
have
an
opportunity
of
satisfying
his
passion
,
and
this
being
accordingly
put
in
Execution
,
he
ravish'd
her
,
and
then
his
hatred
to
her
became
as
excessive
as
ever
his
Love
had
been
,
so
that
tho
it
was
his
Interest
to
have
concealed
his
Villainy
both
upon
the
Account
of
his
Reputation
and
safety
:
His
fury
was
so
outragious
that
as
he
had
forc'd
her
into
his
Bed
,
he
forc'd
her
also
out
of
his
Chamber
,
which
presently
divulg'd
his
own
shame
.
The
Rabbins
according
to
their
fabulous
manner
,
alledge
,
that
this
hatred
proceeded
from
the
bitter
Reproaches
and
Words
which
Tamar
made
use
of
against
him
during
the
Rape
,
or
from
his
having
hurt
himself
while
he
struggled
with
her
,
but
the
more
probable
reason
is
that
it
proceeded
from
those
stings
of
Conscience
and
that
perturbation
of
mind
which
usually
attends
such
Villainies-and
thus
Nero
hated
his
Mother
Mortally
,
and
at
last
ordered
her
to
be
murdered
after
he
had
committed
Incest
with
her
,
but
in
the
Case
of
Amnon
there
was
something
of
a
special
Providence
,
God
would
have
David's
sin
legible
in
his
punishment
,
and
therefore
that
the
shame
of
his
Children
and
Family
should
be
publick
?
nay
it
's
plain
,
that
God
deprived
him
of
his
ordinary
sagacity
,
when
he
so
easily
consented
to
Amnon's
desire
of
having
his
Sister
Tamar
to
bake
him
some
Cakes
,
which
was
enough
to
Minister
cause
of
suspicion
,
that
some
wicked
design
lay
conceal'd
at
bottom
,
and
in
like
manner
he
was
deprived
of
his
sagacity
when
about
two
years
after
he
consented
to
Amnon's
going
to
Absalom's
Feast
at
the
sheering
of
his
Sheep
,
for
he
might
easily
have
conceived
that
his
Daughter
Tamar
who
remained
desolate
in
her
Brother
Absalom's
House
,
kept
the
Memory
of
the
indignity
which
Amnon
had
done
to
her
fresh
in
Absalom's
mind
,
and
that
Absalom
being
an
Ambitious
Man
might
also
be
prompted
to
cut
off
Amnon
,
who
was
David's
Eldest
Son
,
that
he
might
make
way
for
himself
to
succeed
,
but
so
God
would
have
it
,
that
his
Judgments
denounced
upon
David's
House
,
because
of
his
Murder
and
Adultery
,
might
be
Executed
;
and
therefore
Amnon
is
not
only
suffered
to
go
,
but
the
rest
of
the
King's
Sons
so
much
deprived
of
their
Reason
and
Courage
,
as
,
that
they
could
not
prevent
this
horrid
Fratricide
;
and
thus
Amnon
,
whom
David
had
spared
out
of
a
fond
affection
,
tho'
he
ought
to
have
died
by
the
Law
,
was
Justly
cut
off
for
his
Incestuous
Rape
,
and
as
David's
Uncleanness
was
punish'd
by
Incest
betwixt
his
own
Children
,
so
his
Murder
is
punish'd
in
that
same
manner
by
this
Fratricide
Committed
by
one
of
his
Sons
,
upon
another
,
which
was
an
early
presage
of
Absalom's
usurpation
,
by
taking
the
Sword
of
Justice
out
of
his
Father's
hand
.
This
must
without
all
doubt
have
been
a
very
sensible
affliction
to
David
,
to
have
one
Son
Murdered
,
and
another
obnoxious
to
lose
his
Life
by
the
Law
for
the
said
Murder
.
It
must
needs
also
pierce
him
to
the
heart
to
hear
the
Reproaches
of
the
wicked
,
who
no
doubt
upbraided
him
with
the
Ungodly
Lives
of
his
Children
and
the
want
of
Discipline
in
his
Family
.
But
his
affliction
did
not
terminate
here
,
being
again
reconciled
to
his
Son
Absalom
which
his
Unwarrantable
indulgence
made
easie
to
be
effected
,
this
Unnatural
Monster
by
his
Treachery
and
Flattery
,
stole
away
the
hearts
of
the
People
from
his
Father
,
and
then
broke
out
into
a
formal
Rebellion
.
That
the
People
did
so
readily
concur
with
him
,
is
attributed
to
the
perswasions
of
Achitophel
and
others
,
who
exposing
David's
personal
faults
,
as
his
Adultery
with
Bathsheba
,
his
Murder
of
Uriah
,
sparing
his
Incestuous
Son
Amnon
,
and
dealing
hardly
with
Absalom
for
Executing
Justice
upon
him
;
did
mightily
Incense
them
against
him
,
and
besides
these
,
we
find
,
that
Absalom
himself
accus'd
him
of
Male-Administration
,
and
a
neglect
of
Justice
,
which
,
by
the
Just
Judgment
of
God
,
in
order
to
the
fullfilling
of
his
threatning
,
That
the
Sword
should
never
depart
from
David's
House
,
did
so
take
,
that
he
was
in
great
danger
of
losing
his
Crown
,
and
it
's
worth
our
observation
that
the
Person
which
occasioned
him
so
much
trouble
and
disgrace
was
his
own
Son
by
a
Heathen
Wife
,
with
whom
he
had
contracted
Marriage
out
of
a
Lustfull
principle
,
as
has
been
formerly
taken
notice
of
.
Absalom
,
in
the
Course
of
his
Rebellion
,
does
also
commit
Incest
with
his
Father's
Concubines
,
by
the
Counsel
of
Achitophel
,
contrary
to
the
positive
Law
of
God
,
and
thus
was
the
threatning
accomplish'd
upon
David
,
of
having
his
own
Wives
taken
from
him
,
and
given
to
another
,
who
should
humble
them
in
the
sight
of
the
Sun
,
and
of
all
the
People
;
and
it
is
remarkable
,
that
this
Villainy
was
Acted
upon
the
roof
of
the
Kings
House
,
where
he
himself
did
first
commit
Adultery
with
Bathsheba
in
his
Heart
—
The
reason
of
Achitophel's
giving
this
pernicious
advice
;
was
,
that
he
might
do
what
in
him
lay
to
make
the
breach
between
David
and
Absalom
Irreconcilable
,
that
so
he
might
never
be
called
to
an
Account
for
aiding
Absalom
in
this
Rebellion
:
and
there
are
others
,
who
say
,
that
he
had
also
a
design
of
Revenge
in
it
,
for
David's
having
Debauch'd
Bathsheba
,
who
,
it
's
probable
,
was
this
Achitophel's
Grand-Daughter
.
As
to
Absalom's
own
part
in
this
Villany
,
we
have
reason
to
think
that
he
was
thereunto
prompted
by
Revenge
and
Lust
both
.
Revenge
,
because
his
Father
had
not
punish'd
Amnon
for
his
Rape
upon
Tamar
,
his
Sister
;
and
Lust
,
because
we
find
he
was
a
Vain
and
Effeminate
Person
,
and
Excessively
proud
of
his
Beauty
and
Hair
,
which
he
nourished
so
prodigiously
,
that
at
the
end
of
the
year
,
when
he
poll'd
it
,
he
usually
cut
off
about
Two
Hundred
Shekells
,
which
is
computed
at
above
Six
Pound
Averdupoize
.
The
next
thing
which
in
Course
we
are
to
take
notice
of
,
is
the
punishment
inflicted
upon
Achitophel
,
who
gave
this
pernicious
Counsel
,
and
upon
Absalom
who
followed
it
:
The
former
,
tho'
his
Wicked
advice
as
to
the
polluting
of
David's
Concubines
was
obey'd
,
yet
finding
his
Counsel
as
to
the
Military
part
despised
,
took
it
so
much
to
heart
,
that
he
thereupon
became
a
deliberate
Felo
de
se
,
and
after
having
set
his
House
in
order
,
became
the
Executioner
of
a
punishment
upon
himself
,
which
ought
to
have
been
inflicted
by
the
hands
of
others
,
as
a
Just
reward
for
his
having
advised
to
the
Commission
of
Capital
Crimes
.
And
thus
fell
Achitophcl
as
a
true
Type
of
Judas
.
As
to
Absalom
,
his
punishment
was
very
remarkable
.
His
Father
David
against
whom
he
had
committed
those
Capital
offences
,
was
so
strangely
indulgent
that
he
gave
his
Captains
particular
Charge
to
deal
kindly
with
him
for
his
sake
;
but
behold
the
Event
,
that
Unnatural
Monster
,
whom
the
Indulgence
of
a
Father
would
have
spared
,
the
Justice
of
Heav'n
would
not
suffer
to
go
unpunish'd
,
but
armed
the
Trees
of
the
Forest
against
him
,
so
that
his
Hair
being
caught
by
the
branch
of
an
Oak
,
that
in
which
he
so
much
Gloried
,
became
the
means
of
his
Ruin
,
and
serv'd
instead
of
a
Rope
to
hang
him
up
betwixt
Heav'n
and
Earth
,
as
a
Monument
of
Divine
Justice
,
and
to
shew
that
he
was
accursed
;
but
that
was
not
all
,
Divine
Justice
did
so
much
Incense
Joab
against
him
that
taking
three
Darts
in
his
hand
he
soon
dispatch'd
him
,
so
that
he
died
more
sorts
of
Deaths
than
one
,
as
a
Just
reward
for
his
Complicated
Crimes
.
R.
Kimchi's
Observations
upon
Absalom's
Tragical
Exit
,
are
neither
improper
nor
Unpleasant
,
Absalom
,
says
he
,
was
thrust
thro'
the
Heart
with
3
Darts
,
1.
Because
he
stole
the
Ki●…g
his
Fathers
heart
;
2.
Because
he
stole
the
heart
of
the
Sanhedrim
,
that
is
of
the
200
Senators
who
went
with
him
out
of
the
simplicity
of
their
hearts
;
and
3.
Because
he
stole
the
Hearts
of
all
Israel
.
He
might
have
added
a
4th
.
that
as
his
heart
was
struck
thro'
with
raging
Lust
when
he
went
in
to
his
Fathers
Concubines
in
the
sight
of
the
Sun
,
so
his
Heart
was
now
struck
thro'
with
Darts
while
he
hung
upon
the
Tree
betwixt
Heav'n
and
Earth
.
The
Rabbi
has
also
another
Remark
,
which
is
pertinent
enough
,
viz.
That
as
he
incestuously
polluted
his
Fathers
ten
Concubines
,
he
was
encompassed
and
slain
by
10
of
Joab's
Attendants
,
who
threw
him
into
a
Pit
,
and
raised
a
Great
heap
of
Stones
over
him
,
so
that
as
he
liv'd
he
died
,
and
was
Buried
in
an
Ignominious
manner
,
notwithstanding
his
having
erected
a
Pillar
,
which
Interpreters
think
was
a
Funeral
Monument
,
resembling
the
Egyptian
Pyramids
,
that
out
of
his
Ambition
he
had
prepar'd
for
himself
in
the
Kings
dale
,
or
Vallev
where
the
Kings
us●…d
to
solemnize
publick
Plays
and
Horse-Races
.
Thus
did
Absalom
die
,
and
thus
was
David
punish'd
for
his
Murder
and
Adultery
.
The
opinion
of
the
Rabbins
that
Absalom
was
sent
to
Hell
,
as
soon
as
he
died
for
his
notorious
Crimes
is
also
Remarkable
,
as
discovering
their
thoughts
of
what
such
a
Villainous
Course
of
Life
deserved
,
but
their
fabulous
conceit
that
David
by
his
having
seven
times
Ingeminated
the
Name
of
his
Son
,
delivered
him
from
the
Seven-Fold
Bars
of
Hell
,
and
that
by
his
repeating
it
the
Eighth
time
he
occasioned
his
being
brought
into
Paradise
,
is
altogether
Ridiculous
.
The
next
thing
that
occurs
to
our
Observation
is
the
punishment
inflicted
by
David
upon
his
Incestuous
Concubines
,
their
lives
were
spared
because
they
were
under
a
sort
of
Constraint
,
yet
seeing
they
were
not
altogether
without
fault
,
inasmuch
as
there
's
no
mention
made
of
their
having
resisted
or
cried
out
,
he
condemned
them
to
perpetual
Widow-hood
,
and
neither
came
near
them
himself
,
nor
suffered
them
to
enjoy
the
Company
of
any
other
Man
,
as
they
might
probably
have
done
had
he
given
them
a
Bill
of
divorce
.
It
's
not
unreasonable
to
conjecture
that
Absalom's
Beauty
and
the
Authority
which
he
had
then
usurp'd
might
make
them
the
more
easily
consent
to
his
Lewd
Embraces
,
and
therefore
they
are
punish'd
for
their
Incontinence
by
a
perpetual
deprivation
of
Man's
Society
.
And
thus
David
who
violated
the
Chastity
of
another
Man's
Wife
,
is
put
under
a
necessity
of
partting
with
his
own
Wives
,
which
no
doubt
was
very
cutting
to
him
,
for
we
must
rationally
suppose
that
he
who
was
so
indulgent
a
Father
was
as
tender
an
Husband
.
Tho'
this
Holy
Mans
sin
was
pardoned
both
as
to
the
punishment
which
he
ought
to
have
undergone
according
to
the
Law
,
and
as
to
eternal
Wrath
,
which
he
deserved
,
yet
we
find
that
he
had
but
very
little
respite
from
Temporal
punishment
,
for
Absalom's
Rebellion
was
not
quite
extinguish'd
till
another
sprung
out
of
its
Ashes
.
Sheba
a
Benjamite
and
Son
of
Belial
,
taking
the
opportunity
of
the
Peoples
Tumultuating
Spirits
,
which
were
then
in
a
ferment
,
not
only
by
reason
of
the
late
Rebellion
,
but
also
because
the
Tribe
of
Judah
pretended
to
have
a
greater
interest
in
David
than
the
other
Ten
Tribes
,
sounded
the
Trumpet
to
a
new
Rebellion
,
disclaiming
any
Portion
in
David
,
or
Inheritance
in
the
Son
of
Jesse
,
and
straightway
the
Inconstant
Israelites
followed
him
and
abandoned
their
Lawfull
King
,
whom
God
had
anointed
over
them
—
This
Sheba
is
generally
supposed
to
have
been
one
of
Saul's
Family
,
and
a
Man
of
Authority
,
and
not
only
envy'd
David
upon
Saul's
account
,
but
designed
to
have
usurp'd
the
Crown
for
himself
:
That
Saul's
Relations
look●…d
upon
David
as
being
a
bloody
Man
,
and
guilty
of
Tyranny
and
Cruelty
towards
that
Family
,
appears
plain
from
Shimei's
railing
upon
David
in
his
distress
,
and
perhaps
his
unjust
Treatment
of
Mephibosheth
upon
Ziba
s
false
accusation
,
was
improved
by
them
as
a
New
Argument
to
Incense
the
People
against
him
,
but
in
the
mean
time
the
Accomplishment
of
Nathan's
Prophecy
,
That
the
Sword
should
never
depart
from
David's
House
,
is
herein
very
Remarkable
,
for
we
find
him
not
only
plagu'd
with
one
Rebellion
upon
the
back
of
another
,
but
in
the
midst
of
this
Commotion
,
which
made
his
Crown
to
totter
,
we
find
an
Intestine
discord
in
his
own
Family
;
he
is
Insulted
over
by
his
own
Sister's
Son
Joab
a
Stern
and
Gallant
General
,
who
had
the
Love
of
the
Soldiery
,
and
Great
Authority
among
the
People
and
as
Josephus
says
,
took
him
up
so
sharply
for
his
unseasonable
and
intemperate
passion
upon
Absalom's
Death
,
that
he
threatned
if
he
did
not
give
over
his
Mourning
,
to
betray
his
Crown
and
Dignity
.
And
now
when
the
Forces
were
assembling
to
suppress
Sheba's
Rebellion
,
David
has
this
additional
affliction
added
to
all
the
rest
,
that
his
Kinsman
Joab
did
Treacherously
Murder
Amasa
whom
David
had
appointed
to
be
General
in
that
Expedition
,
and
tho'
Sheba
was
quickly
punish'd
for
this
Execrable
sedition
according
to
his
demerit
,
yet
the
Citizens
of
Abel-Beth-Maachah
,
with
whom
there
's
no
doubt
but
others
concurr'd
in
their
sentiments
,
accus'd
David
as
seeking
to
swallow
up
the
Inheritance
of
the
Lord
,
for
marching
his
Army
so
Inconsiderately
against
the
Town
,
and
offering
to
storm
it
without
first
summoning
them
to
surrender
the
Rebel
Sheba
who
had
fled
thither
for
Protection
.
We
find
also
in
the
second
Book
of
Samuel
,
that
David
,
according
to
Nathan's
threatning
,
was
visited
with
diverse
ExternaI
as
well
as
Internal
Wars
.
Here
are
diverse
Battles
with
the
Philistines
taken
notice
of
,
and
in
one
of
them
David
run
a
great
risk
of
being
kill'd
,
had
he
not
been
seasonably
rescued
by
Abishai
.
The
last
thing
we
meet
with
in
this
Book
which
any
way
relates
to
our
purpose
,
is
,
That
Interpreters
think
that
the
General
Luxury
and
Dissolution
of
manners
which
reigned
amongst
the
Israelites
after
so
many
Victories
over
their
Enemies
,
and
that
Peace
and
Plenty
was
Restored
to
them
was
the
Cause
of
God's
stirring
up
David
to
Number
the
people
,
which
occasioned
a
Plague
amongst
them
,
that
like
a
deluge
sweept
away
70000
of
the
people
,
so
usual
is
it
for
General
Prophanity
to
be
followed
by
General
Judgments
.
The
first
Book
of
Kings
begins
with
an
Account
of
a
new
Rebellion
hatch'd
against
David
by
his
Son
Adonijah
,
Brother
to
Absalom
,
which
was
another
bitter
effect
of
David's
Unlawful
Marriage
with
Maachah
,
and
likewise
another
instance
of
the
Accomplishment
of
Nathan's
threatning
,
that
the
Sword
should
not
depart
from
his
House
,
so
that
he
was
disturb'd
as
one
may
say
in
his
last
Minutes
,
with
an
Unnatural
Rebellion
by
an
Ungrateful
Son
,
whom
he
had
so
tenderly
Indulged
,
that
he
had
not
at
any
time
displeased
him
;
Nay
,
nor
so
much
as
reproved
him
.
This
youngman
as
he
was
Absalom's
Brother
,
did
exactly
tread
in
his
steps
,
resembled
him
both
in
Person
and
Manners
,
and
had
the
like
fatal
Exit
,
which
(
tho'
he
was
pardoned
for
his
Rebellion
)
he
drew
upon
himself
by
his
Uncleanness
in
desiring
to
Wife
Abishag
the
Shunamite
,
who
,
as
Interpreters
think
,
was
Married
to
his
Father
tho'
he
never
knew
her
,
because
of
his
Age
,
upon
which
Account
Solomon
cut
him
off
.
This
is
another
Instance
of
the
Tragical
Effects
of
Unnatural
Lust.
The
next
that
falls
under
our
Notice
is
Solomon
himself
,
of
whom
we
have
this
Account
,
in
the
11th
.
Chap.
of
I
Kings
,
that
he
loved
many
strange
Women
,
together
with
the
Daughter
of
Pharaoh
,
Women
of
the
Moabites
,
Ammonites
,
Edomites
,
Sidonians
,
and
Hittites
;
of
the
Nations
concerning
which
the
Lord
said
unto
the
Children
of
Israel
,
Ye
shall
not
go
in
to
them
,
neither
shall
they
come
in
to
you
,
for
surely
they
will
turn
away
your
hearts
after
their
Gods
:
Solomon
clave
unto
these
in
Love
,
and
he
had
700
Wives
,
Princesses
,
and
three
hundred
Concubines
;
and
his
Wives
turned
away
his
heart
after
other
Gods
,
when
he
was
old
,
so
that
he
went
after
Ashtaroth
the
Goddess
of
the
Zidonians
,
after
Milcom
the
Abomination
of
the
Ammonites
,
and
built
an
high-place
for
Chemosh
,
the
Abomination
of
Moab
,
and
for
Moloch
the
Abomination
of
the
Children
of
Ammon
.
This
is
certainly
one
of
the
most
surprizing
Instances
and
greatest
Evidences
of
the
mischief
that
Raging
Lust
brings
upon
Men
,
that
is
to
be
found
either
in
Sacred
or
Profane
History
.
That
Solomon
the
Wisest
of
men
should
be
so
far
besotted
with
Lust
,
or
to
use
a
softer
Term
,
Amorous
Inclinations
,
to
as
transgress
that
Royal
Law
which
forbid
Kings
to
Multiply
Wives
to
themselves
,
and
that
other
Law
which
forbid
the
Children
of
Israel
to
marry
with
such
and
such
Nations
;
but
yet
more
,
that
he
should
be
so
excessive
in
Number
which
we
find
to
be
no
less
than
1000
,
whereof
700
were
of
Noble
Extract
or
Princesses
,
and
300
of
lower
degree
;
and
that
which
is
still
more
surprizing
,
that
Solomon
whom
God
call'd
Jedidiah
his
beloved
,
and
made
him
a
Type
ofChrist
,
and
to
whom
he
had
twice
appeared
in
such
a
solemn
manner
should
be
so
far
overcome
with
the
Inticements
of
those
Outlandish
and
Strange
Women
as
to
worship
their
Gods
,
and
promote
their
Idolatry
,
when
he
was
betwixt
50
and
60
years
of
Age
,
a
time
as
one
would
think
more
proper
for
him
to
have
been
preparing
for
Death
and
Eternity
,
and
Establishing
the
true
worship
of
God
,
for
which
he
was
the
first
that
had
built
a
Temple
,
than
to
be
led
away
by
such
youthfull
Lusts
and
to
build
high
places
for
the
abominable
Idols
of
the
Moabites
,
Zidonians
,
&c.
which
Interpreters
say
,
were
Immodest
Statues
of
Priapus
and
Venus
,
that
were
worshiped
by
the
Incestuous
off-spring
of
Lot
,
by
his
own
Daughters
.
This
is
another
Confirmation
of
what
has
been
so
often
observed
,
that
there
is
no
such
powerfull
attractive
to
Idolatry
and
false
Religion
as
an
Impure
Life
.
The
next
thing
we
are
to
take
notice
of
is
the
punishment
inflicted
upon
Solomon
and
his
Posterity
for
their
Crimes
,
which
we
find
to
be
,
that
the
Lord
was
Angry
with
him
,
threatned
to
rend
the
Kingdom
from
him
,
and
to
give
it
to
his
Servant
,
and
stir'd
up
Enemies
against
him
both
at
home
and
abroad
,
as
Hadad
,
the
Edomite
,
Rezon
the
Son
of
Eliada
and
Jeroboam
the
Son
of
Nebat
,
who
was
made
King
by
the
Children
of
Israel
when
the
Ten
Tribes
Revolted
from
Rehoboam
,
Solomon's
Son
,
as
an
accomplishment
of
this
threatning
.
It
likewise
deserves
our
Remark
,
that
this
fou●…
defection
of
Solomon
occasions
a
great
dispute
amongst
Interpreters
whether
ever
he
recovered
or
not
,
because
the
Scripture
is
silent
concerning
it
.
Gregory
the
Great
,
Theodoret
,
Prosper
,
Aquitanus
,
Beda
Rabanus
,
Peter
Martyr
and
others
,
think
that
he
was
damn'd
for
it
;
and
Jerome
,
Ambrose
,
Isidore
,
Epiphanius
,
Crissus
,
and
others
;
think
that
God
gave
him
Repentance
,
and
that
he
wrote
the
Ecclesiastes
after
his
Recovery
.
However
this
is
plain
that
Solomon's
Lustfulness
occasioned
his
IdoIatry
,
and
both
together
that
Revolt
of
the
Israelites
from
his
Posterity
,
which
is
not
the
only
Instance
that
we
shall
meet
with
of
Thrones
being
overturned
by
Uncleanness
.
We
shall
also
observe
here
once
for
all
,
that
those
high
Places
and
Groves
,
which
in
the
time
of
Jeroboam
,
Rehoboam
,
and
other
Kings
,
the
Israelites
are
accus'd
of
worshipping
their
Idols
in
,
were
chosen
as
places
fit
for
their
purpose
,
not
only
upon
the
Account
on
which
the
Heathens
chose
such
places
,
viz.
Because
they
thought
them
nearer
the
Heavens
and
the
Heavenly
Gods
,
as
on
the
Contrary
they
worshiped
in
Dens
and
Caves
to
the
Infernal
Gods
;
but
because
there
they
had
a
greater
Conveniency
of
fullfilling
their
Brutish
Lusts
,
to
which
they
were
incited
by
the
fulsome
Statues
of
Venus
and
Priapus
,
which
they
had
in
those
places
,
and
to
whom
they
thought
that
was
agreeable
worship
;
and
therefore
it
is
that
the
Prophets
do
so
often
upbraid
them
with
going
a
Whoring
from
the
true
God
,
and
being
lain
with
under
every
Green-Tree
,
and
upon
every
High-Hill
,
&c.
which
was
true
in
a
Literal
as
well
as
Metaphorical
and
Spiritual
Sense
,
so
inseparable
are
Idolatry
and
Impurity
;
and
here
likewise
we
may
observe
once
for
all
,
That
in
all
those
Captivities
and
publick
Calamities
which
befell
the
People
of
God
,
Uncleanness
and
Idolatry
concurr'd
,
as
procuring
Causes
;
of
which
we
have
a
clear
Pròof
in
the
14th
.
of
the
1st
.
Book
of
Kings
,
23d
.
and
24th
.
Verses
,
where
,
after
they
are
accused
of
building
them
high
places
,
Images
and
Groves
under
every
Green-Tree
and
upon
every
high
Hill
;
it
's
straightway
subjoyned
,
that
there
were
also
Sodomites
in
the
Land
and
they
did
according
to
all
the
Abominations
of
the
Nations
which
the
Lord
,
cast
out
before
the
Children
of
Israel
;
so
that
Idolatry
,
Adultery
and
Unnatural
Lust
,
were
productive
of
one
another
,
it
being
Just
with
God
to
give
up
those
who
did
not
like
to
retain
him
in
their
knowledge
,
to
work
all
manner
of
Unncleanness
with
Greediness
.
It
's
proper
also
to
observe
here
,
that
as
the
Wicked
Princes
and
Rulers
erected
those
Groves
and
high
Places
,
so
the
good
ones
whenever
they
attempted
a
Reformation
remov'd
and
broke
them
down
,
as
in
the
Instances
of
Jereboam
,
Asa
,
Ahab
,
&c.
The
next
Remarkable
Instance
is
in
Jezebel
,
who
was
an
Harlot
,
Persecuter
,
Idolater
,
and
bloody
Woman
,
those
sins
being
so
near
a
kin
that
they
were
many
times
found
in
one
and
the
same
subject
,
we
find
that
she
was
rather
worse
then
Ahab
her
Husband
who
sold
himself
to
do
evil
,
and
was
more
wicked
than
any
King
of
Israel
had
been
before
him
;
but
that
which
more
particularly
relates
to
our
purpose
is
her
Uncleanness
and
many
Whoredoms
wherewith
she
is
so
plainly
Charged
by
Jehu
;
The
Judgment
of
God
upon
her
for
those
Crimes
is
very
observable
;
she
seem'd
to
have
so
little
sense
of
approaching
Vengeance
,
tho'
she
had
heard
how
Jehu
cut
off
all
Ahab's
House
,
that
as
he
was
coming
to
the
Pallace
she
painted
her self
in
an
Obstinate
and
Whorish
manner
,
as
if
she
were
either
resolv'd
to
outbrave
the
Judgments
of
God
and
to
die
with
Obstinacy
and
Impenitence
in
that
very
sin
which
hastned
wrath
upon
her
;
or
that
she
thought
thereby
to
bewitch
Jehu
,
and
convert
his
Rage
into
an
Amorous
Passion
;
but
behold
the
Event
,
he
Commands
her
to
be
thrown
headlong
out
at
the
Window
,
which
being
effected
,
that
Body
which
she
had
so
much
pampered
and
adorn'd
,
had
the
burial
of
an
Ass
,
viz.
To
be
eaten
up
by
Dogs
,
and
thrown
as
dung
upon
the
face
of
the
Field
,
as
had
been
threatned
by
the
Prophet
,
a
suitable
Exit
for
such
a
Vile
and
Abominable
Life
,
which
may
serve
as
a
dreadfull
warning
to
our
Painted
Ladies
.
Having
thus
run
thro'
all
the
principal
old
Testament
Instances
of
Uncleanness
and
the
Judgments
inflicted
upon
those
that
were
guilty
by
God
,
from
the
Creation
to
the
Captivity
of
Israel
.
The
next
thing
that
offers
it self
to
our
observation
,
is
that
passage
in
the
9th
and
10th
of
Ezra
,
where
,
after
the
Restoration
of
the
People
:
One
of
the
General
sins
which
they
lamented
and
reformed
,
was
,
their
having
taken
strange
Wives
,
and
liv'd
a
Loose
and
Licentious
life
,
according
to
the
Abominations
of
the
Canaanlies
,
Hittites
,
Perizzites
,
Jebusites
,
Ammonites
,
Moabites
,
Egyptians
and
Amorites
,
whom
the
Lord
had
destroyed
for
those
Crimes
;
and
we
find
that
the
very
Priests
were
polluted
with
this
Contagion
,
so
far
had
Lust
got
the
ascendent
over
the
Laws
of
God
.
But
when
they
had
been
harass'd
with
Judgments
and
brought
to
set
about
a
Reformation
,
then
they
willingly
put
away
those
strange
Wives
according
to
the
Command
of
the
Prophets
on
pain
of
Forfeiture
and
Excommunication
.
We
find
also
that
when
Nehemiah
came
to
Rebuild
Jerusalem
and
reform
the
Jews
,
he
insisted
upon
their
putting
away
of
their
strange
Wives
,
and
chas'd
away
one
of
the
Priests
,
because
he
was
Son-in-Law
to
Sanballat
the
Horonite
;
concerning
which
Josephus
tells
us
the
following
Story
,
viz.
That
the
Person
thus
chased
away
by
Nehemiah
,
was
Manasses
,
Brother
to
the
High
Priest
Jaddus
,
who
refusing
to
put
away
this
strange
Woman
,
was
driven
out
of
the
Priesthood
,
and
thereupon
going
to
his
Father
in-Law
Sanballat
,
who
was
made
Prince
or
Governour
of
Samaria
by
Darius
the
last
King
of
the
Persians
,
he
told
him
how
he
had
been
treated
and
thrust
from
the
Priesthood
by
his
Brother
Jaddus
or
Jaiada
,
(
whose
Colleague
he
was
)
upon
the
account
of
his
marriage
;
whereupon
Sanballat
encouraged
him
to
retain
his
Wife
,
promising
that
he
would
take
care
that
he
should
not
only
enjoy
the
Priesthood
but
also
the
Principality
of
the
People
,
and
that
he
would
obtain
leave
from
King
Darius
to
build
a
Temple
upon
Mount
Gerizim
,
which
hangs
over
Samaria
,
and
was
much
higher
than
the
rest
of
the
Hills
,
and
resembled
that
of
Mount
Moriah
upon
which
the
Temple
of
Jerusalem
stood
;
which
design
took
so
well
,
that
all
the
Jews
who
had
transgressed
in
the
matter
of
strange
Wives
followed
this
Manasses
,
and
made
him
a
strong
party
.
Darins
in
the
mean
time
being
overcome
by
Alexander
,
who
was
then
Besieging
Tyre
,
Sanballat
went
thither
,
acknowledged
Alexander
for
his
Soveraign
,
and
obtained
leave
from
him
to
build
the
said
Temple
,
wherein
his
Son-in-Law
Manasses
officiated
as
High-Priest
,
and
all
such
as
transgressed
the
Law
at
Jerusalem
fled
to
him
for
Protection
,
so
that
it
became
an
Asylum
or
Sanctuary
for
dissolute
Persons
.
This
hightned
the
Enmity
so
much
betwixt
the
Jews
and
Samaritans
,
that
the
former
could
never
be
reconciled
to
the
latter
,
even
after
that
Temple
was
demolish'd
by
Hircanus
after
100
years
standing
,
and
the
Samaritans
after
the
said
demolition
,
still
held
the
Mountain
on
which
it
stood
Sacred
,
and
hated
those
who
went
to
Jerusalem
to
worship
,
as
appears
by
the
Woman
of
Samaria's
treatment
of
our
Saviour
,
Luke
.
9.
53.
Where
she
told
him
that
their
Fathers
worshipped
in
that
Mountain
,
&c.
The
Observation
which
naturally
results
from
this
passage
and
makes
it
applicable
to
our
purpose
,
is
,
that
Lust
or
Unlawfull
Love
to
strange
Women
does
naturally
turn
away
the
heart
from
God
and
makes
Men
become
easie
Proselytes
to
Idolatry
or
a
false
Religion
.
Having
thus
gone
thro'
all
the
material
passages
of
the
old
Testament
which
have
any
reference
to
our
Subject
,
it
may
not
be
improper
to
close
that
part
of
our
History
with
Solomon's
Character
of
Lewd
Women
,
Whoremongers
,
Whoredom
,
&c.
of
which
he
was
the
best
able
to
give
an
account
of
any
Man
that
ever
liv'd
,
not
only
because
of
the
assistance
of
the
Divine
spirit
which
inspired
his
Pen
,
but
because
of
his
own
Experience
.
In
the
second
of
the
Proverbs
he
tells
us
,
That
Wisdom
will
deliver
us
from
the
Strange
Woman
,
who
flattereth
with
her
words
,
forsaketh
her
Husband
the
guide
of
her
youth
,
and
forgetteth
her
Marriage
Vows
,
the
Covenant
of
her
God
,
her
House
inclineth
unto
death
,
and
her
Paths
unto
the
dead
;
that
is
,
lead
both
to
Temporal
and
Eternal
destruction
,
none
that
go
unto
her
return
again
,
neither
take
they
hold
of
the
Paths
of
Life
;
That
is
,
few
who
haunt
the
Society
of
such
Women
do
ever
find
Grace
to
repent
of
it
,
or
to
betake
themselves
again
to
a
chaste
Life
.
In
his
5th
.
Chapter
he
pursues
her
Character
thus
,
That
her
Lips
drop
as
an
Hony-Comb
,
and
her
Mouth
is
smoother
than
oil
;
but
her
end
is
bitter
as
Wormwood
,
sharp
as
a
two
edged
Sword
,
her
feet
go
down
to
death
,
her
Steps
take
hold
on
Hell
,
her
ways
are
moveable
,
that
thou
canst
not
know
them
;
That
is
sometimes
fawning
and
sometimes
frowning
as
she
thinks
she
can
best
work
upon
the
humours
of
her
Lovers
:
and
therefore
he
advises
to
remove
far
from
her
and
not
to
come
nigh
her
House
,
Lest
we
give
our
honour
unto
others
and
our
years
unto
the
cruel
;
that
is
,
lest
we
Sacrifice
our
Reputation
and
Strength
to
Harlots
,
who
are
cruel
both
in
Principles
and
Practises
.
He
adds
as
further
ill
Consequences
of
following
Whores
,
Lest
strangers
be
filled
with
thy
Wealth
,
and
thy
Labours
be
in
the
House
of
a
stranger
,
and
thou
mourn
at
the
last
,
when
thy
Flesh
and
thy
Body
are
consumed
.
Then
he
Exhorts
to
Conjugal
Love
and
Chastity
in
the
following
manner
,
Drink
Waters
out
of
thine
own
Cistern
,
i.
e.
Content
thy self
with
thine
own
Wife
:
Let
thy
Fountain
be
blessed
,
and
rejoice
with
the
Wife
of
thy
youth
.
Let
her
be
as
the
loving
Hind
and
the
pleasant
Roe
;
let
her
Breasts
satisfy
thee
at
all
times
,
and
be
thou
Ravish'd
always
with
her
love
.
Then
he
concludes
with
an
Expostulation
against
Whoredom
,
from
the
mischiefs
which
attend
it
,
thus
?
Why
wilt
thou
be
ravish'd
with
a
strange
Woman
,
and
embrace
the
Bosom
of
a
stranger
;
for
the
ways
of
Man
are
before
the
Eyes
of
the
Lord
,
he
pondereth
all
his
goings
:
his
own
Ini●…uities
shall
take
the
wicked
himself
,
and
he
shall
be
holden
with
the
Cords
of
his
Sins
,
he
shall
die
without
instruction
,
and
in
the
Greatness
of
his
Folly
,
he
shall
go
astray
.
That
is
,
he
is
so
ensnared
by
his
Lusts
,
that
thro'
his
prodigious
folly
and
madness
he
shall
run
on
to
eternal
destruction
,
without
repenting
for
his
sins
as
perhaps
he
purposed
to
do
.
In
the
6th
Chapter
he
pursues
his
Exhortation
to
Chastity
by
further
Arguments
from
the
mischievous
Consequences
of
Whoredom
.
Thus
,
Keep
thee
from
the
evil
Woman
,
from
the
flattery
of
the
Tongue
of
a
strange
Woman
,
Lust
not
after
her
Beauty
in
thine
heart
,
neither
let
her
take
thee
with
her
Eye-lids
,
for
by
means
of
a
Whorish
Woman
a
Man
is
brought
to
a
piece
of
Bread
and
the
Adultress
will
hunt
for
the
precious
Life
,
that
is
,
draws
men
to
such
Courses
as
destroys
both
their
substance
and
health
.
He
goes
on
thus
,
That
whosoever
toucheth
his
Neighbours
Wife
shall
not
be
Innocent
i.
e.
shall
not
be
free
from
guilt
,
shame
and
punishment
.
—
He
adds
,
That
whoso
commits
Adultery
with
a
Woman
lacketh
understanding
,
and
destroyeth
his
own
Soul
:
a
Wound
and
Dishonour
shall
he
get
,
and
his
Reproach
shall
not
be
wiped
away
.
In
the
7th
.
Chapter
he
gives
a
parabolical
Representation
of
Whoring
,
thus
,
At
the
Window
of
my
House
I
look'd
thro'
my
Casement
,
and
behold
among
the
simple
ones
a
young
man
void
of
understanding
,
passing
thro'
the
Street
near
her
Corner
,
and
he
went
the
way
to
her
House
,
in
the
twi-light
,
in
the
Evening
,
in
the
black
and
dark
Night
:
And
behold
there
met
him
a
Woman
,
with
the
attire
of
an
Harlot
,
and
subtil
of
Heart
.
She
is
loud
and
stubborn
,
her
feet
abide
not
in
her
House
.
Now
she
is
without
,
now
in
the
Streets
,
and
lieth
in
wait
at
every
Corner
.
So
she
caught
him
and
kiss'd
him
,
and
with
an
Impudent
face
said
unto
him
,
I
have
Peace-offerings
with
me
,
this
day
have
I
paid
my
vows
(
or
I
have
been
at
Church
at
Prayers
:
)
Therefore
came
I
forth
to
meet
thee
,
diligently
to
seek
thy
face
,
and
I
have
found
thee
.
I
have
deck'd
my
Bed
with
Coverings
of
Tapstery
,
with
Carved
Works
,
with
fine
Linen
of
Egypt
,
&c.
He
goeth
after
her
straightway
as
an
Ox
goeth
to
the
Slaughter
,
or
,
as
a
Fool
to
the
Correction
of
the
Stocks
,
till
a
Dart
strike
thro'
his
Liver
,
as
a
Bird
hasteth
to
the
Snare
and
knoweth
not
that
't
is
for
his
Life
.
—
Then
he
adds
,
she
hath
cast
down
many
wounded
,
Yea
many
strong
Men
have
been
slain
by
her
;
of
which
he
was
a
sad
instance
himself
,
for
tho'
he
was
the
strongest
Man
in
the
World
for
Understanding
and
Abilities
,
yet
he
was
very
near
ruin'd
by
strange
Women
.
In
the
9th
Chap.
he
calls
the
Whore
,
a
Foolish
,
Clamorous
,
Simple
,
Ignorant
,
Woman
,
and
describes
her
Practice
thus
,
That
she
sits
at
the
Door
of
her
House
,
on
a
seat
in
the
high
or
noted
places
of
the
City
,
to
call
passengers
who
go
right
on
their
ways
;
That
is
who
are
going
about
their
business
and
mind
no
such
things
.
Then
he
describes
her
Guests
to
be
simple
,
and
those
that
want
understanding
:
And
such
as
know
not
that
they
are
in
the
depths
of
Hell
;
Had
the
Royal
Author
lived
in
our
days
the
Wits
of
this
Age
would
no
doubt
have
call'd
him
a
Canting
Coxcomb
,
and
if
the
Dignity
of
his
Scepter
had
not
set
him
above
it
,
to
be
sure
they
would
have
demanded
satisfaction
of
him
;
but
he
understood
himself
better
,
and
knew
that
Whoring
which
destroyeth
Kings
as
he
expresseth
it
in
the
30th
Chapter
of
the
Proverbs
,
could
be
no
less
fatal
to
Fops
.
He
had
given
his
heart
to
know
madness
and
folly
as
much
as
any
of
'em
,
and
was
not
asham'd
to
declare
that
he
found
it
to
be
such
,
and
therefore
Repented
of
it
.
It
has
been
observed
before
that
bodily
Uncleanness
as
well
as
Idolatry
,
had
a
great
share
in
Provoking
God
to
give
the
People
of
Israel
and
Judah
upto
Captivity
and
other
publick
Calamities
,
which
appears
plain
to
any
Man
that
will
but
peruse
the
Prophets
,
and
particularly
Jeremy
,
who
Prophesied
both
before
and
after
they
were
carried
Captives
into
Babylon
,
viz.
In
the
days
of
Zedekiah
,
&c.
In
the
third
Chapter
of
his
Prophecy
he
bids
them
lift
up
their
Eyes
unto
the
high
places
,
and
see
where
they
had
not
been
lain
with
,
and
charges
them
with
polluting
the
Land
by
their
Whoredoms
and
Wickedness
.
In
the
5th
.
Chap.
God
charges
them
with
committing
Adultery
,
assembling
themselves
by
Troops
in
the
Harlots
Houses
,
after
they
had
been
fed
to
the
full
,
and
that
they
were
as
fed
Horses
in
the
morning
every
one
Neighing
after
his
Neighbours
Wife
;
The
very
Practice
of
our
City
Beaus
and
modern
Gallants
,
and
as
a
Just
reward
for
such
Wickedness
,
the
Lord
says
,
Shall
I
not
visit
for
these
things
,
and
shall
not
my
Soul
be
avenged
on
such
a
Nation
as
this
.
And
the
Judgments
denounced
against
them
,
are
,
That
a
Lyon
out
of
the
Forest
should
slay
them
,
and
a
Wolf
of
the
Evening
should
spoil
them
,
a
Leopard
should
watch
over
their
Cities
,
and
every
one
that
went
out
thence
should
be
torn
in
pieces
,
meaning
that
they
should
be
destroyed
by
Nebuchadnezzar
,
a
Potent
,
Greedy
,
Watchfull
and
Cunning
Enemy
.
—
He
further
tells
them
that
he
would
bring
a
Nation
upon
them
from
afar
,
whose
Language
they
did
not
understand
,
who
should
eat
up
their
Harvest
and
their
Bread
,
which
their
Sons
and
Daughters
should
have
eaten
;
their
Flocks
and
theirHerds
,
theirVines
and
their
Fig-Trees
,
and
impoverish
their
fenced
Cities
.
—
In
the
6th
.
Chapter
,
he
purfues
his
threatnings
,
telling
them
,
That
their
Houses
should
be
turned
unto
others
,
with
their
Fields
and
Wives
together
,
as
a
Just
Judgment
for
their
having
defil'd
other
Mens
Wives
;
and
that
the
Nations
which
were
to
come
against
them
should
lay
hold
on
Bow
and
Spear
,
be
Cruel
and
shew
no
Mercy
.
May
God
avert
fuch
Judgments
from
England
which
does
so
well
deserve
it
,
because
of
the
pollutions
of
her
Inhabitants
.
In
the
23d
.
Chap.
the
Prophet
Complains
,
that
the
Land
is
full
of
Adulterers
,
and
because
of
swearing
the
Land
mourneth
,
the
breach
of
the
3d.
and
7th
.
Commandment
go
usually
together
,
as
is
to
be
seen
in
the
Dammees
and
Debauchees
of
our
days
.
In
the
14th
.
Verse
of
that
same
Chapter
,
he
says
,
I
have
seen
also
in
the
Prophets
of
Jerusalem
an
horrible
thing
,
they
commit
Adultery
,
and
walk
in
lyes
;
they
strengthen
also
the
hands
of
evil
doers
,
that
none
doth
return
from
his
wickedness
;
They
are
all
of
'em
unto
me
as
Sodom
,
and
the
Inhabitants
thereof
as
Gomorrah
.
—
And
afterwards
he
adds
,
For
from
the
Prophets
of
Jerusalem
is
Profaneness
gone
forth
into
all
the
Land
;
And
would
to
God
that
none
of
our
Clergy
did
pollute
themselves
with
the
reigning
sins
of
the
times
,
nor
encourage
the
wickedness
of
others
by
their
Licentious
Doctrine
and
loose
Lives
;
but
certainly
when
profanity
is
arriv'd
to
that
heighth
we
have
reason
to
fear
that
such
Judgments
as
destroyed
the
Nation
of
the
Jews
lie
in
wait
for
us
.
It
remains
,
that
we
take
notice
of
the
Accomplishment
of
those
dreadfull
threatnings
which
were
exactly
fullfilled
by
the
carrying
away
of
King
Zedekiah
and
the
People
into
Captivity
,
the
slaying
of
his
Sons
before
his
Eyes
,
and
putting
all
the
Nobles
to
Death
,
after
which
the
City
was
burnt
with
fire
,
the
People
dispers'd
,
and
such
of
them
as
endeavoured
to
resetle
themselves
were
broke
in
pieces
by
Intestine
divisions
.
And
Zedekiah
and
Ahab
two
lying
Prophets
,
who
endeavoured
to
perswade
the
people
that
what
Jeremiah
Prophesied
against
them
should
not
come
to
pass
,
and
hardened
the
people
by
their
profligate
Example
of
committing
Adultery
with
their
Neighbours
Wives
,
were
thro'
the
Just
Judgment
of
God
burnt
in
the
fire
by
Nebuchadnezzar
,
and
the
Memory
of
their
Crime
and
Punishment
was
perpetuated
to
Posterity
by
this
Curse
among
the
Jews
:
The
Lord
make
thee
like
Zedekiah
and
like
Ahab
whom
the
K.
of
Babylon
roasted
in
the
fire
;
So
that
the
fire
of
their
Impure
Lust
was
punished
by
a
more
severe
punishment
than
that
of
a
fiery
Ordeal
,
for
as
St.
Jerome
thinks
,
they
were
fried
and
so
burnt
to
death
by
degrees
,
as
they
had
from
time
to
time
burnt
in
their
Uncleanness
.
Thus
we
have
another
Instance
of
a
Great
and
Mighty
People
ruined
by
Whoredom
,
and
how
great
their
Ruin
and
Calamity
was
will
speedily
appear
to
any
one
that
reads
the
Lamentations
.
It
likewise
deserves
our
observation
that
the
Babylonians
,
the
Instruments
in
the
hands
of
God
for
punishing
Israel
,
were
brought
to
ruin
themselves
,
and
one
of
the
principal
Causes
assigned
for
the
same
is
,
That
they
grew
fat
as
the
Heifer
at
Grass
,
and
bellow'd
as
Bulls
,
Jer.
50.
which
Calvin
and
other
Interpreters
understand
to
be
a
parallel
phrase
to
that
of
Neighing
after
their
Neighbours
Wives
.
The
Judgments
threatned
upon
Babylon
in
this
Chapter
we
find
to
be
exactly
fullfilled
,
and
at
a
time
too
as
Daniel
gives
us
an
account
when
their
King
Belshazzar
was
rioting
and
feasting
with
his
Princes
,
his
Wives
and
his
Concubines
,
and
profanely
drinking
out
of
the
holy
Vessels
which
were
brought
from
the
House
of
God
at
Jerusalem
.
It
has
been
formerly
observed
that
Nimrod
the
Tyrant
laid
the
Foundation
of
this
Monarchy
,
when
the
World
began
to
degenerate
again
after
the
flood
,
and
to
immerse
themselves
in
all
manner
of
sensualities
,
and
therefore
the
Greeks
according
to
Bochart
in
his
Canaan
Lib.
1.
Cap.
2.
Confound
Nimrod
with
Bacchus
.
The
Story
of
Semiramis
Queen
of
Babylon
,
and
the
dissolute
Manners
of
that
People
during
her
Reign
is
well
enough
known
.
She
was
a
Warlike
Princess
,
and
during
her
Regency
in
the
Minority
of
her
●…on
she
Enlarged
her
Husbands
Conquests
on
the
one
hand
as
far
as
Aethiopia
,
and
on
the
other
as
far
as
India
,
having
first
subdued
Media
,
Libya
,
and
Egypt
:
she
likewise
built
a
Magnificent
Tomb
to
the
Memory
of
Ninus
her
Husband
,
finished
the
City
of
Babylo●…
,
surrounded
it
with
those
Walls
,
and
caused
those
Gardens
to
be
made
on
the
Top
of
her
Palaces
which
made
them
the
wonder
of
the
World
.
But
she
Tarnished
all
her
Glory
by
her
Brutish
Lust
,
it
being
recorded
of
her
that
she
tempted
the
handsomest
of
her
Soldiers
to
lie
with
her
,
and
having
satisfyed
her
Lust
caused
them
to
be
murdered
,
and
to
make
them
amends
raised
Stately
Tombs
,
over
theirGraves
;
at
last
she
was
so
far
transported
by
her
raging
Lust
,
that
she
became
enamoured
of
her
own
Son
,
who
as
a
Just
Judgment
from
God
slew
her
,
as
she
tempted
him
to
commit
Incest
with
her
,
as
is
related
by
Justin
,
Diodorus
Siculus
,
and
Others
.
All
Historians
who
write
of
the
Ba'ylonians
agree
,
that
they
were
a
very
Luxurious
People
,
and
it
is
not
at
all
to
be
doubted
but
their
Luxury
and
Lasciviousness
as
it
drew
down
the
Judgments
of
God
upon
them
,
so
it
rendred
them
Effeminate
,
and
made
them
an
easie
Conquest
to
others
,
after
they
had
Conquer'd
so
many
Nations
themselves
.
The
Extent
of
this
City
was
prodigious
,
being
as
Heylin
says
46
English
Miles
in
Compass
—
Aristotle
says
,
That
it
was
rather
a
Country
than
a
City
,
and
that
when
it
was
surprized
by
the
Medes
and
Persians
,
it
was
three
days
before
the
Inhabitants
of
the
furthiest
parts
were
aware
of
it
.
It
's
Walls
were
of
Brick
cemented
with
Bitumen
,
32
Foot
thick
,
50
Cubits
high
,
and
defended
by
Towers
10
Foot
higher
.
The
River
Euphrates
run
thro'
the
middle
of
it
,
and
the
Walls
were
encompassed
by
deep
Ditches
It
had
a
Castle
20
Furlongs
in
Circuit
,
environ'd
with
Towers
30
Foot
in
the
Ground
and
80
above
it
;
yet
all
this
strength
could
not
secure
it
against
those
Judgments
which
pursued
the
people
for
their
Luxury
and
Uncleanness
,
for
the
Persians
having
drained
the
Channel
of
Euphrates
by
cutting
many
deep
Channels
on
the
Banks
of
it
,
march'd
into
the
City
and
surpriz'd
it
,
while
Belshazzar
and
his
Lords
who
should
have
taken
care
of
the
defence
of
it
,
were
profanely
Carousing
with
their
Wives
and
Concubines
.
And
to
make
the
Judgment
so
much
the
more
Remarkable
,
they
were
terrified
by
the
prodigy
of
a
hand
writing
upon
the
Wall
,
which
made
Belshazzar's
knees
smite
together
for
fear
,
and
foretold
the
impending
Fate
of
himself
and
his
Guests
,
and
the
destruction
of
his
Kingdom
.
It
is
worth
our
observation
,
that
this
Famous
City
,
the
wonder
and
the
Metropolis
of
the
World
,
so
Beautiful
and
Commodiously
situated
,
should
,
for
the
Luxury
and
other
Crimes
of
the
Inhabitants
,
be
turned
into
a
Wilderness
by
the
just
Judgment
of
God
,
when
according
to
the
ordinary
Methods
of
Men
,
it
might
be
supposed
that
the
Conquerors
would
have
taken
all
imaginable
care
to
preserve
such
an
Important
City
for
their
own
Glory
and
Profit
;
but
it
decay'd
Gradually
,
till
at
last
it
came
to
be
turned
into
a
Park
for
Hunting
by
the
Kings
of
Persia
;
so
that
in
that
very
place
where
the
Impure
Babylonians
had
been
so
much
guilty
of
Whore-Hunting
,
their
Conquerors
took
their
pleasure
to
Hunt
Beasts
of
a
far
more
harmless
Nature
.
We
have
seen
that
Uncleanness
had
a
great
influence
in
occasioning
the
Captivity
of
Israel
,
and
also
in
bringing
down
those
Judgments
upon
Babylon
,
which
ended
in
the
total
destruction
of
that
Famous
City
and
Empire
.
—
In
the
lesser
Prophets
,
we
have
also
an
Account
of
the
destruction
of
Ninive
,
a
Great
and
Mighty
City
,
and
sometimes
Capital
of
the
Assyrian
Empire
,
because
of
the
multitude
of
her
Whoredoms
,
Nahum
3.
4.
It
's
true
that
some
tare
of
opinion
that
by
the
Whoredoms
here
mentioned
,
are
chiefly
meant
their
Political
Tricks
to
engage
people
to
submit
to
their
Yoke
,
and
Worship
their
Idols
;
yet
it
was
well
known
that
all
those
Eastern
Nations
were
very
much
addicted
to
bodily
Uncleanness
;
and
as
we
have
observed
before
the
Assyrians
became
very
Effeminate
under
the
Reign
of
Semiramis
,
&c.
And
it
's
plain
from
most
of
the
Instances
we
have
already
given
,
that
Adultery
and
Idolatry
went
usually
hand
in
hand
;
it
's
also
to
be
observed
,
that
this
destruction
of
Ninive
is
by
Chronologers
agreed
to
have
preceeded
that
of
Babylon
,
for
though
Nahum
in
order
of
the
Bible
,
be
placed
among
the
last
of
the
Prophets
,
yet
according
to
Josephus
,
Antio
.
Lib.
9
Cap.
11.
he
Prophesied
in
the
days
of
Jotham
King
of
the
Jews
,
and
the
Accomplishment
of
this
Prophesie
upon
Ninive
happened
about
115
years
after
.
We
have
done
with
the
old
Testament
History
of
the
Jews
,
so
that
we
must
come
next
to
Josephus
,
who
is
favourable
enough
to
his
Countrymen
in
respect
of
their
Uncleanness
,
as
particularly
in
the
Instance
of
the
Midianitish
Women
,
with
whom
he
alledges
they
contracted
Marriages
,
and
says
expresly
,
That
Zimri
and
Cosbi
were
Married
,
whereas
the
Scripture
accuses
them
of
down-right
Impetuous
Lust
;
neither
does
this
Historian
Tax
the
Patriarchs
for
their
Polygamy
,
which
perhaps
might
be
occasioned
by
his
being
a
Pharisee
,
who
as
it
appears
by
our
Saviours
Arguments
with
some
of
that
Sect
upon
the
subject
of
Divorce
had
no
Just
Notions
of
those
things
—
And
therefore
it
is
not
to
be
wondered
at
that
Josephus
takes
so
little
notice
of
the
failings
of
his
Countrymen
as
to
this
matter
,
—
Yet
some
such
Instances
he
has
transmitted
to
Posterity
,
and
the
first
that
we
meet
with
for
our
purpose
,
is
that
of
Archelaus
King
of
the
Jews
,
Herod
the
Great
's
Son
,
who
Married
Glaphyra
that
had
been
his
Brother
Alexander's
Wife
,
concerning
which
,
he
tells
us
this
Remarkable
Story
,
That
Archelaus
upon
the
sight
of
this
Glaphyra
who
was
Daughter
to
Archelaus
King
of
Cappadocia
,
was
so
inflamed
with
love
to
her
,
that
he
presently
Divorced
his
Wife
Mariamne
and
Married
her
,
but
soon
after
she
came
to
Judea
,
she
dreamt
that
she
saw
Alexander
her
first
Husband
standing
before
and
accosting
her
in
this
manner
,
viz.
It
had
been
enough
for
thee
to
have
Married
the
King
of
Libya
,
but
not
contented
therewith
,
thou
comest
again
to
mine
House
,
Greedy
of
a
third
Husband
,
and
which
is
worst
of
all
,
art
now
Married
to
my
own
Brother
.
I
will
not
conceal
nor
dissemb'e
this
Injury
that
thou
doest
me
,
but
I
will
recover
thee
against
thy
will
and
she
scarcely
liv'd
two
days
;
after
she
had
related
this
dream
to
her
Friends
;
so
much
for
her
punishment
.
Then
as
to
Archelaus
who
had
been
guilty
of
this
Adultery
and
Incest
,
he
himself
was
sent
for
to
Rome
upon
an
Accusation
of
the
Samaritans
who
sent
Ambassadors
against
him
to
Caesar
—
and
thereupon
the
Emperor
banisht
him
to
Vienne
in
France
,
and
confiscated
all
his
Goods
,
of
which
punishments
he
was
also
forewarned
by
a
Dream
,
and
five
days
after
the
Interpretation
of
it
,
was
sent
for
by
Caesar
as
above
.
It
is
also
observable
and
not
at
all
Foreign
to
our
purpose
,
that
though
Josephus
does
not
accuse
Herod
the
Great
of
Whoredom
,
but
seems
rather
to
commend
his
Chastity
in
that
he
held
out
against
the
Charms
and
Sollicitations
of
that
Infamous
Wanton
Cleopatra
,
yet
he
tells
us
,
that
Herod
had
nine
Wives
at
a
time
,
and
doted
so
Impotently
upon
his
Wife
Mariamne
,
that
when
he
was
sent
for
to
Rome
and
had
some
reasons
to
think
that
he
shou'd
never
return
thence
alive
,
he
gave
orders
to
his
Brother-in-Law
Joseph
to
put
Mariamne
to
Death
,
as
soon
as
he
should
hear
that
he
was
dead
,
being
unwilling
that
any
Man
should
enjoy
her
after
his
death
;
and
because
Joseph
discovered
this
Secret
to
Mariamne
,
Herod
became
Jealous
of
an
Unlawful
Intimacy
betwixt
his
Brother-in-Law
and
her
,
especially
being
influenced
to
believe
some
such
thing
by
the
Insinuations
of
his
Sister
Salome
,
Joseph's
Wife
,
who
accused
her
Husband
of
being
too
Familiar
with
Mariamne
.
Whether
there
was
any
truth
in
the
accusation
or
not
,
or
whether
it
was
meer
malice
;
yet
this
is
certain
,
that
Mariamne
was
at
last
put
to
death
by
her
Husband
,
and
by
her
own
Mother
charged
with
Disloyalty
to
him
,
and
after
her
death
Herod
had
so
little
Government
of
his
passion
for
her
,
that
he
would
frequently
call
for
her
as
if
she
had
been
alive
.
Then
as
to
his
own
punishment
Josephus
tells
us
that
he
was
cut
off
by
a
most
loathsome
disease
,
Worms
having
bred
in
his
private
Parts
,
which
caused
insupportable
pains
,
an
Into
lerable
Stench
and
a
Troublesome
Priapism
,
which
was
a
very
suitable
punishment
for
his
Incontinence
in
having
nine
Wives
at
a
time
,
tho'
it
should
be
granted
that
he
was
chargeable
with
no
other
Acts
of
Unchastity
.
We
come
now
to
the
Apocryphal
stories
of
Judeth
and
Susanna
,
which
tho'
we
believe
they
are
such
as
may
properly
be
called
apocryphal
,
seeing
Josephus
the
Jewish
Historian
takes
no
notice
of
either
,
yet
allowing
them
to
be
Fables
,
the
Moral
is
good
,
and
therefore
we
shall
allow
them
a
place
here
.
The
first
is
that
of
Judith
,
who
according
to
the
Author
of
her
Book
was
a
Rich
and
a
Pious
Widow
,
of
a
Comely
Personage
and
Beautiful
Countenance
,
and
finding
her
City
of
Bethulia
closely
Besieged
by
the
Assyrians
,
and
their
Water
cut
off
,
which
made
the
Governours
to
promise
a
surrender
in
five
days
if
relief
did
not
come
in
that
time
,
she
deckt
her self
with
her
Richest
and
finest
Ornaments
,
and
pretending
to
be
fled
from
Bethulia
,
because
she
knew
it
would
fall
into
the
hands
of
the
Assyrians
,
and
likewise
to
put
Olosernes
in
a
way
to
make
an
easie
Conquest
of
the
Jews
,
she
Charmed
him
by
her
Beauty
,
insomuch
that
becoming
enamoured
of
her
,
which
was
her
design
,
he
was
so
far
besotted
,
that
having
drunk
to
excess
because
of
her
presence
,
and
with
an
intention
to
defile
her
,
he
fell
asleep
in
his
Tent
,
where
being
left
alone
with
her
according
to
his
own
Command
,
in
order
to
the
Accomplishing
of
his
Lustful
design
she
had
the
opportunity
of
cutting
off
his
head
,
and
carrying
it
in
Triumph
to
her
City
of
Bethulia
,
upon
which
the
Garrison
making
a
Sally
discomfited
the
Assyrians
,
who
were
surprized
at
this
strange
adventure
that
had
befaln
their
General
,
and
therefore
had
not
the
Courage
to
make
head
against
them
.
Whatever
be
the
Circumstances
of
this
story
that
may
justly
occasion
the
truth
of
it
to
be
called
in
Question
,
its
plain
from
other
passages
which
we
shall
have
occasion
to
touch
in
the
pursuance
of
this
History
,
that
the
dissoluteness
of
a
General
hath
oftener
than
once
occasioned
the
ruin
of
Armies
.
We
come
now
to
the
story
of
Susanna
and
the
Elders
of
Israel
.
This
Woman
,
says
the
Author
,
was
Wife
to
Joacim
the
Chief
of
the
Jews
then
Captives
in
Babylon
,
a
Woman
of
Incomparable
Beauty
and
Admirable
Chastity
.
This
Lady
using
to
walk
in
her
Husbands
Garden
in
the
afternoons
,
two
of
the
Elders
of
Israel
who
attended
at
Joacim's
House
to
execute
Judgment
,
became
inflam'd
with
Lust
towards
her
,
and
tho'
at
first
they
were
asham'd
to
declare
it
to
one
another
,
yet
afterwards
being
hardened
in
their
Wickedness
they
plotted
together
against
this
Vertuous
Woman
,
and
watching
an
opportunity
till
they
found
her
alone
in
the
Garden
,
when
she
had
sent
her
Maids
out
for
Oil
and
Wash-balls
in
order
to
bath
her self
,
they
surpriz'd
her
,
tempted
her
to
Lewdness
,
and
upon
her
refusal
accus'd
her
falsly
as
if
they
had
taken
her
in
Adultery
with
a
young
man
,
upon
which
she
was
by
the
Authority
of
their
Evidence
Convicted
and
Condemned
to
die
,
but
Just
as
she
was
going
to
be
put
to
death
,
the
Lord
raised
up
Daniel
,
says
the
Author
,
to
deliver
her
,
who
obtaining
that
her
Cause
should
be
reheard
,
he
examined
the
Elders
afresh
,
and
accusing
them
of
that
Villainous
and
Lustfull
design
against
Susanna
,
Convicted
them
of
Perjury
by
their
own
Testimony
,
the
one
of
them
saying
they
took
her
under
a
Mastich
,
and
the
other
saying
that
they
took
her
under
an
Holm-Tree
,
so
that
they
themselves
fell
into
the
Pit
which
they
had
Digged
for
this
Vertuous
Woman
,
and
suffered
the
punishment
which
they
design'd
should
have
been
inflicted
upon
her
.
Whether
this
story
be
true
or
not
is
not
material
to
our
purpose
,
but
in
the
prosecution
of
this
design
we
shall
meet
with
several
parallell
Instances
which
discover
the
thing
not
to
be
impossible
in
it self
,
however
improbable
in
regard
of
its
Circumstances
.
We
come
now
to
the
New
Testamen
times
,
and
find
it
observable
that
our
Saviour
in
his
first
Sermon
upon
the
Mount
Matth.
5.
inveighed
against
the
impurity
of
the
Jews
,
who
for
light
and
frivolous
Causes
,
such
as
if
they
did
not
like
their
Wives
,
&c.
Divorced
them
,
which
was
the
occasion
of
Uncleanness
in
themselves
and
in
the
Women
so
Divorced
,
who
,
our
Saviour
says
they
caused
to
commit
Adultery
if
they
put
them
away
upon
any
other
account
than
that
of
Fornication
,
so
that
't
is
plain
that
the
Woman
whom
they
took
into
their
Bed
in
the
room
of
her
that
was
Divorced
was
no
other
than
a
Concubine
,
and
that
if
the
Woman
so
Divorced
Married
with
another
Man
she
thereby
became
an
Adultress
as
our
Saviour
declares
more
at
large
in
the
19th
of
Matthew
,
where
we
have
an
Account
of
the
malice
and
subtlety
of
the
Pharisees
in
propounding
that
Question
,
Whether
it
was
Lawful
for
a
Man
to
put
away
his
Wife
for
every
Cause
:
For
if
our
Saviour
had
answered
in
the
Affirmative
,
then
they
would
have
proclaimed
him
a
Friend
to
Uncleanness
,
and
if
In
the
Negative
then
they
would
have
opposed
him
with
the
Authority
of
Moses
,
but
our
Lord
knowing
their
design
referred
them
to
the
Creation
,
(
when
God
made
them
Male
and
Female
not
Females
,
or
diverse
Women
for
one
Man
)
and
to
the
first
institution
of
Marriage
,
which
was
only
betwixt
one
and
one
,
and
therefore
it
was
said
they
two
,
(
not
they
three
)
four
or
five
shall
be
one
Flesh
,
which
clearly
subverted
all
that
could
be
alledged
for
Polygamy
or
Concubinage
,
and
being
the
Commentary
of
the
Lawgiver
upon
his
own
Law
makes
it
of
equal
Authority
with
the
Text
,
and
ought
for
ever
to
shut
the
Mouths
of
such
as
plead
for
a
plurality
of
Wives
.
Then
to
their
Argument
from
the
Authority
of
Moses
,
he
answers
them
that
Moses
indeed
permitted
Divorces
because
of
the
hardness
of
their
Hearts
,
and
to
prevent
a
greater
evil
,
as
is
Customary
in
all
Political
and
Civil
Constitutions
,
as
if
Moses
had
said
,
It
's
better
that
you
put
away
your
Wives
when
you
grow
weary
of
them
than
Murder
them
;
and
at
the
same
time
they
were
obliged
to
give
them
a
Bill
of
Divorce
which
was
a
Testimony
of
the
Womans
Innocence
,
and
of
the
Husbands
Levity
and
Impurity
:
—
But
our
Saviour
tells
them
that
from
the
beginning
it
was
not
so
,
and
that
what
God
had
joined
no
man
could
put
asunder
;
which
was
as
much
as
to
say
that
common
Laws
allow
more
than
is
allowed
by
the
Laws
of
Religion
,
as
is
clear
from
this
Instance
that
in
all
Christian
Kingdoms
there
are
Judges
Constituted
for
deciding
differences
betwixt
Man
and
Man
of
what
nature
soever
they
may
be
,
for
preventing
Oppression
and
Injustice
,
so
that
the
Bench
is
open
to
Trivial
and
Frivolous
suits
as
well
as
to
those
that
are
Weighty
and
Material
;
yet
the
practice
of
such
as
go
to
Law
upon
every
occasion
is
contrary
to
the
Apostles
Command
and
Christian
Charity
,
as
may
be
seen
1
Cor.
1.
6.
It
is
also
observable
that
our
Saviour
taught
those
Pharisaical
Zealots
who
valued
themselves
upon
their
external
sanctity
,
a
more
refin'd
and
higher
degree
of
Chastity
than
they
had
formerly
been
acquainted
with
,
viz.
That
the
Law
which
forbad
them
to
commit
Adultery
did
not
only
reach
the
outward
practice
but
the
inward
motions
and
thoughts
of
the
heart
,
and
therefore
he
tells
them
Matth
,
5.
28.
That
whosoever
lookt
on
a
Woman
to
Lust
after
her
hath
committed
Adultery
with
her
already
in
his
heart
,
a
Doctrine
which
does
so
much
Gall
our
Modern
Gallants
,
That
we
have
great
reason
to
presume
it
is
one
of
the
Chief
Latent
Causes
why
so
many
of
'em
den●…
the
Author
of
it
to
be
God
.
We
come
next
to
the
Historical
passages
of
the
new
Testament
,
relating
to
our
Subject
.
The
first
we
meet
with
is
that
in
Mat.
14.
concerning
the
Tetrarch
Herod
and
Herodias
his
Brother
Philip's
Wife
,
with
whom
that
Prince
committed
Incest
,
for
which
he
was
reproved
by
John
the
Baptist
;
and
this
did
so
incense
the
wicked
Woman
that
nothing
less
could
expiate
this
supposed
Crime
of
the
Prophet
than
the
loss
of
his
life
,
but
she
durst
not
attempt
that
rashly
,
for
fear
of
the
people
,
who
as
they
knew
her
to
be
a
Vicious
Strumpet
,
did
also
know
that
John
was
a
Good
Man
,
and
esteem'd
him
as
a
Prophet
;
his
Vertues
being
as
conspicuous
as
her
Vices
,
and
therefore
she
watch'd
a
convenient
opportunity
,
which
she
found
on
her
Gallant
Herod's
Birth-day
,
when
he
was
feasting
and
revelling
with
his
Nobles
,
at
which
time
she
sent
in
her
Daughter
,
the
unworthy
off-spring
of
such
an
Ungodly
Mother
,
to
Dance
before
them
,
where
with
Herod
and
his
Company
were
so
extreamly
well
pleas'd
that
he
rashly
vowed
to
grant
her
whatever
she
would
demand
,
and
so
the
young
Strumpet
being
suborn'd
by
the
old
one
,
demanded
the
Head
of
John
the
Baptist
;
which
Herod
granted
her
,
tho
much
against
his
Will
,
and
she
carried
it
to
her
Mother
in
a
Charger
as
an
acceptable
present
,
so
naturally
do
Whoredom
,
Murder
and
Persecution
agree
.
One
would
have
thought
that
the
very
scandal
of
acting
contrary
to
that
Pity
and
Compassion
which
is
so
natural
to
the
fair
Sex
should
have
restrain'd
those
Lewd
Women
from
any
such
demand
,
and
much
more
from
rejoycing
in
any
such
Bloody
Spectacle
,
but
it
s
commonly
seen
that
Whores
become
void
of
all
natural
affection
,
and
that
they
are
hurried
headlong
into
perdition
by
unbridled
Lust
and
raging
Passion
.
But
to
return
to
the
History
of
Herod
and
Herodias
,
they
were
not
only
guilty
of
Incest
but
of
Adultery
and
a
Rape
,
for
Herod
took
her
forcibly
from
his
Brother
Philip
,
and
not
from
his
Unkle
Herod
King
of
Chalcis
as
Josephus
mistakes
,
so
that
it
was
an
Atrocious
and
Complicated
Crime
,
and
by
the
Just
Judgment
of
God
,
Herod
who
committed
this
barbarous
Murder
upon
John
the
Baptist
against
his
own
Conscience
,
rather
than
he
would
disoblige
his
Whore
,
was
giv'n
up
to
all
manner
of
wickedness
,
and
afterwards
with
his
Men
of
War
exposed
our
Saviour
to
Scorn
and
Laughter
in
his
Mock
Royal
Robes
,
and
so
as
his
Ungodly
Father
Herod
the
Great
destroyed
all
the
Infants
,
of
Bethlehem
with
a
design
to
cut
off
Christ
,
the
Wicked
Son
pursuing
his
Fathers
bad
design
concurr'd
in
the
Crucifying
of
our
Saviour
.
It
remains
that
we
take
a
view
of
the
Judgments
that
fell
upon
this
Impure
Couple
,
which
Josephus
in
his
Jewish
Antiquities
,
lib.
18.
cap.
7.
&
9.
gives
us
an
account
of
as
follows
,
viz.
that
Herod's
lawful
Wife
,
Daughter
to
Aretas
King
of
Arabia
Petraea
,
understanding
his
Intrigue
with
his
Sister-in-Law
Herodias
,
and
that
he
had
a
mind
to
Divorce
her
,
to
make
way
for
that
vile
Strumpet
,
fled
to
her
Father
and
acquainted
him
with
it
,
whereupon
he
made
War
against
Herod
,
and
defeated
his
Army
.
—
And
in
the
40th
year
of
Christ
,
Herod
being
accused
of
Rebellion
,
was
together
with
his
Strumpet
Herodias
banisht
by
the
Emperor
Caligula
to
Lions
in
France
,
where
they
perisht
in
Ignominy
and
Misery
,
and
the
whole
Race
of
Herod
the
Great
was
extinguish'd
in
a
100
years
time
,
tho
the
Memory
of
their
wickedness
is
perpetuated
to
all
Ages
.
This
Instance
is
sufficient
to
convince
all
mankind
that
unclean
persons
are
capable
of
the
greatest
Villainy
of
other
kinds
,
and
justly
given
up
of
God
to
commit
the
same
;
for
this
Lustful
Prince
having
committed
double
Aduletry
,
a
Rape
and
Incest
,
did
afterwards
commit
two
of
the
most
horrid
Murders
that
ever
were
committed
upon
the
face
of
the
Earth
,
viz.
That
of
John
the
Baptist
our
Saviours
fore-runner
,
and
then
that
of
ourSaviour
himself
;
such
is
the
enmity
which
uncleanness
does
naturally
lead
men
into
against
God
and
Good
Men
,
and
to
be
given
up
to
that
enmity
is
certainly
the
most
dreadful
of
all
punishments
.
The
next
thing
that
we
meet
with
belonging
to
our
Subject
is
the
Instance
of
the
Woman
taken
in
Adultery
,
in
the
8th
chap.
of
the
Evangelist
St.
John
,
and
brought
by
the
Pharisees
before
our
Saviour
,
that
by
their
ensnaring
questions
they
might
have
something
whereof
to
accuse
him
.
Our
Saviour
knowing
their
wicked
design
,
eluded
them
by
stooping
and
writing
upon
the
Ground
.
What
it
was
that
he
then
wrote
is
more
curiously
than
wisely
disputed
by
the
learned
;
some
say
that
he
wrote
the
words
which
he
afterwards
spoke
to
them
,
others
,
that
he
wrote
these
words
,
viz.
Yow
are
Earth
and
you
judge
after
an
earthly
manner
,
others
that
he
wrote
upon
the
Ground
such
Crimes
of
the
same
kind
as
the
Pharisees
were
guilty
off
,
in
order
to
put
them
to
silence
;
or
some
short
pathetical
Sentence
,
exhorting
them
to
the
practise
of
Virtue
and
the
abhorrence
of
Vice
,
but
these
being
all
meer
conjectures
,
we
let
them
pass
.
In
the
mean
time
the
Pharisees
conceiving
that
he
was
put
to
a
nonplus
,
and
knew
not
what
to
answer
,
did
insolently
urge
him
to
speak
,
which
he
did
to
their
Confusion
,
by
bidding
those
that
were
without
sin
throw
the
first
Stone
at
her
,
with
which
they
were
so
daunted
and
ashamed
,
that
they
desisted
from
their
accusation
,
and
went
out
one
after
another
,
being
convicted
by
their
own
Consciences
,
that
they
were
Guilty
as
well
as
she
;
and
found
that
neither
their
speculative
nor
private
uncleanness
were
hid
from
our
Saviour
,
who
had
formerly
told
them
,
that
lusting
after
a
Woman
was
Adultery
in
the
Eyes
of
God
;
and
it
's
probable
did
now
point
at
their
secret
bodily
uncleanness
,
when
he
commanded
them
that
were
Innocent
to
throw
the
first
Stone
at
her
,
according
to
the
practice
of
their
own
Law
,
Deut.
17.
7.
which
enjoyned
the
Witnesses
to
lay
their
hands
first
upon
the
Head
of
the
Person
convicted
by
their
Evidence
,
as
a
Testimony
that
they
thought
them
worthy
of
Death
,
and
that
they
themselves
abhorred
the
Iniquity
they
were
condemned
for
,
whereas
't
was
plain
to
our
Saviour
,
that
these
Pharisees
took
care
only
to
keep
the
outside
clean
before
Men
,
but
had
no
regard
to
inward
purity
of
mind
,
nor
to
common
honesty
,
so
that
they
could
but
commit
wickedness
with
secrecy
and
impunity
;
and
thus
they
are
accused
by
the
God
of
Truth
,
as
making
long
Prayers
,
and
bestowing
publick
Alms
,
while
at
the
same
time
they
devoured
Widows
Houses
.
The
Pharisees
being
thus
defeated
and
convicted
,
the
Woman
is
freed
from
all
her
Accusers
,
upon
which
our
Saviour
asks
her
if
no
man
had
condemned
her
,
and
upon
her
answering
no
,
and
finding
that
all
her
Accu●…ers
were
gone
,
he
said
,
neither
do
I
condemn
thee
,
go
thy
way
and
sin
no
more
.
This
answer
of
our
Saviours
hath
been
wrested
by
some
,
as
if
he
had
thereby
declared
that
Adultery
was
no
capital
crime
under
the
Gospel
,
whereas
it
is
plain
,
that
he
only
declined
the
part
of
a
Magistrate
and
Judge
;
as
he
did
in
another
Case
,
when
one
Brother
desired
him
to
speak
to
another
,
that
he
should
divide
his
Fathers
Estate
with
him
:
Luke
12.
13.
And
therefore
he
only
acts
the
part
of
a
Minister
,
in
exhorting
the
Woman
to
Repentance
and
Reformation
,
but
no
way
extenuates
her
Crime
:
Nay
,
on
the
contrary
,
he
seems
directly
to
insinuate
that
she
deserved
Condemnation
,
and
would
not
have
reproved
any
Judge
if
he
had
condemned
her
;
but
his
main
design
was
to
discover
the
Hypocrisie
of
the
Pharisees
,
who
imposed
upon
the
people
,
as
if
they
had
been
the
most
Just
and
upright
sort
of
men
in
the
World
,
and
as
an
Evidence
of
it
,
brought
this
person
taken
in
flagranti
delicto
before
him
who
was
a
Preacher
of
Righteousness
,
to
know
what
his
opinion
was
concerning
her
punishment
;
and
yet
when
he
came
to
put
the
Question
home
to
their
own
Consciences
,
whether
they
were
not
guilty
of
the
same
Crimes
,
and
if
they
were
not
,
bid
them
to
proceed
in
the
execution
of
Justice
,
they
went
out
one
by
one
,
which
was
as
much
as
if
they
had
made
an
open
Confession
of
their
Hypocrisie
and
Villainy
before
all
the
Spectators
,
which
was
partly
evident
before
,
in
that
they
did
not
bring
the
Man
as
well
as
the
Woman
,
which
to
be
sure
they
might
have
done
,
seeing
the
Criminals
were
taken
in
the
Act
,
and
they
ought
to
have
done
it
;
seeing
by
the
Law
of
God
he
was
equally
guilty
,
and
therefore
upon
the
whole
,
to
form
such
an
Argument
from
this
saying
and
practise
of
our
Saviour
,
as
that
Adultery
is
not
punishable
under
the
New
Testament
,
is
every
whit
as
absurd
,
as
to
say
that
because
he
declined
being
a
Judge
betwixt
two
Brethren
,
about
the
division
of
their
Father's
Inheritance
,
therefore
there
ought
to
be
no
such
thing
as
a
division
of
Parents
Estates
amongst
their
Children
under
the
New
Testament
.
Besides
't
is
apparent
that
the
design
of
our
Saviour's
coming
into
the
World
was
to
save
peoples
Souls
,
and
not
to
destroy
their
Bodies
;
as
is
evident
from
his
mercy
to
Mary
Magdalen
,
out
of
whom
he
cast
Seven
unclean
Devils
;
his
Converse
with
the
Woman
of
Samaria
,
whom
he
convinced
of
the
Evil
of
her
Way
;
and
his
permitting
a
Woman
who
was
a
sinner
,
which
in
the
New
Testament
Phrase
,
is
as
much
as
a
Common
Prostitute
,
to
wipe
his
Feet
whither
Hair
and
to
wash
them
with
her
Tears
of
Repentance
.
These
are
all
the
Historical
passages
which
we
find
relating
to
our
Subject
in
the
New
Testament
during
Christ's
abode
upon
Earth
,
and
therefore
we
come
next
to
a
passage
or
two
in
Josephus
,
suited
to
our
purpose
.
The
first
is
in
his
Antiquities
,
lib.
18.
Chap.
4.
concerning
Paulina
a
Roman
Lady
,
Wife
to
Saturninus
a
Nobleman
of
Rome
,
upon
whom
Decius
Mundus
another
Roman
of
Quality
became
so
enamoured
,
that
he
tempted
her
by
Bribes
and
all
other
methods
imaginable
to
comply
with
his
lustful
design
,
offering
her
no
less
than
100000
Drachma's
,
which
is
computed
at
6000
l.
Sterlin
,
but
she
would
by
no
means
consent
to
him
,
whereupon
he
was
so
burnt
up
by
his
Lust
,
that
he
pined
and
wither'd
away
daily
,
which
being
observed
by
Ida
his
Father's
Servant
Maid
,
she
learned
his
distemper
,
and
undertook
his
Cure
for
25000
Drachma's
,
which
she
effected
thus
,
she
understood
that
the
Lady
was
particularly
addicted
to
the
worship
of
the
Heathen
God
Isis
,
who
had
a
Temple
at
Rome
,
and
thereupon
applying
her self
to
the
Priests
,
she
promis'd
them
25000
Drachma's
if
they
could
so
contrive
it
that
Decius
should
enjoy
the
Lady
in
the
Temple
;
the
one
half
in
hand
and
the
other
upon
the
performance
of
the
Bargain
,
the
Priests
undertook
it
,
and
laid
the
Plot
in
the
following
manner
.
The
Eldest
of
them
when
the
Lady
came
to
the
Temple
accosted
her
,
and
pretended
that
the
God
Anubis
who
frequented
that
Temple
had
conceiv'd
a
mighty
passion
for
her
,
and
earnestly
desired
her
Company
there
one
night
,
the
Lady
being
charm'd
with
this
extraordinary
sort
of
Amour
,
being
no
less
than
a
Divine
Courtship
as
she
thought
,
acquainted
her
Husband
with
it
,
who
was
as
fond
of
being
a
Cukcold
by
an
imaginary
Deity
,
as
some
of
the
Indians
are
at
present
by
their
Brachmans
:
And
the
rest
of
the
Roman
Ladys
began
to
grudge
at
Paulina's
good
Luck
,
and
to
long
for
the
like
.
The
appointed
time
being
come
,
Paulina
makes
hast
to
the
Temple
,
where
the
Roguish
Priests
had
Decius
ready
,
who
assoon
as
the
Lamps
were
removed
approach'd
to
his
beloved
Paulina
;
and
under
the
notion
of
the
God
Anubis
debauch'd
her
without
any
resistance
.
The
deluded
Lady
,
returned
in
the
Morning
highly
honoured
as
she
thought
;
but
Decius
meeting
her
a
little
after
,
renewed
his
former
suit
,
which
she
rejected
as
usual
,
whereupon
he
told
her
in
an
upbraiding
manner
,
that
she
was
not
so
coy
the
other
night
in
the
Temple
of
Isis
,
where
he
enjoy'd
her
for
one
fourth
of
the
Sum
that
he
had
formerly
proffered
her
:
The
poor
Lady
being
surprized
to
find
that
she
had
entertained
a
lewd
Adulterer
instead
of
a
supposed
Divinity
,
tore
her
hair
,
rent
her
cloaths
,
and
discovered
the
Cheat
to
her
Husband
,
who
complaining
thereof
to
the
Emperor
Titerius
,
he
condemn'd
the
Priests
and
Ida
to
be
hang'd
,
ordered
the
Temple
to
be
pull'd
down
,
the
Statue
of
Anubis
to
be
thrown
into
the
Tiber
,
and
Decius
Mundus
to
be
banish'd
,
—
and
thus
this
Famous
Temple
was
demolish'd
,
and
the
Convent
of
Priests
destroyed
,
for
being
Pimps
to
the
insatiable
Lust
of
a
Noble
Roman
he
himself
banish'd
from
his
Country
,
which
he
had
polluted
,
and
Ida
his
Bawd
punish'd
as
all
others
of
the
Trade
ought
to
be
.
That
same
Author
in
the
18th
Book
in
his
Antiquities
and
the
12th
Chapter
,
gives
us
another
account
of
a
Tragedy
brought
upon
a
great
number
of
his
Countrymen
,
by
an
unlawful
Amour
,
as
follows
.
Anilaeus
and
Asinaeus
two
Jews
of
mean
Condition
,
upon
a
disgust
retired
into
an
Island
of
the
Euphrates
,
where
joyning
with
other
dissolute
persons
and
●…agabond
Jews
,
they
became
formidable
to
the
adjacent
Countries
,
which
they
ravaged
at
their
pleasure
,
and
so
increasing
in
number
,
were
a
Terror
to
the
Princes
of
those
Countries
,
and
obliged
them
to
court
their
friendship
;
but
having
once
relax'd
the
discipline
that
they
observ'd
when
they
first
form'd
themselves
into
a
Society
,
they
lost
ground
,
and
Anilaeus
lusting
after
a
Parthian
Lady
,
made
War
against
her
Husband
,
upon
her
account
,
and
was
so
bewitch'd
with
her
Amours
,
that
he
countenanc'd
Idolatry
for
her
sake
,
which
bred
discontent
amongst
his
Followers
,
most
of
which
were
Jews
,
who
complaining
thereof
to
Asinaeus
his
Brother
,
he
reprov'd
him
for
it
,
upon
which
the
Parthian
Lady
poyson'd
Asinaeus
;
but
the
judgement
of
God
soon
overtook
them
,
for
Mithridates
taking
Arms
against
Anilaeus
and
his
dissolute
Companions
,
he
defeated
them
in
Battle
,
and
afterwards
the
Greeks
and
Syrians
,
who
liv'd
in
Seleucia
kill'd
50000
of
the
Jews
,
such
was
the
fatal
Consequence
of
Whoredom
and
Idolatry
,
which
did
first
mutually
produce
one
another
,
and
then
both
together
issued
in
the
destruction
of
their
followers
.
The
last
instance
that
we
meet
with
in
Josephus
,
for
our
purpose
is
that
in
the
5th
Book
of
his
Wars
and
9th
.
Chapter
,
where
he
gives
us
an
account
that
during
the
Siege
of
Jerusalem
by
Titus
the
Son
of
Vespasian
,
the
Faction
called
the
Zealots
became
Lustful
,
Effeminate
,
Lascivious
,
Curl'd
their
Hair
,
wore
Womens
Apparel
,
anointed
themselves
that
their
Beautymight
be
pleasing
,
thirsted
after
Unnatural
pleasures
,
and
made
Jerusalem
a
Stews
and
not
long
after
followed
the
utter
destruction
of
their
City
,
Temple
and
Commonwealth
,
with
the
slaughter
of
1100000
of
their
people
,
since
which
they
have
been
Vagabonds
,
a
Curse
and
a
Reproach
upon
the
face
of
Earth
,
and
are
noted
for
a
Lustfull
and
Unclean
People
where
ever
they
are
,
God
having
in
his
Just
Judgment
giv'n
them
up
to
work
all
manner
of
Uncleanness
with
greediness
,
seeing
their
Love
to
their
Lusts
made
them
first
reject
the
Pure
and
Holy
Doctrine
of
our
Saviour
,
and
afterwards
Crucify
him
,
which
is
another
Instance
to
confirm
what
has
been
so
often
observed
before
,
that
such
Persons
or
people
as
wallow
in
their
Lusts
want
only
an
Opportunity
and
Tentation
to
declare
open
War
against
God
and
Religion
,
which
always
issues
in
their
own
Confusion
if
their
Conversion
don't
prevent
it
.
We
have
often
had
occasion
to
observe
that
Whoredome
hath
been
productive
of
Idolatry
,
and
in
the
first
Chapter
of
the
Romans
,
we
have
the
Authority
of
the
Apostle
for
it
,
that
Idolatry
hath
been
the
parent
of
Uncleanness
,
ViceVersa
,
where
speaking
of
those
that
when
they
knew
God
by
the
light
of
nature
and
the
works
of
Creation
Yet
because
they
Glorified
him
not
as
God
,
neither
were
thankful
but
became
vain
in
their
Imaginations
,
their
foolish
heart
was
darkned
,
and
professing
themselves
to
be
Wise
they
became
Fools
,
and
changing
the
Glory
of
the
Incorruptible
God
into
an
Image
,
&c.
Wherefore
God
also
gave
them
up
to
Vile
Affections
and
Uncleanness
,
thro'
the
Lusts
of
their
own
hearts
to
dishonour
their
own
bodies
,
between
themselves
.
For
even
their
Women
changed
the
natural
use
into
that
which
is
against
Nature
,
and
likewise
also
the
men
leaving
the
natural
use
of
the
Women
,
burned
in
their
Lust
one
toward
another
,
Men
with
Men
working
that
which
is
unseemly
,
receiving
in
themselves
that
recompense
of
their
error
which
was
meet
;
and
as
they
did
not
like
to
retain
God
in
their
knowledge
,
God
gave
them
over
to
a
Reprobate
mind
to
do
those
things
which
are
not
convenient
,
being
filled
with
all
Unrighteousness
,
Fornication
,
&c.
What
the
Apostle
says
of
mens
arriving
to
a
great
height
of
the
knowledge
of
God
by
the
light
of
nature
,
and
the
observation
of
the
Works
of
Creation
and
Providence
is
evident
by
many
Instances
,
but
by
none
more
than
that
of
Se●…eca
,
who
,
tho'
a
Heathen
,
hath
writ
more
true
Divinity
than
almost
all
those
Christian
writers
have
done
,
who
are
known
by
the
name
of
Schoolmen
.
Aristotle
,
Plato
,
Socrates
and
others
are
also
strong
proofs
of
this
,
but
notwithstanding
all
their
knowledge
they
were
vain
in
their
Imaginations
,
and
thinking
themselves
Wife
became
Fools
,
and
so
not
only
they
themselves
but
the
Heathens
who
had
the
benefit
of
their
Lectures
conceiving
false
notions
of
the
Deity
which
every
one
of
'em
would
adapt
to
their
own
Fancies
,
they
were
given
up
of
God
to
all
manner
of
Uncleanness
,
and
thence
it
came
to
pass
that
the
Ancients
talkt
so
many
obscene
things
concerning
the
Yard
of
Priapus
,
one
of
their
Heathen
Divinities
,
and
Son
to
Bacchus
and
Venus
;
in
reality
a
Vile
Drunken
Debaucht
Stallion
,
whose
virile
parts
being
of
an
Extroardinary
Size
,
a
Company
of
Debaucht
Women
did
continually
haunt
him
,
so
that
the
Magistrates
of
the
Town
where
he
liv'd
were
forced
to
banish
him
,
whereupon
say
the
Poets
Venus
plagu'd
them
,
so
that
they
were
forced
to
build
him
a
Temple
and
in
their
solemnities
they
carried
about
a
stick
in
resemblance
of
his
Yard
—
Of
the
same
nature
was
the
Eleusina
Sacra
solemnized
at
Eleusis
,
a
City
of
Greece
,
the
procession
being
from
thence
to
Athens
,
and
of
so
great
account
was
that
profane
Worship
,
that
they
called
it
Mystery
by
way
of
Eminence
;
the
King
with
four
Assistants
presided
at
those
solemnitics
;
the
Ephori
were
not
admitted
to
the
greatest
Mysteries
till
after
a
years
initiation
,
and
it
was
reckoned
a
great
favour
that
King
Demetrius
was
admitted
to
them
per
saltum
.
The
Athenians
had
so
great
a
passion
and
Veneration
for
those
Mysteries
that
they
thought
they
contributed
to
their
leading
a
peaceable
Life
,
and
coming
to
an
happy
end
and
a
blessed
State
afterwards
;
the
Senate
was
always
called
to
see
that
every
thing
belonging
to
them
was
performed
in
order
,
some
defects
about
them
being
reckon'd
Capital
,
and
when
they
were
reduced
to
the
greatest
straits
by
their
Enemies
,
the
Freedom
and
Enjoyment
of
those
Mysteries
was
the
last-thing
they
Capitulated
for
,
and
yet
the
thing
that
they
kept
all
this
pother
about
was
according
to
Tertullian
a
very
shamefull
object
,
and
therefore
we
shall
keep
the
Latin
vail
over
it
,
viz.
Naturae
Muliebris
Imago
,
which
tho'
all
that
were
admitted
to
them
were
sworn
to
conceal
,
yet
the
sagacity
of
the
primitive
Christians
found
it
out
.
At
these
Ceremonies
the
Women
used
to
ride
in
Carts
and
abuse
one
another
with
profane
and
scurrilous
Language
,
fit
indeed
for
Carted
Whores
,
whence
came
the
Proberb
De
plaustro
loqui
.
This
Ceremony
was
instituted
in
remembrance
of
Ceres
seeking
for
her
Daughter
Proserpina
whom
the
Poets
fancy
Pluto
ravished
and
carried
to
Hell
.
And
such
was
the
Hypocrisie
of
those
who
had
the
Conduct
and
Management
of
those
solemnities
,
that
tho'
they
knew
'
the
thing
to
be
profane
in
the
highest
degree
,
yet
one
of
the
four
presidents
that
assisted
the
King
during
the
solemnity
had
the
Impudence
to
run
about
and
cry
procul
hinc
,
procul
ite
profani
,
i.
e.
stand
off
and
begone
all
profane
Persons
as
is
related
by
Marcrobius
,
Tertullian
,
Hesychius
,
Athenaeus
and
others
.
Such
was
the
madness
and
wickedness
of
the
Graecians
,
at
that
time
the
most
polite
and
learned
people
in
the
world
;
and
who
valued
themselves
so
much
upon
their
Learning
and
Philosophy
,
that
they
called
all
the
rest
of
the
World
Barbarians
,
accounted
the
Gospel
foolishness
,
and
lookt
upon
the
Apostle
Paul
to
be
á
Babbler
.
Of
the
same
nature
were
the
Feasts
and
Solemnities
of
Bacchus
,
Cybele
and
others
,
so
ridiculous
in
themselves
that
the
very
Scythians
,
who
were
reckoned
the
most
Rude
and
Barbarous
of
all
Nations
,
laught
at
and
exploded
the
Fancy
of
Worshipping
Bacchus
for
a
God
,
who
made
men
drunk
and
mad
.
Yet
to
such
Ridiculous
Fopperies
and
Abominable
Impurities
were
the
wise
Graecians
given
up
by
the
Just
Judgment
of
God
,
because
they
were
vain
in
their
Imaginations
and
would
Accommodate
the
Deity
to
their
own
Luxuriant
Fancies
,
so
that
thinking
themselves
wise
they
became
fools
.
Parallell
to
this
is
the
horrid
impurity
of
the
Popish
Church
and
Clergy
,
which
was
much
more
open
and
notorious
before
the
Reformation
:
the
Rabbi's
of
that
Church
affecting
to
be
wise
above
what
is
Written
,
and
Introducing
not
only
superstitions
of
an
ordinary
size
,
but
also
downright
Idolatry
,
as
the
Invocation
and
Adoration
of
Saints
and
Angels
,
God
did
Justly
give
them
up
to
all
manner
of
Uncleanness
,
notwithstanding
their
monastical
vows
and
pretended
Celibacy
,
that
they
became
the
scandal
of
Christianity
,
their
Monasteries
Bawdy-Houses
,
and
at
last
a
Butchers
Shambles
by
murdering
those
Infants
which
they
had
spuriously
begot
,
as
was
evident
to
the
World
by
the
great
quantities
of
Childrens
Skulls
and
other
Bones
which
were
found
in
their
Monasteries
,
upon
their
dissolution
in
those
Countries
where
the
Reformation
obtained
.
It
were
also
to
be
wish'd
that
those
a
mongst
Protestants
,
who
have
been
violent
Asserters
and
Imposers
of
humane
Inventions
in
the
Worship
of
God
,
would
consider
whether
that
Impurity
of
Life
and
Conversation
which
is
but
too
too
Remarkable
amongst
those
who
value
themselves
as
being
Members
of
their
Society
have
not
something
of
a
Judgment
of
the
like
nature
in
it
.
And
it
is
also
plain
beyond
all
Contradiction
that
those
who
embrace
the
Old
Arian
Heresie
,
now
revived
under
the
name
of
Socinianism
,
Deism
,
&c.
Have
reason
to
look
upon
the
dissolute
lives
of
most
of
their
Fraternity
in
this
Nation
as
a
Just
Judgment
upon
them
from
God
for
growing
vain
in
their
Imaginations
and
rejecting
all
those
principles
of
Religion
which
they
cannot
Fathom
with
their
shallow
and
Corrupted
reason
.
We
have
seen
under
what
severe
Penalties
Chastity
was
enjoyn'd
unto
the
,
Jews
,
who
under
the
Old
Testament
were
the
peculiar
people
and
Church
of
God
;
and
with
what
tremendous
Judgments
those
who
violated
that
Law
were
from
time
to
time
pursued
.
We
have
also
hea●…d
our
Saviour's
Exposition
of
the
7th.
Commandment
,
and
how
it
reaches
the
Motions
and
Affections
of
the
Soul
as
well
as
the
external
act
,
and
it
hath
been
Proved
by
Divine
Authority
that
the
giving
of
a
Person
or
People
up
to
Uncleanness
is
a
Just
Judgment
of
God
for
having
forsaken
him
.
So
that
now
it
remains
that
we
take
notice
in
what
manner
,
and
under
what
Penalties
Chastity
is
enjoyn'd
to
Christians
under
the
new
Testament
.
We
find
then
in
the
15
of
the
Acts
,
v.
20.
That
Fornications
was
one
of
the
things
which
the
first
Synodical
Meeting
or
General
Council
of
the
Christian
Church
forbid
,
by
the
Authority
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
by
which
Interpreters
understand
that
not
only
Marriage
within
prohibited
degrees
,
but
Adultery
single
Fornication
and
keeping
of
Concubines
,
or
to
use
the
term
now
in
fashion
keeping
of
Misses
was
forbid
,
and
the
reason
why
that
manifest
violation
of
the
Laws
of
Nature
,
Creation
,
and
Revelation
is
mixt
with
those
things
which
were
Temporary
,
as
the
abstaining
from
Blood
,
&c.
was
because
the
Gentiles
,
especially
the
people
of
the
East
were
very
much
addicted
to
Uncleanness
,
and
Custom
had
prevailed
so
much
amongst
'em
that
they
scarcely
thought
Fornication
or
the
keeping
of
a
Concubine
any
sin
:
And
that
it
's
plain
,
that
this
first
Oecumenical
Council
if
we
may
so
venture
to
call
it
,
did
not
design
this
of
Fornication
as
a
Temporary
prohibition
only
,
will
appear
by
the
repeated
injunctions
and
prohibitions
of
the
Apostles
throughout
their
Epistles
,
and
the
Sentence
of
exclusion
from
the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
,
which
from
time
to
time
they
pronounce
against
Whoredom
.
Thus
in
the
6th
.
of
Romans
v.
19.
He
tells
them
that
as
they
had
yielded
their
Members
Servants
to
Uncleanness
,
so
now
they
were
to
yield
their
Members
Servants
unto
Holiness
.
Chap.
8.
7.
He
tells
them
,
That
if
they
live
after
the
Flesh
they
shall
die
.
Chap.
13.
13
,
14.
We
are
forbid
to
walk
in
Chambering
and
Wantonness
,
or
to
make
provision
for
the
flesh
to
fullfill
the
Lusts
thereof
;
the
Reading
of
which
latter
Verse
,
St.
A●…in
was
directed
to
by
a
Voice
when
walking
in
his
Garden
,
which
bid
him
take
up
the
Bible
and
read
,
and
falling
upon
that
Text
he
was
thereby
converted
,
he
having
been
formerly
much
given
to
Uncleanness
.
Then
in
1
Cor.
Chap.
5.
he
severely
reproves
the
Church
of
Corinth
,
for
not
having
censured
the
incestuous
Person
who
was
one
of
their
Members
,
tho'
guilty
of
such
a
sort
of
Fornication
as
was
not
so
much
as
named
amongst
the
Gentiles
,
viz.
That
one
should
have
his
Fathers
Wife
,
not
that
never
any
such
thing
was
committed
amongst
the
Gentiles
,
for
History
teaches
us
the
contrary
;
but
when
it
did
happen
it
was
never
spoken
of
nor
mentioned
without
horror
,
and
was
always
looked
upon
as
Monstrous
and
Ominous
:
And
therefore
to
take
away
the
scandal
from
the
Christian
Church
,
the
Apostle
Orders
him
to
be
delivered
up
to
Satan
,
i.
e.
Excommunicated
,
and
cast
out
of
the
Society
of
the
Church
,
by
which
Censure
he
was
thrown
out
of
the
Kingdom
of
Christ
as
an
Exile
,
and
by
Consequence
deprived
of
his
protection
,
by
which
he
became
a
Subject
or
rather
a
Slave
to
Satan
,
the
God
of
this
World
,
there
being
no
Medium
betwixt
those
two
,
of
being
either
a
Subject
of
Christ
or
a
Subject
of
Satan
,
and
therefore
he
who
is
cast
out
of
the
Church
clave
non
errante
,
may
very
well
be
said
to
be
delivered
up
to
Satan
.
It
's
true
there
are
some
,
who
think
that
by
these
words
was
meant
a
delivering
of
him
up
to
Satan
to
be
tormented
by
some
bodily
distemper
,
but
that
Exposition
is
too
much
forced
to
be
relied
on
.
In
the
9th
.
and
11th
.
Verses
of
that
Chapter
the
Apostle
forbids
them
so
much
as
to
eat
with
a
Brother
who
is
a
Fornicator
,
such
was
the
purity
of
Life
that
the
Holy
Ghost
enjoined
to
all
Christians
.
In
the
6th
.
Chap.
the
Apostle
informs
us
That
neither
Fornicators
nor
Adulterers
,
nor
Effeminate
,
nor
abusers
of
themselves
with
mankind
shall
inherit
the
Kingdom
of
God
;
and
by
Consequence
we
may
Judge
that
they
were
neither
fit
to
be
Members
of
Churches
,
nor
indeed
of
Politick
and
Civil
Societes
with
Christians
.
In
the
11
Verse
,
he
tells
them
such
were
some
of
you
,
but
now
ye
are
Sanctified
.
v.
13.
He
says
that
the
body
is
not
for
Fornication
,
but
for
the
Lord
,
and
the
Lord
for
the
Body
.
And
in
the
15
,
and
16.
v.
argues
against
Fornication
from
the
absurdity
of
it
in
Christians
,
who
thereby
made
their
bodies
that
are
Members
of
Christ
Members
of
an
Harlot
,
which
was
as
much
as
to
say
that
you
cannot
make
Christ
a
partaker
of
Fornication
with
you
,
and
therefore
when
you
are
guilty
of
those
abominable
sins
you
disunite
your self
from
Christ
,
and
offer
violence
to
your
own
bodies
by
pulling
your self
away
from
Christ
,
and
joining
your self
to
an
Harlot
.
In
the
18th
.
Verse
he
enjoins
them
to
flee
Fornication
,
because
He
that
committeth
Fornication
sinneth
against
his
own
Body
,
that
is
,
in
a
special
manner
,
he
dishonoureth
his
Body
by
making
it
a
Member
of
an
Harlot
and
disuniting
it
from
Christ
;
he
maketh
that
Body
which
the
Holy
Ghost
disdaineth
not
to
chuse
for
a
Temple
a
Cage
of
Unclean
spirits
,
and
so
provoketh
the
Holy
spirit
to
abandon
it
,
who
will
not
dwell
in
an
Impure
place
,
and
as
Whoredom
brings
a
more
direct
blemish
upon
the
body
than
any
other
sin
doth
,
so
it
tends
to
the
dissolution
and
destruction
of
the
frame
of
the
Body
.
In
the
7th
.
Chapter
,
the
Apostle
treats
of
Marriage
as
a
proper
Remedy
against
Fornication
,
and
therefore
necessary
and
commendable
,
not
that
it
was
Originally
instituted
as
a
Remedy
against
Fornicatition
,
for
it
was
appointed
in
Paradise
,
during
the
State
of
Innocence
,
when
there
was
no
such
thing
as
Fornication
;
but
it
became
necessary
for
that
end
since
the
fall
,
and
therefore
as
propagation
was
the
primary
end
of
Marriage
,
the
avoiding
of
Fornication
became
a
Secondary
end
—
The
reason
of
the
Apostles
insisting
upon
this
,
is
the
opinion
of
Commentators
,
because
there
were
some
among
the
Corinthians
,
to
whom
he
wrote
,
who
Counterfeiting
Chastity
despised
Marriage
,
and
fell
into
hurtfull
and
filthy
Lusts
;
and
others
again
under
pretence
of
Chastity
pretended
to
dissolve
their
Marriage
Contract
,
and
put
away
their
Wives
,
that
they
might
attend
with
more
diligence
and
assiduity
upon
the
Service
of
God
,
and
therefore
to
obviate
both
those
absurd
opinions
he
shews
the
necessity
and
sanctity
of
a
marriage
state
,
tho'
he
owns
that
in
consideration
of
the
then
troublesome
times
,
and
the
persecutions
which
attended
the
Church
,
it
was
better
for
those
Christians
who
had
the
Gift
of
Continency
not
to
marry
than
to
encumber
themselves
with
Families
,
and
the
necessary
cares
of
providing
for
a
Family
,
which
do
always
follow
upon
Marriage
;
but
at
the
same
time
he
tells
them
that
't
is
better
to
Marry
than
to
Burn
,
and
recalls
Marriage
to
its
Primitive
institution
in
the
2d
.
Verse
,
thus
,
Let
every
Man
have
his
own
Wife
,
and
let
every
Woman
have
her
own
Husband
:
By
which
he
expresly
Condemns
Digamy
and
Polygamy
.
—
And
then
he
tells
them
the
duty
of
Married
Persons
that
tho'
they
might
for
a
time
abstain
from
the
Marriage-Bed
by
mutual
consent
,
in
order
to
give
themselves
to
fasting
and
prayer
,
yet
they
were
not
to
defraud
one
another
,
but
to
come
together
again
,
lest
Satan
,
the
Author
of
all
Uncleanness
,
shou'd
tempt
them
for
their
Incontinence
,
so
that
by
this
Chapter
it
is
plain
,
that
that
Celibacy
which
the
Romish
Clergy
pretend
to
observe
is
none
of
God's
appointment
,
and
therefore
't
is
not
to
be
wondred
at
,
that
they
who
have
so
contemptuously
rejected
the
Sacred
ordinance
of
Marriage
should
be
given
up
to
those
Brutish
Lusts
which
have
made
them
the
scandal
of
the
Christian
World
.
The
Holy
Paph●…tius
when
it
was
moved
in
the
Council
of
Nice
that
the
Clergy
should
abstain
from
their
Wives
,
opposed
it
by
his
Authority
,
or
rather
by
the
Apostles
Authority
,
telling'em
that
Marriage
was
honourable
,
and
that
a
Mans
lying
with
his
own
Wife
was
no
breach
of
Chastity
,
upon
which
the
Council
commended
his
opinion
,
and
ordain'd
nothing
in
that
affair
as
we
are
told
by
Sozomen
Hist.
Tripartit
.
Lib.
2.
C.
14.
So
that
the
Canon
which
is
now
numbred
amongst
those
of
that
Council
forbidding
the
Marriage
of
the
Clergy
is
with
good
reason
lookt
upon
as
supposititious
.
In
the
5th
.
of
the
Galatians
,
v.
19.
the
Apostle
tells
us
,
That
the
Works
of
the
flesh
are
Adultery
,
Fornication
,
Uncleanness
,
Lasciviousness
;
and
in
the
24th
.
Verse
,
he
tells
us
that
they
that
are
Christs
have
Crucified
the
flesh
with
the
Affections
and
Lusts
,
so
that
those
who
wallow
in
such
Impurities
let
'em
call
themselves
or
be
called
by
others
what
they
please
,
'
its
plain
that
they
have
forfeited
their
Title
to
the
name
of
Christians
.
In
the
2d
.
of
the
Ephesians
,
he
reckons
those
who
walk
in
the
Lusts
of
the
flesh
,
and
fullfill
the
desires
thereof
amongst
the
Children
of
wrath
and
disobedience
who
walk
according
to
the
Prince
of
the
power
of
the
Air.
Our
Lustfull
Gallants
and
Beaus
would
be
ready
to
run
any
man
thro'
the
Lungs
who
should
call
them
Children
of
the
Devil
,
and
yet
they
are
called
such
in
express
terms
by
the
Holy
Ghost
;
so
that
it
s
not
to
be
wondred
at
that
they
do
so
much
spurn
at
all
revealed
Religion
.
In
the
4th
.
Chapter
,
the
Apostle
calls
them
off
from
the
Impurities
of
the
Gentiles
,
who
had
given
themselves
over
unto
Lasciviousness
,
to
work
all
Uncleanness
with
Greediness
,
telling
them
they
had
not
so
learned
Christ
.
In
the
5th
.
Chapter
he
commands
that
Fornication
and
Uncleanness
should
not
once
be
named
amongst
them
,
neither
Filthiness
nor
Foolish
talking
nor
Jesting
which
are
not
conconvenient
,
and
the
reason
he
subjoins
,
is
this
,
That
no
Whoremongers
nor
Unclean
person
hath
any
Inheritance
in
the
Kingdom
of
Christ
and
of
God
—
Then
whether
they
deserve
the
name
of
Christians
whose
chief
delight
is
in
Play-Houses
,
where
Foolish
Jesting
and
Talking
is
their
principal
Entertainment
;
or
whether
they
are
to
be
accounted
such
who
wallow
in
Fornication
and
Adultery
,
and
who
make
their
keeping
of
Misses
and
Debauching
of
Women
the
Grand
subject
of
their
Conversation
,
in
all
publick
Companies
,
let
any
reasonable
man
Judge
,
In
the
3d
Chapter
of
the
Colossians
he
commands
Christians
to
mortify
their
Member●…
which
are
upon
the
Earth
,
viz
,
Fornication
,
Uncleanness
,
inordinate
Affection
,
&c.
For
which
things
sake
the
wrath
of
God
cometh
on
Children
of
disobedience
.
In
the
11th
.
of
the
Hebrews
and
16th
.
verse
he
warns
them
to
take
heed
that
there
be
no
Fornicator
nor
Profane
Person
amongst
them
like
Esau
,
who
sold
his
Birth-right
for
one
Morsel
,
Persons
who
are
addicted
to
their
Lusts
being
ready
at
any
time
to
sell
their
share
of
Heaven
and
Religion
so
they
may
but
enjoy
their
Vile
desires
:
and
in
the
13th
.
Chapter
and
4th
.
Verse
he
tells
them
that
Marriage
is
honourable
in
all
,
and
the
Bed
undefiled
,
but
Whoremongers
and
Adulterers
God
will
Judge
,
by
which
the
Apostle
obviates
the
false
Doctrine
of
those
Seducers
foretold
in
the
●…st
.
of
●…imothy
and
4.
who
should
forbid
Marriage
,
and
tells
them
that
Whoredome
is
so
grievous
a
sin
in
the
sight
of
God
,
that
in
a
peculiar
manner
he
will
punish
such
persons
himself
.
It
is
fit
also
to
be
observed
here
,
that
the
Papists
and
other
Sects
who
forbid
or
restrain
the
use
of
Marriage
were
thereunto
prompted
at
first
by
a
false
shew
of
Purity
and
Sanctity
,
which
demonstrates
how
abominable
they
reckoned
the
sin
of
Uncleanness
,
when
they
thought
that
Con
jugal
Society
rendered
men
unfit
for
their
Devotions
,
but
their
unhappy
mistake
was
attended
with
mischievous
Consequences
,
for
instead
of
that
purity
which
they
aimed
at
by
dispising
Marriage
which
is
of
Divine
institution
,
they
fell
into
all
manner
of
Uncleanness
as
is
known
to
those
who
have
read
the
Histories
of
the
Encratites
,
Mareionites
,
Fatians
,
Manichees
,
&c.
whose
Errors
and
Vitious
Practises
as
to
that
matter
,
the
Popish
Monks
have
serv'd
themselves
heirs
to
,
and
therefore
cannot
avoid
falling
under
the
reach
of
that
Prophesie
,
1st
.
of
Timothy
and
4th
.
tho'
they
have
strain'd
their
Wits
toward
it
off
from
themselvs
.
The
Apostle
Peter
in
his
1st
.
Epistle
1.
Cap.
and
14.
Verse
forbids
Christians
to
fashion
themselves
according
to
their
former
Lusts
,
and
in
his
2d
Cap.
11.
v.
he
commands
them
to
abstain
from
fleshly
Lusts
which
War
against
the
Soul
In
the
2d
.
Chapter
of
his
2d
.
Epistle
he
tells
us
,
That
God
turned
the
Cities
of
Sodom
and
Gomorrah
into
ashes
,
making
them
an
ensample
unto
those
that
after
should
live
Ungodly
.
In
the
9th
.
verse
he
subjoins
that
the
Lord
knows
how
to
reserve
the
unjust
unto
the
day
of
Judgment
to
be
punish'd
,
but
chiefly
them
that
walk
after
the
flesh
in
the
Lust
of
Uncleanness
,
and
in
the
14th
.
Verse
he
says
,
They
shall
receive
the
reward
of
Unrighteousness
,
having
eyes
full
of
Adultery
and
that
cannot
cease
from
sin
.
The
Apostle
Jude
in
his
General
Epistle
tells
us
,
That
Sodom
and
Gomorrah
giving
themselves
over
to
Fornication
,
and
going
after
strange
flesh
are
set
forth
for
an
Example
,
suffering
the
Vengeance
of
Eternal
Fire
,
he
describes
also
those
who
walk
after
their
Ungodly
Lusts
to
be
mockers
,
which
is
as
Visible
in
our
modern
Beaus
and
Gallants
as
ever
it
was
in
any
,
there
being
none
who
do
more
mock
and
despise
Religion
then
such
,
and
now
't
is
become
Familiar
to
them
to
run
down
Revelation
and
the
Divine
Authority
of
the
Holy
Scriptures
.
In
the
14th
of
the
Revelations
and
4th
.
The
144000
who
are
there
said
to
be
singing
a
new
song
in
Heaven
,
in
the
Company
of
the
Lamb
,
are
describ'd
to
be
such
as
had
not
defiled
themselves
with
Women
;
That
is
,
such
as
had
not
polluted
themselves
with
Unlawfull
Lusts
but
had
possessed
their
Vessels
in
Sanctification
and
Honour
,
as
Christians
are
advised
to
do
.
1
Thess.
4.
4.
Not
that
they
had
abstain'd
from
Marriage
,
for
that
is
Honourable
and
such
a
state
as
tends
to
the
preservation
of
Chastity
,
but
they
had
escaped
the
pollution
which
was
in
the
World
,
thro'
Lust
;
its
true
that
the
Sense
of
the
place
is
not
wholly
restricted
to
a
bodily
Chastity
,
but
includes
also
a
Spiritual
Purity
,
Freedom
from
Idolatry
,
and
Communication
with
false
Religions
,
but
that
it
does
also
relate
to
bodily
Chastistity
,
is
unanimously
agreed
upon
by
Interpreters
.
It
is
also
observable
that
the
Holy
Ghost
,
to
testify
his
hatred
of
Uncleanness
hath
represented
Antichrist
the
Anti-christian
Church
,
and
the
Idolatry
of
that
Society
,
under
the
name
of
a
Whore
,
the
Mother
of
Harlots
and
Abominations
of
the
Earth
;
those
that
are
poyson'd
with
her
Idolatrous
Doctrine
,
here
presents
as
having
committed
Fornication
with
her
,
and
drunk
of
her
Golden
Cup
full
of
Abominations
and
Filthiness
of
her
Fornication
,
Rev.
17.
And
indeed
to
any
that
have
read
the
wicked
Lives
of
many
of
the
Popes
,
and
consider
the
impurity
of
their
Monks
and
Nuns
,
their
contempt
of
Marriage
,
their
Unlawfull
Divorces
,
and
Dispensations
for
Unlawfull
Marriages
.
It
will
appear
that
there
's
great
reason
to
call
the
Church
of
Rome
a
Whore
in
a
Literal
Sense
.
In
the
21st
.
of
the
Revelations
,
we
are
told
that
Whoremongers
shall
have
their
part
in
the
Lake
which
Burneth
with
Fire
and
Brimstone
:
and
in
the
23d
.
we
are
told
,
That
Whoremogers
are
excluded
from
the
new
Jerusalem
in
Company
of
Murders
,
Idolaters
and
Sorcerers
.
So
much
for
the
History
of
Whoredom
,
as
far
as
it
is
touched
in
the
Old
and
New
Testament
,
either
as
to
the
Instances
thereof
,
the
Judgments
inflicted
upon
the
practioners
of
it
,
the
Laws
concerning
it
,
and
the
punishments
threatned
against
the
Breakers
of
those
Laws
,
both
in
this
World
and
that
which
is
to
come
.
Having
finished
that
part
of
our
History
for
which
the
Scripture
hath
furnished
us
with
materials
.
We
come
in
the
next
place
to
profane
History
,
for
Instances
relating
to
our
Subject
.
We
have
already
made
use
of
some
Instances
from
Josephus
and
other
Historians
,
Obiter
as
they
had
a
Relation
to
the
Scripture
passages
that
we
were
upon
,
but
come
now
to
make
use
of
them
intirely
for
our
Collections
,
and
think
it
fit
to
acquaint
the
Reader
that
we
must
look
back
again
in
order
of
time
,
because
't
was
thought
best
to
have
the
Scripture
Instances
altogether
.
We
have
formerly
made
mention
of
Semiramis
,
in
the
Account
which
we
gave
of
the
destruction
of
Babylon
,
all
that
we
have
now
to
add
,
is
,
that
Justin.
Lib.
1.
gives
this
Account
of
her
,
that
after
her
Husband
Ninus's
Death
,
she
puts
on
Mans
apparrell
,
and
feigned
her self
to
be
Ninus
her
own
Son
,
who
was
but
a
Youth
,
and
therefore
she
was
affraid
that
he
would
not
be
able
to
manage
the
Scepter
,
Semiramis
being
a
Woman
of
low
Stature
,
and
small
Voice
,
was
easily
mistaken
for
her
Son
,
and
the
better
to
conceal
the
fraud
,
she
covered
her
Arms
and
Legs
,
put
a
Tiara
or
round
Ornament
resembling
a
Bonnet
,
upon
her
head
,
and
the
better
to
prevent
suspicion
of
a
disguise
,
Ordered
her
Subjects
to
apparell
themselves
in
that
same
manner
,
under
the
Notion
of
a
new
fashion
,
so
that
she
pass'd
for
her
Son
without
any
doubt
or
hesitation
,
and
having
under
this
disguise
enlarged
her
Husband's
Conquests
as
was
formerly
said
,
she
conceived
that
the
Greatness
of
her
Actions
had
put
her
beyond
the
reach
of
Envy
,
and
therefore
discovered
her self
,
which
was
so
far
from
lessening
her
,
that
it
mightily
advanced
her
Reputation
,
but
giving
her self
up
afterwards
to
Brutish
Lusts
,
as
was
formerly
mentioned
,
she
became
enamoured
on
her
own
Son
,
who
thereupon
killed
her
,
and
thus
she
tarnish'd
all
her
former
Glory
and
brought
her self
to
an
untimely
death
by
her
unnatural
Lust
after
she
Reign'd
42
years
in
Great
Honour
.
Her
Son
Ninus
,
tho'
he
abhorred
his
Mothers
Incestuous
Amours
,
yet
being
Heir
to
her
Vices
as
well
as
her
Throne
,
as
if
he
had
really
changed
Sexes
as
well
as
Habit
with
his
Mother
,
he
became
Effeminate
and
Lustful
,
and
spending
his
time
Ingloriously
among
Women
,
was
rarely
seen
of
any
men
,
and
so
concluded
his
days
with
Ignominy
,
leaving
that
unmanly
pattern
to
his
successors
that
they
seldom
were
seen
of
any
of
their
Subjects
,
and
thus
the
Assyrian
Empire
which
continued
near
1300
years
,
was
extinguished
by
the
Effeminacy
and
Lusts
of
their
Princes
and
People
,
and
came
to
a
Conclusion
in
the
Inglorious
Reign
of
Sardanapalus
,
who
Reigned
as
some
Authors
think
when
Jonah
was
sent
to
Preach
Repentance
to
Ninive
,
but
this
cannot
be
relied
upon
,
the
Learned
do
so
much
differ
as
to
the
point
of
Chronology
:
However
,
this
is
agreed
upon
by
all
hands
,
that
he
was
a
Lustfull
and
Effeminate
Prince
,
and
gave
himself
so
much
up
to
Voluptuousness
that
he
would
sit
and
Spin
in
a
Womans
Habit
amongst
his
Concubines
And
seeing
it
is
commonly
found
by
Experience
that
people
imitate
the
bad
example
of
their
Princes
;
there
's
no
great
reason
to
doubt
but
that
the
Ninivites
,
amongst
whom
he
resided
,
were
tainted
with
his
Vices
and
became
dissolute
,
so
that
they
very
well
deserved
those
Judgments
denounc'd
against
them
by
Jonah
,
and
Historians
,
as
Justin
,
Pe●…au
,
and
Scaliger
acquaint
us
,
That
the
wiser
part
of
his
Subjects
loathing
to
be
Govern'd
by
such
an
unmanly
Debauchee
,
Rebell'd
against
him
,
under
the
Conduct
of
Arsaces
Governor
of
Media
,
who
coming
to
see
him
and
being
admitted
to
his
presence
with
Great
difficulty
,
found
him
in
Womans
Habit
Spinning
purple
upon
a
Distaff
,
amongst
a
Company
of
his
Whores
,
to
whom
he
divided
their
several
Tasks
of
Wool
,
&c.
And
perceiving
him
to
be
more
Effeminate
,
and
Lascivious
in
his
looks
than
any
of
the
Women
,
he
conceiv'd
great
Indignation
that
so
many
Warlike
Men
should
be
Governed
by
a
Person
who
disown'd
his
Sex
and
handled
a
Distaff
instead
of
a
Sword
,
so
that
having
acquainted
his
Companions
with
what
he
had
seen
,
they
conspired
against
him
,
Besieged
him
in
Ninive
for
two
years
,
and
reduced
him
to
such
straits
that
in
a
desperate
humor
he
retired
into
his
Palace
,
where
having
Erected
a
Funeral
Pile
,
and
laid
all
his
most
precious
Moveables
upon
it
,
he
burnt
himself
with
his
Wives
,
Children
and
Pallace
;
(
which
was
the
only
thing
wherein
he
discovered
a
Manly
temper
)
Ordering
the
following
distich
to
be
engraven
on
his
Tomb
Haec
habeo
quae
edi
,
quaeque
Exsaturata
Libido
Hausit
at
illa
Jacent
multa
ac
praeclara
relicta
.
Which
says
Aristotle
was
a
fitter
Epitaph
for
a
Bull
then
a
King
;
It
may
be
Paraphras'd
in
English
thus
,
Those
things
I
have
which
delight
I
ate
,
And
also
those
which
did
my
Lust
asswage
Yet
may
desires
are
still
insatiate
And
that
oughts
left
behind
,
enflames
my
rage
.
The
Meaes
having
held
the
Empire
350
years
,
it
then
fell
into
hands
of
the
Persians
under
the
Conduct
of
Cyrus
;
and
that
the
Persian
Women
were
not
over
modest
appears
by
the
method
they
took
to
encourage
their
Men
,
when
they
had
the
worst
in
the
Battle
at
first
,
with
Astyages
,
viz.
When
the
Persians
began
to
run
,
their
Women
uncovered
their
Secret
parts
,
unbraidded
them
with
Cowardice
,
and
askt
whither
they
would
hide
themselves
in
the
Bellies
of
their
Mothers
and
Wives
,
which
did
so
animate
them
,
that
from
a
principal
of
shame
they
returned
to
the
Battle
,
came
off
Victorious
,
and
by
that
means
laid
the
Foundation
of
the
Persian
Monarchy
,
which
was
afterwards
overturn'd
by
Fffeminacy
and
Lasciviousness
,
as
we
shall
see
in
its
place
,
and
that
the
Persians
should
have
immers'd
themselves
in
Lasciviousness
is
so
much
the
more
remarkable
and
inexcusable
because
their
Emperor
Cyrus
to
break
the
Warlike
Temper
of
the
Lydians
,
whom
he
had
overcome
,
thought
it
not
enough
to
deprive
them
of
their
Horses
and
Arms
,
but
commanded
them
to
exercise
themselves
in
Publick-Houses
,
Plays
,
and
Bawdy-Houses
;
and
thus
says
Justin
Lib.
1.
this
people
who
before
Cyrus
were
invincible
in
War
,
mighty
by
their
industry
and
redoubtable
by
their
Valour
,
lost
their
Ancient
Gallantry
by
their
Effeminate
Delicacy
and
Luxury
.
And
that
this
Wantonness
had
invaded
their
Throne
is
evident
from
the
Instance
of
Candaules
their
King
,
who
doting
upon
his
Wife
,
because
of
her
Incomparable
Beauty
,
commended
her
in
all
Companies
,
and
not
satifised
with
that
,
he
was
so
mad
as
to
expose
her
Naked
to
the
view
of
Gyges
his
Favourite
,
by
appointing
him
a
Secret
place
in
her
Bed-Chamber
,
which
the
Qperceiving
,
tho'
unknown
to
her
Husband
she
was
so
much
incens'd
at
it
,
that
she
propos'd
it
to
Gyges
,
either
to
kill
the
King
and
enjoy
her
and
the
Kingdom
,
or
to
prepare
for
death
himself
,
the
former
of
which
conditions
he
accepted
,
and
performed
,
and
thus
was
Candaules
punished
for
his
Voluptuousness
by
losing
his
Life
and
Crown
and
having
his
Race
extinguished
.
Justin
in
his
〈◊〉
.
Book
acquaints
us
also
that
one
of
the
Magi
called
Comaris
,
being
imployed
by
Cambyses
to
kill
his
Brother
Mergides
,
performed
it
Secretly
,
and
Cambyses
dying
in
the
mean
time
of
a
Wound
he
received
by
his
own
Sword
,
Comaris
set
up
his
own
Brother
Oropastes
for
King
,
instead
of
Mergides
,
to
whom
the
Succession
belonged
after
Cambyses
,
Oropastes
was
very
like
Mergides
;
but
the
matter
being
afterwards
suspected
Orthanus
a
Noble
man
found
it
out
by
his
own
Daughter
that
was
one
of
the
King's
Concubines
,
she
by
her
Father's
perswasion
felt
Oropastes
his
head
when
he
was
asleep
,
and
finding
that
he
had
no
Ears
,
acquainted
her
Father
with
it
,
who
thereby
knew
that
it
was
Oropastes
,
whose
Ears
Cambyses
had
ordered
to
be
cut
off
,
and
imparting
it
to
the
rest
of
the
Nobility
,
from
whom
it
was
easie
to
conceal
it
because
the
Kings
of
Persia
under
a
shew
of
Majesty
were
kept
from
the
view
of
their
Subjects
,
they
conspired
against
him
and
slew
both
the
Brothers
,
thus
was
Oropastes
deprived
of
his
Life
and
Crown
by
the
Treachery
of
one
of
his
Concubines
.
The
next
passage
we
meet
with
in
Justin
for
our
purpose
,
is
that
of
the
Scythian
Women
,
whose
Husbands
being
long
absent
,
he
says
,
15
years
in
subduing
Asia
,
they
sent
Messengers
to
them
,
telling
them
,
that
if
they
did
not
return
,
they
wou'd
take
care
to
have
off-spring
by
their
Neighbours
,
and
that
the
Women
should
not
be
to
blame
if
the
Race
of
the
Scythians
failed
,
whereupon
they
returned
having
imposed
a
small
Tribute
upon
the
Asiaticks
,
rather
as
an
acknowledgment
of
ther
Conquests
then
as
a
Reward
of
their
Victory
—
That
same
Author
,
Book
2d
.
tells
us
that
the
Scythians
having
staid
7
Years
from
their
Wives
in
their
3d.
Expedition
into
Asia
,
the
Women
reckoning
they
had
been
all
cut
off
,
Married
their
Servants
who
were
left
at
home
to
look
after
their
Catttle
,
so
that
when
their
Husbands
returned
Victorious
,
they
were
look'd
upon
as
Foreign
Invaders
,
and
therefore
their
Servants
kept
them
out
by
force
of
Arms
,
so
that
after
diverse
Skirmishes
with
various
fortune
,
the
Scythians
considering
that
those
who
opposed
them
were
their
Servants
,
they
agreed
to
make
use
of
Whips
against
them
instead
of
Arms
,
which
had
so
good
success
that
their
Servants
,
as
if
their
Servile
Spirits
had
returned
to
them
,
upon
the
sight
of
the
Whips
,
fled
before
them
.
It
s
also
fit
to
take
notice
here
,
that
the
Women
so
much
fam'd
in
the
World
by
the
Name
of
Amazons
,
were
Wives
to
a
Colony
or
rather
an
Inundation
of
Scythians
,
who
settling
themselves
in
Cappadocia
about
the
River
Thermodoon
,
and
having
subdued
their
Neighbours
,
were
at
last
wholly
cut
off
by
a
Conspiracy
of
the
people
whom
they
had
Conquered
,
upon
which
their
Women
took
Arms
,
and
not
only
defended
their
own
Territories
,
but
enlarg'd
their
Dominions
,
and
being
accustomed
to
Govern
men
,
lookt
upon
Marriage
as
a
servitude
,
cut
off
all
the
Men
that
were
remaining
among
them
,
that
none
of
them
might
seem
more
happy
than
the
rest
,
by
enjoyment
of
their
Husbands
,
and
then
having
obtained
Peace
,
once
a
year
they
convers'd
with
the
Men
of
Neighbouring
Nations
,
and
if
they
brought
forth
Males
they
,
either
killed
them
or
sent
them
home
to
their
Fathers
,
but
the
Females
they
bred
up
to
the
use
of
Arms
,
and
all
manly
Exercises
,
burning
one
of
their
Dugs
that
it
might
not
hinder
them
to
bend
their
Bows
,
and
preserving
the
other
to
suckle
their
Girls
.
Amongst
those
Amazons
are
said
to
have
Reign'd
the
Famous
Queens
,
Marthesia
,
Lampeto
,
Otrera
,
Penthesilea
,
Thalestris
,
&c.
and
their
Monarchy
is
said
to
have
continued
till
the
time
of
Alexander
the
Great
.
Some
will
have
all
that
is
writ
of
the
Amazons
to
be
a
meer
Fable
,
and
others
,
that
all
the
stories
of
them
was
occasioned
by
their
Womens
bearing
Arms
,
and
Fighting
in
Battle
as
well
as
the
Men
;
and
it
may
be
,
being
more
numerous
in
diverse
of
those
Battles
,
than
the
Men
who
were
either
absent
or
consumed
in
those
Expeditions
,
they
had
the
Chief
Command
,
as
is
observed
by
Juan
Orelhan
the
Spaniard
,
who
discovered
that
great
River
,
call'd
by
the
Name
of
the
River
of
the
Amazons
in
the
West-Indies
,
upon
the
Banks
of
which
he
perceived
the
Women
in
Arms
to
exceed
the
men
in
number
,
and
to
Command
them
,
and
upon
that
Account
he
gave
the
Name
aforesaid
to
that
River
.
But
however
the
matter
be
,
it
affords
us
this
Observation
,
that
all
Kingdoms
and
States
ought
to
take
care
of
encouraging
Marriage
,
and
to
avoid
as
much
as
may
be
the
Exhausting
of
their
Men
by
Wars
,
Colonies
or
Conquests
,
which
do
naturally
occasion
the
want
of
a
sufficient
number
of
Males
to
supply
the
Females
,
whence
proceeds
Whoredom
,
Uncleanness
,
and
Luxury
,
which
infallibly
issues
in
Contempt
of
Marriage
,
an
Obstruction
of
Propagation
,
and
the
ruin
of
a
people
.
Before
we
come
to
give
an
Account
how
the
Persian
Monarchy
was
overturn'd
by
Luxury
and
Lasciviousness
,
we
shall
have
occasion
to
touch
upon
some
Remarkable
Revolutions
,
occasioned
amongst
the
Greeks
by
Uncleanness
.
The
first
that
we
meet
with
in
Justin
is
that
of
Diocles
King
or
Governour
of
Athens
,
who
having
forced
a
young
Woman
,
he
was
in
Revenge
thereof
killed
by
her
Brother
,
whereupon
Hippias
Brother
to
Diocles
ordered
the
youngman
to
be
apprehended
,
and
putting
him
upon
the
Rack
,
examined
him
concerning
those
that
were
privy
to
his
design
,
the
young
man
in
further
Revenge
for
this
new
Injury
,
Nam'd
all
the
Tyrant's
Friends
,
who
being
put
to
Death
upon
his
Accusation
,
Hippias
ask'd
if
he
knew
of
any
more
that
were
Conscious
to
his
Crime
.
To
this
the
young
man
answered
,
That
there
were
no
more
at
whose
Death
he
could
gladly
rejoyce
but
the
Tyrant
himself
,
which
the
Citizens
took
as
a
Signal
to
recover
their
lost
Liberty
,
and
drove
Hippias
into
Exile
,
who
thereupon
joining
with
the
Persians
against
his
own
Country
was
slain
in
Battle
—
And
here
it
's
proper
to
add
that
the
Effeminacy
and
Luxury
of
the
Persians
under
the
Reign
Xerxes
,
was
the
chief
cause
of
the
shamefull
overthrows
which
they
received
by
the
Grecians
.
The
next
Remarkable
instance
which
we
find
for
our
purpose
in
Justin
,
is
that
in
his
3d.
Book
of
the
War
betwixt
the
Messenians
and
Lacedemoonians
,
occasioned
by
the
former's
having
Ravished
the
Virgins
belonging
to
the
latter
,
whilst
they
were
at
Sacrifice
,
upon
which
the
Lacedomineans
bound
themselves
by
a
solemn
Oath
never
to
return
into
their
Country
till
they
had
taken
in
Messenia
,
which
laid
the
Foundation
of
Intestine
Discord
,
and
Civil
War
in
Grecia
—
The
Siege
of
this
Town
continued
10
years
,
during
which
time
the
Lacedemonian
Women
being
not
able
to
brook
the
want
of
their
Husbands
Company
,
they
sent
heavy
complaints
to
them
upon
that
head
,
but
the
Lacedemonians
being
unwilling
to
violate
their
Oaths
,
and
at
the
same
time
sensible
that
their
people
must
needs
decrease
,
they
fell
upon
this
Medium
,
to
send
home
all
the
young
men
who
had
come
as
Recruits
to
their
Camp
after
the
taking
of
the
said
Oath
,
and
allowing
them
the
Liberty
to
Accompany
with
the
Women
,
the
Children
begot
by
this
promiscuous
Copulation
,
were
as
a
Brand
of
their
Mothers
Infamy
called
Parthenii
,
and
arriving
at
the
Age
of
30
,
they
were
so
much
afraid
of
coming
to
Want
,
because
they
knew
not
whom
to
call
Father
,
nor
which
way
to
have
any
Patrimony
,
that
under
the
Conduct
of
Phalantus
Son
to
Aratus
,
who
was
the
Author
of
the
Advice
to
send
the
young
men
from
the
Camp
abovesaid
,
they
resolved
to
seek
new
Habitations
for
themselves
,
and
so
without
so
much
as
saluting
or
taking
leave
of
their
Mothers
,
from
whom
they
deriv'd
the
Infamy
of
being
Bastards
,
they
arriv'd
at
last
in
Italy
,
subdued
the
Tarentines
,
and
settled
in
their
Country
.
But
to
return
to
the
Messenians
,
they
were
at
last
overcome
by
the
Lacedemonians
,
in
two
Wars
,
the
1st
,
of
20
and
the
2.
of
14
years
continuance
,
and
reduced
to
a
miserable
slavery
,
which
was
originally
occasion'd
as
we
have
just
now
heard
by
their
Uncleanness
.
Our
next
Instance
is
in
Justin
Lib.
5
:
concerning
Timea
Queen
to
Agis
King
of
Lacedemon
,
who
being
guilty
of
Adultery
with
Alcibiades
the
Athenian
,
while
an
Exile
from
his
Country
at
her
Husbands
Court
,
●…e
discovered
to
him
the
design
which
the
Lacedemonians
had
against
his
Life
,
because
they
envied
his
Conduct
and
Glory
,
upon
which
Alcibiades
fled
to
the
Persians
,
and
having
by
his
cunning
prevail
with
the
Athenians
to
recall
him
,
he
afterwards
defeated
the
Lacedemonians
by
Sea
and
Land
,
and
brought
them
to
sue
for
Peace
,
so
destructive
to
her
Country
was
the
Unlawfull
Amours
of
this
Whorish
Queen
,
and
so
ruinous
to
the
whole
East
,
and
particularly
to
Athens
was
the
Vitious
Lustfull
Temper
of
Alcibiades
;
the
occasion
of
whose
Exile
as
abovementioned
was
his
discovery
of
something
of
the
Mystery
of
Ceres's
Worship
,
or
the
Profane
Eleusina
Sacra
,
which
we
have
already
described
at
large
.
The
fatal
Exit
of
this
Great
Man
is
also
Remarkable
,
viz.
That
he
was
by
the
order
of
the
30
Tyrants
burnt
in
his
Chamber
when
asleep
;
a
suitable
punishment
from
the
hand
of
Divine
Justice
for
one
that
had
burnt
in
impure
Lust
,
however
he
deserved
better
Treatment
at
the
hands
of
his
Country
.
That
same
Author
in
his
sixth
Book
,
acquaints
us
that
after
the
death
of
Epaminondas
the
great
Theban
General
,
the
Athenians
having
no
Enemy
to
whet
their
Emulation
or
Exercise
their
Martial
Courage
,
grew
Luxurious
and
Debauch'd
,
spent
their
Time
and
Revenues
in
publick
Festivals
and
Plays
,
frequented
the
Stage
and
Play-Houses
more
than
the
Camp
,
and
did
more
extoll
their
Poets
and
Orators
than
their
Captains
and
Generals
;
by
which
means
they
lost
their
Glory
,
and
rendred
themselves
and
all
Greece
and
Asia
a
prey
to
the
Macedonians
,
formerly
an
obscure
people
.
Before
we
go
any
further
in
the
History
of
the
Unlawful
Amours
of
Greece
it
may
not
be
improper
to
take
notice
of
the
ruine
of
Troy
by
the
Graecians
after
ten
years
War
upon
the
account
of
the
Rape
of
fair
Helena
from
Menelaus
a
Graecian
Prince
,
by
Paris
Son
to
Priamus
King
of
Troy
.
This
story
being
known
to
every
School-Boy
,
its
needless
to
insist
upon
it
,
but
we
shall
only
observe
that
the
Lust
of
Paris
occasioned
the
ruin
of
that
Kingdom
and
City
about
the
year
of
the
World
2870.
after
it
had
stood
near
296
years
.
The
ruins
of
that
Famous
Town
are
still
to
be
seen
near
the
Mountain
Ida
about
32
German
Miles
South
of
Constantinople
,
upon
the
Asian
side
of
the
Hellespont
or
strait
of
the
Dardanelles
as
a
Monument
of
Divine
Justice
against
Whoredom
.
Justin
in
his
7th
.
Book
gives
us
this
Remarkable
instance
of
punishment
inflicted
upon
the
Persian
Ambassadors
for
their
Lechery
,
viz.
That
being
sent
by
Magabazus
the
Persian
General
to
demand
Hostages
from
Amyntas
King
of
Macedonia
,
that
Prince
received
them
kindly
,
and
the
Ambassadors
having
drank
largely
in
the
time
of
the
Feast
,
so
as
their
Lust
was
inflamed
,
they
demanded
that
they
might
have
the
Company
of
the
Kings
Wives
and
Daughters
at
their
entertainment
,
which
they
said
was
a
Pledge
of
Hospitality
among
the
Persians
.
The
King
thinking
fit
to
grant
it
,
the
Persians
began
to
handle
the
Women
immodestly
,
upon
which
Alexander
Son
to
King
Amyntas
desir'd
his
Father
to
withdraw
from
the
Banquet
because
of
his
Age
and
Gravity
,
the
Prince
having
done
so
,
Alexander
a
little
while
after
called
out
the
Women
,
pretending
that
he
would
bring
them
back
in
a
better
dress
,
that
so
they
might
be
the
more
acceptable
to
the
Persians
,
and
in
their
place
brought
in
as
many
young
Men
in
Womens
Habit
with
orders
to
punish
the
Ambassadors
for
their
lasciviousness
,
and
accordingly
when
they
begun
to
handle
them
as
they
had
done
the
Women
,
the
young
men
kill'd
every
one
of
the
Ambassadors
with
Swords
which
they
had
concealed
under
their
Garments
.
In
that
same
Book
we
have
an
instance
of
an
abominable
Incestuous
Intrigue
of
Eurydice
Wife
to
another
Amyntas
King
of
Macedonia
,
and
Nephew
to
the
former
,
who
falling
in
Love
with
her
Son-in-Law
,
upon
promise
of
Marriage
undertook
to
murder
her
Husband
and
advance
her
Gallant
to
the
Throne
,
but
was
prevented
by
her
Daughter
who
discovered
her
Mothers
Incest
and
bloody
design
,
yet
Amyntas
for
the
Love
which
he
bare
to
the
Children
that
he
had
by
this
wicked
Woman
spar'd
her
,
and
the
Unnatural
Beast
after
his
Death
murdered
her
own
Sons
Alexander
and
Perdiccas
by
him
,
tho'for
their
sakes
he
had
spared
her
Life
;
and
all
this
mischief
she
committed
,
that
she
might
wallow
without
Interruption
in
her
Impure
Lusts.
In
his
9th
Book
he
gives
us
an
account
of
the
death
of
Philip
of
Macedon
Rather
to
Alexander
the
Great
,
which
was
occasioned
partly
by
his
having
Divorc'd
Olympias
,
on
suspicion
of
Adultery
,
or
with
an
Adulterous
design
to
marry
Cleopatra
,
and
partly
because
he
had
not
executed
Judstice
upon
Attalus
for
having
Committed
Sodomy
upon
Pausanias
,
who
fre●…uently
complained
of
it
,
but
was
always
dismiss'd
with
scorn
,
and
therefore
watching
his
Opportunity
he
stabb'd
Philip
on
the
day
that
he
was
married
to
Cleopatra
as
walking
betwixt
his
own
Sons
,
afterwards
Alexander
the
Great
and
Alexander
his
Son-in-Law
.
Thus
this
Great
Prince
who
had
Conquer'd
many
Nations
and
Countries
,
became
a
Conquest
and
Victim
to
his
own
Lusts
and
the
Lusts
of
others
,
and
occasioned
likewise
the
death
of
his
Paramour
Cleopatra
,
Olympias
having
first
murdered
her
Daughter
,
and
then
forc'd
Cleopatra
to
hang
her self
.
His
●…th
.
Book
furnishes
us
with
a
very
remarkable
instance
of
Artaxerxes
King
of
Persia
,
who
had
115
some
say
160
Sons
by
Concubines
,
and
three
only
by
Lawfull
Marriage
,
for
which
Incontinence
he
was
punish'd
in
the
following
manner
,
his
Son
Darius
being
by
the
Indulgence
of
Artaxerxes
admitted
to
the
Throne
while
he
himself
was
alive
,
contrary
to
the
Custom
of
the
Persians
,
he
ungratefully
Conspired
against
his
Father's
Life
,
and
engaged
49
of
his
Brethren
in
the
Conspiracy
.
The
occasion
of
this
Unnatural
Plot
was
yet
more
vile
than
the
Plot
it self
,
which
Justin
relates
thus
,
Artaxerxes
having
defeated
and
killed
his
Brother
Cyrus
in
the
War
betwixt
them
,
he
married
Aspasia
Cyrus
his
Concubine
,
and
her
Darius
wou'd
have
his
Father
to
resign
to
him
as
well
as
his
Throne
,
which
the
Indulgent
Father
promised
to
do
at
first
,
but
repenting
of
it
afterwards
,
he
made
her
priestess
to
the
Sun
that
he
might
have
a
fair
pretence
of
denying
her
to
Darius
,
because
according
to
the
Persian
superstition
,
those
of
that
Office
must
observe
perpetual
Chastity
.
Darius
taking
this
as
a
great
affront
,
entred
into
the
Conspiracy
as
abovementioned
,
which
being
discovered
,
the
Incestuous
and
Unnatural
Traitor
with
all
his
Associates
,
their
Wires
and
Children
was
cut
off
,
that
there
might
be
no
memorial
left
of
such
a
horrid
piece
of
Villainy
.
Thus
was
Uncleanness
justly
punish'd
both
in
Father
and
Children
,
and
this
Instance
is
so
much
the
more
remarkable
that
it
fell
out
but
a
few
years
before
the
overthrow
of
the
Persian
Monarchy
by
Alexander
the
Great
,
which
the
Lasciviousness
and
Effeminacy
of
the
Persians
made
easy
to
be
effected
.
Our
next
instance
is
Alexander
the
Great
,
who
tho
in
the
height
of
his
Youth
and
Conquests
he
obtain'd
so
much
Glory
by
abstaining
from
Darius
his
Beautiful
Queen
and
Daughters
who
were
his
Captives
,
yet
giving
himself
afterwards
up
to
Impure
Pleasures
,
he
hath
thereby
rendred
his
Infamy
as
Immortal
as
his
Fame
.
It
's
observed
of
him
by
his
Historian
Curtius
,
that
he
was
always
more
Famous
in
War
than
after
Victory
,
and
that
having
broke
the
Power
of
the
Persian
Empire
he
degenerated
into
those
very
Manners
or
rather
Vices
,
which
made
the
Persians
such
an
easie
Conquest
to
him
.
That
same
Author
in
his
5th
.
Book
gives
us
an
Account
,
that
Alexander
having
staid
much
longer
at
Babylon
than
he
did
at
any
other
place
,
the
Corrupt
Manners
of
the
Citizens
did
more
prejudice
to
the
Discipline
of
his
Army
than
any
thing
they
had
met
with
before
that
time
;
and
indeed
the
Description
that
Curtius
gives
us
of
the
abominable
Luxury
and
Impurity
which
reign'd
in
that
City
is
sufficient
to
convince
us
that
the
Empire
of
which
that
was
the
Metropolis
or
at
least
the
most
Renowned
and
Greatest
City
,
was
ripe
for
ruin
.
The
words
of
the
Historian
are
as
follow
,
There
was
nothing
more
corrupt
than
the
manners
of
that
City
,
and
nothing
more
Accommodated
to
incite
and
provoke
Voluptuousness
and
Lust.
The
Parents
and
Husbands
permitted
their
Wives
and
Daughters
to
lie
with
their
Guests
provided
they
gave
them
a
Reward
.
Banquets
,
Revells
and
Plays
were
the
Chief
delights
of
the
Kings
and
Princes
of
Persia.
The
Babylonians
were
wholly
giv'n
up
to
Wine
,
Drunkenness
,
and
the
Consequences
of
it
.
Their
Women
when
they
first
came
in
to
their
Feasts
and
Banquets
were
apparelied
modestly
enough
,
but
in
a
little
time
after
they
threw
off
their
upper
Garments
,
and
in
the
last
place
,
with
modesty
be
it
spoken
,
vncover'd
their
Nakedness
;
nor
was
this
only
the
practise
of
the
Common
prostitutes
,
but
of
their
Matrons
and
married
Women
,
who
esteem'd
such
promiscuous
dalliance
a
Great
piece
of
Complaisance
and
Good
breeding
;
with
which
Dehauches
,
says
our
Author
,
that
Army
which
Conquer'd
Asia
being
glutted
for
34
days
,
they
had
doubtless
been
rendred
very
unfit
for
what
they
undertook
afterwards
,
if
they
had
not
been
Reinforc'd
by
fresh
supplies
of
uncorrupted
men
from
Macedonia
,
&c.
Our
Author
gives
us
another
Instance
of
the
Idleness
and
Luxury
of
the
Persian
Women
,
viz.
That
when
Alexander
the
Great
had
received
Purple
and
Macedonian
Apparel
made
by
his
own
Sisters
in
a
Present
from
home
,
he
ordered
the
same
to
be
Presented
to
Sysigambis
the
Mother
of
Darius
,
with
this
Complement
,
that
if
she
lik'd
them
he
would
furnish
her
with
those
who
shou'd
teach
her
Grand
Daughters
to
make
such
,
which
presently
drew
Tears
from
the
Persian
Princess
,
there
being
nothing
reckon'd
more
dishonourable
amongst
the
Persian
Women
than
to
Card
and
Spin
,
which
I
take
to
be
the
meaning
of
our
Author's
words
to
touch
Wool
.
How
much
this
differs
from
Solomon's
Character
of
a
good
Houswife
,
and
whether
the
handling
of
Wool
had
not
been
more
commendable
than
such
Dissolute
Revels
as
we
just
now
mentioned
,
let
the
World
Judge
.
But
to
return
to
Alexander
the
Great
.
After
he
had
with
great
difficulty
and
danger
past
the
straits
of
Susis
,
and
taken
Persepolis
the
Royal
Residence
of
the
Kings
of
Persia
,
the
Lascivious
Inhabitants
became
Executioners
of
Divine
Justice
upon
themselves
and
their
Impure
City
,
for
putting
on
their
chie●…
Ornaments
of
which
their
Luxury
had
made
them
provide
a
great
Number
,
they
threw
themselves
their
Wives
and
Children
headlong
from
the
Walls
and
Precipices
,
and
set
fire
to
their
own
Houses
:
But
that
which
is
particularly
remarkable
as
to
Alexander
,
is
that
in
a
Drunken
fit
at
the
perswasion
of
Thais
a
Drunken
Whore
,
says
Curtius
,
he
ordered
the
Famous
Royal
Palace
of
the
Persian
Kings
to
be
burnt
,
which
he
had
hitherto
saved
;
and
he
himself
threw
the
first
firebrand
into
it
to
his
perpetual
Ignominy
and
Disgrace
,
However
,
we
may
plainly
see
by
this
passage
that
the
sin
of
the
Persians
was
legible
in
their
punishment
,
when
this
Famous
Palace
that
had
been
polluted
with
such
Herds
of
Strumpets
,
as
the
Persian
Kings
did
usually
Entertain
,
was
burnt
to
Ashes
at
the
instigation
of
an
Infamous
Strumpet
,
and
not
long
after
Darius
himself
fell
by
the
hands
of
his
Treacherous
Subjects
,
which
put
an
end
to
the
Persian
Empire
.
Curtius
in
his
6th
.
Book
gives
us
an
Account
how
Alexander
became
hatefull
to
the
Graver
sort
of
his
Captains
and
Generals
by
his
degenerating
into
the
Vices
of
the
Persians
,
as
,
Immoderate
drinking
,
and
spending
his
time
in
Plays
,
and
amongst
Herds
of
Strumpets
,
which
occasioned
frequent
Conspiracies
against
him
,
Mutinies
amongst
his
Souldiers
;
and
other
Commotions
.
He
became
likewise
guilty
of
Sodomy
with
Bagoas
,
Darius's
Eunuch
,
affected
the
Persian
Habit
and
Customs
,
and
entertained
360
Concubines
as
Darius
had
done
before
him
,
which
occasioned
the
Macedonians
to
grumble
,
and
say
,
That
he
was
more
like
to
those
that
he
had
Conquer'd
than
a
Conqueror
,
so
that
he
was
forc'd
to
prevent
their
sedition
to
engage
them
in
a
fresh
War
,
after
he
had
for
thirteen
days
satiated
his
Lust
with
Thalestris
Queen
of
the
Amazons
at
her
own
desire
.
While
he
was
preparing
for
his
Expedition
against
Bessus
,
Philotas
and
others
of
his
Great
Officers
conspired
against
his
Life
,
but
Nicomachus
a
Catamite
having
discovered
it
by
means
of
Dimachus
,
who
was
his
Companion
in
that
Unnatural
Amour
revealed
it
so
as
't
was
prevented
,
but
it
cost
his
Villainous
Paramour
Dimachus
and
others
their
Lives
;
such
was
the
fatal
Consequence
of
Dimachus's
unnatural
Lust
to
himself
and
others
.
The
next
Instance
which
Curtius
affords
fit
for
our
purpose
,
is
that
of
Spitamenes
,
who
being
Prince
or
Governor
of
the
People
called
Dahee
,
he
revolted
from
Alexander
,
and
doting
upon
his
Beautifull
Wife
,
carried
her
with
him
where-ever
he
went
,
she
being
weary
of
that
kind
of
Life
,
advised
him
to
submit
himself
to
Alexander
;
which
he
took
so
ill
,
that
he
upbraided
her
with
a
lustfull
design
,
thinking
that
her
Beauty
would
make
her
acceptable
to
Alexander
,
and
therefore
would
have
killed
her
if
he
had
not
been
hindred
by
those
about
him
;
whereupon
he
forbad
her
to
come
any
more
into
his
presence
,
and
that
he
might
wean
him self
from
her
,
he
pass'd
his
time
amongst
his
Concubines
;
but
finding
that
he
could
not
Conquer
his
passion
towards
her
,
he
sent
for
her
again
,
and
she
pretending
to
have
forgot
her
former
Injury
,
watch'd
her
opportunity
when
he
was
fast
asleep
and
cutting
off
his
Head
,
took
one
Servant
along
with
her
,
and
carried
it
to
Alexander
,
which
proves
that
her
Husband's
suspicion
of
her
was
not
ill-founded
;
but
Alexander
tho'
he
was
glad
to
be
rid
of
such
a
troublesome
Enemy
as
Spitamenes
,
did
so
much
abhor
the
Barbarous
and
Treacherous
Woman
,
that
he
Commanded
her
to
depart
the
Camp
,
lest
the
Graecian
Women
should
be
infected
by
her
cursed
Example
.
Thus
was
Spitamenes
and
she
both
justly
punished
for
their
Uncleanness
.
Curtius
in
his
8th
.
Book
gives
us
another
Instance
of
Alexander's
being
Conquered
by
his
Lusts
,
which
was
thus
.
Cohortanes
the
Governor
of
a
certain
Country
,
having
submitted
himself
to
Alexander
,
he
did
likewise
entertain
him
with
a
Feast
,
and
for
his
better
diversion
ordered
30
Noble
Virgins
to
be
brought
in
,
amongst
whom
was
his
own
Daughter
Roxane
a
Lady
of
Incomparable
Beauty
;
with
whom
Alexander
(
who
had
abstain'd
from
Darius's
fair
Wife
,
and
two
Daughters
,
all
Ladies
of
much
Greater
Beauty
and
Quality
)
was
so
much
taken
,
that
in
the
heat
of
his
Lust
he
Contracted
a
Marriage
with
this
Comparatively
Ignoble
Lady
,
to
the
Great
disgust
of
his
Friends
.
In
the
same
Book
he
gives
us
a
lively
Description
of
the
Effeminacy
and
Luxury
of
the
Indians
,
who
Inhabited
about
the
Ganges
and
Dyardenes
,
that
were
some
of
the
last
of
Alexander's
Conquests
,
and
indeed
Ripe
for
such
Judgments
as
a
Conquest
Generally
brings
upon
a
Nation
.
Curtius
Expresses
himself
Elegantly
concerning
them
,
thus
,
viz.
That
the
Luxury
of
their
Kings
which
they
call
Magnificence
exceeds
the
Vices
of
all
other
Nations
,
they
never
come
abroad
but
their
Servants
carry
Silver
Censers
and
Perfume
all
the
way
that
the
Prince
is
to
go
.
He
is
carried
in
a
Golden
Couch
hung
about
with
Jewels
—
This
Chair
or
Couch
is
followed
by
his
Guards
,
who
carry
Branches
of
Trees
with
Singing-Birds
and
Parrots
upon
them
;
his
Palace
is
supported
by
Gild●…d
Columns
,
and
they
adorn'd
with
Vines
inlaid
with
Gold
,
and
the
Effigies
of
such
Birds
upon
them
in
Silver
as
they
do
most
delight
in
.
When
the
King
Combs
and
Dresses
his
Hair
,
then
he
gives
Audience
to
Ambassadors
and
does
Justice
to
his
people
,
and
his
Shooes
or
Sandals
being
taken
off
,
his
Feet
are
Anointed
and
Perfum'd
with
precious
Ointments
and
Perfumes
;
his
greatest
Labour
is
Hunting
,
and
that
is
to
shoot
Darts
at
Birds
and
Beasts
penn'd
up
in
a
Park
or
Cage
;
his
Concubines
in
the
mean
time
Singing
about
him
,
and
making
vows
for
his
success
,
his
short
Journies
he
performs
on
Horse-Back
and
the
longer
on
Elephants
covered
over
with
Gold
,
and
a
long
Train
of
Concubines
follow
him
in
Golden
Couches
or
Chairs
.
And
equal
to
this
is
the
Luxury
of
the
Queen
and
her
Attendants
,
so
that
we
may
readily
conclude
that
Alexander
found
no
great
difficulty
in
subduing
such
Debaucht
and
Effeminate
Nations
,
who
were
full
Ripe
for
Divine
Vengeance
.
We
come
now
to
the
winding
up
of
the
Story
of
Alexander
the
Great
,
who
did
so
far
degenerate
into
the
Manners
and
Vices
of
those
People
he
had
Conquer'd
,
that
he
gave
Crowns
to
some
and
took
away
Lives
from
others
at
the
will
and
pleasure
of
his
Whores
,
and
particularly
of
Bagoas
the
Eunuch
,
who
was
his
Catamite
.
Curtius
gives
us
an
Instance
of
this
in
his
10th
.
Book
,
where
he
Relates
how
Orsines
a
Great
Persian
Prince
of
Cyrus's
off-spring
,
was
falsely
Accused
and
Executed
,
because
he
despis'd
that
Villainous
Eunuch
,
and
said
that
it
was
not
Whores
and
Catamites
that
he
had
any
regard
for
,
but
only
to
the
King's
Friends
,
and
when
this
Revengefull
Catamite
had
got
Alexander
to
Condemn
this
great
Man
,
who
had
at
all
times
been
very
Friendly
and
Bountifull
to
the
King
and
his
Retinue
,
he
could
not
forbear
to
assist
at
the
Execution
himself
,
upon
which
Orsines
told
him
Satyrically
,
That
he
had
heard
that
Women
had
sometimes
Govern'd
Asia
,
but
it
was
never
Govern'd
by
a
Guelding
before
.
Thus
Alexander
being
Govern'd
by
those
Vile
Persons
,
did
upon
their
Accusation
cut
off
his
best
Friends
,
and
became
so
hatefull
to
his
own
Greeks
,
that
they
talk'd
divers
times
of
Revolting
,
and
at
last
Poyson'd
him
in
Babylon
amidst
his
Feasts
and
Revels
,
which
was
very
Remarkable
that
he
should
be
Poyson'd
there
where
he
had
suffered
himself
and
his
Army
to
be
first
Poysoned
by
the
Vicious
Manners
of
the
Persians
;
and
thus
by
his
Luxury
and
Uncleanness
he
occasioned
the
Division
of
that
vast
Empire
,
which
he
had
rais'd
;
his
Great
Captains
after
his
Death
having
each
of
them
erected
Monarchies
for
themselves
in
those
Places
where
they
Govern'd
,
which
occasioned
the
speedier
dissolution
of
the
Graecian
Monarchy
,
and
that
it
was
less
taken
notice
of
as
not
being
cemented
together
under
one
head
so
true
is
it
which
the
Wiseman
tells
us
in
the
Proverbs
,
That
many
strong
men
have
been
slain
and
cast
down
by
strange
Women
;
nay
,
we
may
add
that
Empires
and
Monarchies
have
been
over-turned
by
Uncleanness
.
The
next
remarkable
instance
we
meet
with
in
Justin
is
that
of
Dionysius
,
junior
the
Tyrant
of
Sicily
,
who
was
as
infamous
for
Uncleanness
as
for
Cruelty
,
and
being
expelled
by
the
Inhabitants
of
Syracusa
,
he
was
received
by
those
of
Locris
,
where
having
surpriz●…d
the
Castle
he
Tyranniz'd
also
over
them
,
Ravish'd
the
Wives
of
the
Great
Men
,
and
the
young
Women
before
Marriage
,
and
would
then
send
them
back
to
their
Sweet-hearts
.
The
Locrenses
being
at
that
time
in
War
with
Leophron
,
they
vow'd
if
they
came
off
Conquerers
to
prostitute
their
Virgins
on
the
Festival
of
Ve●…us
,
which
having
neglected
to
do
,
Dionysius
Circumvented
the
Citizens
thus
,
he
advised
them
in
order
to
perform
their
Vow
,
to
send
all
their
Women
with
their
Richest
Apparel
to
the
Temple
of
Venus
,
and
chuse
out
a
hundred
of
their
handsomest
Virgins
and
send
them
Richly
adorn'd
to
stay
a
Month
in
a
Brothell-House
,
but
beforehand
to
oblige
all
their
Men
by
Oath
not
to
touch
one
of
them
,
and
likewise
to
take
an
Oath
that
none
should
be
Married
'till
all
those
Virgins
were
first
dispos'd
in
Marriage
.
The
Citizens
thinking
this
a
good
Contrivance
both
to
absolve
themselves
from
their
Oaths
and
to
preserve
the
Chastity
of
their
Virgins
,
did
accordingly
.
Whereupon
Dionysius
sent
his
Soldiers
who
dispoiled
the
Women
both
of
their
Honour
and
Ornaments
,
which
so
incens'd
the
Lo●…enses
against
him
that
they
likewise
drove
him
out
of
their
City
,
and
being
received
again
by
the
Syracusans
he
Tyrannized
over
them
in
his
usual
Manner
,
so
that
they
Besieged
him
and
forcing
him
to
lay
down
the
Government
,
he
liv'd
in
Exile
at
Corinth
,
where
he
spent
his
time
in
Taverns
and
Bawdy-Houses
,
went
in
a
sordid
Habit
,
kept
the
Meanest
and
most
Rascally
Company
.
Jangl'd
with
Scoundrels
and
Bawds
,
became
a
laughing
stock
to
every
Body
,
and
would
walk
about
in
the
Shambles
to
gaze
upon
the
Meat
that
he
was
not
able
to
buy
,
and
was
reduced
so
low
that
partly
to
maintain
himself
,
and
partly
to
satisfy
his
Tyrannical
humour
,
he
taught
a
Trivial
School
,
and
so
concluded
his
Life
as
Ingloriously
as
he
led
it
.
In
his
22d
.
book
,
he
gives
us
an
Instance
of
Agathocles
another
Tyrant
of
Sicily
,
Son
to
a
Potter
,
who
during
his
youth
was
a
Catamite
,
and
as
soon
as
he
was
of
Age
became
a
Common
Stallion
and
a
Highwayman
,
but
being
Valiant
and
Eloquent
,
he
was
advanced
to
Great
Commands
in
the
Army
,
and
having
Committed
Adultery
with
Damasco
the
Generals
Lady
,
he
succeeded
in
his
Post
after
his
death
,
and
twice
attempted
the
Soveraignty
of
the
Island
,
which
at
last
he
obtained
,
yet
tho'
he
was
prosperous
for
a
long
time
and
rendered
himself
Famous
by
his
Victories
over
the
Carthaginians
,
Judgment
pursued
him
at
last
,
that
he
was
forc'd
to
flee
from
Africk
,
where
his
two
Sons
were
put
to
death
by
the
fury
of
his
Enemies
,
and
being
himself
taken
with
a
grievous
Disease
,
his
Son
and
Grandson
made
War
upon
one
another
for
the
Crown
,
wherein
the
latter
succeeded
,
so
that
Agathocles
was
forc'd
on
his
Death-Bed
to
send
his
Wife
and
two
young
Children
to
Egypt
,
lest
they
should
be
cut
off
by
his
Grandson
,
and
in
this
Afflicted
and
Disconsolate
Condition
he
ended
his
days
;
so
true
has
it
always
been
found
that
Whoremongers
and
Adulterers
God
will
Judge
.
In
his
24th
.
Book
,
he
gives
us
the
History
of
the
Incestuous
Amour
of
Ptolemy
Ceraunus
King
of
Macedonia
,
with
his
Sister
,
and
the
fatal
Consequence
of
it
to
them
both
.
Ptolemy
having
a
mind
to
Usurp
the
Kingdom
from
her
two
Sons
,
and
to
possess
himself
of
her
fine
City
of
Cassandria
pretended
Love
to
her
,
and
that
he
had
no
other
design
in
desiring
her
to
Wife
but
to
make
her
a
Queen
,
and
that
her
Children
should
succeed
him
,
and
because
she
her self
and
her
Son
Ptolemy
suspected
him
,
he
swore
to
the
Sincerity
of
his
Intentions
upon
the
Altar
in
Jupiter's
Temple
,
whereupon
that
Incestuous
Marriage
was
contracted
,
and
his
Sister
,
now
his
Wife
Arsinoe
being
overjoy'd
at
her
new
Title
of
Queen
,
invited
the
King
her
Husband
to
her
City
of
Cassandria
,
where
all
things
were
prepar'd
to
receive
him
with
the
utmost
Magnificence
,
and
she
order'd
her
Sons
to
meet
him
with
Crowns
on
their
Heads
.
He
Received
and
Embrac'd
them
with
much
seeming
Affection
,
but
as
soon
as
he
came
to
the
Gate
of
the
City
,
he
ordered
them
both
to
be
kill'd
,
and
the
Castle
to
be
seiz'd
,
their
Mother
endeavouring
in
vain
to
cover
them
in
her
Arms
and
preserve
them
.
After
this
Tragedy
as
a
Just
punishment
for
her
consenting
to
such
an
Incestuous
Màrriage
,
she
went
in
Exile
to
Samothracia
,
and
Ptolemy
in
a
little
time
after
fell
by
the
Sword
of
the
Gauls
,
who
cut
off
his
Head
and
fix'd
it
upon
a
Lance.
In
his
26th
.
Book
,
we
have
the
Story
of
Aristotimus
,
Tyrant
of
Epirus
,
who
having
kill'd
and
banish'd
many
of
the
Nobility
.
The
Aetolians
,
who
entertained
the
Exiles
,
sent
Ambassadors
to
demand
the
Wives
and
Children
of
the
banished
,
which
Aristotimus
pretended
to
grane
,
and
as
the
Matrons
had
assembled
together
to
go
to
their
Husbands
,
he
sent
and
spoiled
them
of
their
Apparrel
,
threw
them
in
Prison
kill'd
the
Infants
in
the
Arms
of
their
Mothers
,
and
Ravish'd
the
Virgins
,
which
so
incens'd
the
people
against
him
,
that
under
the
Conduct
of
Helematus
an
old
man
,
they
Conspir'd
against
him
and
cut
him
off
.
In
the
Close
of
that
Book
,
he
gives
us
an
Account
of
the
Incest
of
Demetrius
King
of
Macedonia
,
with
his
Mother-in-Law
Arsinoe
,
Queen
of
Cyrene
,
who
had
sent
for
him
on
purpose
to
Marry
her
Daughter
and
enjoy
that
Crown
,
but
being
her self
taken
with
his
Beauty
,
she
entertained
an
Incestuous
Commerce
with
him
,
which
did
so
much
provoke
her
Daughter
,
and
the
people
,
that
by
her
Daughters
order
he
was
slain
in
her
Mothers
Bed
,
the
Incestuous
and
Impudent
Woman
endeavouring
to
preserve
him
by
covering
him
with
her
own
Body
.
In
the
28th
.
Book
he
likewise
gives
an
Account
of
a
War
betwixt
Antiochus
King
of
Syria
and
Demetrius
King
of
Macedonia
,
because
the
latter
Married
Pythia
Daughter
to
the
Queen
of
Epirus
,
whilst
his
Wife
who
was
Sister
to
Antiochus
was
yet
alive
,
so
fatal
hath
the
Adultery
of
Princes
always
been
to
Kings
and
Kingdoms
.
In
his
30th
Book
,
we
have
the
Instance
of
Ptolemy
King
of
Egypt
,
who
having
murdered
his
own
Wife
Eurydice
,
that
was
also
his
Sister
,
he
became
so
enamour'd
on
Agathocla
the
Strumpet
,
that
he
minded
nothing
but
Revelling
and
Dancing
;
and
thus
says
Justin
,
the
King
became
not
only
a
Spectator
,
but
a
Master
of
Villany
,
and
committing
Sodomy
also
with
Agathocles
a
handsome
fellow
,
and
Brother
to
the
Strumpet
above
mentioned
,
they
and
their
Mother
Evanthe
govern'd
the
King
and
Kingdom
,
and
disposed
of
all
offices
.
In
the
mean-time
Ptolemy
died
,
which
those
vile
Women
concealed
a
long
time
,
and
so
shar'd
the
Royal
Treasure
,
and
Government
with
Villains
:
But
the
matter
coming
at
last
to
be
known
,
the
multitude
assembled
,
cut
off
Agathocles
,
and
hang'd
his
Mother
and
Sister
,
such
was
the
Tragical
Exit
they
brought
upon
themselves
by
their
uncleanness
.
In
his
37th
.
Book
we
have
the
instance
of
Mithridates
the
great
King
of
Pontus
,
who
married
his
own
Sister
Laod●…ce
,
in
which
match
he
was
Justly
unhappy
,
for
during
his
long
absence
a
viewing
the
chief
places
of
Asia
,
she
had
admitted
strangers
to
his
Bed
,
and
tho'
she
feigned
a
mighty
Joy
at
his
return
,
yet
she
endeavoured
to
poyson
him
,
in
order
to
cover
her
Unchastity
,
whereof
Mithridates
being
advertised
by
a
Maid
,
he
punish'd
his
Wife
by
death
for
her
Treachery
,
and
tho'
he
himself
became
Great
and
Glorious
afterwards
by
his
V●…ctories
over
the
Asiaticks
,
and
his
Wars
with
the
Romans
;
yet
Divine
Justice
pursued
him
,
so
that
he
killed
himself
in
his
old
Age
,
when
he
heard
that
his
Son
,
by
that
Unnatural
Marriage
had
usurp'd
the
Kingdom
.
In
his
38th
.
Book
we
have
the
horrid
instance
of
Ptolemy
Physcon
,
who
after
the
death
of
Ptolemy
King
of
Egypt
,
Married
his
Widow
,
Cleopatra
,
who
was
his
own
Sister
,
kill'd
her
Son
by
her
first
Husband
the
very
day
of
his
Marriage
,
and
afterwards
Divorc'd
her self
and
Ravish'd
her
Daughter
,
whom
he
afterwards
Married
:
This
made
him
so
hatefull
to
the
people
that
they
deserted
the
City
where
he
dwelt
,
so
that
finding
himself
a
King
without
Subjects
,
he
was
forc'd
to
invite
strangers
to
reside
there
.
—
And
at
last
became
so
odious
that
he
fled
with
the
Son
,
that
he
had
begot
on
his
Sister
,
taking
her
Daughter
along
with
him
,
and
with
a
Mercenary
Army
made
War
upon
his
Sister
and
his
Country
,
and
sent
for
his
eldest
Son
and
killed
him
to
prevent
the
peoples
chusing
him
in
his
stead
.
The
Subjects
were
so
much
enraged
with
these
proceedings
,
that
they
threw
down
his
Statues
and
Pictures
every
where
,
which
he
conceiving
to
be
done
by
his
Sister's
advice
,
he
cut
the
Son
that
he
had
by
her
in
pieces
,
put
them
up
in
a
Box
,
and
sent
them
to
his
Mother
,
on
his
Birth-day
—
Thus
were
they
mutually
plagued
and
punished
for
their
Incest
,
and
a
destructive
War
was
kindled
betwixt
them
,
which
took
its
first
rise
from
their
enflamed
Lusts
,
and
proved
fatal
to
their
Subjects
as
well
as
to
themselves
.
Ptolemy
Physcon
,
or
the
Debauch'd
,
dying
a
little
time
after
,
and
having
been
some
time
before
reconciled
to
his
Wife
and
Sister
Cleopatra
,
he
left
her
the
Kingdom
of
Egypt
,
she
being
compelled
by
the
people
to
chuse
her
eldest
Son
to
Govern
that
Kingdom
,
before
she
would
resign
the
same
,
she
compelled
him
to
Divorce
his
Beloved
Wife
and
Sister
Cleopatra
,
and
she
being
afterwards
married
to
Cyricaenus
in
Syria
,
those
Incestuous
matches
were
punished
by
a
mutual
War
betwixt
the
Brethren
Gryphus
and
Cyricaenus
,
and
the
latter
being
overcome
,
Gryphina
Wife
to
Gryphus
,
would
not
be
content
till
his
Sister
and
Wife
Cleopatra
,
whom
his
Mother
had
made
him
to
Divorce
was
murdered
;
and
Cyricaenus
,
obtaining
a
Victory
over
Gryphus
in
his
Turn
,
put
Gryphina
to
death
in
Revenge
.
Cleopatra
the
Mother
being
weary
of
her
Son
Ptolemy's
Reigning
with
her
jointly
in
Egypt
,
she
stir'd
up
the
people
against
him
,
took
his
Wife
Seleuce
from
him
,
after
she
had
born
him
two
Sons
,
sent
him
into
Exile
,
call'd
his
younger
Brother
Alexander
to
Reign
in
his
stead
,
but
he
being
afraid
of
her
cruelty
,
abandon'd
her
;
then
the
Wicked
Woman
being
afraid
that
her
eldest
Son
would
make
War
upon
her
to
recover
the
Kingdom
,
she
sent
great
assistance
to
Gryphus
,
and
likewise
gave
him
Seleuce
to
Wife
—
Having
at
the
same
time
recall'd
her
Son
Alexander
,
he
understood
that
she
laid
snares
for
his
Life
,
and
therefore
seiz'd
and
cut
her
off
,
and
he
himself
was
banisht
by
the
people
for
this
parricide
.
—
Thus
were
their
raging
Lusts
punished
by
a
mutual
War
and
Raging
cruelty
against
one
another
—
And
as
if
Heaven
would
have
Syria
and
Egypt
to
read
their
sin
in
their
punishment
,
they
were
invaded
and
plagued
by
Hierotimus
King
of
Arabia
and
his
Six
hundred
Sons
,
whom
he
had
beg
t
on
Concubines
,
and
who
attack'd
the
Syrians
and
Egyptians
with
separate
Armies
and
parties
.
We
come
next
to
the
Roman
History
,
where
in
the
very
threshold
we
are
presented
with
an
Account
,
that
that
City
and
Monarchy
was
founded
by
Whoredom
.
The
story
of
Remus
and
Romulus
being
born
of
a
Vestal
Virgin
,
for
whom
it
was
not
Lawfull
to
Marry
,
and
that
they
were
the
Founders
of
that
City
,
demonstrates
the
truth
of
Rome's
being
Deriv'd
from
a
spurious
Original
,
and
the
City
being
once
Founded
,
Romulus
made
it
a
Sanctuary
for
Vagabonds
and
a
disorderly
Rabble
,
who
were
so
much
contemned
by
their
Neighbours
,
that
they
scorn'd
to
give
them
their
Daughters
in
Marriage
,
which
occasion'd
their
Ravishing
the
Sabine
Virgins
,
and
that
brought
forth
a
War
,
which
endangered
the
overthrow
of
this
new
Government
in
its
Infancy
,
as
Livy
gives
an
Account
at
large
in
his
first
Book
Dec.
1.
so
fatal
hath
Whordom
and
Uncleanness
always
proved
to
Societies
.
Livy
in
that
same
Book
and
Decad
gives
us
an
Acccount
that
Kingly
Government
was
overturned
at
Rome
because
of
a
Rape
,
in
the
manner
following
:
The
Kings
Sons
and
Kinsmen
did
often
spend
their
time
in
Feasting
and
Treating
one
another
,
and
in
their
Cups
at
supper
there
happened
a
Discourse
,
concerning
their
Wives
,
upon
which
,
each
man
launched
out
in
the
praises
of
his
own
,
and
thence
a
Quarrel
arising
,
Collatinus
said
,
it
was
in
vain
to
talk
,
since
it
might
easily
and
speedily
be
known
how
much
his
Wife
Lucretia
excelled
the
rest
,
adding
(
for
they
were
then
in
the
Camp
before
Ardea
)
Let
us
mount
our
Horses
and
go
see
with
our
own
Eyes
what
kind
of
Women
our
Wives
are
,
and
that
shall
be
the
Test
,
which
occurs
to
each
man
upon
this
unexpected
Visit
;
so
that
Galloping
to
Rome
,
they
went
thence
to
Collatia
,
where
they
found
Lucretia
not
imployed
like
the
rest
of
the
Kings
Daughters-in-Law
,
viz.
spending
their
time
in
Banquetting
and
Luxury
,
but
sitting
amongst
her
Maids
a
Spinning
:
Whereupon
it
was
agreed
that
her
Husband
Collatinus
came
off
Conquerer
in
that
dispute
,
and
he
being
pleas'd
with
it
,
did
Courteously
invite
the
Royal
Youths
to
Supper
,
at
which
time
Sextus
Tarquinius
was
seiz'd
with
a
Lustfull
passion
for
Lucr●…tia
,
a
Lady
of
extraordinary
Beauty
and
Chastity
,
but
for
that
night
they
returned
again
to
the
Camp
.
Some
days
after
Sextus
Tarquinius
,
in
order
to
accomplish
his
Lustfull
design
,
went
privily
from
the
Camp
to
Collatia
,
attended
only
with
one
Companion
,
where
he
was
kindly
Entertained
by
Collatinus's
Family
who
knew
nothing
of
his
Villainous
intent
,
and
Conducted
to
his
Chamber
after
Supper
,
but
being
enflamed
with
Lust
,
when
he
thought
every
body
was
asleep
,
he
came
with
his
Sword
drawn
to
Lucretia's
Bed-side
,
and
laying
his
left
hand
upon
her
Preast
,
told
her
who
he
was
,
and
threatned
her
with
present
death
if
she
spoke
one
word
.
The
poor
Lady
being
surpriz'd
and
afrighted
,
he
began
to
mix
intreaties
with
his
threats
and
to
express
himself
in
such
Terms
,
as
his
passion
suggested
,
but
finding
that
neither
his
soft
expressions
,
nor
Barbarous
threats
could
prevail
with
her
,
he
told
her
that
he
would
stab
a
Slave
,
lay
him
naked
by
her
when
she
was
dead
,
and
raise
a
report
,
that
they
were
killed
in
the
very
Act
of
Adultery
,
by
this
means
Tarquinius
overcame
her
,
and
having
satisfied
his
Lust
,
went
to
Rome
;
Lucretia
being
thus
dishonoured
,
sent
immediately
for
her
Husband
and
Father
,
desiring
them
to
come
to
her
speedily
,
with
each
of
them
a
trusty
Friend
,
for
a
Grievous
Accident
had
befallen
her
;
and
coming
accordingly
,
they
found
her
very
Pensive
,
her
Husband
having
askt
her
the
Cause
,
and
whether
she
was
not
well
:
She
burst
out
into
Tears
,
and
answered
,
No
,
how
can
a
Woman
be
well
that
has
lost
her
Chastity
,
there
are
yet
the
signs
of
another
Man
,
Collatinus
,
in
thy
Bed
;
but
my
Body
only
is
violated
and
my
mind
Guiltless
,
of
which
my
death
shall
be
a
Witness
,
but
give
me
your
hands
and
promises
that
the
Adulterer
shall
not
escape
unpunished
Sextus
Tarquinius
is
the
Man
who
,
like
an
Enemy
rather
than
a
Guest
,
came
Armed
to
my
Bed
last
night
,
and
thence
forced
pleasures
,
which
if
you
are
Men
,
will
prove
fatal
to
him
as
well
as
to
me
.
They
endeavoured
to
comfort
her
,
telling
her
that
where
there
was
no
consent
there
could
be
no
fault
.
Upon
which
,
she
answered
:
Do
you
consider
what
he
deserves
,
tho'
I
absolve
my self
from
the
Crime
,
I
will
not
be
free
from
the
punishment
:
Nor
shall
any
Unchaste
Woman
live
,
to
say
Lucretia
was
her
Example
,
and
with
that
,
she
stab'd
her self
to
the
heart
with
a
Knife
which
she
had
hid
under
herGarment
;
upon
which
,
her
Father
and
Husband
set
up
a
loud
cry
.
Whilst
they
were
overwhelm'd
with
Grief
,
Brutus
,
who
came
along
with
them
,
pulling
the
Knife
out
of
her
Wound
,
said
,
I
swear
,
by
this
Blood
,
which
was
so
Chaste
,
before
the
King
Stain'd
it
,
and
I
take
the
Gods
to
Witness
it
,
that
I
will
cut
off
Sextus
Tarquinius
Superbus
his
wicked
Wife
and
Children
,
with
Sword
,
Fire
,
or
any
other
violent
means
,
I
can
,
nor
will
I
suffer
them
,
or
any
other
from
this
time
forward
,
to
be
King
of
Rome
.
The
afflicted
Father
and
Husband
joined
with
him
in
this
Oath
,
and
carrying
Lucretia's
Body
into
the
Market-Place
,
stir'd
up
the
people
,
and
marching
in
Arms
to
Rome
,
did
the
like
there
,
and
inveighing
against
the
Lust
and
Violence
of
Sextus
Tarquinius
,
he
also
provoked
the
Army
to
join
with
him
against
the
King
,
who
had
the
Gates
of
Rome
shut
against
him
,
was
Proclaimed
an
Exile
,
and
he
and
his
Children
expell'd
the
Government
and
the
Country
.
The
Adulterer
Sextus
Tarquinius
,
was
murdered
by
the
Gabii
—
The
King's
Family
was
Plundered
,
and
Kingly
Government
Abolished
after
it
had
continued
244
years
.
And
thus
the
Government
was
over-turned
by
the
Lustfulness
of
a
Prince
,
who
thereby
brought
ruin
and
disgrace
upon
his
Family
,
a
fatal
Exit
upon
himself
,
and
entail'd
a
War
upon
his
Country
,
who
join'd
in
the
Oath
with
Brutus
to
suffer
none
of
the
Tarquins
to
Reign
at
Rome
.
The
next
passage
we
find
for
our
purpose
,
is
that
in
Livy
Decad.
1.
Lib.
3.
concerning
the
Lustfull
design
of
Appius
Claudius
one
of
the
Decemvirs
upon
the
Daughter
of
Virginius
,
a
Beautiful
Virgin
,
whom
he
endeavour'd
to
win
with
Money
and
fair
Promises
,
but
finding
her
Chastity
inviolable
he
suborn'd
a
Client
of
his
,
to
Challenge
her
for
his
slave
,
and
adjudg'd
her
to
be
such
in
order
to
have
brought
her
into
his
own
Lustfull
Embraces
.
All
the
intreaties
and
Arguments
of
her
Father
Virginius
and
her
Lover
Icilius
join'd
with
the
Complaints
and
Murmurs
of
the
People
,
could
not
influence
Appius
to
abandon
his
Lustfull
Design
,
so
that
Virginius
finding
he
had
no
Force
to
stand
by
him
,
sufficient
to
grapple
with
the
Decemvirs
,
he
snatcht
a
Knife
from
a
Butcher's
Stall
,
and
cried
out
thus
,
Daughter
,
seeing
I
can
do
it
no
other
way
,
do
I
vindicate
thy
Liberty
,
and
immediately
stabb'd
her
,
after
which
looking
back
to
the
Tribunal
,
he
said
,
to
the
Lustful
Tyrant
,
Appius
,
with
this
Blood
I
destine
thee
to
death
.
The
Decemvirs
order'd
him
to
be
laid
hold
on
,
but
making
way
thro
the
Crowd
with
his
Sword
,
he
went
straight
to
the
Camp
,
whither
a
great
number
of
Citizens
followed
him
,
while
in
the
mean
time
her
Lover
Icilius
and
Numitorius
took
up
Virginia's
Corps
,
bewailing
the
Injustice
of
Appius
,
the
unhappy
Beauty
of
the
young
Woman
,
and
the
necessity
of
her
Father's
doing
what
he
did
;
and
the
Matrons
at
the
same
time
cried
out
,
was
that
the
Consequence
of
bringing
forth
Children
;
was
that
the
reward
of
Chastity
;
and
other
expostulations
of
the
like
nature
.
Virginius
being
arrived
in
the
Camp
,
all
over
besprinkled
with
his
Daughters
blood
,
and
the
fatal
Instrument
of
her
Death
in
his
hand
,
the
whole
Army
was
amazed
,
especially
seeing
him
followed
by
so
many
Roman
Citizens
in
their
Gowns
,
and
having
commanded
Silence
,
they
askt
him
what
was
the
matter
,
to
which
assoon
as
Grief
would
permit
him
,
he
held
up
his
hands
and
begg'd
of
his
fellow
Soldiers
,
that
they
would
not
impute
that
to
him
which
was
Appius
Claudius
's
Crime
,
nor
hate
him
as
a
murderer
of
his
own
Children
;
that
his
Daughter
was
more
dear
to
him
than
his
Life
,
if
she
could
have
lived
to
enjoy
her
Liberty
and
preserve
her
Chastity
:
But
when
he
saw
her
dragged
like
a
Slave
to
be
made
a
Whore
on
,
he
thought
it
better
for
him
to
lose
his
Child
by
Death
than
Disgrace
that
he
through
his
Mercy
to
her
was
fallen
into
a
shew
of
Cruelty
,
nor
would
he
have
survived
his
Daughter
,
unless
he
had
been
in
hopes
,
by
the
help
of
his
fellow
Soldiers
to
revenge
her
Death
.
They
also
he
knew
had
Daughters
and
Wives
,
nor
was
the
Lust
of
Appius
Claudius
extinguished
by
his
Daughters
Death
;
but
that
the
more
he
escaped
punishment
,
the
more
extravagant
,
he
would
be
.
That
by
another
Mans
Calamity
,
they
were
taught
to
provide
against
the
like
injury
.
As
for
his
part
,
his
Wife
was
Dead
,
his
Daughter
,
because
she
could
live
no
longer
in
Chastity
,
died
a
miserable
but
an
honest
death
.
Wherefore
Appius
's
Lust
had
now
no
temptation
in
his
House
;
That
he
would
vindicate
his
own
body
from
any
other
violence
which
he
could
offer
with
the
same
courage
that
he
did
that
of
his
Daughter
.
Let
other
men
look
to
themselves
and
their
Children
.
As
Virginius
spoke
thus
,
the
multitude
answered
with
shouts
,
That
they
would
neither
be
wanting
to
revenge
his
Grief
,
nor
to
vindicate
their
own
Liberty
.
Upon
which
being
encouraged
by
the
Citizens
that
accompanied
Virginius
,
they
marched
in
Arms
to
the
City
,
sat
down
upon
the
Aventine
,
exhorted
the
people
to
retrieve
their
Liberty
,
and
to
make
new
Tribunes
of
the
people
.
Icilius
,
Virginia's
Sweet-heart
had
the
same
influence
upon
the
Army
that
was
in
the
Sabines
Country
,
so
that
they
came
and
joyned
those
on
the
Aventine
,
and
at
last
overturn'd
the
Government
of
the
Decemviri
,
whom
they
threatned
to
burn
alive
,
and
Appius
Claudius
the
Lustful
Tyrant
,
being
degraded
,
kill'd
himself
before
the
day
of
his
Trial
,
and
his
Collegue
Coppius
did
the
like
;
such
was
the
Issue
of
his
unclean
design
upon
the
Government
and
himself
.
This
is
the
second
time
that
Whoredom
overturned
the
form
of
the
Roman
Government
.
Livy
in
the
8th
Book
of
his
first
Decad
gives
us
a
Remarkable
Instance
of
the
punishment
of
Minutia
a
Vestal
Virgin
,
for
breaking
herVow
of
Chastity
,
by
commiting
Incest
:
She
became
first
suspected
of
wantonness
because
of
her
Garb
and
Dress
,
which
was
thought
too
fine
and
curious
for
one
of
her
profession
;
and
at
last
she
was
positively
accused
before
the
High-priests
,
by
one
of
her
Bondmen
,
that
turn'd
Informer
against
her
,
whereupon
she
was
first
enjoyned
to
abstain
from
her
Office
,
and
then
being
brought
to
her
Trial
,
was
after
Conviction
sentenc'd
to
be
bury'd
alive
,
which
was
executed
accordingly
at
the
Gate
Collina
,
on
the
pav'd
Causeway
,
which
for
her
Crime
was
called
Campus
Sceleratus
.
By
this
and
the
Instance
immediately
preceeding
,
we
may
sufficiently
see
how
hateful
Whoredom
was
amongst
the
Romans
at
that
time
,
when
a
Father
chus'd
rather
to
murder
his
only
Child
,
than
to
have
her
made
a
Whore
;
and
that
they
conceiv'd
the
breach
of
a
Vow
of
Chastity
could
not
be
expiated
any
otherwise
than
by
burying
the
Criminal
alive
.
In
the
28th
Chapter
of
that
same
Book
,
he
gives
us
a
Relation
of
the
Ignominy
and
shame
that
L.
Papirius
an
Usurer
brought
upon
himself
by
his
unnatural
Lust
,
and
of
the
benefit
which
accrewed
to
the
people
by
a
Villanous
Outrage
that
he
committed
upon
the
Body
of
C.
Pu●…s
,
a
Comely
Youth
,
the
occasion
of
which
was
thus
.
There
was
a
barbarous
Custom
then
in
use
amongst
the
Romans
,
called
Nexus
,
being
a
kind
of
obligation
whereby
persons
that
ow'd
Money
were
bound
to
their
Creditors
,
to
be
their
Slaves
,
and
to
work
wholly
for
them
till
their
Debts
were
paid
.
By
virtue
of
which
Custom
C.
Publius
was
forc'd
to
bind
himself
for
a
Debt
of
his
Fathers
to
Papirius
:
Who
being
a
lustful
Wretch
,
endeavoured
first
to
debauch
the
Youth
by
filthy
Speeches
and
flatteries
,
but
finding
him
proof
against
those
tentations
,
he
endeavoured
to
terrifie
him
with
threats
,
and
ever
and
anon
put
him
in
mind
of
his
Fortune
,
viz.
that
he
was
a
Slave
,
but
the
Honest
Youth
not
being
to
be
prevailed
upon
this
way
neither
,
the
Savage
Usurer
converting
his
Lust
into
Rage
,
caus'd
the
poor
youth
to
be
strip'd
naked
and
cruelly
whip'd
,
by
which
his
body
was
desperately
torn
and
mangled
,
the
oppressed
youth
being
not
able
to
endure
that
Dilgrace
and
Torment
,
ran
out
into
the
Street
in
that
condition
,
and
cried
out
upon
the
Usurer
for
his
Cruelty
and
Lust.
This
occasioned
a
Great
Concourse
of
people
,
who
being
mov'd
with
Compassion
towards
the
young-man
,
and
with
abhorrence
at
the
Indignity
of
the
thing
,
as
that
which
might
perhaps
befall
themselves
or
their
Children
,
they
crowded
into
the
Forum
,
and
from
thence
went
in
a
full
Body
to
the
Council
Chamber
,
which
obliged
the
Consuls
to
call
a
Senate
;
and
as
the
Fathers
entred
the
House
,
the
people
falling
at
their
feet
shewed
them
the
young
mans
mangled
and
Bloody
Back
,
whereupon
a
Law
was
passed
that
from
thence-forward
the
Estate
and
Goods
and
not
the
Body
of
any
Debtor
should
be
Chargeable
for
Debts
.
Thus
was
Papirius
justly
punished
for
his
Lust
and
Savage
Cruelty
,
in
losing
his
Money
,
being
deprived
of
the
Object
of
his
Lust
,
and
branded
with
perpetual
Infamy
.
That
same
Author
,
Decad
3.
lib.
2.
Chap
57.
tells
us
that
Opimia
and
Floronia
two
Vestal
Nuns
being
convicted
of
Whoredom
were
buried
alive
,
and
Lucius
Cantilius
Secretary
to
the
Pontiffs
,
that
committed
Incest
with
Flo●…onia
was
whipt
to
death
by
the
Arch-Pontiff
in
the
Common-hall
.
That
this
villany
of
the
Nuns
was
lookt
upon
as
a
Publick
and
Ominous
disaster
,
whereupon
they
sent
to
the
Oracle
of
Delphos
to
enquire
how
it
might
be
expiated
and
had
this
Answer
returned
,
that
they
must
bury
two
Couples
alive
in
the
Beast
Market
,
viz.
a
French-man
and
a
French-woman
and
a
Greekman
and
a
Greekwoman
,
which
was
accordingly
performed
.
In
the
third
Book
of
that
Decad
,
we
have
an
account
that
Hannibal's
Army
which
had
not
long
before
obtained
a
Glorious
Victory
over
the
Romans
at
Cannae
,
became
so
debaucht
by
wintering
in
Capua
a
Lascivious
City
,
that
they
spent
their
time
in
Sleep
,
Drunkenness
,
delicate
Fare
,
Stews
,
Hot-houses
,
&c.
which
so
weakned
their
Bodies
and
debauched
their
Minds
,
that
his
wintering
at
Capua
was
reckoned
no
less
an
oversight
in
Hannibal
,
than
was
his
not
marching
straightway
to
Rome
upon
a
defeat
which
he
gave
the
Romans
at
Cannae
,
for
when
he
marched
out
of
Capua
his
Army
was
entangled
with
Harlots
,
and
his
Men
were
rendred
so
effeminate
with
their
Luxury
that
they
could
not
endure
fatigues
as
formerly
,
but
fled
from
their
Colours
in
great
numbers
,
and
from
that
very
time
the
decay
of
the
Carthaginian
Glory
and
Reputation
,
and
the
fall
of
their
Government
may
take
its
date
,
such
have
always
been
the
fatal
consequences
of
Luxury
or
Uncleanness
to
People
and
Nations
.
It
may
not
be
improper
here
to
take
notice
of
the
fatal
disaster
of
that
Luxurious
City
of
Capua
,
which
being
taken
by
Q.
Eulvius
and
Appius
Claudius
,
the
Chief
men
of
the
City
hastened
their
own
deaths
by
Poyson
,
and
the
Senators
were
put
to
death
by
Q.
Fulvius
,
tho
the
Senate
of
Rome
had
granted
them
pardon
for
their
Lives
,
and
then
Capua
was
reduced
to
a
Village
,
tho
the
Buildings
were
spared
,
but
they
were
not
allowed
the
privileges
of
a
Corporation
,
nor
the
benefit
of
Magistrates
.
In
the
3d.
Decad
,
Lib.
9.
Chap.
17.
We
have
an
account
of
the
brutish
Lust
of
Pleminius
the
Roman
Lieutenant
at
Locri
,
against
whom
the
Locrians
sent
Ambassadors
to
the
Senate
at
Rome
,
where
they
charged
him
and
his
Officers
with
Ravishing
their
Matrons
,
Virgins
and
Ingenuous
Youths
,
That
there
was
not
one
House
nor
one
Person
in
Locri
,
but
what
had
been
injured
and
that
all
parts
of
their
City
sounded
with
Cries
of
Women
and
Children
that
were
ravished
,
which
the
Senate
resented
so
much
,
that
Pleminius
and
above
thirty
of
his
Associates
were
sent
in
Chains
to
Rome
,
where
Pleminius
made
his
Exit
in
a
Dungeon
,
a
just
and
suitable
punishment
for
one
that
had
been
guilty
of
so
many
works
of
Darkness
.
Our
next
Instance
is
that
of
Sophonisba
,
Decad
3.
Book
10
Chap.
15.
She
was
daughter
to
Asdrubal
the
Famous
Carthaginian
General
,
and
Married
to
Syphax
King
of
Numidia
,
who
being
routed
by
Massinissa
King
of
Massilia
,
and
an
Allie
of
the
Romans
,
whom
he
had
dispoiled
of
his
Kingdom
,
Massinissa
was
so
enchanted
with
Love
to
Sophonisba
,
that
he
married
her
within
a
few
hours
of
his
having
taken
her
Captive
,
such
was
his
impetuous
Lust
and
her
accursed
Inconstancy
,
for
when
he
came
into
the
Pallace
where
she
was
,
her
adress
to
him
savoured
more
of
a
Courtesan
than
either
of
a
Constant
Wife
or
a
Generous
Queen
,
so
that
she
seem'd
rather
to
Court
him
than
avoid
his
Embraces
,
for
which
Divine
Justice
soon
found
her
out
.
Her
Husband
Syphax
being
taken
and
carried
before
Scipio
,
who
asked
him
,
why
he
made
War
upon
the
Romans
,
answered
,
That
his
Palace
was
set
on
fire
by
Nuptial
Torches
,
when
he
married
Sophonisba
,
who
never
rested
till
she
had
armed
his
Hands
against
himself
,
as
well
as
his
Guest
and
good
Friend
:
yet
,
That
amidst
all
his
Miseries
he
had
this
Comfort
still
,
that
he
saw
the
same
Pest
and
Fury
was
got
into
the
House
and
Family
of
his
greatest
Enemy
,
and
that
Massinissa
was
not
more
prudent
or
constant
than
Syphax
.
This
obliged
Scipio
to
rebuke
and
expostulate
with
Massinissa
privately
,
thus
:
Massinissa
,
I
believe
that
you
saw
some
good
things
in
me
,
not
only
when
you
came
first
into
Spain
to
contract
Friendship
with
me
,
but
afterwards
also
,
when
I
came
into
Africa
,
you
committed
both
your self
and
all
your
Hopes
to
my
protection
:
But
there
is
no
Virtue
,
for
which
I
seem
to
be
a
fit
Object
of
your
Affections
,
wherein
I
glory
so
much
as
in
the
government
and
mastery
I
have
over
my
Lusts
;
and
this
I
would
have
you
also
,
Massinissa
,
add
to
your
other
extraordinery
Qualifications
,
for
there
is
not
,
believe
me
,
so
much
Danger
to
be
fear'd
,
in
our
Age
,
from
armed
Foes
,
as
from
Pleasures
that
surrounds
us
on
every
side
.
After
a
great
deal
more
to
this
purpose
,
he
concluded
thus
;
Subdue
your
passion
,
and
have
a
care
you
do
not
deform
many
Virtues
with
one
Vice
,
&c.
Massinissa
was
so
much
struck
with
this
Mercurial
Speech
,
that
after
a
sharp
Conflict
with
his
Passion
and
impetuous
Amour
,
he
sent
a
trusty
Servant
with
a
Cup
of
Poyson
to
Sophonisba
,
and
to
tell
her
,
That
Massinissa
would
willingly
have
perform'd
his
first
Promise
to
her
,
as
an
Husband
ought
to
his
Wife
,
but
since
they
that
were
able
to
do
it
had
taken
that
Power
out
of
his
Hands
,
he
was
resolved
to
make
good
his
second
Promise
,
That
she
should
not
be
,
whilst
alive
,
in
the
Hands
of
any
Roman
,
as
being
mindful
of
her
Father
,
who
was
a
General
,
her
Country
,
and
the
two
Kings
to
whom
she
had
been
married
;
and
that
she
therefore
should
consult
her
own
Good
.
To
which
Sophonisba
,
with
a
Constancy
much
more
commendable
than
she
was
endow'd
with
when
Massinissa
accosted
her
with
his
Amours
,
answer'd
,
I
accept
this
Nuptial
Present
;
nor
is
it
unwelcome
to
me
,
if
my
Husband
could
do
no
more
for
me
;
yet
tell
him
this
from
me
,
That
I
should
have
dy'd
much
better
,
if
I
had
not
been
married
at
my
Funeral
:
And
so
drank
it
off
,
without
any
more
ado
.
Thus
was
she
punish'd
for
her
●…isloyalty
to
her
Husband
Syphax
;
for
it
had
been
an
easie
matter
for
a
Woman
of
such
vast
Courage
as
she
appears
to
have
been
,
to
have
deliver'd
her self
by
Death
from
Massinissa's
Embraces
,
as
well
before
as
after
she
had
polluted
her self
with
such
an
Unlawful
Marriage
.
The
next
thing
suitable
to
our
Subject
,
which
occurs
to
us
in
this
Historian
,
is
the
Controversie
which
happen'd
among
the
Romans
,
about
abrogating
the
Oppian
Law
for
restraining
the
Luxury
of
Womens
Apparel
.
Marcus
Portius
Cato
was
for
continuing
the
Law
,
and
in
his
grave
Oration
on
that
Head
had
these
remarkable
Sayings
concerning
it
,
viz.
That
if
every
one
of
the
Romans
had
resolv'd
to
maintain
the
majesty
and
prerogative
of
an
Husband
over
his
own
Wife
,
we
should
not
have
had
all
this
Trouble
with
the
Women
in
general
;
but
now
our
Liberty
being
restrain'd
at
home
,
by
the
Tyranny
of
our
own
Women
,
't
is
intrench'd
and
trampl'd
upon
here
in
the
Forum
.
—
Our
Ancestors
would
not
suffer
Women
to
do
any
private
Business
,
without
the
Advice
of
a
Man
,
but
to
be
at
the
disposal
of
their
Parents
,
Brethren
,
or
Husband
;
but
We
,
forsooth
,
now-adays
,
let
them
manage
even
the
Commonwealth
it self
.
You
have
often
heard
me
complain
not
only
of
the
Prodigality
of
Women
,
but
of
Men
too
,
and
those
as
well
Magistrates
as
private
Persons
;
and
,
that
the
City
labours
under
two
different
Vices
of
Avarice
and
Luxury
,
which
have
been
the
Bane
of
all
great
Empires
.
—
But
,
says
a
great
Lady
,
I
cannot
endure
this
levelling
and
equality
;
why
should
not
I
appear
all
glittering
with
Gold
,
and
cloathed
in
Purple
?
Why
should
the
Poverty
of
others
lie
hid
under
the
Umbrage
of
this
Law
,
so
as
what
they
cannot
have
,
they
,
if
it
were
lawful
,
should
seem
able
to
buy
?
Will
you
Romans
give
your
Wives
occasion
to
contend
in
this
manner
,
that
the
Rich
Women
shall
desire
to
have
what
no
Woman
else
can
purchase
,
and
the
poorer
sort
,
lest
for
this
very
Reason
they
should
be
contemn'd
,
to
stretch
beyond
their
Abilities
?
She
that
can
,
out
of
her
own
Stock
,
will
purchase
the
thing
she
lacks
;
and
she
that
cannot
,
will
ask
her
Husband
;
and
woe
be
to
that
man
who
either
does
or
does
not
grant
their
Requests
,
when
he
shall
see
that
which
he
himself
would
not
give
her
,
given
her
by
another
man
And
abundance
more
to
this
purpose
;
which
is
the
Opinion
that
the
Wisest
of
the
Romans
had
of
Temperance
,
and
the
Abhorrence
they
had
of
Luxury
,
as
being
always
the
Forerunner
of
the
Ruine
of
any
State
or
People
.
In
the
8th
Book
,
cap.
24
,
Decade
11
,
he
gives
us
an
Account
of
a
memorable
Judgment
upon
a
Roman
Centurion
,
for
violating
the
Chastity
of
a
petty
Grecian
Queen
,
who
was
committed
to
his
Custody
among
other
Captives
.
The
Centurion
being
taken
with
her
Beauty
,
did
first
sound
her
Inclinations
,
but
finding
her
averse
to
Voluntary
Adultery
,
he
offer'd
Violence
to
her
Body
,
which
Fortune
had
made
a
Slave
;
after
which
,
he
put
her
in
Hopes
of
returning
into
her
own
Country
,
but
at
the
same
time
bargain'd
with
her
for
so
much
Gold
;
and
lest
any
of
his
own
People
should
know
it
,
he
permitted
her
to
send
one
of
the
other
Captives
,
whom
she
pleas'd
,
to
bring
the
Money
,
and
two
of
her
Friends
,
to
receive
her
at
the
side
of
a
River
,
whither
he
went
the
next
Night
,
with
his
Captive
,
to
meet
them
.
As
soon
as
they
had
shew'd
him
the
Gold
,
the
Lady
commanded
her
Friends
to
draw
their
Swords
,
and
kill
the
Centurion
;
which
being
done
,
she
order'd
them
to
cut
off
his
Head
,
and
wrapping
it
up
in
her
Gown
,
carried
it
to
her
Husband
Ortiagon
,
whom
before
she
embraced
,
she
threw
the
Centurion's
Head
at
his
Feet
,
acquainting
him
what
Injury
she
had
receiv'd
,
and
how
she
had
reveng'd
it
;
and
spent
the
remaining
part
of
her
Life
without
any
Stain
upon
her
Conjugal
Chastity
.
The
next
thing
belonging
to
our
Subject
which
occurrs
in
this
Historian
,
is
,
his
Account
of
the
Bacchanalian
Rites
,
Decad.
4
,
Lib.
9
,
Cap.
8
,
&c.
as
follows
,
viz.
There
came
a
petty
Priest
,
or
Prophet
,
of
those
Times
,
out
of
Greece
into
Etruria
,
now
Tuscany
,
who
was
the
chief
Manager
of
certain
Rites
call'd
Initia
,
to
which
Religious
Performance
there
were
added
the
Pleasures
of
Feasting
and
Wine
,
and
when
Wine
and
the
Night
,
the
Men
and
Women
being
mixt
together
,
had
extinguish'd
all
Sense
of
Shame
,
first
there
were
Debaucheries
of
all
sorts
committed
,
ingennous
Men
and
Women
lay
promiscuously
with
one-another
,
and
false
Witnesses
,
false
Tokens
and
Judgments
,
came
out
of
that
same
Office
of
Roguery
;
and
many
times
People
were
kill'd
or
poyson'd
in
their
own
Houses
,
and
frequently
't
was
so
order'd
,
that
their
Bodies
could
not
be
found
to
be
buried
.
Ma●…v
Crimes
were
carried
on
by
Treachery
,
and
more
by
Force
,
and
those
Outrages
were
conceal'd
,
by
reason
of
their
Houlings
and
the
noise
of
their
Drums
and
Cymbals
,
so
that
no-body
could
hear
the
Cries
of
those
that
had
Violence
offer'd
to
them
when
they
were
kill'd
,
or
had
Violence
offer'd
to
their
Chastity
.
This
Mischief
came
from
Etruria
to
Rome
,
where
the
bigness
of
the
City
conceal'd
their
Villanies
.
Those
Wicked
Practices
came
at
length
to
be
discover'd
by
Postumius
the
Consul
,
in
the
following
manner
.
P.
Aebutius
being
left
an
Orphan
,
was
educated
under
the
tutelage
of
his
Mother
Duronia
,
and
his
Father-in-law
T.
Sempronius
Rutilus
,
of
whom
his
Mother
was
mighty
fond
.
His
Father-in-law
having
manag'd
the
Guardianship
at
that
rate
,
that
he
could
give
no
good
Account
of
it
,
had
a
mind
either
to
destroy
the
Young-man
,
or
to
have
him
oblig'd
to
him
by
some
Bond
;
and
the
best
Way
he
could
contrive
to
effect
his
Design
was
,
by
the
Bacchanalian
Rites
:
—
Whereupon
Duronia
call'd
her
Son
,
and
told
him
,
that
she
had
vow'd
when
he
was
sick
,
that
as
soon
as
he
recover'd
she
would
initiate
him
in
the
Bacchanalia
,
which
she
was
now
resolv'd
to
perform
;
telling
him
,
that
he
must
live
Chast
for
ten
days
;
that
on
the
tenth
day
she
would
carry
him
to
Supper
,
and
afterwards
,
when
he
was
clean
wash'd
,
into
the
Sacrary
.
Aelutius
happening
to
impart
this
to
Hispala
Fecenia
,
a
Curtesan
,
with
whom
he
kept
company
,
and
who
lov'd
him
entirely
,
she
dissuaded
him
from
it
,
telling
him
,
it
was
a
snare
laid
for
his
Life
,
and
pray'd
,
that
a
thousand
Curses
might
light
on
their
Heads
who
perswaded
him
to
it
.
The
Youth
admiring
at
the
Disorder
she
was
in
,
desir'd
her
to
spare
her
Curses
,
for
his
Mother
,
by
the
Consent
of
his
Father-in-law
,
had
commanded
him
so
to
do
;
to
which
she
replied
,
Your
Father
in-law
makes
haste
to
destroy
your
Credit
,
Hopes
,
and
Life
.
—
This
put
him
into
a
Surprize
,
and
made
him
the
more
eager
to
know
what
the
matter
was
;
whereupon
she
(
begging
Pardon
of
the
Gods
and
Goddesses
,
if
,
forced
by
the
Love
she
bore
him
,
she
reveal'd
things
that
ought
to
have
been
conceal'd
)
told
him
,
that
when
she
was
a
Waiting-maid
,
she
went
along
with
her
Mistress
into
that
Sacrary
,
but
since
she
was
free
,
never
came
within
it
:
That
she
knew
it
to
be
the
Shop
of
all
Corruption
;
that
as
soon
as
any
Person
was
introduc'd
,
he
was
deliver'd
,
like
a
Sacrifice
,
to
the
Priests
,
who
carried
him
into
a
place
that
rung
round
with
Howlings
,
Singing
,
Cymbals
,
and
Drums
,
that
the
Voice
of
any
one
that
complain'd
,
when
Lustful
Violence
was
offer'd
to
them
,
might
not
be
heard
:
Wherefore
she
desir'd
and
beseech'd
him
,
that
he
would
disengage
himself
from
that
Design
,
by
any
means
whatsoever
,
and
not
throw
himself
headlong
into
that
place
,
where
he
must
both
do
and
suffer
all
the
most
abominable
things
imaginable
.
Nor
would
she
let
him
stir
from
her
,
before
the
Young-man
had
promis'd
that
he
would
keep
away
from
those
Mysteries
.
When
he
came
home
,
his
Mother
began
to
tell
him
what
he
must
do
in
order
to
his
initiation
;
to
which
he
answer'd
,
That
he
would
not
be
initiated
at
all
:
Whereupon
she
cried
out
,
That
he
was
so
intoxicated
with
that
Serpent
Hispala
,
that
he
had
lost
all
respect
for
his
Father-in-law
,
his
Mother
,
and
the
Gods
themselves
.
His
Father-in-law
laying
hold
of
the
Opportunity
,
turn'd
him
out
of
doors
,
with
four
Servants
;
whereupon
the
Young-man
went
to
his
Aunt
Aebutia
,
a
grave
Matron
,
and
acquainted
her
with
the
Cause
of
his
being
turn'd
out
;
she
advis'd
him
to
make
Complaint
to
the
Consul
Postumius
the
next
day
,
which
he
did
privately
;
the
Consul
did
thereupon
send
for
Aebutia
,
and
being
inform'd
by
her
concerning
her
Nephew
Abutius
,
he
sent
likewise
for
Hispala
,
who
being
amaz'd
that
she
should
be
sent
for
by
a
person
of
that
Dignity
,
went
to
his
House
full
of
Fear
.
—
The
Consul
taking
her
aside
,
examin'd
her
before
his
Mother-in-law
Sulpicia
,
a
noble
and
grave
Lady
,
concerning
what
was
done
in
the
Grove
of
Simele
,
at
the
Bacchanals
:
She
was
so
much
surpriz'd
,
that
for
some
time
she
stood
speechless
,
and
at
last
confess'd
,
That
when
she
was
a
very
little
Girl
,
and
a
Servant
,
she
was
initiated
with
her
Mistress
,
but
,
for
some
Years
,
she
knew
nothing
of
what
they
did
there
,
and
would
fain
have
evaded
any
further
Questions
,
being
afraid
of
the
Gods
(
she
said
)
whose
Secrets
she
had
discover'd
,
but
of
Men
much
more
,
who
would
tear
her
in
pieces
for
being
such
an
Informer
;
and
therefore
pray'd
they
would
send
her
to
some
place
out
of
Italy
,
where
she
might
be
in
Safety
.
The
Consul
promis'd
,
that
she
should
live
secure
at
Rome
;
and
then
she
declar'd
,
that
there
was
no
manner
of
Villany
omitted
at
those
Rites
;
that
there
were
more
Lustful
Enormities
committed
by
the
Men
,
among
themselves
,
than
by
the
Women
;
that
if
any
one
were
unwilling
to
endure
such
Shameless
Actions
,
and
slow
to
Wickedness
,
they
were
sacrific'd
for
Victims
,
for
they
thought
nothing
unlawful
,
which
was
the
greatest
Tenet
of
their
Religion
,
that
such
Men
as
would
not
conspire
,
associate
in
Villany
,
or
endure
their
Lustful
Uncleanness
,
they
carried
away
into
secret
Dens
and
Caves
,
and
gave
out
,
that
they
were
snatch'd
away
by
the
Gods
;
and
that
for
two
Years
past
they
had
order'd
,
that
no
body
should
be
initiated
,
who
was
above
Twenty
Years
of
age
,
because
the
younger
they
were
,
they
thought
they
would
be
the
more
ready
to
endure
their
Folly
and
Leudness
.
The
Consul
being
thus
throughly
inform'd
of
the
matter
,
acquainted
the
Senate
with
it
,
and
amongst
other
things
,
in
his
Speech
to
them
,
had
these
remarkable
Sayings
:
Do
you
think
,
Romans
,
that
Young-men
,
who
are
initiated
into
this
Order
,
are
fit
to
be
made
Souldiers
of
?
Shall
we
put
them
in
Arms
,
that
come
out
of
such
an
obscene
Brothel-house
?
Will
such
Fellows
as
these
,
that
are
cover'd
all
over
with
Buggeries
of
their
own
and
other
men
,
fight
for
the
Chastity
of
their
Wives
and
Children
?
And
setting
forth
at
large
the
Danger
that
might
accrue
to
the
State
by
those
Nightly
Meetings
,
the
Bacchanalian
Rites
were
prohibited
by
Order
of
the
Senate
,
all
the
Priests
of
the
Order
were
commanded
to
be
shut
up
,
and
the
Frequenters
of
those
Nightly
Meetings
enquir'd
after
;
such
of
them
as
they
found
to
have
been
only
initiated
,
and
had
said
Prayers
according
to
the
Sacred
Form
,
which
the
Priests
repeated
before
them
,
in
which
was
contain'd
a
cursed
Obligation
to
commit
all
Acts
of
Villany
and
Lechery
,
but
had
not
committed
them
,
them
they
imprison'd
;
●…ut
those
whom
they
found
to
have
been
defil'd
by
Lust
or
Murder
,
false
Testimonies
,
false
Tokens
,
forging
of
Wills
,
or
other
Frauds
,
they
put
to
Death
;
after
which
the
Bacchanalia
were
pull'd
down
at
Rome
,
and
all
over
Italy
.
We
shall
conclude
our
Instances
from
Livy
,
with
this
Passage
,
which
is
the
last
that
fam'd
Historian
affords
us
,
that
any
way
relates
to
our
Subject
.
—
It
is
proper
however
to
observe
here
,
that
the
Bacchanalia
,
which
we
have
now
describ'd
,
may
justly
be
reckon'd
a-Kin
to
,
if
not
the
Off-spring
of
,
the
Eleusina
Sacra
formerly
mention'd
;
both
of
them
had
their
Original
from
Greece
,
and
were
solemniz'd
with
much
the
like
Secrecy
and
Outrage
;
and
both
of
them
serve
to
let
us
see
how
far
Humane
Nature
may
be
deprav'd
by
raging
Lust
,
when
a
Person
or
People
are
justly
given
up
to
it
of
God
.
We
think
it
proper
,
before
we
come
to
the
Instances
of
the
Roman
Emperors
,
&c.
which
are
but
too
too
numerous
,
to
take
a
view
of
those
persons
whom
Plutarch
has
honour'd
to
be
their
Biographer
,
and
to
excerpt
from
thence
what
suits
with
our
purpose
.
We
have
taken
notice
,
that
Rome
was
founded
by
a
spurious
Brood
,
and
in
the
Life
of
Theseus
,
which
is
the
first
in
Plutarch
:
We
shall
find
that
Athens
had
much
the
same
sort
of
Original
;
which
is
the
more
observable
,
because
from
those
two
Cities
the
Christian
Religion
met
with
the
greatest
Opposition
,
viz.
from
the
vain
Philosophy
of
the
former
,
and
the
more
bloody
and
cruel
Persecution
of
the
latter
.
Our
Author
tells
us
,
That
Theseus
seems
to
resemble
Romulus
in
many
particulars
,
and
in
his
Birth
especially
,
both
of
'em
being
born
out
of
Wedlock
,
and
of
uncertain
Parentage
.
Ageus
however
is
reckon'd
to
be
Father
to
Theseus
,
by
Athia
Daughter
to
Plitheus
,
whom
having
got
with
Child
,
he
left
a
Sword
and
a
pair
of
Shoes
hiding
them
under
a
great
Stone
,
and
making
her
only
privy
to
it
,
commanding
her
,
that
if
she
brought
forth
a
Son
,
who
when
he
came
to
Man's
estate
should
be
able
to
lift
up
the
Stone
,
and
take
away
what
he
had
left
there
,
she
should
send
him
away
to
him
with
those
things
with
all
Secrecy
:
Which
she
having
accordingly
observ'd
,
her
Son
Theseus
,
after
he
had
slain
Sinnis
,
who
from
his
way
of
murthering
Men
was
call'd
The
Bender
of
Pines
,
committed
Fornication
with
his
Daughter
Perigune
,
begot
Menalippus
upon
her
,
and
afterwards
married
her
to
another
.
The
next
Feat
Theseus
did
,
was
the
killing
of
Phea
,
a
Beast
of
great
fierceness
,
according
to
some
,
or
a
cruel
and
lustful
Woman
,
according
to
others
,
who
had
the
Name
of
a
Sow
given
her
,
from
the
beastliness
of
her
Life
;
which
,
if
true
,
she
was
remarkably
enough
punish'd
,
by
one
that
was
as
guilty
of
Incontinence
as
her self
.
—
The
next
thing
we
have
of
his
Amours
is
,
that
with
Ariadne
,
by
whose
Advice
and
Assistance
he
overcame
the
Mi●…aur
;
but
having
serv'd
his
Ends
,
he
deserted
her
for
another
,
viz.
Aegle
,
with
whom
he
fell
in
Love
,
and
thereupon
Ariadne
died
of
Grief
,
as
some
say
,
tho'
others
contradict
it
,
and
alledge
,
She
died
in
Childbed
.
—
Our
Author
gives
us
also
an
Account
of
his
Rape
of
Antiope
,
Princess
of
the
Amazons
,
—
and
,
in
short
,
sums
up
his
unlawful
Amours
,
and
the
fatal
Consequence
of
them
,
in
a
few
words
,
thus
:
That
the
Marriages
of
Theseus
were
neither
honourable
in
their
beginning
,
nor
fortunate
in
their
Events
;
—
and
recounts
them
thus
,
viz.
that
he
forc'd
Anaxo
the
Traxenian
;
ravish'd
the
Daughters
of
Sinnis
and
Cercyon
;
married
Peribaea
the
Mother
of
Ajax
,
and
then
Pheribaea
,
and
then
Iope
the
Daughter
of
●…phicles
:
Further
he
is
accus'd
for
deserting
Ariadne
,
as
is
before
related
,
being
in
love
with
Aegle
,
the
Daughter
of
Panopeus
,
an
Action
neither
just
nor
honourable
;
and
lastly
,
for
the
Rape
of
Helen
,
when
he
was
fifty
Years
old
,
which
fill'd
all
Attica
with
War
and
Blood
,
and
occasion'd
his
Banishment
and
Death
,
Lycomedes
having
thrown
him
headlong
from
a
Rock
,
as
he
had
hurried
himself
headlong
into
Lustful
Passion
.
Such
was
the
fatal
Exit
of
this
Ethnick
Hero
,
occasion'd
by
his
Uncleanness
.
In
the
Life
of
Lycurgus
,
that
great
Lacedemonian
Philosopher
and
Law-giver
,
we
have
an
eminent
Instance
of
the
truth
of
that
of
the
Apostle
concerning
the
Heathens
,
that
because
when
they
knew
God
,
they
glorified
him
not
as
God
,
he
gave
them
up
to
work
all
Uncleanness
with
greediness
;
for
what
less
than
a
Judicial
Blindness
could
so
much
infatuate
such
a
wise
man
as
Lycurgus
,
to
allow
a
Communitv
of
Wives
,
and
the
promiscuous
Dancings
of
young
Men
and
Women
together
naked
,
that
must
necessarily
inflame
their
Lusts
?
Which
is
own'd
by
Plutarch
himself
,
tho'
cover'd
under
the
handsom
Expressions
of
alluring
them
to
Marriage
,
not
upon
Interest
and
Equality
of
Fortune
and
Birth
,
but
from
the
sweet
Constraint
and
unsophisticated
Dictates
of
Nature
.
—
The
Reasons
of
this
Community
of
Women
he
enforc'd
by
these
Arguments
following
,
viz.
That
Children
are
not
so
much
the
Propriety
of
their
Parents
,
as
of
the
Commonwealth
,
and
therefore
he
would
not
have
'em
begot
by
the
first
Comers
,
but
by
the
best
Men
that
could
be
found
:
That
the
Laws
of
other
Nations
seem'd
to
him
very
defective
and
incongruous
,
who
were
very
sollicitous
for
the
Bread
of
their
Dogs
and
Horses
,
and
sent
a
great
way
to
get
the
best
Stallions
,
and
yet
kept
their
Wives
under
Lock
and
Key
,
for
fear
of
other
Men
;
whereas
themselves
were
craz'd
,
old
,
or
infirm
,
and
more
fit
to
propagate
Diseases
than
their
Species
.
Certainly
any
man
,
at
first
sight
,
must
needs
see
that
those
Dictates
of
our
Philosopher
are
contrary
to
the
Dictates
of
Nature
,
and
naturally
Introductive
of
all
manner
of
Villany
and
Disorders
.
—
Reason
,
as
well
as
Revelation
,
teaches
us
,
that
Jealousie
is
the
Rage
of
a
Man
,
and
that
there
is
nothing
more
unsupportable
to
Humane
Nature
.
All
Histories
are
full
of
Tragical
Instances
of
it
;
and
Experience
teaches
us
,
that
those
Nations
where
such
promiscuous
Copulations
are
allow'd
,
differ
but
very
little
from
Brutes
,
whose
Example
Lycurgus
proposes
,
and
they
follow
.
If
it
be
objected
,
What
we
find
in
the
Life
of
our
Author
,
that
so
long
as
these
Ordinances
were
observ'd
,
the
Women
were
so
far
from
that
Scandalous
Liberty
which
hath
since
been
objected
to
them
,
that
they
knew
not
what
the
Name
of
Adultery
meant
;
it
may
be
answer●…d
,
That
it
implies
a
downright
Contradiction
;
for
if
those
Ordinances
were
observ'd
,
the
Commonwealth
of
Sparta
must
necessarily
have
abounded
with
Adultery
,
whether
they
knew
the
Name
of
it
or
not
:
But
it
's
probable
,
that
seeing
such
a
Choice
of
Paramours
was
allow'd
them
by
Lycurgus's
Laws
,
they
did
not
reckon
lying
with
their
Neighbours
Wives
Adultéry
:
And
therefore
Geradas
might
well
say
,
That
it
was
as
impossible
to
find
an
Adulterer
in
Sparta
,
as
to
find
a
Bull
with
a
Neck
so
long
,
that
he
could
stand
at
one
side
of
the
Mountain
Taygetus
,
and
drink
of
the
River
that
run
on
the
other
side
of
it
.
It
is
also
observable
,
that
this
Practise
did
not
answer
the
End
taken
from
his
Brutish
Reason
,
viz.
to
have
strong
and
healthful
Children
;
for
we
have
an
Account
by
this
same
Author
,
that
if
they
found
the
Child
upon
its
Birth
to
be
deform'd
,
and
of
an
ill
Complexion
,
they
order'd
it
to
be
cast
into
a
deep
Cavern
of
the
Earth
,
near
the
Mountain
Taygetus
;
and
that
the
Women
did
also
bath
the
new-born
Children
in
Wine
,
thinking
it
would
immediately
kill
those
of
a
weak
Constitution
:
And
yet
,
notwithstanding
all
those
Precautions
,
we
find
that
they
had
weakly
Children
bred
up
,
and
those
,
our
Author
says
,
they
employ'd
in
gathering
Sallads
and
Herbs
.
To
conclude
this
point
;
It
is
not
at
all
to
be
wonder'd
at
,
that
a
People
who
allow'd
such
Unfaithfulness
as
to
the
Marriage-bed
,
should
grow
so
unfaithful
in
all
their
other
Transactions
as
the
Lacedemonians
did
,
which
occasion'd
their
being
utterly
ruin'd
by
the
Athenians
.
In
the
Life
of
Numa
Pompilius
,
so
much
reverenc'd
by
the
Romans
for
his
Piety
,
and
accounted
the
first
Instituter
of
their
Religion
,
we
find
,
that
when
a
Roman
was
sufficiently
stock'd
with
Children
,
in
case
his
Neighbour
,
who
had
none
,
should
desire
him
to
accommodate
him
with
his
Wife
,
that
he
also
might
have
the
Benefit
of
Issue
from
such
a
fruitful
Woman
:
Numa
allow'd
the
Husband
either
to
lend
his
Wife
for
a
time
,
or
to
loose
the
Bonds
of
Marriage
,
and
consign
her
into
the
Hands
of
her
Paramour
for
ever
.
—
An
early
Presage
that
,
Rome
was
at
last
to
become
the
Mother
of
Harlots
,
and
of
the
Abominations
of
the
Earth
;
another
Instance
of
those
wise
Heathens
being
judicially
given
up
of
God
to
their
Uncleanness
,
because
they
did
not
improve
the
Knowledge
they
had
to
the
Glory
of
God
,
of
whose
Being
and
Attributes
they
had
such
clear
Ideas
.
In
the
Life
of
Solon
we
have
an
Account
That
that
great
Philosopher
and
Law-giver
was
guilty
of
Unlawful
Love
towards
Boys
,
and
that
designing
to
appropriate
that
Brutish
pleasure
to
such
as
he
call'd
Gentlemen
,
he
forbad
the
use
of
it
to
Slaves
.
In
one
of
his
Laws
he
permits
an
Heiress
,
if
her
Lawful
Husband
prove
impotent
,
to
lye
with
his
nearest
Kinsman
;
and
yet
he
was
so
inconsistent
with
himself
,
that
he
permitted
any
one
to
kill
an
Adulterer
,
that
found
him
in
the
Act.
—
We
shall
conclude
this
passage
with
his
Account
of
himself
in
this
Distick
:
I
mind
a
Song
,
a
Miss
,
and
Glass
of
Wine
;
These
are
most
mens
Delights
,
and
these
are
mine
.
In
the
Life
of
Camillus
we
have
an
Account
,
how
the
Latins
were
defeated
by
their
Lasciviousness
and
Whoredom
,
when
they
had
reduced
the
Romans
to
a
very
great
strait
,
the
passage
is
thus
:
The
Latins
demanded
a
certain
number
of
free
Maids
from
the
Romans
in
Marriage
;
the
latter
looking
upon
this
as
a
Trick
only
to
gain
Hostages
,
and
yet
being
both
afraid
and
unable
to
carry
on
the
War
,
they
durst
not
positively
refuse
them
;
whereupon
Tutula
,
or
Philotis
as
some
call
her
,
advis'd
the
Magistrates
to
send
her
,
and
some
other
beautiful
Damosels
,
who
were
Bond-maids
,
habited
like
Free-Virgins
,
and
while
the
Latins
were
in
their
Dalliances
with
them
,
they
would
give
them
a
Signal
to
fall
out
upon
them
:
Which
being
agreed
on
accordingly
,
Tutula
in
the
Night-time
set
up
a
lighted
Torch
upon
a
wild
Figtree
,
hanging
up
some
Clothes
on
the
Tree
that
hid
the
Torch
from
the
Latin
Camp
,
while
it
was
perceptible
to
the
Romans
,
and
accordingly
they
sally'd
,
surpriz'd
and
destroy'd
the
Latins
,
in
remembrance
of
which
a
Festival
was
appointed
,
call'd
the
Nonae
Capraticae
,
where
in
the
People
run
out
of
the
City
in
a
confused
manner
,
calling
aloud
the
most
familiar
and
usual
Names
,
as
Caius
,
Marcus
,
Lucius
,
and
the
like
,
as
they
did
at
the
Sally
;
and
the
Maid-servants
,
richly
adorn'd
,
ran
about
,
playing
and
jesting
upon
all
they
met
,
and
amongst
themselves
use
a
kind
of
skirmishing
,
to
shew
they
help'd
in
the
Conflict
against
the
Latins
;
and
in
the
time
of
their
Feasting
they
sit
shaded
over
with
Boughs
of
wild
Figtree
.
Our
next
Instance
is
that
bold
Athenian
Gentleman
Pericles
,
whose
Weak
Side
was
Lasciviousness
,
and
therefore
he
became
the
Subject
of
the
Railery
of
the
Comick
Poets
of
his
time
;
who
upbraided
him
,
as
being
the
errant'st
Whoremonger
that
ever
liv'd
,
charg'd
him
with
dishonest
Converse
with
the
Wife
of
Menippus
,
and
of
committing
Incest
with
his
own
Son's
Wife
:
His
Intrigue
with
Aspatia
before
Marriage
is
also
much
taken
Notice
of
,
and
She
is
accus'd
of
being
no
better
than
a
Bawd
,
or
as
the
Translator
expresses
it
,
Keeper
of
a
Vaulting-school
.
They
did
also
upbraid
him
with
the
Volaries
or
Birdcages
of
Pyrilampes
,
who
being
Pericles's
Friend
,
they
pretended
that
he
us'd
to
present
Peacocks
and
fine
Birds
to
Pericles's
Misses
.
The
Punishments
inflicted
upon
Pericles
we
find
to
be
,
that
he
was
not
only
envied
and
disturb'd
by
Tumults
and
Seditions
,
but
disquieted
with
the
Disobedience
and
Scurrilous
Reflections
of
his
own
eldest
Son
,
depriv'd
of
him
and
his
youngest
Son
,
whom
he
lov'd
entirely
,
by
Death
,
and
constrain'd
at
last
to
repeal
his
own
Law
against
Bastards
enjoying
any
Inheritance
,
that
his
Bastard
Son
should
keep
up
the
Name
of
his
Family
;
and
he
was
cut
off
too
at
last
,
by
Order
of
the
Senate
:
And
Pericles
himself
,
who
had
burnt
so
much
in
Lust
,
was
consum'd
to
death
by
a
burning
Plague
,
his
Uncleanness
having
fix'd
such
a
Stain
upon
his
Memory
,
as
all
his
great
Actions
have
not
been
able
to
wipe
off
.
In
the
Life
of
Fabius
Maximus
we
have
an
Account
how
Tarentum
was
betray'd
to
him
by
means
of
an
Unchast
Woman
,
who
with
her
Amours
and
Flatteries
prevail'd
upon
her
Lover
,
a
Noble
Brutian
,
to
betray
the
Town
to
the
Romans
:
Fabius
having
sent
her
Brother
,
who
was
in
his
Army
,
into
the
Town
on
purpose
to
manage
the
Intrigue
;
or
,
according
to
others
,
she
had
formerly
been
Fabius's
own
Mistress
,
and
he
permitted
her
to
go
and
corrupt
the
Tarentine
Governor
by
her
lewd
Embraces
,
which
occasion'd
the
taking
and
cruel
destruction
of
the
Town
:
So
fatal
are
Harlots
to
all
Commonwealths
where
they
are
suffer'd
to
remain
unpunish'd
.
We
have
already
had
occasion
to
observe
how
fatal
the
Impure
Amours
of
Alcibiades
was
to
all
Greece
,
and
particularly
to
Athens
;
but
there
are
divers
more
observable
Particulars
as
to
that
matter
,
in
his
Life
written
by
Plutarch
,
tho'
he
was
continually
attended
by
that
excellent
person
Socrates
,
whose
wholsome
Instructions
had
much
Influence
upon
him
,
yet
all
his
Philosophy
was
not
able
to
reform
him
.
We
find
him
accus'd
,
when
a
Boy
,
of
a
Suspicion
of
being
a
Catamite
;
his
Wife
Hipparete
,
a
virtuous
Lady
,
and
one
that
lov'd
him
entirely
,
abandon'd
him
at
last
,
because
of
his
multitude
of
Whores
,
and
su'd
for
a
Divorce
from
him
;
but
when
she
p●…esented
her self
before
the
Magistrate
for
that
end
,
Alcibiades
retook
her
again
by
Force
.
—
He
is
accus'd
of
being
Luxurious
in
his
Eating
,
Drinking
,
and
Amours
,
and
was
much
despis'd
by
the
Athenians
,
because
,
instead
of
their
usual
Ensigns
upon
his
Shield
,
he
had
a
Cupid
painted
upon
it
with
a
Thunderbolt
in
his
Hand
.
Aristophon
the
Painter
drew
him
sitting
in
the
Curtesan
Nemea's
Arms
,
which
much
displeas'd
the
graver
Athenians
.
While
he
was
an
Exile
at
Sparta
,
he
debauch'd
the
Wife
of
Agis
King
of
Lacedemon
,
and
had
a
Son
by
her
:
And
't
is
observable
,
that
the
cause
of
his
being
banish'd
from
his
own
Country
and
condemn'd
to
Death
,
was
his
having
perform'd
the
debauch'd
Mysteries
of
the
Eleusina
Sacra
by
way
of
Mockery
.
The
Injury
he
did
to
Agis
King
of
Lacedemon
made
him
unsafe
there
,
so
that
he
fled
for
Security
to
Tisaphernes
the
Persian
General
.
In
a
word
,
his
whole
Life
was
a
continued
Series
of
remarkable
Ups
and
Downs
:
And
his
Death
was
no
less
remarkable
,
the
Historian
giving
us
an
Account
of
it
in
this
manner
,
viz.
That
having
retir'd
to
a
small
Village
in
Phrygia
,
with
one
Timandra
a
Mistress
of
his
,
he
was
,
at
the
instance
of
the
Lacedemonians
,
attack'd
in
his
House
by
some
Barbarians
,
who
setting
it
on
fire
,
he
with
much
ado
escap'd
thro'
the
Flames
,
and
was
at
last
slain
by
their
Darts
,
his
Mistress
Timandra
having
buried
him
with
as
much
Decency
as
her
Circumstances
would
allow
.
Thus
did
Alcibiades
fall
ingloriously
by
his
Lusts
,
who
had
done
so
many
Great
and
Glorious
Actions
in
the
World
.
We
have
already
touch'd
upon
the
Judgments
which
pursued
Dionysius
,
the
Lustful
Tyrant
of
Sicily
,
for
his
Uncleanness
,
but
meeting
with
a
further
Instance
of
it
in
the
Life
of
Timoleon
,
it
is
thought
proper
to
take
notice
of
it
here
in
the
words
of
Plutarch
,
viz.
That
all
the
Mischiefs
and
Vexations
of
his
former
Reign
were
abundantly
repaid
and
outdone
by
those
Evils
and
Calamities
which
he
then
suffer'd
,
for
he
liv'd
to
see
the
Funerals
of
his
Sons
in
the
prime
of
their
Age
,
the
Rapes
of
his
Daughters
in
the
Flower
of
their
Virginity
,
and
the
Prostitution
of
his
own
Sister
,
that
became
his
Wife
,
who
being
first
villanously
treated
,
and
her
Person
expos'd
to
all
the
Lust
and
Lewdness
of
the
common
Souldiery
,
she
was
afterwards
murder'd
,
together
with
her
Children
,
and
their
Bodies
cast
into
the
Sea
.
Thus
was
Dionysius
punish'd
,
as
we
may
say
,
in
Specie
,
for
his
Lust
and
Cruelty
.
In
the
Life
of
Pelopidas
we
find
this
remarkable
Passage
concerning
Archias
,
the
Tyrant
of
Thebes
,
who
having
render'd
himself
odious
to
the
People
by
his
Oppression
,
and
sent
many
of
them
into
Exile
,
some
of
the
Chief
of
those
Exiles
contriv'd
his
Ruine
,
under
the
Conduct
of
Pelopidas
,
thus
:
Philidas
,
who
was
Secretary
to
Archias
,
having
invited
him
and
some
others
to
an
Entertainment
to
drink
freely
and
accompany
some
married
Whores
,
he
was
so
much
taken
up
with
his
Cups
and
the
Expectation
of
his
Female
Guests
,
that
tho'
he
had
a
Letter
sent
him
discovering
the
Plot
against
his
Life
,
and
deliver'd
with
this
Message
,
That
it
contain'd
Matters
of
Concern
,
and
therefore
't
was
necessary
he
should
read
it
;
he
answer'd
,
Matters
of
Concern
to
morrow
.
And
as
he
was
carrousing
thus
,
Charon
and
Molon
,
two
of
the
Conspirators
,
having
put
on
Womens
Apparel
over
their
Armour
,
and
thick
Garlands
of
Firr
and
Pine
to
shade
their
Faces
,
in
this
manner
came
to
the
Door
,
upon
which
Archion
and
his
Guests
gave
an
Huzza
,
thinking
they
had
been
the
lewd
Women
that
they
expected
,
but
were
quickly
undeceiv'd
,
and
had
their
Hearts
pierced
by
the
Conspirators
Swords
,
at
the
same
time
when
they
were
pierced
with
the
Darts
of
raging
Lust.
And
thus
Thebes
was
deliver'd
from
Tyranny
.
In
that
same
Life
we
have
an
Account
how
Divine
Justice
pursued
Alexander
the
Tyrannical
King
of
Pherea
,
for
his
Brutish
Lust.
His
Wife
Thebe
,
Daughter
to
Jason
,
being
enrag'd
at
him
for
his
Debaucheries
,
and
particularly
for
abusing
her
younger
Brother
to
his
Lust
,
she
contriv'd
his
Death
thus
;
—
She
hid
her
three
Brothers
in
a
Room
near
to
his
Bedchamber
,
all
the
other
Apartments
being
full
of
the
Tyrant's
Night-guards
;
before
his
Chamber
there
lay
a
fierce
Dog
chain'd
,
which
would
flye
at
all
but
the
Tyrant's
Wife
and
a
Servant
that
fed
him
:
When
Night
came
Thebe
went
in
alone
to
his
Chamber
,
according
to
the
usual
Custom
,
and
finding
him
asleep
,
came
out
again
,
commanded
the
Servant
to
lead
away
the
Dog
,
for
the
King
would
take
some
Rest
,
and
then
covering
the
Stairs
with
Wool
,
brought
up
her
Brothers
into
his
Chamber
,
where
they
kill'd
him
,
and
throwing
out
his
Carcass
,
it
was
trod
under
foot
in
great
Contempt
by
the
Phereans
.
In
the
Life
of
Marcus
Cato
the
Censor
we
find
that
the
grave
Romans
thought
that
not
so
much
as
a
Marriage
,
or
a
Night's
Lodging
for
the
Procreation
of
Children
,
nay
,
not
a
Feast
or
Drinking-bout
,
ought
to
be
permitted
according
to
every
one's
Fancy
,
without
being
censur'd
and
enquir'd
into
;
and
therefore
they
chose
two
Persons
,
one
out
of
the
Patricians
,
the
other
out
of
the
Commons
,
who
were
to
watch
,
correct
,
and
punish
,
if
any
one
ran
too
much
after
Voluptuousness
;
and
therefore
Cato
,
tho'
he
met
with
much
Opposition
,
because
of
his
Severity
,
was
prefer'd
to
that
Imployment
;
and
the
first
remarkable
thing
which
we
find
perform'd
by
him
in
that
Office
was
,
the
Expulsion
of
Lucius
Quintus
from
the
Senate
,
because
he
had
,
to
please
a
Boy
whom
he
kept
as
a
Catamite
,
order'd
a
condemn'd
Person
to
be
executed
before
him
at
a
Feast
.
He
did
also
throw
Manilius
out
of
the
Senate
,
because
in
the
presence
of
his
Daughter
,
and
in
open
Day
,
he
was
a
little
too
sweet
upon
his
own
Wife
.
—
The
People
were
so
well
pleased
with
his
Behaviour
in
his
Imployment
,
that
they
erected
a
Statue
for
him
in
the
Temple
of
the
Goddess
of
Health
with
the
following
Inscription
;
That
this
was
Cato
the
Censor
,
who
by
his
good
Discipline
and
Ordinances
reclaim'd
the
Roman
Commonwealth
,
when
't
was
declining
and
supinely
tumbling
into
Vice
.
Yet
we
find
that
this
very
Man
,
so
famous
for
the
Severity
and
Uprightness
of
his
Manners
,
not
improving
that
Knowledg
which
God
had
given
him
,
was
overcome
by
his
Lusts
even
in
his
Old-age
;
for
Plutarch
says
,
that
in
his
old
days
,
when
he
was
past
a
Lover's
Years
,
he
made
use
of
Women
,
and
particularly
of
a
young
Wench
who
came
privately
to
him
,
which
being
discover'd
by
his
Son
,
who
took
Offence
thereat
,
the
old
Man
,
in
revenge
,
married
a
young
Woman
,
Daughter
to
Salonius
his
own
Clark
;
and
when
his
Son
ask'd
him
the
reason
of
it
,
he
answer'd
him
soft
and
fair
,
Good
Son
,
I
desire
to
have
many
Children
,
and
to
leave
the
Commonwealth
more
such
Citizens
as
thou
art
.
In
the
Life
of
Pyrrhus
we
have
an
Account
that
his
multiplying
of
Wives
with
a
design
to
enlarge
his
Interest
,
had
not
the
happy
Effect
which
he
propos'd
to
himself
by
it
,
for
Lanassa
,
one
of
his
Wives
,
took
so
great
Offence
at
his
Inclination
to
the
rest
,
that
she
deserted
him
,
and
married
Demetrius
King
of
Macedonia
,
and
by
that
means
kindled
a
War
betwixt
him
and
Pyrrhus
.
In
that
same
Life
we
do
also
find
,
that
Pyrrhus
was
invited
against
Sparta
by
Cleonymus
,
one
of
the
Chief
Men
there
,
because
his
Wife
Chelidonis
falling
desperately
in
Love
with
A●…rotatus
,
that
Youngster
dishonour'd
his
Bed
;
and
therefore
,
to
revenge
himself
for
the
Injury
,
he
brought
Pyrrhus
with
a
great
Army
against
Sparta
,
which
occasion'd
a
great
deal
of
Bloodshed
,
and
endanger'd
the
City
;
however
,
Pyrrhus
did
not
succeed
in
his
Design
against
it
,
as
if
Providence
would
let
him
see
,
that
he
was
no
fit
Person
to
revenge
an
Injury
done
to
the
Marriage
Bed
,
who
was
so
very
guilty
of
that
same
Crime
himself
;
and
,
at
last
,
he
fell
by
the
Hands
of
a
Woman
,
who
seeing
him
engag'd
with
her
Son
in
the
Streets
of
Argos
,
threw
a
Tile
upon
him
from
the
top
of
an
House
,
which
made
him
fall
from
his
Horse
,
and
a
common
Souldier
did
afterwards
cut
off
his
Head
.
In
the
Life
of
Sylla
we
have
this
Account
of
him
;
That
he
us'd
to
sit
on
a
Chair
of
State
amongst
beautiful
Women
,
Mimicks
,
Fidlers
,
and
such-like
Rascally
People
,
on
whom
he
squander'd
away
the
Revenues
of
whole
Countries
and
Cities
,
bestowing
on
some
of
them
Ladies
in
Marriage
against
their
Will
,
so
as
his
Gratuities
were
much
more
intolerable
than
his
Usurpations
.
He
kept
company
with
Actors
,
Actresses
,
and
Minstrels
,
drinking
with
'em
Night
and
Day
:
He
also
indulg'd
himself
in
Unnatural
Lust
with
Men
,
particularly
Metrobius
the
Woman-actor
:
But
behold
the
just
Judgment
of
God
upon
him
;
—
These
lascivious
Courses
brought
him
into
a
Disease
which
made
his
Bowels
to
fester
,
so
that
at
last
the
corrupted
Flesh
broke
forth
into
Lice
in
such
prodigious
quantities
,
that
all
the
Hands
he
could
employ
were
not
able
to
destroy
'em
,
so
that
his
Clothes
,
Beds
,
Basons
,
and
Meat
was
polluted
with
that
Contagion
:
He
went
often
into
the
Baths
by
day
,
to
scoure
and
cleanse
his
Body
,
but
all
in
vain
,
the
course
return'd
so
quick
,
and
with
such
numerous
Supplys
,
as
overcame
all
manner
of
Riddance
;
so
that
,
in
fine
,
he
who
had
led
an
unclean
Life
dy'd
of
an
abominable
and
unclean
Disease
.
In
the
Life
of
Cimon
,
Plutarch
tells
us
,
that
he
was
lewd
and
vicious
,
accuses
him
of
In-cest
with
his
own
Sister
,
and
other
unclean
Practices
,
and
at
last
he
died
of
a
Wound
,
as
some
Authors
say
,
which
he
receiv'd
from
the
Barbarians
in
a
Skirmish
,
his
Impurity
having
fix'd
a
perpetual
stain
upon
him
,
which
all
his
great
Actions
could
never
wipe
off
.
In
that
same
Life
we
meet
with
a
remarkable
Passage
concerning
Pausanias
the
Lacedemonian
,
who
having
sollicited
a
young
Lady
of
Constantinople
,
call'd
Cleonice
,
to
debauch
her
,
her
Friends
dreading
the
Power
of
the
Tyrant
,
were
forc'd
to
abandon
her
to
him
:
Cleonice
commanded
the
Servants
to
put
out
all
the
Lights
,
and
approaching
his
Bed
silently
in
the
dark
,
she
stumbled
upon
the
Lamp
,
which
she
overturn'd
and
spilt
:
Pausanias
being
awak'd
by
the
noise
,
and
thinking
it
had
been
some
Assassin
to
attack
him
,
snatch'd
up
his
Poinard
and
wounded
her
mortally
,
after
which
he
never
enjoy'd
himself
,
but
was
disturb'd
in
his
Thoughts
,
and
haunted
by
her
Ghost
,
so
that
he
never
had
Success
in
any
thing
afterwards
,
and
was
at
last
slain
by
order
of
the
Senate
in
Minerva's
Temple
,
whither
he
had
fled
for
Refuge
.
In
the
Life
of
Lucullus
we
find
,
that
there
was
a
stop
put
to
the
Careir
of
his
good
Fortune
and
Glory
,
chiefly
by
means
of
Clodius
,
his
Wife's
Brother
,
who
was
so
unnatural
a
Villain
as
to
commit
Adultery
and
Incest
with
his
own
Sister
Clodia
,
Lucullus's
Wife
,
and
stirring
up
the
Fimbrian
Army
against
Lucullus
,
prevented
his
further
Conquests
:
Lucullus
himself
returning
to
Rome
,
gave
himself
up
to
all
manner
of
Luxury
,
and
was
at
last
depriv'd
of
his
Senses
by
a
Philtre
or
Amorous
Potion
,
giv'n
him
by
Callisthenes
his
Freeman
,
to
endear
him
to
himself
;
so
that
this
Great
Man
was
not
only
ruin'd
by
the
Lasciviousness
of
himself
and
others
,
but
a
stop
was
thereby
put
to
the
Roman
Conquests
,
which
had
otherwise
,
says
our
Author
,
not
been
bounded
by
the
Euphrates
,
but
by
the
uttermost
parts
of
the
Earth
,
and
the
Hyrcanian
Sea
.
In
the
Life
of
Pompey
the
Great
we
find
that
famous
General
accus'd
of
unchaste
Amours
with
Flora
the
Courtesan
,
whom
he
afterwards
resign'd
to
his
Friend
Geminius
,
upon
which
she
languish'd
and
died
.
We
find
likewise
,
that
Sylla
,
to
gain
over
this
Great
Man
to
his
Party
,
perswaded
him
to
put
away
his
Wife
Antistia
,
and
to
marry
Aemilia
Daughter-in-law
to
Sylla
,
who
was
at
that
time
Wife
to
another
Man
,
by
whom
she
was
big
with
Child
.
This
unlawful
Marriage
was
soon
after
punish'd
in
part
,
for
Antistius
,
Father
to
Antistia
,
was
murder'd
in
the
Senate
,
as
a
Favourer
of
Sylla
for
Pompey's
sake
,
and
her
Mother
upon
this
account
made
away
with
her self
.
—
These
were
the
Tragedies
that
attended
that
unhappy
Marriage
,
says
Plutarch
;
and
that
there
might
be
nothing
wanting
to
compleat
the
last
Act
by
Heav'ns
,
even
Aemilia
her self
not
long
after
died
at
Pompey's
in
Child-bed
.
These
things
were
the
more
inexcusable
in
Pompey
,
because
we
find
that
he
delighted
much
in
the
discovery
of
Weaknesses
of
the
same
Nature
in
Mithridates
,
when
he
seiz'd
his
secret
Writings
,
wherein
,
amongst
other
things
,
he
found
abundance
of
wanton
Love-Letters
betwixt
Mithridates
and
his
Concubine
Monune
.
—
He
might
have
taken
Warning
,
one
would
think
,
of
the
Judgments
that
pursued
Mithridates
for
his
Intemperance
,
seeing
when
all
his
Concubines
were
brought
before
Pompey
,
he
could
not
but
perceive
the
abominable
Crimes
into
which
his
lustful
Temper
had
hurried
him
headlong
,
for
most
of
his
Concubines
were
either
the
Daughters
or
Wives
of
Princes
and
great
Commanders
,
except
it
was
one
whom
they
call'd
Stratonice
,
who
was
Daughter
to
a
Musician
;
and
having
pleas'd
Mithridates
,
by
singing
before
him
at
a
Banquet
,
his
lustful
Passion
was
so
much
rais'd
that
he
immediately
took
her
to
Bed
with
him
,
and
in
the
Morning
presented
her
Father
(
who
grumbl'd
that
he
had
taken
his
Daughter
without
speaking
one
kind
Word
to
himself
)
with
many
rich
and
costly
Presents
,
and
the
Estate
of
a
Nobleman
lately
deceas'd
,
whereupon
the
old
Fellow
was
so
much
transported
,
that
putting
on
his
Purple
Robes
,
and
mounting
his
Horse
,
he
rode
through
the
City
,
cry●…ng
out
,
All
this
is
mine
,
and
so
became
the
Herauld
of
his
own
,
as
well
as
of
Mithridates's
Folly
;
and
to
those
that
laugh'd
at
him
for
the
same
he
said
,
There
was
no
such
Wonder
in
this
,
but
rather
,
that
he
did
not
throw
Stones
at
all
he
met
,
he
was
so
much
beside
himself
with
Joy
.
Another
Piece
of
Vengeance
that
pursued
Pompey
,
and
wherein
he
might
read
his
Crime
in
his
Punishment
,
was
,
That
his
Wife
Mutia
,
during
his
absence
,
had
dishonour'd
his
Bed
;
at
which
he
was
so
nettl'd
,
that
he
sent
her
a
Bill
of
Divorce
.
Pompey
,
in
pursuit
of
his
Amorous
Inclination
,
did
likewise
commit
a
piece
of
notorious
Injustice
,
in
marrying
Julia
,
Daughter
to
Caesar
,
who
had
been
affianced
before
,
and
was
to
be
married
within
a
few
days
to
Caepio
,
and
,
to
appease
Caepio's
Anger
,
married
his
own
Daughter
to
him
,
who
had
formerly
been
espoused
to
Faustus
,
the
Son
of
Sylla
.
Pompey
was
so
much
besotted
with
his
Love
to
Julia
,
that
he
created
abundance
of
Envy
to
himself
,
by
committing
the
Government
of
his
Provinces
and
Legions
into
the
Hands
of
his
Friends
,
as
his
Lieutenants
,
whilst
he
himself
wantonly
rambl'd
up
and
down
,
caressing
his
Wife
,
throughout
all
the
Delicacies
of
Italy
;
but
he
was
soon
depriv'd
of
her
,
for
she
dy'd
in
Child-bed
,
her
Daughter
not
outliving
her
many
days
.
He
afterwards
married
Cornelia
Daughter
to
Metellius
Scipio
,
and
Relict
of
Publius
the
Son
of
Crassus
,
a
young
Lady
of
great
Quality
,
Beauty
,
and
Education
;
but
this
Marriage
was
very
unpleasing
to
some
People
,
who
thought
that
she
was
a
Match
more
agreeable
to
his
Son
,
and
were
angry
that
the
Affairs
of
the
City
lay
neglected
,
while
he
,
from
whom
they
expected
a
Cure
to
their
Distractions
,
went
crown'd
with
Garlands
,
and
was
revelling
in
his
Nuptial
Feasts
.
It
's
observable
,
that
at
the
very
last
his
Fondness
towards
this
young
Lady
,
and
his
Fear
that
her
Beauty
might
expose
her
to
some
Dishonour
amongst
the
Parthians
,
was
the
chief
Argument
that
prevail'd
with
him
not
to
have
recourse
thither
,
where
,
in
all
probability
,
he
might
have
been
able
to
renew
the
War
,
and
recover
his
Glory
,
after
his
Defeat
in
the
Pharsalian
Plains
;
so
that
resolving
to
sail
for
Egypt
,
and
intrust
himself
with
Ptolomy
,
he
was
,
by
Advice
of
that
young
King's
Council
,
barbarously
and
inhumanly
murder'd
,
as
going
ashore
in
a
Boat
in
order
,
as
he
thought
,
to
a
favourable
Reception
;
the
distressed
Cornelia
and
his
Friends
beholding
this
lamentable
Tragedy
from
on
board
the
Vessels
where
they
were
.
Thus
fell
this
Great
Man
,
to
which
,
it
cannot
be
denied
,
that
his
Amorous
and
Sensual
Temper
did
highly
contribute
:
Not
that
I
would
be
understood
positively
to
assert
,
that
Uncleanness
was
the
sole
precuring
〈◊〉
of
those
Tragical
Disasters
that
befel
this
〈◊〉
Man
and
others
,
whom
I
have
mention'd
or
shall
mention
in
the
course
of
this
History
,
it
being
enough
for
my
Design
to
prove
,
that
it
was
always
one
of
the
visible
Causes
,
and
that
it
makes
good
the
Assertion
of
the
Wise
Man
in
the
Proverbs
,
where
speaking
of
the
Harlot
or
strange
Woman
in
general
,
he
says
,
That
many
strong
Men
have
been
slain
by
her
;
of
which
there
is
not
a
more
speaking
and
demonstrable
Instance
than
this
of
Pompey
,
who
had
triumph'd
over
Asia
,
Africa
,
and
Europe
,
and
yet
was
himself
a
Captive
and
Subject
of
Triumph
to
his
own
Lusts.
In
the
Life
of
Cato
the
younger
,
who
was
not
only
a
great
Pretender
to
Virtue
,
but
,
compar'd
with
his
Contemporaries
,
a
glorious
Mirror
of
it
.
We
find
that
he
had
no
true
Notions
of
the
Honour
of
the
Marriage
Bed
,
nor
any
just
Idea
of
Chastity
;
as
is
apparent
from
the
following
Instance
.
Quintus
Hortensius
,
whom
Plutarch
calls
a
Man
of
singular
Worth
and
approved
Virtue
,
propos'd
to
Cato
,
That
his
Daughter
Porcia
,
who
was
already
married
to
Bibulus
,
and
had
already
born
him
two
Children
,
might
be
given
to
him
as
a
fruitful
Field
,
from
which
he
might
raise
an
Offspring
;
For
,
said
he
,
tho'
this
in
the
Opinion
of
Men
may
seem
strange
,
yet
in
Nature
it
would
be
honest
and
profitable
for
the
Publick
,
that
a
Woman
,
in
the
prime
of
her
Youth
,
should
not
lye
useless
,
and
lose
the
Fruit
of
her
Womb
:
Nor
,
on
the
other
side
,
would
it
be
convenient
she
should
burthen
and
impoverish
one
Man
,
by
bringing
him
too
many
Children
.
Also
by
this
Communication
of
Families
among
worthy
Men
,
Virtue
would
encrease
and
be
diffus'd
thro'
their
Posterity
,
and
the
Commonwealth
would
be
united
and
cemented
by
their
Alliances
.
Yet
,
if
Bibulus
would
not
part
with
his
Wife
altogether
,
he
would
restore
her
as
soon
as
she
had
brought
him
a
Child
,
whereby
he
might
be
united
to
both
their
Families
.
Cato
answer'd
,
That
he
lov'd
Hortensius
very
well
,
and
did
much
approve
of
uniting
their
Houses
,
but
he
thought
it
very
strange
to
speak
of
marrying
his
Daughter
,
who
was
already
given
to
another
.
Then
Hortensius
turning
the
Discourse
,
acknowledg'd
,
that
't
was
Cato
's
own
Wife
which
he
desir'd
,
for
she
was
young
and
fruitful
,
and
he
had
already
Children
enough
.
To
which
Cato
agreed
,
with
the
Consent
of
his
Wife
Martia
and
her
Father
Philip
,
and
after
the
Death
of
Hortensius
took
her
again
,
for
which
Caesar
reproach'd
him
,
as
having
a
mercenary
design
in
his
Marriage
,
saying
,
If
Cato
had
need
of
a
Wife
,
why
did
he
part
with
her
?
And
if
he
had
not
,
why
did
he
take
her
again
,
unless
he
gave
her
only
as
a
Bait
to
Hortensius
,
and
lent
her
when
she
was
young
,
to
have
her
again
when
she
was
rich
?
—
It
's
plain
from
this
Instance
,
that
Cato
was
guilty
of
countenancing
Impurity
in
others
,
if
he
was
not
actually
guilty
of
it
himself
;
and
seeing
he
was
unwilling
to
take
his
Daughter
from
Bibulus
,
and
yet
as
willing
to
gratifie
Hortensius
by
parting
with
his
own
Wife
,
it
would
argue
,
that
he
was
weary
of
her
,
and
that
he
would
make
no
Scruple
to
use
other
Women
,
seeing
he
allow'd
her
to
give
up
her self
into
the
Embraces
of
another
Man
.
But
now
it
remains
that
we
should
take
notice
of
the
Judgments
which
pursued
this
great
Man
,
of
which
,
without
breach
of
Charity
,
we
may
look
upon
this
Crime
,
amongst
others
,
to
have
been
one
of
the
procuring
Causes
.
It
's
known
to
every
one
,
that
he
follow'd
Pompey
,
and
adher'd
to
him
against
Caesar
,
and
that
after
Pompey's
Defeat
he
retir'd
to
Utica
,
where
,
having
no
hopes
of
retrieving
his
desperate
Affairs
,
he
deliberately
murder'd
himself
,
from
which
Design
all
the
Endeavours
of
his
Friends
were
not
able
to
divert
him
:
And
thus
the
Divine
Vengeance
made
him
the
Executioner
of
Justice
upon
himself
,
which
he
ought
to
have
suffer'd
by
the
hands
of
others
,
for
that
brutish
and
unnatural
Carriage
to
his
Wife
.
In
the
Life
of
Demetrius
Poliorcetes
we
have
an
account
,
that
when
this
great
Prince
laid
Siege
to
Megara
,
he
was
so
far
transported
with
a
Lustful
Passion
for
Cratesipolis
the
Widow
of
Poliperchon
,
a
Lady
of
greater
Beauty
than
Virtue
,
that
leaving
his
Army
,
he
went
to
make
her
a
Visit
with
two
or
three
of
his
Intimates
;
but
when
he
came
near
the
City
of
Patras
,
where
she
liv'd
,
he
fell
into
an
Ambush
of
Cassander's
Men
,
whence
with
great
difficulty
he
escap'd
,
by
the
swiftness
of
his
Horse
.
—
And
thus
he
had
well
nigh
made
a
surrender
of
his
Liberty
and
Design
to
the
Charms
of
a
lascivious
Woman
.
It
is
also
observ'd
of
this
Demetrius
,
that
he
had
many
Wives
at
the
same
time
,
and
notwithstanding
his
multiplicity
of
Wives
,
became
so
enamour'd
upon
Lamia
,
a
beautiful
Lady
,
but
infamous
for
her
looseness
of
Conversation
,
that
't
was
said
all
other
Ladies
were
amorous
of
Demetrius
,
but
Demetrius
was
only
amorous
of
Lamia
.
This
Lustful
Prince
was
not
however
satisfied
with
his
variety
of
Women
,
but
did
also
pollute
himself
with
the
unnatural
Crime
of
Sodomy
;
and
it
's
sloried
of
him
,
that
having
been
lost
several
days
in
a
Debauch
among
his
Companions
,
and
pretending
to
keep
his
Chamber
afterwards
,
by
reason
of
Indisposition
,
his
Father
Antigonus
came
to
see
him
,
upon
his
approach
to
Demetrius's
Chamber
,
out
bolts
a
sprightly
young
Fellow
;
and
Antigonus
going
to
his
Bed-side
,
and
feeling
his
Pulse
,
Demetrius
not
knowing
well
how
to
excuse
himself
,
pretended
that
he
had
been
ill
of
a
Fever
,
but
that
he
hoped
it
had
now
left
him
.
Yes
,
reply'd
the
King
,
I
believe
it
,
for
I
just
now
met
it
at
your
Chamber
Door
;
alluding
to
the
young
Catamite
that
sprung
out
of
his
Chamber
.
His
Victories
,
and
the
Benefits
which
he
bestow'd
upon
the
Athenians
,
put
their
Invention
upon
the
rack
,
to
conferr
new-devised
Honours
and
Flatteries
upon
him
,
and
therefore
they
order'd
him
a
Lodging
behind
Minervas
Temple
,
in
the
Apartment
of
the
Virgins
,
the
vow'd
Votaries
of
that
Goddess
,
which
occasion'd
the
Wits
of
the
Time
to
say
,
That
Minerva
had
got
a
dangerous
Inmate
;
and
,
That
it
was
not
much
to
the
Reputation
of
her
Virgins
Chaestity
,
to
keep
company
with
Demetrius
.
And
as
for
Demetrius
himself
,
he
was
so
far
from
shewing
any
Reverence
to
the
Goddess
with
whom
he
had
taken
up
his
Quarters
,
that
he
gave
himself
up
to
the
most
infamous
Liberties
;
and
debauch'd
the
young
Women
and
Matrons
of
Athens
to
that
degree
,
as
't
is
a
shame
for
a
modest
Pen
to
relate
.
This
brutish
Youth
was
so
much
enrag'd
with
unnatural
Lust
,
that
he
tempted
a
beautiful
young
Man
,
call'd
Damocles
,
to
that
degree
,
as
made
him
to
decline
all
manner
of
publick
Conversation
,
on
purpose
to
avoid
his
design'd
Passion
;
but
Damocles
going
to
a
private
Bath
,
the
villainous
Demetrius
having
Information
of
it
,
surpriz'd
him
there
,
so
that
the
poor
Youth
seeing
no
other
way
to
avoid
him
,
leap'd
into
a
boiling
Vessel
,
and
so
became
a
Martyr
to
his
Virtue
.
Demetrius
was
not
only
lustful
,
but
profuse
and
prodigal
in
his
Expences
,
as
all
lustful
Persons
are
;
so
that
having
commanded
the
Athenians
to
raise
250
Talents
for
his
Service
,
and
when
they
,
to
satisfie
his
demands
,
had
levied
it
upon
the
People
by
distress
,
he
gave
it
as
a
trifling
Sum
to
Lamia
,
and
the
rest
of
his
lewd
Women
,
to
buy
them
perfum'd
Washballs
for
their
Baths
:
And
thus
were
the
Athenians
punish'd
for
giving
way
to
the
lustful
Excesses
of
this
young
Prince
,
to
whom
they
were
so
slavishly
obsequious
,
that
,
contrary
to
their
Laws
,
when
he
desir'd
to
be
enroll'd
in
the
Fraternity
of
the
Priests
of
Ceres
,
without
attending
the
time
commonly
allotted
,
which
injoyns
,
that
the
lesser
Mysteries
should
be
celebrated
in
November
,
and
the
great
Solemnity
in
August
following
,
they
made
an
Edict
,
that
the
Month
of
March
then
currant
should
be
accounted
November
,
that
Demetrius
might
be
then
admitted
to
the
lesser
Ceremonies
;
and
as
soon
as
that
was
done
,
by
another
Edict
they
turn'd
that
same
Month
into
August
;
which
occasion'd
Philipedes
the
Comedian
to
exercise
his
Wit
upon
Stratocles
,
the
Inventer
of
this
Trick
,
in
the
following
Couplet
,
thus
:
Prodigious
Skill
!
how
strangely
flattering
Fear
Into
one
Month
hath
crowded
all
the
Year
!
And
upon
the
same
Stratocles's
proposing
that
Demetrius
should
lodge
in
the
Temple
of
Minerva
,
within
the
Castle
he
made
the
following
Lines
:
Stratocles
thinks
it
is
no
Sin
To
turn
a
Temple
to
an
Inn
;
Or
with
lewd
wanton
Company
To
bless
Minerva's
Chastity
.
We
come
now
to
treat
of
the
Punishments
which
Divine
Justice
inflicted
upon
this
Lecher
,
which
were
very
sharp
and
severe
,
his
Father
and
he
both
being
dispoil'd
of
that
large
Empire
which
they
had
erected
for
themselves
,
out
of
the
Ruins
of
that
of
Alexander
the
Great
.
His
Mother
and
Children
,
and
divers
of
his
Wives
,
were
made
Prisoners
,
and
he
himself
forsaken
by
the
Athenians
,
who
had
formerly
●…o
much
ador'd
him
,
but
now
made
it
a
capital
Crime
for
any
body
so
much
as
to
propose
a
Treaty
or
Accommodation
with
him
;
and
Alexander
King
of
Macedon
miss'd
little
of
having
cut
him
off
treacherously
.
It
is
also
remarkable
,
that
this
lustful
Prince
was
punish'd
observably
in
his
Daughter
Stratonice
,
who
follow'd
her
Father's
pernicious
Example
.
The
Story
is
well
known
to
be
as
followeth
.
Demetrius
having
married
this
his
beautiful
Daughter
to
Seleucus
King
of
Syria
,
to
whom
she
brought
forth
a
little
Son
,
Antiochus
Son
to
Seleuchus
by
a
former
Marriage
,
fell
so
passionately
in
love
with
his
Step-mother
Stratonice
,
that
he
sicken'd
upon
it
,
and
was
in
danger
,
and
not
daring
to
discover
the
Cause
of
his
Distemper
,
he
saw
no
other
Remedy
for
his
hopeless
Misfortune
but
what
was
to
be
expected
from
Despair
and
Death
,
which
he
therefore
resolv'd
upon
,
by
abstaining
from
Diet.
Erasistratus
the
King's
Physician
quickly
discover'd
that
Love
was
his
Distemper
,
but
could
not
at
first
discover
the
Object
;
he
therefore
diligently
waited
in
his
Chamber
,
and
when
any
of
the
Beauties
of
the
Court
came
to
visit
the
sick
Prince
,
he
curiously
observ'd
the
Emotions
and
Alterations
in
the
Countenance
of
Antiochus
,
and
by
that
means
discover'd
Stratonice
to
be
the
Object
of
his
Flames
;
for
when
she
came
in
,
either
with
the
King
,
or
alone
,
Antiochus
became
mute
,
his
Passion
smothering
his
Words
,
a
fiery
Blush
would
mount
into
his
Face
,
he
would
fix
his
Eyes
upon
Stratonice
,
and
then
presently
withdraw
his
stoln
guilty
Looks
,
his
Pulse
would
be
disorder'd
,
a
cold
Sweat
would
seize
upon
him
,
and
unable
to
support
the
violent
Passion
,
he
would
become
sensless
and
pale
.
Erasistratus
having
made
this
Discovery
,
acquainted
Seleucus
,
that
his
Son's
Distemper
was
Love
,
but
incurable
,
because
it
is
impossible
for
him
to
enjoy
the
Object
of
his
Passion
,
and
as
impossible
for
him
to
live
without
it
.
The
King
demanding
why
he
could
not
enjoy
the
Object
,
Erasistratus
answer'd
,
Sir
,
because
he
is
in
love
with
my
Wife
.
Upon
this
the
King
expostulated
with
the
Physician
,
saying
,
How
,
my
dear
Erasistratus
!
will
you
not
do
me
the
Kindness
as
to
bestow
your
Wife
upon
my
Son
and
Successor
,
when
there
is
no
other
way
to
save
his
Life
?
Nay
then
,
Sir
,
replied
the
Physician
,
the
Object
of
the
Prince's
Love
is
your
own
Stratonice
.
Ah
,
my
dear
Friend
,
answer'd
Seleucus
,
may
some
kind
God
or
Man
put
the
Safety
of
the
Prince
upon
that
Issue
,
I
would
part
not
only
with
Stratonice
,
but
my
Empire
,
upon
condition
that
I
might
preserve
Antiochus
.
And
thereupon
instantly
summoned
a
Council
,
wherein
the
Marriage
of
Antiochus
with
Stratonice
was
agreed
upon
:
And
thus
Demetrius's
Daughter
pursuing
her
Father's
Example
,
entertain'd
an
unlawful
Amour
.
Justice
continu'd
to
pursue
Demetrius
,
so
that
he
fell
sick
at
Pella
of
a
desperate
Malady
,
the
true
Daughter
of
Intemperance
and
Luxury
;
and
during
this
Indisposition
Pyrrhus
took
most
part
of
the
Kingdom
of
Macedonia
from
him
;
and
tho'
he
recover'd
a
great
part
of
it
afterwards
,
yet
his
Army
deserting
him
,
he
was
quickly
despoil'd
of
it
again
;
which
threw
Philla
,
one
of
his
Wives
,
into
such
Despair
,
that
she
poison'd
her self
.
After
this
he
married
Ptolemaida
,
Daughter
to
Euridice
,
his
Wife
Philla's
Sister
,
so
that
tho'
Judgment
follow'd
him
now
very
close
,
yet
he
would
not
be
diverted
from
his
impure
Amours
.
His
Army
,
with
which
he
fought
against
Agathocles
,
grew
not
only
mutinous
,
but
was
grievously
afflicted
with
the
Plague
;
and
he
being
hard
pressed
upon
by
his
Enemies
,
had
recourse
to
Seleucus
his
Son-in-law
,
who
at
first
was
willing
to
have
entertain'd
him
kindly
,
but
being
otherwise
advis'd
by
his
Council
,
he
took
Arms
against
him
,
and
put
him
so
to
it
,
that
he
endeavour'd
to
have
kill'd
himself
but
being
prevented
,
surrender'd
himself
up
to
Seleucus
,
who
made
him
a
Prisoner
,
but
gave
him
honourable
Entertainment
.
Demetrius
,
during
this
Restraint
,
gave
himself
wholly
up
to
Intemperance
,
which
brought
Distempers
upon
him
that
kill'd
him
,
and
so
he
became
his
own
Executioner
.
The
next
Instance
which
Plutarch
affords
us
is
,
that
famous
one
of
Mark
Antony
and
Cleopatra
.
He
tells
us
,
That
Antony
in
his
Youth
was
debauch'd
by
Curio
,
who
plung'd
him
into
all
the
Inconveniences
of
Whoring
and
Drinking
,
and
a
Debt
of
250
Talents
,
which
was
very
shameful
in
one
of
his
years
.
Antony
did
also
incurr
the
Displeasure
of
the
better
sort
of
People
,
by
his
Midnight
Revels
,
his
wild
Expences
,
his
rouling
from
one
little
Whore
to
another
,
his
Naps
in
the
Day
,
and
his
Walks
to
digest
his
Debauches
,
and
then
at
Night
again
his
Entertainments
and
Balls
for
the
solemnizing
the
Nuptials
of
some
Comedian
or
Buffoon
.
Cytheries
the
She-Comedian
he
doted
on
mightily
,
so
that
she
was
with
him
where-ever
he
went
,
and
her
Equipage
was
as
splendid
as
his
Mother's
.
He
lodg'd
his
little
Whores
and
singing
Wenches
,
wheresoever
he
pass'd
,
in
the
Houses
of
serious
Men
and
Women
,
which
gave
great
offence
.
But
that
which
compleated
his
Ruin
was
,
his
falling
in
love
with
Cleopatra
,
upon
her
coming
to
him
at
his
Summons
,
for
having
assisted
Cassius
in
the
Wars
.
Dalleus
,
who
carried
the
Message
to
her
,
had
no
sooner
seen
her
admirable
Beauty
,
but
he
told
her
,
It
was
impossible
that
so
beautiful
a
Creature
could
receive
any
ill
treatment
at
the
Hands
of
Antony
,
and
therefore
advis'd
her
to
make
towards
him
in
splendid
Equipage
.
Accordingly
she
embarks
in
the
River
Cydnus
,
the
Head
of
her
Barge
did
shine
with
inlaid
Gold
,
the
Sails
were
of
Purple
Silk
,
the
Oars
of
Silver
,
which
beat
Time
to
the
Flutes
and
Hautbois
,
she
her self
lay
all-along
under
a
Canopy
of
Cloth
of
Gold
curiously
embroider'd
,
dress'd
as
Venus
is
ordinarily
represented
,
and
beautiful
young
Boys
stood
on
each
side
like
Cupids
,
to
fann
her
;
her
Maids
were
dress'd
like
Sea-Nymphs
and
Graces
,
some
steering
the
Rudder
,
some
working
at
the
Ropes
;
the
Perfumes
diffus'd
themfelves
from
the
Vessel
to
the
Shore
,
which
was
all
cover'd
with
Multitudes
,
the
People
running
out
of
the
City
to
see
this
strange
Sight
,
left
Antony
alone
upon
the
Tribunal
,
and
a
Rumor
was
spread
abroad
,
That
Venus
was
come
to
feast
with
Bacchus
,
for
the
common
Good
of
Asia
.
As
soon
as
she
arriv'd
,
Antony
sent
to
invite
her
to
Supper
,
but
she
thought
it
more
decent
that
Antony
should
come
to
her
,
who
made
no
great
Difficulty
to
do
it
;
he
found
the
Preparations
very
magnificent
,
but
nothing
was
so
admirable
as
the
great
number
of
Lights
,
which
were
all
of
a
sudden
let
down
in
such
a
multitude
of
Branches
,
and
so
ingeniously
dispos'd
,
some
in
Squares
and
some
in
Circles
,
that
Fame
cannot
speak
of
a
greater
piece
of
Curiosity
.
Antony
was
so
strangely
taken
with
this
Woman
,
that
notwithstanding
Fulvia
his
Wife
maintain'd
his
Quarrels
in
Rome
,
against
Caesar
,
with
great
difficulty
,
yet
he
suffer'd
himself
to
be
carried
away
by
Cleopatra
to
Alexandria
,
there
to
lead
an
easie
childish
Life
in
Divertisements
too
youthful
for
his
age
,
and
in
all
manner
of
Luxury
:
But
they
were
so
well
pleas'd
with
it
,
that
they
call'd
it
an
inimitable
Life
.
Cleopatra
humour'd
him
in
every
thing
,
never
left
him
Day
nor
Night
,
play'd
at
Dice
,
drank
with
him
,
hunted
with
him
,
went
a
rambling
with
him
at
Nights
,
to
disturb
and
torment
People
under
their
Windows
,
dress'd
like
an
ordinary
Woman
,
for
Antony
went
to
those
Frolicks
in
Servants
disguise
,
and
sometimes
would
return
soundly
beaten
.
While
Antony
spent
his
time
thus
in
Egypt
,
Vengeance
was
pursuing
him
apace
,
for
News
was
brought
him
,
that
his
Wife
Fulvia
and
her
Brother
Lucius
,
who
had
for
some
time
maintain'd
his
Quarrel
against
Caesar
,
were
driven
out
of
Italy
,
and
that
the
Carthians
had
over-run
a
great
part
of
Asia
.
This
rous'd
him
out
of
his
Sleep
,
so
that
he
set
sail
for
Italy
with
Two
hundred
Ships
,
and
meeting
some
of
his
Friends
by
the
way
,
they
told
him
,
That
his
Wife
Fulvia
being
a
Woman
of
an
ambitious
Spirit
,
had
occasion'd
the
War
,
being
in
hopes
that
the
Commotions
in
Italy
would
force
Antony
from
Cleopatra
.
It
happen'd
that
Fulvia
died
at
Sicyon
,
on
her
way
to
meet
Antony
,
which
made
the
Accommodation
between
him
and
Caesar
so
much
the
easier
to
be
effected
;
and
,
to
cement
this
Friendship
the
more
strongly
,
Antony
marries
Octavia
,
Sister
to
Caesar
;
but
this
Amity
was
not
long
Liv'd
,
new
Jealousies
betwixt
those
two
Captains
began
suddenly
to
appear
,
tho'
for
some
time
indeed
they
were
hinder'd
by
Octavia
from
breaking
out
into
a
Flame
.
But
as
soon
as
Antony
return'd
into
Syria
,
his
unlawful
Amours
with
Cleopatra
took
fire
afresh
,
and
he
presented
her
with
whole
Kingdoms
and
Provinces
at
a
time
,
to
the
great
disgust
of
the
Romans
;
and
tho'
he
had
assembl'd
a
vast
Army
,
which
made
India
tremble
,
and
put
all
Asia
in
a
Consternation
,
yet
all
those
Preparations
were
of
no
use
to
him
,
he
was
so
much
charm'd
and
bewitch'd
with
the
Thoughts
of
his
Mistress
Cleopatra
,
and
long'd
so
much
to
be
with
her
,
that
not
being
able
to
endure
the
tediousness
of
a
Meal
,
he
would
start
from
Table
,
and
run
to
see
if
she
were
coming
.
In
the
mean
time
Octavia
,
whom
he
had
left
with
her
Brother
Caesar
,
having
obtain'd
Leave
from
him
to
take
a
Journey
to
see
Antony
,
she
was
commanded
by
him
to
stay
at
Athens
,
tho'
she
brought
along
with
her
Clothes
and
Money
for
his
Army
,
and
a
reinforcement
of
Souldiers
.
Octavia
was
much
displeas'd
at
this
,
as
she
had
reason
,
but
so
it
must
be
,
for
Cleopatra
dreading
that
Octavia
,
who
was
a
prudent
Woman
,
and
powerfully
ally'd
,
might
interrupt
the
course
of
her
Amours
,
she
betook
her self
to
dye
for
Love
of
Antony
,
which
did
so
much
prevail
upon
him
,
that
he
abandon'd
his
Design
against
Media
,
and
return'd
to
Alexandria
.
This
injurious
Treatment
of
Octavia
did
highly
incense
her
Brother
Caesar
,
so
that
he
commanded
her
from
her
Husband's
House
into
his
own
,
which
she
refus'd
to
obey
,
but
,
like
a
dutiful
Wife
,
took
care
not
only
of
Antony's
Children
by
her self
,
but
of
those
also
that
he
had
by
Fulvia
;
which
honourable
Deportment
of
hers
did
very
much
heighten
the
Resentments
of
the
Romans
against
Antony
,
who
spent
his
time
at
Alexandria
,
in
the
height
of
Luxury
and
Insolence
,
assembling
the
People
in
the
publick
place
,
where
Thrones
of
Gold
placed
in
a
State
of
Silver
were
erected
for
him
and
Cleopatra
;
their
Children
were
stiled
Kings
of
Kings
,
and
she
was
dress'd
in
the
Habit
of
the
Goddess
Isis
,
and
gave
Audience
to
the
People
under
that
Name
.
These
things
being
related
to
the
Senate
at
Rome
,
by
Caesar
,
did
mightily
alienate
the
Hearts
of
the
People
from
Antony
,
and
so
matters
came
to
an
open
Rupture
betwixt
him
and
Caesar
,
by
means
of
his
unlawful
Amours
with
Cleopatra
.
Great
Military
Preparations
being
made
on
both
sides
,
Cleopatra
was
resolv'd
to
accompany
her
Paramour
,
dreading
otherwise
that
a
Peace
might
be
contriv'd
by
the
Mediation
of
Octavia
;
and
the
better
to
prevail
with
him
,
she
furnish'd
near
a
Million
of
Money
towards
carrying
on
the
War
:
And
so
far
was
Antony
transported
with
Rage
against
his
Lawful
Wife
Octavia
,
that
he
sent
Orders
to
Rome
,
that
she
should
remove
out
of
his
House
,
with
all
her
Children
:
And
he
behav'd
himself
so
insolently
to
many
Noble
Romans
,
by
Cleopatra's
means
,
that
they
deserted
him
daily
,
and
went
over
to
Caesar
,
who
did
so
much
despise
Antony
,
because
of
his
Effeminacy
,
that
he
would
talk
publickly
,
That
Antony
had
drank
Potions
that
bereft
him
of
his
Senses
;
and
,
that
his
chief
Counsellors
were
an
Eunuch
and
Cleopatra
's
Waiting-women
.
The
Event
verified
,
that
Caesar
made
a
true
Judgment
of
Things
;
for
tho'
Antony
had
a
prodigious
Force
,
viz.
no
less
than
Five
hundred
Galleys
,
most
of
them
of
eight
and
ten
Banks
of
Oars
,
so
very
rich
,
that
they
seem'd
design'd
for
a
Triumph
;
and
besides
these
,
he
had
One
hundred
thousand
Foot
,
and
Twelve
thousand
Horse
,
and
six
Vassal-Kings
attending
him
;
yet
he
had
no
Conduct
to
manage
this
mighty
Force
,
but
,
contrary
to
the
Mind
of
his
best
Generals
,
he
would
venture
all
on
a
Sea-battel
,
because
Cleopatra
desir'd
it
.
And
this
Luxurious
Woman
,
when
Fortune
had
not
as
yet
determin'd
it
against
him
,
did
perfectly
lose
him
the
Battel
,
by
running
away
with
sixty
Sail
in
the
heat
of
the
Fight
;
and
he
was
so
far
besotted
with
Love
to
her
,
that
he
immediately
follow'd
her
,
leaving
his
Fleet
engag'd
,
and
his
Army
without
a
Commander
,
that
as
Cleopatra
had
begun
his
Ruin
,
she
might
be
sure
to
accomplish
it
.
In
a
little
time
Antony
was
deserted
by
all
his
Forces
and
Friends
,
and
Cleopatra
and
he
both
forc'd
to
sue
to
Caesar
for
his
Favour
,
who
would
not
grant
her
any
,
except
she
put
Antony
to
death
.
And
thus
being
reduc'd
to
Despair
,
and
pursu'd
to
Alexandria
it self
,
the
Naval
and
Land-Force
that
was
left
deserted
to
Caesar
,
which
made
Antony
think
that
Cleopatra
had
betray'd
him
;
and
she
being
afraid
that
he
might
do
her
a
Mischief
in
his
Rage
,
retir'd
to
a
Monument
which
she
had
prepar'd
for
her self
,
and
sent
him
word
,
that
she
was
dead
,
upon
which
he
ran
himself
into
the
Belly
;
but
,
before
he
dy'd
,
Cleopatra
had
sent
to
have
him
brought
to
her
in
the
Monument
,
wherein
she
had
enclos'd
her self
with
two
Women
only
.
When
he
was
brought
thither
,
she
durst
not
open
the
Door
,
for
fear
of
being
taken
alive
and
carried
to
Caesar
,
but
let
down
Cords
,
to
which
Antony
was
fasten'd
,
and
she
and
her
two
Women
dragg'd
up
her
dying
Paramour
,
than
which
,
a
more
sad
and
tragical
Spectacle
could
not
be
seen
.
When
she
got
him
up
,
she
laid
him
on
her
Bed
,
tore
her
Hair
and
her
Clothes
,
and
the
sense
of
her
own
Misfortunes
was
wholly
swallow'd
up
in
the
thoughts
of
his
.
She
express'd
the
greatest
Passion
and
Tenderness
for
him
imaginable
,
calling
him
her
Lord
,
her
Husband
,
and
her
Emperor
,
but
in
a
little
time
he
died
.
Caesar
being
inform'd
of
this
,
sent
Proculaeius
to
endeavour
to
take
Cleopatra
alive
,
if
possible
,
being
afraid
that
she
would
otherwise
destroy
all
her
vast
Treasures
:
Proculaeius
having
sent
one
to
treat
with
her
at
the
Door
,
did
in
the
mean
time
get
in
at
the
Window
where
she
drew
up
Antony
,
by
the
help
of
a
Scaling-ladder
,
and
surpriz'd
her
,
upon
which
she
drew
a
Dagger
to
have
stabb'd
her self
,
but
being
prevented
at
that
time
,
her
Life
was
prolong'd
for
some
days
;
and
having
obtain'd
Leave
of
Caesar
to
pay
her
last
Oblations
at
the
Tomb
of
the
deceased
Antony
,
she
lamented
him
in
most
pathetical
and
passionate
Expressions
,
and
retiring
again
to
her
Monument
,
writ
a
Letter
to
Caesar
,
desiring
that
she
might
be
buried
in
the
same
Tomb
with
Antony
,
and
straitway
poison'd
her self
by
the
bite
of
an
Asp
,
which
she
had
order'd
to
be
brought
her
in
a
Basket
of
Figs
,
and
so
disappointed
Caesar's
design
of
leading
her
in
Triumph
.
Thus
did
Justice
pursue
Antony
and
Cleopatra
;
and
thus
,
by
their
unlawful
Amours
,
they
occasion'd
the
death
of
many
thousands
of
Men
,
and
at
last
brought
themselves
to
that
Tragical
Exit
;
as
signal
an
Instance
as
any
we
shall
meet
with
,
of
the
truth
of
that
Threatning
,
that
Whoremongers
and
Adulterers
God
will
punish
.
In
the
Life
of
Marcus
Tul●…ius
Cicero
,
Plutarch
informs
us
,
That
Catiline
the
Conspirator
,
amongst
other
heinous
Crimes
,
was
accus'd
of
having
deflower'd
his
own
Daughter
,
and
furnishing
his
wicked
fellow-Conspirators
with
Women
and
Drink
;
which
shews
how
dangerous
such
fellows
are
in
any
Government
,
and
how
easily
they
may
be
engag'd
in
Conspiracies
against
those
who
would
curb
them
in
their
Excesses
.
In
that
same
Life
we
have
an
Account
,
that
Clodius
a
noble
Roman
being
in
the
vigor
of
his
Youth
,
and
in
love
with
Pompeia
,
Caesar's
Wife
,
he
gets
privately
into
Caesar's
House
,
in
the
Habit
of
a
Minstrel
,
the
Women
being
then
offering
Sacrifice
there
,
which
it
was
not
lawful
for
Men
either
to
hear
or
see
.
Clodius
being
a
Youth
,
and
Beardless
,
hoped
to
get
to
Pompeia
among
the
Women
unknown
,
but
losing
himself
in
the
Passage
of
that
large
House
by
Night
,
Aurelia
,
one
of
Caesar's
Mothers
Women
,
'
spying
him
wandring
up
and
down
,
enquir'd
his
Name
,
and
thus
,
being
necessitated
to
speak
,
he
was
known
by
his
Voice
;
which
being
noised
abroad
,
Caesar
put
away
his
Wife
Pompeia
,
and
Clodius
was
prosecuted
for
prophaning
the
Holy
Rites
.
Cicero
,
tho'
his
Friend
,
yet
to
preserve
his
Quiet
with
Terentia
his
Wife
,
was
forc'd
to
accuse
him
.
The
cause
of
Terentia's
Spite
against
Clodius
was
upon
the
account
of
his
Sister
Clodia
,
who
had
a
mind
to
marry
Cicero
,
by
whom
she
was
frequently
visited
,
and
this
gave
Terentia
Ground
of
Jealousie
.
Clodius
was
also
accus'd
of
Incest
with
his
own
Sisters
,
and
of
deflowring
several
other
Women
,
but
the
Judges
being
brib'd
,
he
was
acquitted
.
It
appears
also
plainly
enough
,
by
Plutarch
,
that
Cicero
himself
was
not
altogether
without
Blame
,
as
to
his
Chastity
,
for
he
put
away
his
Wife
Terentia
to
marry
a
young
Virgin
,
as
she
alledg'd
,
for
the
sake
of
her
Beauty
,
or
as
his
own
emancipated
Slave
said
,
for
her
Riches
,
to
satisfie
his
Debts
.
Not
long
after
this
Marriage
,
his
Daughter
Tullia
died
,
for
which
he
prov'd
unconsolable
,
and
put
away
his
new-married
Wife
for
seeming
to
rejoyce
at
her
Death
;
but
a
further
Judgment
pursu'd
him
,
for
Antony
bearing
him
an
irreconcilable
Hatred
,
sent
Assassins
after
him
,
when
he
fled
from
Rome
,
and
murder'd
him
in
the
64th
Year
of
his
age
,
his
Hands
and
Head
being
cut
off
,
and
publickly
affix'd
to
the
Rostra
at
Rome
.
In
the
Life
of
Artaxerxes
King
of
Persia
our
Author
informs
us
,
That
that
Prince
being
desperately
in
love
with
Atossa
,
one
of
his
own
Daughters
,
but
concealing
his
Criminal
Passion
,
for
fear
of
his
Mother
Parysatis
,
the
wicked
Woman
,
to
further
some
of
her
own
mischievous
Designs
,
perswaded
him
to
marry
her
,
contrary
to
the
Determinations
of
the
Grecian
Sages
,
alledging
,
That
he
was
determin'd
by
Providence
to
be
a
Law
to
the
Persians
;
and
he
is
also
accus'd
by
Heraclides
the
Cumean
,
and
other
Historians
,
of
having
likewise
married
his
second
Daughter
Amestris
.
The
Judgments
which
pursu'd
this
lascivious
Prince
were
,
that
he
was
defeated
in
his
War
with
the
Egyptians
,
and
became
contemptible
in
the
Eyes
of
his
Subjects
,
upon
the
account
of
his
unsuccessful
Expedition
against
the
Cadusians
.
He
was
also
punish'd
by
the
Controversies
amongst
his
Sons
about
the
Succession
,
and
by
the
unnatural
and
villainous
Amours
of
his
Son
Ochus
,
with
his
Wife
Atossa
;
therefore
,
to
dash
the
Hopes
of
his
Son
Ochus
,
he
proclaim'd
Darius
the
elder
Brother
his
Successor
,
who
soon
after
begg'd
of
the
King
,
that
he
would
give
him
Aspasia
,
who
was
formerly
Cyrus's
beloved
Miss
,
but
then
Concubine
to
Artaxerxes
,
who
tho'
he
had
Three
hundred
and
Sixty
most
exquisite
Beauties
in
his
Seraglio
,
could
not
endure
to
part
with
Aspasia
to
Darius
;
but
being
constrain'd
to
it
by
the
Law
,
he
afterwards
took
her
from
him
,
and
created
her
Priestess
to
Diana
,
which
bound
her
to
perpetual
Chastity
;
upon
which
account
the
unnatural
Son
conspir'd
against
his
Father
,
at
the
Instance
of
Tiribazus
,
who
bore
a
mortal
Grudge
to
Artaxerxes
,
for
having
married
his
own
Daughter
Amestris
,
whom
he
ha●…
promis'd
him
to
Wife
;
but
the
Plot
being
discover'd
,
Darius
was
put
to
death
,
as
a
just
Recompence
for
his
unnatural
Lust
and
Treason
.
After
this
,
Ochus
,
by
his
Interest
with
Arossa
,
was
strengthen'd
in
his
Hopes
of
Succession
,
found
Means
to
cut
off
his
other
two
Brothers
,
Ariaspes
and
Arsames
,
the
Grief
of
which
kill'd
Artaxerxes
.
And
thus
was
he
justly
punish'd
by
and
in
his
own
Children
,
because
of
his
horrid
Uncleanness
,
leaving
his
Son
Ochus
behind
,
who
being
the
wicked
Son
of
a
wicked
Parent
,
prov'd
a
Monster
of
Cruelty
.
Thus
we
have
finish'd
Plutarch's
select
Lives
,
and
dare
referr
it
to
the
Judgment
of
the
Ingenuous
Reader
,
whether
many
of
his
Heroes
have
not
been
foully
culpable
,
as
to
the
point
of
Chastity
,
and
as
remarkably
punish'd
for
the
same
.
We
come
,
in
the
next
place
,
to
search
among
the
Roman
Emperors
,
where
we
find
many
remarkable
Instances
for
our
purpose
,
and
as
remarkable
Judgments
pursuing
'em
.
The
first
is
Julius
Caesar
,
who
tho'
he
triumph'd
over
most
part
of
the
then
known
World
,
yet
was
himself
triumph'd
over
by
his
Lusts.
When
he
was
High-Priest
of
Jupiter
,
he
divorc'd
Cossutia
,
a
Lady
of
an
Equestrian
Family
,
and
of
a
very
great
Fortune
,
to
whom
he
had
been
contracted
during
his
Minority
,
and
married
Cornelia
the
Daughter
of
Cinna
:
Nor
could
all
the
Arguments
of
Sylla
the
Dictator
prevail
upon
him
to
part
with
her
:
Whereupon
he
was
suspended
his
Sacerdotal
Dignity
,
and
had
his
Estate
sequestred
,
which
forc'd
him
to
abscond
and
shift
his
Quarters
almost
every
Night
,
tho'
sick
of
a
Quartan
Ague
,
and
with
much
ado
obtain'd
his
Pardon
at
last
.
Being
thus
unfaithful
to
the
Marriage-bed
,
he
was
punish'd
in
the
same
Coin
;
for
,
having
afterwards
married
Pompeia
,
she
was
accus'd
of
Uncleanness
with
Clodius
,
as
has
been
already
mention'd
,
who
had
access
to
her
during
publick
Worship
;
whereupon
he
divorc'd
her
.
The
Lasciviousness
of
his
Mind
may
be
also
guessed
at
by
his
Dream
,
that
he
had
ravish'd
his
own
Mother
,
which
tho'
those
who
pretended
to
interpret
such
things
told
him
,
That
it
was
a
Presage
that
he
should
arrive
at
the
Universal
Monarchy
,
yet
is
a
plain
Indication
of
the
predominancy
of
his
Lust.
Suetonius
also
acquaints
us
,
That
he
divorc'd
his
Daughter
Julia
from
Servilius
Coepio
her
former
Husband
,
(
one
who
had
stuck
the
fastest
to
him
of
all
Men
living
,
in
his
Dispute
with
Bibulus
,
his
Fellow-Consul
)
and
married
her
to
Pompey
,
which
made
him
guilty
of
his
Daughter's
Adultery
,
and
was
a
horrid
piece
of
Ingratitude
at
the
same
time
.
And
tho'
,
it
's
true
,
he
had
great
Success
in
his
War
against
the
Gauls
,
Germans
,
and
Britains
,
yet
he
was
not
without
Checks
from
Divine
Justice
,
having
lost
a
whole
Legion
by
the
Gauls
,
had
two
of
his
Lieutenants
defeated
on
the
Frontiers
of
Germany
,
and
lost
the
greatest
part
of
his
Fleet
upon
the
Coasts
of
Britain
.
And
in
his
own
Family
he
was
punish'd
,
by
the
Death
of
his
Mother
,
his
Daughter
Julia
,
and
his
Grand-daughter
.
Nor
was
he
without
danger
of
being
indicted
and
try'd
for
his
Life
,
for
his
Male-administration
during
his
Consulship
,
and
of
being
utterly
ruin'd
by
Pompey
,
tho'
he
had
the
good
Fortune
to
overcome
him
at
last
in
that
decisive
Battel
on
the
Pharsalian
Plains
.
Suetonius
gives
us
a
particular
Enumeration
of
his
Amours
,
which
have
spread
his
Infamy
as
far
as
ever
his
Fame
reach'd
:
His
being
a
Catamite
,
and
guilty
of
Sodomy
with
Nicomedes
King
of
Bythinia
,
occasion'd
many
Railleries
upon
him
,
and
expos'd
him
to
the
Contempt
of
his
Enemies
;
as
,
when
he
swagger'd
one
day
in
the
Senate
,
and
said
,
He
would
run
down
his
Adversaries
;
they
reply'd
,
that
He
would
find
that
an
hard
Task
for
a
Woman
;
alluding
to
his
being
prostituted
by
Nicomedes
.
They
call'd
him
also
The
Queen
of
Bythinia
's
Cuckoldmaker
,
the
Bawdyhouse
of
Bythinia
,
and
Nicomedes
's
Stable
:
His
Adversary
Bibulus
said
of
him
,
when
he
proscrib'd
him
,
That
formerly
he
affected
a
King
,
but
now
a
Kingdom
.
Octavius
,
a
prating
Fellow
,
whose
Tongue
usually
got
the
start
of
his
Wit
,
did
one
day
,
before
a
great
company
,
when
he
saluted
Pompey
by
the
Name
of
King
,
give
Caesar
the
Title
of
Queen
.
Cicero
upbraided
him
with
those
things
in
his
Epistles
;
and
when
Caesar
,
in
his
Plea
before
the
Senate
for
Nisa
Daughter
to
the
said
Nicomedes
,
insisted
upon
the
good
Offices
that
King
had
done
him
,
Cicero
cut
him
sho●…t
,
saying
,
No
more
of
that
,
let
me
beg
you
,
Sir
;
we
all
know
very
well
what
has
passed
betwixt
you
two
.
Nay
,
the
very
Souldiers
who
attended
his
Chariot
in
his
Gallic
Triumph
,
amongst
other
Lampoons
us'd
upon
such
occasions
,
had
this
noted
Lampoon
:
Gallias
Caesar
subegit
,
Nicomedes
Caesarem
:
Ecce
Caesar
nunc
Triumphat
qui
subegit
Gallias
,
Nicomedes
non
triumphat
qui
subegit
Caesarem
.
Which
may
be
English'd
thus
:
For
conqu'ring
Gaul
,
Caesar
doth
Lawrels
wear
,
But
Nicomedes
doth
no
Trophies
bear
,
Tho'
he
made
Conquest
of
the
Conquerer
.
He
is
generally
said
to
have
been
much
inclin'd
also
to
lust
after
Women
,
and
to
have
been
very
prodigal
in
his
Amours
.
He
debauch'd
several
Ladies
of
good
Quality
,
as
Posthumia
the
Wife
of
Servius
Sulpitius
,
Lossia
the
Wife
of
Gabinius
,
Tertulla
the
Wife
of
Crassus
,
and
Mucia
,
Pompey's
Lady
,
insomuch
that
the
Curio's
upbraided
Pompey
,
that
the
Extravagancy
of
his
Ambition
should
ever
induce
him
to
marry
the
Daughter
of
that
Man
,
for
whose
Intimacy
with
his
Wife
he
was
oblig'd
to
divorce
her
,
after
he
had
three
Children
by
her
,
and
frequently
to
own
himself
a
Cuckold
.
Caesar
had
a
mighty
Passion
for
Servilia
,
the
Mother
of
Brutus
,
whom
he
presented
with
a
Jewel
that
cost
him
6000000
Sesterces
,
besides
other
considerable
Boons
,
and
the
cheap
Purchase
of
many
noble
Farms
expos'd
to
publick
sale
;
and
People
being
surpriz'd
at
her
good
Bargain
,
Cicero
quibbl'd
upon
it
,
saying
,
They
would
reckon
it
a
better
Bargain
if
they
knew
that
Tertia
was
deducta
;
meaning
,
that
she
had
prostituted
her
Daughter
Terti
as
well
as
her self
,
to
Caesar.
He
likewise
debauch'd
several
Provincial
Ladies
,
for
which
his
Souldiers
,
in
his
Gallick
Triumph
,
lampoon'd
him
in
this
manner
:
Cits
,
now
be
sure
to
keep
your
Wives
at
home
,
For
here
's
a
bald
triumphant
Stallion
come
:
In
Gaul
they
made
thee
pay
for
Whoring
dear
,
But
thou
of
Cits
mak'st
Cuckolds
gratis
here
.
He
is
also
accus'd
of
Unlawful
Amours
with
several
Queens
,
as
Eunoe
,
Wife
to
Bogud
King
of
Morocco
,
to
whom
he
gave
many
magnificent
Presents
;
but
his
Darling-Mistress
was
Cleopatra
,
whom
he
often
treated
all
Night
long
,
and
had
certainly
accompanied
her
in
her
Pleasure-boat
as
far
as
Aethiopia
,
had
not
his
Army
refus'd
to
comply
with
the
Frolick
;
and
upon
her
he
begat
a
Son
,
who
was
call'd
Caesario
.
Nay
,
he
was
so
infamous
both
for
Active
and
Passive
Uncleanness
,
that
Curio
the
Father
,
in
an
Oration
,
call'd
him
,
Every
Woman's
Man
,
and
every
Man's
Woman
.
He
was
so
insatiable
in
his
Lust
,
that
Helvius
Cinna
,
Tribune
of
the
People
,
acknowledg'd
,
that
he
had
a
Bill
ready
prepar'd
by
him
,
which
Caesar
commanded
him
to
get
pass'd
into
a
Law
,
whereby
he
might
be
authoriz'd
to
marry
what
Wives
,
and
in
what
Number
he
pleas'd
,
to
secure
him
Issue
:
Yet
Infinite
Justice
order'd
it
so
,
that
he
left
no
Lawful
Issue
behind
him
.
We
come
now
to
take
notice
of
the
Judgments
that
pursu'd
him
;
some
of
'em
did
represent
his
Crime
in
legible
Characters
as
that
of
his
Wife
Pompeia's
Intrigue
with
Clodius
,
which
was
so
publick
,
that
Clodius
was
prosecuted
for
the
same
;
as
has
been
already
mention'd
.
It
is
also
very
well
known
to
what
Dangers
his
Contests
and
Wars
with
Pompey
expos'd
him
,
and
how
at
last
he
was
murther'd
in
the
Senate
,
notwithstanding
all
the
Warnings
he
had
giv'n
him
of
the
Design
.
And
it
deserves
a
particular
Remark
,
that
Brutus
,
whom
many
suspected
to
he
his
own
Son
,
his
infamous
Familiarity
with
his
Mother
being
notorious
,
was
one
of
those
that
stabb'd
him
;
whereupon
he
cried
out
,
What
,
and
are
you
one
of
them
also
,
you
my
Son
Brutus
?
This
is
certainly
one
of
the
most
remarkable
Instances
of
God's
punishing
Whoremongers
and
Adulterers
that
is
to
be
found
in
History
;
when
he
who
thought
himself
secure
from
all
Attempts
,
as
being
above
them
,
and
was
so
much
doted
on
and
ador'd
by
the
People
,
that
of
their
own
accord
they
ran
in
quest
of
the
Murderers
up
and
down
the
City
,
and
burnt
their
Houses
,
and
afterwards
worship'd
him
as
a
God
,
when
this
Man
could
not
avoid
the
just
Hand
of
God
,
which
did
so
remarkably
find
him
out
at
last
,
and
punish
him
for
his
Uncleanness
and
other
Crimes
.
The
next
is
Augustus
Caesar
,
of
whom
Suetonius
gives
us
this
following
Account
,
That
having
divorc'd
his
Wife
Scribonia
,
because
of
her
froward
and
peevish
Humour
,
he
fell
in
love
with
Livia
Drusilla
,
the
Wife
of
Tiberius
Nero
,
from
whom
he
took
her
by
force
,
tho'
at
the
same
time
she
was
big
with
Child
;
and
tho
he
lov'd
her
passionately
,
yet
he
never
had
any
Children
by
her
,
for
she
miscarried
of
the
only
Child
that
ever
she
conceiv'd
by
him
,
which
was
a
very
just
and
remarkable
Judgment
.
He
married
his
Daughter
Julia
to
M.
Agrippa
,
who
was
at
that
very
time
married
to
Marcella
,
and
had
several
Children
by
her
;
and
after
his
death
he
married
her
to
Tiberius
,
whom
he
forc'd
to
put
away
his
Wife
,
then
big
with
Child
,
and
who
had
born
him
diverse
Children
.
Judgment
pursu'd
him
for
those
Unjust
and
Tyrannical
Proceedings
,
for
both
the
Julia's
,
his
Daughter
and
Grand-daughter
,
were
notoriously
infamous
;
his
Grandsons
,
Caius
and
Lucius
,
he
lost
in
Two
and
twenty
months
one
after
another
;
his
third
Grandson
,
Agrippa
,
prov'd
so
unruly
and
brutish
,
that
he
transported
him
into
an
Island
,
under
a
Guard
,
and
obtain'd
a
Decree
of
the
Senate
,
to
have
him
kept
in
the
same
place
as
long
as
he
liv'd
;
and
every
time
mention
was
made
of
the
two
Julia's
,
with
Tears
in
his
Eyes
,
and
fetching
a
deep
Sigh
,
he
would
utter
a
Verse
of
Homer
to
this
purpose
;
O
that
I
ne'er
the
Name
of
Wife
had
known
,
And
without
Children
to
my
Grave
had
gone
.
Nor
did
he
use
to
call
them
by
any
other
Name
,
but
those
of
his
three
Excrescencies
or
Imposthumes
.
It
is
further
observ'd
,
that
he
was
effeminate
in
his
Youth
;
Marc.
Antony
upbraided
him
with
being
his
Uncle
Julius
Caesar's
Catamite
;
that
he
had
also
been
guilty
of
prostituting
himself
to
the
unnatural
brutish
Lust
of
A.
Hortius
,
in
Spain
,
for
300000
pieces
of
Mony
.
The
whole
Body
of
the
People
being
also
assembled
one
day
to
behold
a
certain
Interlude
,
they
unanimously
expounded
and
applauded
a
Verse
pronounced
upon
the
Stage
to
his
dishonour
,
viz.
Videsne
ut
Cinaedus
Orbem
digito
temperet
.
In
English
thus
:
Behold
that
Catamite
,
how
he
the
Orb
Of
spacious
Earth
can
with
his
Finger
curb
.
His
Friends
own'd
that
he
was
addicted
to
the
Crime
of
Adultery
,
but
alledge
in
excuse
of
it
,
That
it
was
by
the
familiarity
with
the
Wives
to
discover
the
Secrets
of
their
Husbands
.
Marc.
Antony
charges
him
with
taking
a
Lady
out
of
the
Room
in
her
Husbands
presence
,
and
bringing
her
back
again
with
her
Ears
glowing
and
her
Locks
in
disorder
:
He
accuses
him
of
putting
away
Scribonia
,
because
she
complain'd
too
freely
of
the
Pride
and
Imperiousness
of
one
of
his
Concubines
;
and
that
moreover
he
us'd
to
imploy
Thoranius
to
find
out
Women
for
him
,
who
,
after
the
Bargain
was
made
,
were
to
be
strip'd
and
expos'd
to
their
View
,
as
if
they
had
been
to
be
sold
in
open
Market
.
There
was
also
a
Story
flew
about
of
him
,
of
a
private
Supper
which
he
made
,
vulgarly
call'd
,
The
Supper
of
the
twelve
Gods
,
at
what
time
the
Guests
sate
down
in
the
Habits
of
Gods
and
Goddesses
,
he
himself
representing
Apollo
,
upon
which
the
following
Verses
were
made
,
viz.
Cum
primum
istorum
conduxit
mensa
Choragum
Sexque
Deos
vidit
Mallia
,
sexque
Deas
.
Impia
dum
Phoebi
Caesar
mendacia
ludit
,
Dum
nova
divorum
caenat
Adulteria
.
Omnia
se
a
Terris
tunc
Numina
declinarunt
,
Fugit
&
Auratos
Jupiter
ipse
Thronos
.
In
English
thus
:
Soon
as
the
Vestments
for
the
Feasts
were
hir'd
,
Six
Gods
,
six
Goddesses
themselves
attir'd
In
Mallia
's
view
;
And
impious
Caesar
nothing
would
suffice
But
Phoebus
Shape
,
and
under
that
disguise
Th'
Adu'teries
of
the
Gods
to
act
anew
,
But
then
the
Gods
withdrew
;
From
Sights
on
Earth
they
could
not
brook
,
And
Jove
himself
their
gilded
Thrones
forsook
.
Thus
,
we
see
,
this
great
and
excellent
Emperor
,
who
was
in
a
manner
ador'd
and
admir'd
by
all
Men
,
could
not
,
with
all
his
Magnificence
and
Bounty
,
and
the
Fame
of
his
other
Actions
,
wipe
off
that
indelible
Stain
which
those
Impurities
had
fix'd
upon
his
Memory
;
so
infallibly
true
is
it
what
Solomon
hath
said
of
the
Adulterer
,
That
a
Wound
and
a
Dishonour
he
shall
get
,
and
his
Reproach
shall
not
be
wip'd
away
.
The
next
Instance
is
that
of
Tiberius
Caesar
,
who
,
to
comply
with
the
Emperor
Augustus
,
divorc'd
his
Wife
Agrippina
,
who
had
born
him
a
Son
,
and
was
then
big
with
Child
,
to
marry
Julia
Daughter
to
the
said
Emperor
,
much
against
his
Inclination
.
This
Marriage
as
it
was
unlawful
,
did
justly
prove
uncomfortable
,
so
that
some
time
after
the
Death
of
his
Son
by
Julia
,
there
arose
such
a
Difference
betwixt
them
,
that
from
that
minute
he
forbore
the
use
of
her
Bed
;
and
she
being
convicted
of
Adulteries
,
a
Divorce
was
drawn
up
against
her
in
his
Name
,
and
sent
him
by
Augustus
.
After
this
Tiberius
retir'd
to
Capraea
,
where
he
gave
himself
up
to
Drink
and
Lust
,
insomuch
that
he
was
call'd
Biberius
,
instead
of
Tiberius
,
and
Mero
instead
of
Nero
,
and
was
waited
on
at
Meals
by
Wenches
.
There
he
invented
Alcoves
,
which
he
furnish'd
with
Whores
,
and
Catamites
,
and
lewd
Discoverers
of
unnatural
and
beastly
Postures
and
Motions
,
and
those
he
call'd
Spinctriae
,
the
Incendiaries
of
his
Lust
:
He
entertain'd
himself
by
seeing
them
in
three
several
rows
abusing
each
other
,
thereby
to
excite
his
decay'd
Appetite
.
He
provided
likewise
several
Chambers
hung
about
with
filthy
Pictures
and
infamous
Statues
,
and
furnish'd
them
with
the
abominable
Books
of
Elephantis
,
that
if
any
one
had
a
mind
to
be
prodigiously
wicked
,
he
might
not
want
a
Pattern
to
sin
by
.
He
invented
also
in
the
Woods
,
Walks
and
Grottoes
proper
for
the
business
of
Debauchery
,
where
young
People
of
both
Sexes
prostituted
themselves
in
the
Masquerades
of
Nymphs
and
Satyrs
;
so
that
,
in
allusion
to
the
Island
and
his
beastly
Lustfulness
,
he
was
publickly
derided
by
the
Name
Caprinaeus
.
One
incredible
piece
of
Debauchery
he
was
guilty
of
,
viz.
that
he
debauch'd
young
Children
yet
in
ignorance
,
calling
them
his
little
Fry
,
teaching
them
to
play
between
his
Thighs
while
he
swam
,
to
lick
,
and
tongue
,
and
suck
him
like
Infants
not
yet
weaned
.
It
is
also
storied
of
him
,
that
when
a
piece
of
Parrhasius's
Work
,
representing
Atalanta
offering
her
Mouth
in
that
manner
to
Meleager
,
was
left
him
for
a
Legacy
,
with
condition
,
that
if
he
fancied
not
the
Design
,
he
should
receive
in
lieu
thereof
a
Million
of
Sesterces
,
he
not
only
chose
the
Picture
,
but
placed
it
in
his
very
Bed-chamber
.
And
one
time
,
when
he
was
performing
Sacrifice
,
he
was
so
seiz'd
with
a
Fit
of
this
unnatural
Passion
towards
the
Boy
,
that
carried
the
Censor
,
that
he
could
scarce
restrain
himself
till
the
Sacrifice
was
over
,
and
as
soon
as
that
was
done
,
he
debauch'd
both
that
Boy
and
his
Brother
;
and
hearing
that
they
upbraided
one
another
with
that
Ignominy
afterwards
,
he
order'd
both
their
Leggs
to
be
broken
.
He
was
wont
to
abuse
Women
,
and
those
of
Quality
too
,
very
unnaturally
;
as
was
evident
in
the
Case
of
Mallonia
,
who
being
brought
him
by
his
Panders
,
and
resolutely
withstanding
his
Brutish
Desires
,
was
cited
before
him
upon
the
Depositions
of
suborn'd
Witnesses
,
where
he
ask'd
her
openly
,
if
she
did
not
yet
repent
of
her
coy
Refusal
,
and
vex'd
her
so
,
that
she
at
last
went
out
of
Court
and
stabb'd
her self
,
having
before-hand
sufficiently
reproach'd
the
old
Goatish
Lecher
,
with
his
nasty
and
obscene
Mouth
,
upon
which
,
in
the
next
Farce
,
a
severe
Reflection
was
made
upon
him
which
took
mightily
,
and
was
in
every-body's
Mouth
;
the
Expression
was
thus
:
The
old
He-goat
licks
the
Pudenda
of
the
She-goats
.
Such
Practises
must
necessarily
be
thought
to
render
him
odious
,
and
therefore
he
kept
in
his
Retirement
,
as
not
daring
to
venture
himself
among
the
People
,
yet
Justice
found
him
out
;
our
Author
gives
us
an
Account
,
that
Caius
was
suppos'd
to
have
given
him
Poyson
,
which
wrought
upon
him
by
degrees
;
others
say
,
that
they
starv'd
him
;
and
some
,
that
he
was
stifled
with
a
Pillow
in
the
78th
year
of
his
age
.
The
next
that
falls
under
our
Consideration
is
Caligula
,
of
whom
Suetonius
gives
us
this
following
Account
,
viz.
That
during
his
Youth
he
spent
Nights
in
haunting
Brothel-houses
,
and
meeting
upon
Adulterous
Assignations
,
disguis'd
in
a
Perruque
and
a
long
Gown
,
and
was
most
passionately
addicted
to
Dancing
,
Singing
,
and
all
the
Alurements
of
the
Stage
;
with
every
one
of
his
Sisters
he
was
incestuously
familiar
,
and
at
all
his
Entertainments
they
were
placed
next
below
him
by
turns
,
while
his
Wife
sate
at
the
upper
end
of
the
Table
.
Among
the
rest
,
he
is
reported
to
have
debauch'd
Drusilla
,
while
he
was
yet
but
a
Youth
,
and
was
once
taken
a-Bed
with
her
by
his
Grandmother
Antonia
;
soon
after
being
married
to
Lucius
Cassius
Longinus
,
he
took
her
away
from
him
by
force
,
and
liv'd
with
her
as
if
she
had
been
his
Wife
;
and
,
after
her
Death
,
it
was
his
usual
Oath
to
swear
by
Drusilla's
Deity
.
As
for
his
other
Sisters
,
he
did
not
love
them
so
passionately
,
but
did
frequently
prostitute
them
to
his
Ganimedes
,
which
afforded
him
a
more
easie
Opportunity
to
condemn
them
in
the
Case
of
Aemilius
Lepidus
,
of
whom
he
was
afraid
,
for
Adultery
.
As
to
his
Marriages
,
he
contracted
and
dissolv'd
'em
with
equal
Ignominy
.
Upon
the
very
day
that
Livia
Orestilla
was
married
to
C.
Piso
,
he
being
present
at
the
Wedding
,
commanded
her
to
be
brought
home
to
his
Palace
as
his
own
Wife
,
but
within
a
few
days
turn'd
her
off
again
,
and
two
years
after
banish'd
her
,
pretending
that
she
had
convers'd
privately
with
her
Husband
in
the
mean
time
.
Others
report
,
That
being
invited
to
the
Nuptial
Supper
,
as
he
sate
over
against
Piso
,
he
sent
one
to
whisper
in
his
Ear
these
words
,
Forbear
to
lie
with
my
Wife
;
and
presently
after
rising
from
the
Table
,
led
her
home
along
with
him
,
and
next
day
set
forth
a
Decree
,
declaring
,
That
he
was
married
according
to
the
Example
of
Romulus
and
Augustus
Lollia
Paulina
being
married
to
a
Person
of
Consular
Degree
,
and
General
of
the
Army
,
upon
hearing
that
her
Grandmother
was
one
of
the
most
beautiful
Ladies
of
her
Time
,
he
became
so
enamour'd
of
the
Grandchild
,
that
he
sent
for
her
out
of
the
Province
where
she
was
,
forc'd
her
from
her
Husband
,
took
her
to
himself
,
and
in
a
short
time
likewise
turn'd
her
off
,
forbidding
her
for
ever
after
the
knowledge
of
any
other
Man
.
Cesonia
,
tho'
neither
handsom
nor
young
,
and
the
Mother
of
three
Daughters
by
another
Man
,
he
lov'd
so
passionately
,
that
he
would
often
shew
her
to
his
Souldiers
riding
by
his
side
,
with
her
Horseman's
Coat
embroider'd
,
and
frequently
stark
naked
to
his
Familiars
.
Being
brought
to
want
Money
by
those
his
extravagant
Courses
,
he
invented
new
and
unheard-of
Imposts
;
one
was
,
that
he
exacted
from
common
Prostitutes
the
Gratuity
for
one
Nights
Familiarity
,
and
oblig'd
married
People
also
to
pay
a
certain
Rate
for
the
use
of
the
Marriage
bed
.
He
built
also
a
Brothel-house
in
his
own
Palace
with
Apartments
suited
to
the
Dignity
of
the
place
for
Ladies
and
Gentlemen
to
enjoy
their
clandestine
Amours
;
and
,
to
force
a
Trade
,
he
sent
his
Officers
about
to
invite
both
young
and
old
to
bring
their
Mistresses
to
his
Conveniencies
,
of
whom
,
when
they
came
,
he
receiv'd
his
ignominious
Toll
,
which
there
were
Persons
ready
to
receive
,
and
set
down
the
Names
of
every
Man
in
a
Book
,
as
Benefactors
to
Caesar's
Revenue
.
We
come
now
to
take
notice
of
the
Punishments
which
befel
him
:
It
is
natural
to
conceive
,
that
those
Debauches
impair'd
his
Health
,
so
that
he
never
had
any
either
in
Body
or
Mind
.
It
was
believ'd
that
his
Wife
Cesonia
had
drench'd
him
with
a
Philter
or
Love-potion
,
which
depriv'd
him
of
his
Senses
,
and
almost
made
him
mad
,
so
that
he
never
slept
above
three
hours
in
a
Night
,
and
then
also
was
disturb'd
with
trouble
some
Dreams
and
Visions
;
at
last
becoming
hateful
and
intolerable
by
his
Lusts
and
Cruelty
,
he
was
cut
off
by
Cassius
Cheraea
and
Cornelius
Sabinus
,
Tribunes
,
and
other
Conspirators
,
as
he
was
going
to
see
the
Pyrrhick
Dances
,
the
one
giving
him
a
mortal
Wound
in
the
Neck
with
his
Hanger
,
and
the
other
running
him
quite
through
the
Body
.
This
vicious
Monster
had
render'd
the
Name
of
the
Caesars
so
odious
,
that
the
Romans
had
a
mind
after
his
Death
to
have
abolish'd
their
Memory
,
and
lay
their
Temples
in
Ashes
.
The
next
Instance
is
Claudius
Drusus
Caesar
,
whose
Father
Drusus
being
unlawfully
begot
,
the
lustful
Contagion
was
,
it
seems
,
by
that
same
means
convey'd
to
the
Grandson
,
who
in
his
Youth
kept
company
with
none
but
loose
debauch'd
Fellows
,
and
follow'd
their
bad
Example
.
Livia
Medullina
died
on
the
very
day
appointed
for
her
being
married
to
him
.
His
Wife
Urgulanilla
he
divorc'd
for
notorious
Prostitution
,
and
every-body
knows
how
unfaithful
the
infamous
Messalina
his
Cousin-German
was
to
him
;
upon
which
he
solemnly
declar'd
,
that
he
would
for
the
future
keep
himself
a
Widower
,
and
that
he
would
freely
forgive
them
,
tho'
they
should
kill
him
,
if
not
.
Yet
soon
after
he
fell
in
Treaty
with
Pelina
,
whom
he
had
put
away
before
,
and
then
with
Lollia
Paulina
;
at
length
he
engag'd
in
an
incestuous
Amour
with
Agrippina
,
Daughter
to
his
Brother
Germannicus
,
and
suborn'd
certain
persons
to
move
,
that
he
might
be
constrain'd
to
marry
Agrippina
,
as
being
the
only
means
conducible
to
perpetuate
the
Publick
Tranquility
,
and
that
there
might
be
a
Toleration
also
for
others
to
contract
Marriages
in
the
same
degree
,
which
till
that
time
had
always
been
accounted
incestuous
:
He
was
so
impatient
,
that
he
could
not
stay
till
the
next
day
to
prepare
for
his
Wedding
.
There
was
none
however
that
follow'd
his
incestuous
Example
,
but
a
certain
Libertine
,
and
a
chief
Centurion
of
a
Legion
,
to
both
which
Weddings
he
invited
himself
and
his
Wife
Agrippina
,
for
the
encouragement
of
others
.
His
Uncleanness
was
punish'd
,
amongst
other
things
,
by
the
loss
of
his
Son
Drusus
,
who
having
toss'd
a
Pear
up
into
the
Air
,
and
gaping
to
catch
it
again
,
it
fell
so
exactly
into
his
Throat
,
that
it
choaked
him
.
He
was
so
much
besotted
,
he
sign'd
Writings
for
the
settlement
of
a
Dowry
upon
the
Contract
of
Marriage
between
his
Wife
Messalina
and
her
Adulterer
Silius
,
being
made
believe
that
't
was
only
a
Contrivance
found
out
to
delude
the
Fates
themselves
,
and
to
transfer
upon
the
Head
of
another
Man
those
Disasters
which
the
Predictions
of
the
Soothsayers
and
several
Prodigies
had
fix'd
upon
his
Person
;
and
at
last
he
was
poison'd
by
a
Mushroom
which
Agrippina
gave
him
.
The
next
Instance
is
Nero
,
the
Son
of
Domitius
and
the
wicked
Agrippina
above
mention'd
,
whose
future
Mischievous
Temper
his
Father
predicted
,
when
the
Nobility
came
to
compliment
him
upon
Nero's
Birth
,
viz.
That
there
could
nothing
proceed
from
him
and
Agrippina
but
what
was
detestable
,
and
would
prove
pernicious
to
the
Commonwealth
:
Which
every
man
who
is
acquainted
with
History
knows
to
have
been
exactly
fulfill'd
.
Suetonius
gives
this
following
Account
of
him
,
viz.
That
his
Petulancy
,
Lust
,
Luxury
,
Avarice
,
and
Cruelty
he
practis'd
by
degrees
,
and
at
first
conceal'd
'em
under
the
Excuses
of
Indiscretion
and
Heat
of
Youth
;
but
yet
he
could
not
carry
it
so
,
but
that
every-body
saw
they
were
rather
the
Vices
of
Nature
than
Age.
So
soon
as
it
grew
duskish
,
away
he
flew
in
disguse
to
Tippling-houses
,
Cooks-shops
,
&c.
frolicking
and
scouring
about
the
Streets
,
beating-such
as
were
going
home
late
from
Supper
;
some
little
Shops
he
would
also
break
open
and
rifle
,
and
afterwards
sell
the
Spoils
.
In
those
Quarrels
he
several
times
ran
the
hazard
of
his
Life
,
being
once
almost
bruis'd
to
death
by
a
Senator
,
whose
Wife
he
would
have
taken
from
him
in
the
Street
.
Besides
a
great
number
of
Pages
,
whom
he
made
use
of
in
his
unlawful
Pleasures
and
his
Contaminations
of
married
Women
,
he
deflower'd
Rubria
,
one
of
the
Vestal
Virgins
,
and
would
very
fain
have
married
Acte
a
Slave
,
suborning
several
Persons
of
Consular
degree
,
to
swear
that
she
was
of
Royal
Extraction
.
Sporus
,
a
young
Boy
,
after
he
had
caus'd
him
to
be
gelt
,
he
endeavour'd
to
have
altogether
transform'd
into
a
Woman
,
and
after
he
had
veil'd
him
,
married
him
,
and
settl'd
a
Dowry
upon
him
with
all
the
Ceremonies
of
a
sumptuous
Wedding
,
he
kept
him
at
home
as
his
Wife
;
upon
which
the
Wits
of
those
times
said
,
It
had
been
well
for
the
World
if
Domitius
his
Father
had
had
such
a
Wife
.
This
Sporus
he
carried
about
with
him
,
in
a
pompous
and
costly
Habit
,
as
if
he
had
been
the
Empress
her self
,
under
the
Title
of
Augusta
,
to
all
the
trading
Towns
of
Greece
,
and
soon
after
shew'd
him
openly
at
Rome
,
in
the
Sigillarian
Street
,
and
would
frequently
kiss
him
as
they
sate
together
in
the
same
Litter
.
He
sent
for
a
Harlot
,
who
was
very
like
his
Mother
Agrippina
,
and
entertain'd
her
among
the
rest
of
his
Concubines
;
and
he
was
accus'd
of
abominable
Incest
with
his
own
Mother
as
often
as
he
rode
in
the
same
Litter
with
her
,
which
was
discover'd
by
the
Pollutions
that
besmear'd
his
Clothes
.
His
own
Chastity
he
prostituted
in
such
a
manner
,
that
there
was
hardly
a
Member
of
his
Body
undefil'd
,
insomuch
that
at
length
he
invented
a
new
sort
of
Lechery
,
which
was
,
to
cover
himself
all
over
with
the
Skin
of
some
wild
Beast
,
and
so
to
be
let
out
of
a
Cage
,
that
he
might
fly
upon
the
Secrets
of
Men
and
Women
that
were
tied
to
a
Stake
;
and
after
he
had
that
way
gratified
his
monstrous
Lust
,
he
prostrated
his
own
Body
to
his
enfranchis'd
Bondman
Doryphorus
,
who
had
married
him
as
he
himself
had
wedded
Sporus
,
and
in
that
passive
posture
counterfeited
the
soft
Cries
and
Complaints
of
a
new-bedded
Virgin
.
He
was
so
very
vile
himself
,
that
he
believ'd
every-body
to
be
so
,
only
that
they
dissembl'd
their
Vices
,
and
were
private
in
their
Debauches
;
and
if
any
Man
would
but
confess
their
Obscenities
to
him
,
he
pardon'd
all
the
rest
of
their
Crimes
.
His
impious
Mother
was
remarkably
pursued
by
the
Divine
Vengeance
,
which
gave
her
up
to
the
unnatural
Fury
of
the
Monster
her
Son
,
to
whom
she
had
so
unnaturally
prostituted
her
Body
;
for
after
he
had
divers
ways
attempted
to
rid
himself
of
her
,
but
in
vain
,
he
at
last
commanded
her
to
be
kill'd
,
as
having
conspir'd
against
his
Life
;
which
being
effected
,
he
ran
with
eager
Curiosity
to
view
the
naked
Body
of
his
Mother
,
as
she
lay
weltring
in
her
Blood
,
and
handled
all
her
Limbs
,
of
which
he
commended
some
for
their
Beauty
and
Shape
,
and
disprais'd
others
;
and
happening
to
be
thirsty
in
the
midst
of
his
unnatural
Survey
,
he
was
so
little
concern'd
,
that
he
quench'd
his
Thirst
over
his
murder'd
Parent
,
who
left
the
World
with
that
severe
Reproof
to
him
,
when
his
Murderers
approach'd
her
,
viz.
That
they
should
strike
her
Belly
first
,
which
had
brought
forth
such
a
Monster
into
the
World
as
Nero.
After
this
barbarous
and
unnatural
Murther
,
the
wicked
Monster
never
enjoy'd
Quiet
,
but
was
constantly
pursu'd
with
Horrour
of
Conscience
,
and
cry'd
out
,
That
he
was
haunted
by
his
Mother's
Ghost
.
Nero
had
also
a
plurality
of
Wives
,
viz.
Octavia
,
Poppaea
Sabina
,
and
Statilia
Messalina
,
having
kill'd
Atticus
Vestinus
,
the
Husband
of
the
latter
,
that
he
might
enjoy
her
.
His
Wife
Octavia
he
endeavour'd
several
times
to
have
strangled
,
and
divorc'd
her
under
pretence
of
Barrenness
;
but
perceiving
the
People
took
her
Part
,
he
put
her
to
death
,
upon
a
false
Accusation
of
Adulteries
.
He
had
an
entire
Love
to
his
Wife
Poppaea
,
yet
kill
d
her
with
a
kick
upon
the
Guts
when
she
was
big
with
Child
,
because
she
reprov'd
him
for
staying
too
late
at
his
Chariot
driving
Exercises
.
He
put
Antonia
,
the
Daughter
of
Claudius
,
to
death
,
for
refusing
to
marry
him
after
the
death
of
Poppaea
.
He
also
murder
d
Aulus
Plantius
,
a
young
Gentleman
,
whose
Body
he
had
forcibly
defil'd
before-hand
,
and
after
he
had
kill'd
him
,
used
this
taunting
Expression
,
Now
let
my
Mother
go
and
kiss
my
Successor
,
giving
it
out
,
That
he
was
his
Mother's
Gallant
,
and
by
her
spurr'd
on
to
lay
Claim
to
the
Empire
.
This
villainous
Monster
having
wallow'd
a
long
time
in
unnatural
Lusts
and
cruel
Murders
,
became
hateful
to
every
one
.
He
set
Rome
on
fire
with
his
own
Hands
,
which
was
a
just
Judgment
of
God
upon
that
City
,
for
suffering
it self
to
be
set
on
fire
by
his
raging
Lusts
:
After
that
,
they
were
visited
with
a
Pestilence
,
which
cut
off
many
thousands
of
'em
.
His
Souldiers
in
two
of
the
chief
Brittish
Garrisons
were
massacred
,
and
many
of
the
Romans
and
their
Allies
were
slaughter'd
in
other
places
of
that
Island
.
His
Legions
in
the
East
had
the
Ignominy
of
being
put
under
the
Yoke
;
and
all
Syria
was
like
to
be
lost
,
so
closely
did
Vengeance
pursue
him
.
Then
France
and
Spain
revolted
,
under
the
Conduct
of
Galba
and
Vindex
,
which
so
struck
him
,
tho'
he
seem'd
little
concern'd
at
his
former
Disasters
,
that
he
sank
down
,
and
for
a
long
time
lay
Speechless
,
like
one
that
had
neither
Life
nor
Soul
,
and
when
he
came
to
himself
,
he
fell
a
tearing
his
Clothes
,
thump'd
himself
about
the
Head
,
and
at
length
cried
out
,
that
he
was
undone
:
But
being
at
last
convinc'd
of
the
necessity
of
making
head
against
his
Enemies
,
his
first
Care
was
,
to
provide
Waggons
to
carry
his
Scenical
Machines
and
Musical
Instruments
,
and
to
have
his
Concubines
,
which
he
design'd
to
carry
with
him
,
trim'd
with
their
Hair
cut
like
Men
,
and
arm'd
with
Battel-axes
and
small
round
Targets
,
after
the
manner
of
Amazons
,
so
far
was
he
judicially
given
up
to
his
Lusts.
In
the
mean
time
he
was
terrified
with
frightful
Dreams
and
dreadful
Omens
,
such
as
that
he
was
dragg'd
into
hideous
Darkness
by
his
Wife
Octavia
,
and
that
his
Body
was
cover'd
with
a
multitude
of
winged
Emmets
;
the
Doors
of
the
Mausoleum
flew
open
of
their
own
accord
,
and
a
Voice
was
heard
from
thence
,
summoning
him
distinctly
by
his
Name
.
It
was
also
observ'd
,
that
the
last
Tragedy
which
he
acted
in
publick
was
Oedipus
exil'd
,
which
concluded
in
these
Words
,
that
were
very
applicable
to
him
,
viz.
Thus
Wife
,
thus
Mother
,
and
thus
Father
call
For
merited
Revenge
,
and
I
must
fall
.
Then
,
upon
fresh
Intelligence
that
the
Armies
were
revolted
,
he
tore
the
Letters
as
he
sate
at
Dinner
,
overturn'd
the
Table
,
call'd
for
a
Dose
of
Poison
,
and
retir'd
into
the
Servilian
Gardens
,
where
he
tormented
himself
with
perplexing
Thoughts
what
to
do
in
this
Distress
;
sometimes
he
thought
of
throwing
himself
at
the
Feet
of
Galba
,
or
to
implore
the
Assistance
of
the
Parthians
;
and
sometimes
he
thought
of
putting
himself
in
Mourning
,
humbling
himself
to
the
People
,
and
begging
their
Pardon
before
the
Rostra
,
but
from
that
was
deterr'd
,
fearing
he
should
be
torn
in
pieces
before
he
got
to
the
Forum
;
so
waving
the
matter
till
next
day
,
he
wak'd
about
Midnight
,
and
then
finding
his
Guards
drawn
off
,
he
leap'd
out
of
his
Bed
,
and
sent
up
and
down
for
his
Friends
,
but
none
of
them
coming
to
him
,
he
went
himself
,
with
some
few
Attendants
,
to
their
Houses
,
where
meeting
with
no
admittance
,
he
return'd
to
his
Chamber
,
from
whence
by
that
time
the
few
of
his
Guards
that
remain'd
had
also
march'd
off
,
having
first
rifled
his
Apartments
,
and
carried
off
,
amongst
other
things
,
his
Gold
Box
with
the
Dose
of
Poison
in
it
;
which
put
him
into
that
Despair
,
that
he
sent
for
any
of
the
publick
Executioners
to
dispatch
him
,
and
none
of
them
being
to
be
found
,
he
cried
out
,
What
,
have
I
neither
Friends
nor
Enemies
?
and
ran
away
,
as
if
he
would
have
thrown
himself
into
the
Tiber
;
but
,
upon
second
Thoughts
,
he
began
to
think
of
some
private
lurking
place
,
where
he
might
consider
what
to
do
,
and
for
that
end
mounted
on
Horseback
barefoot
,
and
in
sordid
Apparel
,
with
a
thin
Handkerchief
before
his
Face
,
to
have
retir'd
to
a
Country
House
belonging
to
one
of
his
enfranchis'd
Bondmen
,
having
only
four
Persons
with
him
,
of
whom
his
Catamite
Sporus
was
one
;
but
being
terrified
with
a
violent
Earthquake
and
the
Lightning
that
flash'd
on
his
Face
,
as
an
additional
Affliction
,
he
heard
the
Souldiers
in
the
Praetorian
Camp
cursing
him
,
and
wishing
all
Prosperity
to
Galba
.
He
arriv'd
however
at
the
House
,
into
which
he
crept
privately
through
a
hole
,
lay
on
a
Flock-bed
,
and
had
no
better
Dainties
than
brown
Bread
and
Ditch-water
.
He
cou●…d
not
be
prevail'd
on
to
make
any
further
Attempts
for
saving
his
Life
,
but
order'd
a
Grave
to
be
made
in
his
presence
,
and
wept
every
time
he
cast
his
Eye
upon
those
Funeral
Preparations
,
crying
out
,
What
an
Artist
will
the
World
lose
!
In
the
mean
time
he
receiv'd
Advice
,
that
the
Senate
had
declar●…d
him
an
Enemy
to
the
Publick
,
and
that
he
should
be
sought
after
and
punish'd
after
the
manner
of
the
Ancients
,
viz.
to
be
strip'd
naked
,
have
his
Neck
fasten'd
in
a
forked
Stick
and
be
whipped
to
death
;
with
which
he
was
so
terrified
,
that
he
snatch'd
up
two
Daggers
,
and
having
felt
the
edges
of
them
,
sheath'd
them
again
,
pretending
that
his
fatal
End
was
not
yet
come
:
And
thus
dallying
with
his
End
,
sometimes
he
desir'd
Sporus
to
begin
his
Moans
and
Lamentations
;
and
at
other
times
he
would
desire
some
one
of
the
Company
to
shew
him
the
way
to
die
by
his
Example
;
and
by
and
by
he
would
chastize
his
own
Pusillanimity
,
saying
,
that
he
liv'd
basely
and
wretchedly
,
and
endeavour'd
to
argue
himself
into
Courage
to
take
away
his
own
Life
;
but
hearing
that
the
Horsemen
were
at
hand
,
with
Orders
to
bring
him
back
to
Rome
alive
,
if
possible
,
he
utter'd
a
Verse
in
Greek
to
the
sense
following
,
viz.
I
hear
the
swift-heel'd
Coursers
beat
the
Ground
,
And
with
their
deadly
Noise
my
Ears
confound
.
And
then
clapping
the
Dagger
to
his
Throat
,
was
assisted
by
Epaphroditus
,
the
Master
of
his
Requests
,
to
thrust
it
home
;
and
thus
he
expir'd
,
his
Eyes
being
suddenly
fix'd
and
staring
in
his
Head
,
to
the
terrour
of
all
those
that
beheld
him
.
Thus
was
that
Monster
of
all
Villany
and
Uncleanness
made
the
Executioner
of
Divine
Wrath
upon
himself
,
it
being
impossible
that
he
could
fall
by
a
more
villainous
Hand
than
his
own
.
The
next
Instance
is
the
Emperor
Galba
,
of
whom
Suetonius
gives
us
this
following
Account
:
That
in
the
satisfaction
of
his
Lust
he
was
more
prone
to
the
Male
Sex
;
nor
did
he
care
for
any
of
that
Sex
neither
,
but
such
as
were
overgrown
and
exsolete
.
It
is
reported
therefore
in
Spain
,
that
when
Icelus
,
one
of
the
stalest
of
his
He-concubines
,
brought
him
the
News
of
Nero's
Death
,
he
not
only
receiv'd
him
in
publick
with
home-press'd
Kisses
,
but
courted
and
sent
him
away
to
be
smooth'd
without
delay
.
The
Tragical
Exit
of
this
Emperor
we
have
from
the
same
Author
,
thus
;
That
those
who
conspir'd
against
him
having
drawn
him
out
into
the
Streets
,
by
false
Rumours
of
Otho's
being
kill'd
,
the
Horsemen
who
were
intrusted
with
the
Assassination
galloping
thro'
the
Throng
of
common
People
,
fell
upon
him
and
stabb'd
him
,
deserted
and
abandon'd
by
all
his
Followers
,
near
the
Curtian
Lake
,
where
he
was
left
weltring
in
his
Blood
,
until
a
Common
Souldier
returning
from
a
publick
distribution
of
Corn
,
laid
down
his
Burthen
,
and
cut
off
his
Head
;
and
because
he
could
not
take
hold
of
the
Hair
,
Galba
being
bald
,
he
carried
it
in
the
Lappet
of
his
Coat
,
and
thrusting
his
Thumb
between
his
Teeth
,
presented
it
to
Otho
,
who
gave
it
to
the
Sutlers
and
Horseboys
,
and
they
carried
it
round
the
Camp
,
as
the
Object
of
their
Scorn
and
Contempt
:
So
infallibly
does
Uncleanness
bring
down
Vengeance
upon
the
Heads
of
those
who
wallow
in
Impurities
.
The
Emperor
Otho
follows
next
in
cou●…
,
of
whom
Suetonius
gives
us
this
following
Account
:
That
from
his
early
Youth
he
was
so
prodigal
,
and
given
to
Women
,
that
his
Father
was
often
constrain'd
to
chastise
him
:
He
was
also
wont
to
run
about
the
Streets
in
the
Night
with
his
Companions
,
and
where
he
met
with
any
that
were
unable
to
make
Resistance
,
or
in
Drink
,
he
would
cause
them
to
be
toss'd
in
a
Blanket
.
After
his
Father's
decease
,
he
address'd
himself
to
a
Court-Lady
in
great
Favour
,
as
being
one
of
the
Emperor's
Freed-women
for
whom
he
pretended
a
most
passionate
Affection
,
tho'
she
was
very
old
and
decrepit
:
By
her
means
he
insinuated
himself
into
Nero's
Favour
,
and
easily
kept
the
highest
place
in
his
Friendship
,
through
the
conformity
of
their
Humours
,
or
,
as
others
report
,
being
familiarly
engag'd
in
mutual
Prostitution
.
Moreover
,
Nero
having
a
great
Affection
for
Poppaea
Sabina
,
then
his
Mistress
,
took
her
from
her
Husband
,
and
sent
her
to
Otho
,
who
receiv'd
her
into
his
House
under
colour
of
Marriage
.
And
not
content
to
have
alienated
her
Kindness
from
Nero
,
he
grew
so
fond
of
her
,
that
he
could
hardly
brook
the
Emperor
to
be
his
Rival
;
and
therefore
not
only
refused
those
that
were
sent
to
bring
her
to
the
Emperor
,
but
shut
his
Doors
against
the
Emperor
,
himself
standing
in
the
Street
,
and
with
Prayers
and
Threatnings
intermix'd
redemanding
the
Trust
committed
to
his
Care
;
whereupon
Nero
dissolv'd
the
Marriage
,
and
dispatched
him
Legate
into
Portugal
.
Nero
and
Galba
being
both
cut
off
,
as
we
have
heard
already
,
Otho
succeeded
in
the
Empire
;
but
Vitellius
having
raised
himself
up
against
him
,
Otho
at
last
became
also
his
own
Executioner
,
and
stabb'd
himself
with
a
Dagger
.
The
next
is
Vitellius
,
concerning
whom
that
same
Author
relates
,
That
during
his
Youth
he
resided
at
Capreae
,
amongst
Tiberius's
Catamites
,
insomuch
that
he
was
branded
with
the
Sirname
of
Male
Prostitute
;
and
the
Beauty
of
his
Body
was
thought
to
have
been
the
first
Occasion
of
his
Father's
Advancement
.
In
the
succeeding
Years
of
his
Age
he
was
contaminated
with
all
manner
of
Vice
;
after
he
came
to
the
Empire
,
he
surrender'd
the
greatest
Share
of
the
Government
to
be
manag'd
by
the
Council
,
or
rather
at
the
Will
and
Pleasure
of
every
infamous
Stage-player
and
Chariot-driver
,
more
especially
of
Asiaticus
his
enfranchis'd
Slave
.
This
Male
Prostitute
,
when
but
very
young
,
after
his
Master
and
he
had
mutually
for
some
time
defil'd
each
other
,
being
wearied
with
his
Patron
's
Importunity
,
he
ran
away
from
him
,
afterwards
Vitellius
retaking
him
at
Puteolae
,
where
he
was
selling
sowre
Wine
and
Water
mix'd
together
,
to
the
poor
People
,
to
get
a
Penny
,
he
cast
him
into
Irons
,
but
soon
enlarg'd
him
,
and
favour'd
him
again
with
his
Caresses
.
He
afterwards
sold
him
to
a
Fencer
,
for
his
churlish
ill
Nature
,
from
whom
he
not
long
after
stole
him
again
,
and
the
first
day
that
Vitellius
appear'd
as
Emperor
,
he
suffer'd
him
to
wear
Gold
Rings
,
like
a
Roman
Knight
.
Suetonius
adds
,
That
this
Emperor
Vitellius
was
addicted
to
all
sorts
of
Vice
,
but
chiefly
to
Luxury
and
Cruelty
;
he
always
made
three
Meals
a
day
,
sometimes
four
,
not
contenting
himself
with
Breakfast
,
Dinner
,
and
Supper
,
unless
he
had
his
Collation
afterwards
,
he
would
also
appoint
where
to
sup
,
where
to
debauch
the
same
Day
,
and
happy
he
that
entertain'd
him
who
could
could
come
off
for
Ten
thousand
Crowns
at
one
sitting
:
But
,
above
all
the
rest
,
the
most
famous
Supper
was
that
which
was
made
him
by
his
Brother
,
to
welcome
him
to
the
City
,
at
which
time
,
as
't
was
reported
,
no
less
than
Two
thousand
Dishes
of
Fish
,
and
Seven
thousand
of
Fowl
,
all
Rarities
in
season
,
were
brought
to
the
Table
:
Only
he
himself
exceeded
this
Festival
,
at
the
Dedication
of
his
great
Platter
,
which
,
by
reason
of
its
extraordinary
size
,
he
call'd
The
Buckler
of
Minerva
.
This
Platter
he
fill'd
with
an
Oglio
consisting
of
the
Livers
of
Thornbacks
,
the
Brains
of
Phesants
and
Peacocks
,
the
Tongues
of
Phaenicopters
,
and
the
milky
Guts
of
Mullets
,
for
which
the
Bowels
of
the
Ocean
were
ransack'd
,
from
the
Carpathian
Sea
to
the
Streights
of
Spain
,
by
the
Masters
of
the
Roman
Ships
and
Galleys
.
His
Appetite
was
so
insatiable
and
bottomless
,
and
withal
so
unseasonable
and
sordid
,
that
whether
he
were
upon
a
Journey
or
offering
Sacrifice
,
he
could
not
forbear
from
snatching
the
Flesh
of
the
Victim
,
and
the
parch'd
Barley
from
the
Altars
,
nor
from
tearing
the
Victuals
from
the
Cooks
Stalls
in
the
Streets
,
whether
steaming
hot
or
of
yesterdays
dressing
,
and
the
Leavings
of
others
.
But
this
lustful
and
luxurious
Emperor
becoming
hateful
to
every
body
,
he
was
every
where
either
vanquish'd
or
betray'd
,
and
at
last
seiz'd
in
the
Porter's
Lodge
of
his
own
Palace
,
whence
he
was
dragg'd
ignominiously
through
the
Snreets
by
the
Hair
,
with
his
Garments
all
torn
,
and
at
last
brought
to
the
Scalae
Gemoniae
,
or
common
place
of
Execution
,
where
,
by
gently
stabbing
him
with
small
pricks
at
a
time
,
they
tortur'd
him
to
death
by
degrees
,
and
thence
dragg'd
along
with
an
Hook
,
they
flung
his
mortified
Carcass
into
the
Tiber.
As
for
the
Emperor
Titus
,
and
his
Son
Vespatian
,
they
were
not
without
Blame
as
to
the
Point
of
Chastity
,
and
tho'
their
Exits
were
not
tragical
,
like
those
of
the
preceding
Monsters
,
yet
they
were
not
without
their
Troubles
and
Reproaches
,
as
just
Punishments
for
their
inordinate
Passions
.
Suetonius
says
of
Vespatian
,
That
he
had
a
great
number
of
Concubines
after
the
death
of
Coenis
,
one
of
which
lay
by
him
all
the
while
of
his
Repose●…
And
,
that
being
persecuted
by
a
certain
Curtesan
,
who
pretended
to
be
ready
to
die
for
Love
of
him
,
he
at
length
yielded
to
her
Embraces
,
and
gave
her
Four
hundred
Sesterces
out
of
his
own
private
Purse
,
which
he
order'd
his
Steward
to
place
to
his
Account
thus
,
viz.
To
Vespasian
,
for
being
belov'd
.
That
same
Historian
observes
of
him
,
that
he
was
much
given
to
Drolling
,
and
that
sometimes
so
broad
and
scurrilously
,
that
he
could
hardly
refrain
from
Obscenity
.
He
died
of
a
sudden
Looseness
,
as
a
just
Punishment
for
his
loose
Life
,
of
which
the
indelible
Stain
is
convey'd
to
Posterity
by
Suetonius
and
other
Historians
.
His
Son
Vespatian
is
accus'd
of
sitting
up
till
midnight
revelling
with
the
lewdest
of
his
Companions
,
and
that
his
Lechery
was
notorious
,
by
his
Gangs
of
Catamites
and
Eunuchs
,
and
the
excessive
Love
he
bore
to
the
Queen
Berenice
:
Upon
the
whole
,
he
was
generally
esteem'd
and
talk'd
of
as
another
Nero
;
but
after
he
came
to
the
Empire
,
he
reform'd
himself
,
turn'd
off
his
Paramour
Berenice
,
and
all
his
Catamites
,
and
became
one
of
the
most
excellent
Princes
that
ever
sway'd
the
Roman
Scepter
:
Yet
so
far
hath
the
Divine
Justice
punish'd
his
Incontinence
,
that
the
Infamy
of
it
is
transmitted
to
Posterity
upon
Record
,
and
he
was
cut
off
in
a
manner
in
the
Vigor
of
his
Age
,
being
but
in
his
41st
Year
when
he
died
:
And
of
this
Misfortune
he
was
very
sensible
,
the
Historian
telling
us
,
that
he
look'd
up
toward
Heaven
,
bitterly
complaining
,
that
his
Life
was
wrongfully
taken
from
him
,
for
he
had
been
guilty
of
no
Action
of
which
he
need
repent
,
excepting
one
only
,
which
what
it
was
he
neither
then
declar'd
himself
,
nor
could
it
be
easily
guess'd
by
any
one
else
,
tho'
some
were
of
Opinion
,
that
't
was
his
Familiarity
with
his
Brother's
Wife
Domitia
,
but
she
swore
positively
there
was
no
such
thing
,
and
she
would
not
have
denied
it
had
it
been
true
,
but
rather
have
gloried
in
it
;
which
it
was
usual
for
her
to
do
of
any
kind
of
Lewdness
.
But
thus
his
Memory
and
Fame
justly
suffers
,
because
of
his
former
Intemperance
.
The
following
Instance
is
that
of
Domitian
,
who
was
infamous
from
his
very
Youth
;
Nero
produc'd
a
Note
under
his
Hand
when
he
was
a
young
Man
,
wherein
he
had
promised
him
a
Nights
Lodging
at
any
time
:
and
he
is
also
accus'd
of
having
prostituted
his
Body
to
Nerva
He
divorc'd
his
Wife
Domitia
,
on
pretence
that
she
was
in
Love
with
one
Paris
,
a
Stage-player
,
and
afterwards
took
her
again
.
Being
greatly
addicted
to
Venery
,
he
call'd
frequent
Coition
his
Bed-wrestling
,
as
if
it
had
been
a
kind
of
Exercise
;
and
it
is
reported
of
him
,
that
he
would
often
smooth
and
depilate
his
Concubines
,
and
swim
amongst
the
most
notorious
Harlots
.
When
his
Brother's
Daughter
was
offer'd
him
in
Marriage
,
he
would
by
no
means
accept
of
her
,
as
being
engag'd
in
Wedlock
with
Domitilla
;
but
not
long
after
,
when
she
was
married
to
another
,
he
debauch'd
her
of
his
own
accord
,
tho'
Titus
was
then
alive
;
but
when
her
Father
and
Husband
were
dead
,
he
lov'd
her
with
a
most
passionate
Affection
,
which
he
own'd
before
all
the
World
,
insomuch
that
after
he
had
got
her
with
Child
,
he
forc'd
her
to
miscarry
,
which
was
the
occasion
of
her
death
.
This
vile
Prince
being
justly
hated
for
his
Cruelty
and
Debauchery
,
was
kill'd
in
his
own
Chamber
,
by
those
that
conspir'd
against
him
,
Stephanus
,
Domitilla's
Steward
,
having
stabb'd
him
with
a
Dagger
in
the
Groin
,
as
he
was
reading
a
Paper
which
he
●…ad
given
him
,
pretending
it
was
a
Discovery
of
a
new
Plot.
And
the
Memory
of
this
Emperor
was
so
execrable
to
the
Senate
,
that
they
order'd
all
his
Decrees
and
Titles
to
be
every
where
ras'd
out
,
and
the
very
Memory
of
him
utterly
abolish'd
;
so
infallibly
true
hath
it
always
been
found
,
that
Whoremongers
and
Adulterers
God
will
punish
.
Thus
we
have
gone
through
such
Instances
as
Livy
and
Suetonius
afford
us
,
and
must
now
have
recourse
to
other
Authors
for
the
remainder
of
the
Roman
Emperors
.
The
next
we
shall
instance
is
the
Emperor
L.
Aurelius
Commodus
Antoninus
,
who
was
elevated
to
the
Imperial
Dignity
about
the
Year
of
Christ
180.
From
his
very
Infancy
he
was
bent
to
all
sorts
of
Vice
,
notwithstanding
the
Care
of
the
wise
Philosophers
,
who
had
the
conduct
of
his
Manners
,
so
that
Rome
found
in
him
a
second
Nero.
He
would
needs
pass
for
Hercules
,
Son
to
Jupiter
,
appear'd
as
he
did
,
with
the
Lions
Skin
and
Club
,
and
would
have
Altars
and
Sacrifices
,
which
the
Senate
consented
to
,
rather
than
they
would
irritate
his
furious
nature
:
He
murder'd
most
of
the
Senators
;
was
a
severe
Persecuter
of
the
Christians
,
debauch'd
his
own
Sisters
,
and
entertained
three
hundred
Concubines
,
and
as
many
Boys
,
for
his
detestable
Pleasures
,
and
gave
the
Government
of
his
Provinces
to
Men
noted
for
Vice
or
Infamy
:
But
,
at
last
,
having
design'd
to
cut
off
Martia
,
one
of
his
Strumpets
,
she
,
together
with
the
Captain
of
his
Guards
and
his
Lord
Chamberlain
,
against
whom
he
had
the
like
Design
,
mix'd
Poison
with
his
Wine
,
which
not
being
quick
enough
in
its
operation
,
they
had
him
strangled
by
a
Wrestler
,
(
with
whom
he
us'd
to
exercise
himself
sometimes
at
that
Sport
)
about
the
31st
year
of
his
age
;
says
Lampridius
,
Eutropius
,
and
Onuphrius
.
We
come
next
to
Heliogabalus
the
Emperor
,
who
succeeded
Macrinus
,
and
was
called
the
Roman
Sardanapalus
.
His
Luxury
was
so
boundless
,
that
when
he
was
on
the
Sea-coasts
he
would
eat
nothing
but
Fowl
from
the
remotest
Mountains
,
and
when
farthest
from
the
Sea
,
would
eat
nothing
but
Sea-fish
;
he
fed
his
Lamps
with
Balsam
,
and
filled
his
Fish-ponds
with
scented
Water
;
he
married
Aquila
Severa
,
a
Vestal
Virgin
,
(
tho'
by
the
Roman
Law
accounted
Incest
)
saying
,
That
he
being
a
Priest
,
their
Offspring
must
be
altogether
Heavenly
.
His
two
Coachmen
were
his
chief
Companions
and
fellow-Debauchees
.
He
cut
off
abundance
of
the
Senators
,
because
they
would
not
allow
of
a
Senate
of
Women
,
whereof
his
Mother
was
to
be
President
,
and
to
determine
all
Female
Controversies
.
Tho'
he
was
but
Twenty
two
Years
old
at
most
,
he
was
guilty
of
all
manner
of
Villanies
,
enough
to
make
'
those
who
read
his
History
to
blush
:
He
became
at
last
so
hateful
even
to
his
own
Guards
,
that
he
and
his
Mother
were
both
s●…in
in
the
Camp
,
and
their
Corps
expos'd
to
all
manner
of
Indignities
from
the
Populace
,
who
first
threw
them
into
a
Privy
,
and
then
into
the
Tiber
,
so
vile
had
their
Lusts
render'd
them
in
the
Eyes
of
the
People
.
This
happen'd
about
the
Year
222
,
according
to
Eutropius
,
Lampridius
,
and
Aurelius
Victor
.
The
Emperor
Trajan
falls
next
under
consideration
,
who
tho'
a
Prince
excellent
for
Virtue
and
Valour
,
compar'd
with
some
that
went
before
him
,
yet
Dion
and
others
charge
him
with
Cruelty
and
Incontinence
in
the
unnatural
Love
of
Boys
,
as
also
with
persecuting
the
Christians
,
and
Excess
in
Wine
.
As
to
his
punishment
,
the
same
Authors
take
notice
,
that
he
had
well
nigh
perish'd
by
a
dreadful
Earthquake
,
and
escap'd
so
narrowly
,
that
he
was
forced
to
be
drawn
out
of
a
Window
;
and
his
great
Virtue
and
Valour
have
not
been
able
to
preserve
his
Memory
from
the
Ignominy
of
those
Sodomitical
Impurities
he
was
guilty
of
.
The
Emperor
Caracalla
was
a
Monster
of
Cruelty
and
Incontinence
,
being
so
impudent
as
to
marry
Julia
his
Father's
Widow
;
he
also
conspir'd
the
Death
of
his
Father
and
Brother
,
so
inseparable
are
Cruelty
and
Incontinence
,
and
was
at
last
cut
off
himself
by
a
Conspiracy
of
his
Officers
.
The
Emperor
Gallienus
,
says
Trebellius
Pollio
,
was
a
person
altogether
given
to
Sloath
and
Ease
,
his
Pleasures
and
Lusts
,
which
drew
upon
him
the
Hatred
of
all
Men.
When
they
brought
him
News
that
Egypt
was
lost
,
and
that
Gaul
had
revolted
,
he
was
so
unconcern'd
,
because
of
his
sluggish
Temper
,
that
he
made
no
other
Answer
but
,
What
,
can't
we
live
without
the
Flax
of
Egypt
,
or
the
Jippoes
of
Arras
?
And
at
last
was
slain
by
some
of
his
Captains
.
Aurelius
Victor
gives
us
this
Account
of
the
Emperor
Carinus
,
That
he
gave
himself
over
to
all
manner
of
Vice
,
married
nine
Wives
,
and
put
several
to
death
upon
bare
Suspicion
;
which
,
says
Vopiscus
,
made
his
Father
afterwards
disown
him
;
and
he
was
kill'd
in
285
,
by
one
of
his
Captains
,
whose
Wife
he
had
debauch'd
.
Eutropius
and
Croesus
say
of
the
Emperor
Galerius
,
That
he
divorced
his
first
Wife
,
and
married
Valeria
,
the
Emperor's
Daughter
,
persecuted
the
Christians
in
a
most
cruel
and
barbarous
manner
,
and
died
of
an
Ulcer
in
his
Genitals
,
that
began
to
swarm
with
Worms
;
a
just
and
suitable
Punishment
for
his
Incontinence
.
Valentinian
the
Third
became
so
enamoured
on
a
Roman
Lady
,
Wife
to
Maximus
,
a
Senator
,
and
afterwards
Emperor
,
that
he
sollicited
her
continually
to
debauch
her
,
but
without
effect
:
But
having
won
all
Maximus's
Money
,
and
his
Ring
likewise
,
at
Dice
,
he
sent
the
Ring
as
a
Token
from
her
Husband
,
to
come
to
the
Palace
,
and
when
she
came
thither
,
violated
her
Chastity
;
the
injur'd
Lady
complain'd
of
it
to
her
Husband
,
who
in
revenge
contriv'd
the
Murder
of
Maximus
,
about
the
Year
455.
Procopius
and
Baronius
have
left
it
on
Record
concerning
the
Emperor
Maximus
,
That
having
caused
the
Emperor
Valentinian
the
third
to
be
kill'd
for
having
ravish'd
his
Wife
,
he
married
the
Empress
Eudoxa
by
force
,
created
his
own
Son
Caesar
,
and
married
him
to
the
young
Eudoxa
,
the
Emperor's
Daughter
.
One
Night
,
in
his
Amours
with
the
Empress
Eudoxa
,
he
told
her
,
That
he
kill'd
the
Emperor
her
Husband
for
love
of
her
;
which
so
incens'd
her
,
that
she
sent
for
Genseric
,
King
of
the
African
Vandals
,
to
deliver
her
from
the
Tyrant
,
who
abandoning
Rome
when
Genseric
enter'd
into
it
,
he
was
kill'd
by
a
Souldier
,
and
afterwards
pull'd
in
pieces
by
the
Empress
and
her
Servants
,
and
thrown
into
the
Tiber
,
about
seventy
seven
days
after
he
began
his
Reign
.
Thus
we
have
gone
through
the
several
Governments
and
Governours
of
Rome
,
from
its
foundation
to
the
Reign
of
Augustulus
,
the
last
of
those
properly
call'd
Roman
Emperors
,
which
have
afforded
us
many
remarkable
Instances
of
the
Tragical
Effects
of
Lust
,
not
only
upon
particular
Persons
and
Families
,
but
upon
Kingdoms
,
Empires
,
and
other
Governments
,
and
shall
shut
up
this
part
of
our
History
with
an
Account
of
the
abominable
Worship
of
Priapus
and
Berecynthia
,
and
the
Ludi
Florales
celebrated
among
the
Romans
with
so
much
Solemnity
and
Impudence
,
that
it
afforded
Subject-matter
of
Reflection
to
their
Satyrists
,
and
Historians
,
who
ascrib'd
the
Fall
of
the
Roman
Empire
chiefly
to
that
Cause
.
Tostatus
,
in
his
50th
Question
upon
the
20th
of
Exodus
,
saith
concerning
the
Heathenish
Worship
of
Priapus
,
That
it
was
so
obscene
,
that
the
very
mention
of
it
could
not
but
offend
chaste
Ears
.
They
professed
in
the
holding
of
those
Sacrifices
that
beastly
Crime
which
the
most
vicious
Men
will
hardly
confess
upon
the
Rack
.
The
shape
,
says
he
,
in
which
that
God
was
represented
was
such
as
Nature
hath
taught
us
to
●…ide
;
and
the
gestures
of
the
Priests
in
serving
him
such
,
as
I
wonder
their
Matrons
and
Virgins
,
in
whom
were
any
spark
of
Modesty
,
could
behold
it
with
patience
;
and
for
the
People
who
came
to
worship
,
the
Sacrifice
being
ended
,
they
all
stepped
aside
into
a
Thicket
,
which
was
alwaies
planted
near
the
Altar
of
this
God
.
and
there
,
like
Brute
Beasts
,
promiscuously
satisfied
their
Lust
,
thereby
,
as
they
conceived
,
best
pleasing
their
God
;
which
was
the
cause
,
as
it
seems
,
that
the
true
GOD
commanded
that
no
Groves
should
be
planted
near
the
place
of
his
Worship
;
and
,
if
any
were
,
that
they
should
be
cut
down
.
Of
the
same
nature
was
the
Worship
of
Berecynthia
,
the
Mother
of
the
Gods
;
as
we
find
described
by
St.
Augustine
,
De
Civit.
Dei
,
lib.
2
,
cap.
4
,
in
the
following
words
,
Ante
ejus
Lecticam
,
i.
e.
Such
filthy
Stuff
was
by
loose
prophane
Varlets
sung
before
her
Chariot
on
the
solemn
day
of
her
Lavation
,
as
was
utterly
unfit
,
I
will
not
say
for
the
Mother
of
the
Gods
,
but
of
any
Senator
,
nay
,
of
any
honest
Man
,
nay
,
of
the
Singers
themselves
to
hear
;
And
perchance
,
saith
he
,
they
would
have
blush'd
to
have
spoken
that
before
their
own
Mothers
,
at
home
,
which
in
the
sight
of
the
Mother
of
the
Gods
,
in
the
sight
and
hearing
of
innumerable
multitudes
of
both
Sexes
,
they
boldly
sang
;
and
thereupon
breaks
out
into
this
Exclamation
:
What
should
we
call
Sacrilege
,
if
this
were
Sacrificing
,
what
Pollution
if
this
Purification
?
And
if
this
be
Sacrilege
,
then
surely
the
Worshipping
of
God
by
Blasphemies
and
Cursings
,
as
did
the
Lyndians
,
is
a
degree
beyond
Sacrilege
;
who
notwithstanding
proceeded
so
far
in
this
devilish
mad
Custom
,
that
,
as
Lactantius
says
,
they
held
it
a
violation
of
their
Sacrifice
,
if
during
their
solemn
Ceremonies
but
a
good
Word
chanced
to
slip
from
any
Man
,
tho'
unawares
.
To
these
may
be
added
the
abominable
Games
call'd
by
the
Romans
Ludi
Florales
,
in
honour
of
Flora
,
a
notorious
Strumpet
,
concerning
which
St.
Augustine
,
in
his
third
Book
,
De
Civitate
Dei
,
cap.
27
,
saith
,
Which
Games
of
theirs
,
the
more
dishonestly
,
the
more
devoutly
they
were
celebrated
.
In
these
the
common
Prostitutes
,
who
got
their
maintenance
by
that
Trade
,
ran
up
and
down
the
Streets
by
Day
,
and
in
the
Night
,
with
burning
Torches
,
having
their
whole
Bodies
stark
naked
,
and
expressing
the
most
beastly
Motions
and
Gestures
,
and
uttering
the
most
filthy
Speeches
and
Songs
that
could
possibly
be
imagin'd
.
To
these
Ovid
all●…des
Fastorum
5
,
when
he
says
,
Turba
quidem
cur
hos
celebret
Meretricia
ludos
,
Non
ex
difficili
cognita
causa
fuit
.
Yet
to
those
shameful
Pastimes
were
their
Youth
admitted
,
thereby
adding
as
it
were
Fire
to
the
Tinder
;
nay
,
the
sagest
Senators
,
gravest
Matrons
,
and
severest
Magistrates
were
well
content
to
grace
them
with
their
presence
,
as
if
it
had
been
some
commendable
Exercise
.
These
Floral
Plays
were
acted
but
once
a
Year
,
but
their
Interludes
upon
the
open
Stage
were
acted
almost
every
Day
,
and
so
abominable
,
that
the
devout
Fathers
of
the
Primitive
Church
could
hardly
write
of
them
with
Patience
.
Salvianus
,
de
Gubernatione
Dei
,
lb.
6
,
writes
smartly
concerning
them
,
thus
:
Talia
sunt
quae
illic
fiunt
,
&c.
i.
e.
The
things
acted
there
are
of
such
a
nature
,
that
a
Man
can
scarcely
speak
of
them
,
or
remember
them
,
without
some
touch
of
Pollution
.
Other
Offences
challenge
to
themselves
but
a
part
of
us
,
as
impure
Thoughts
,
the
Mind
;
unchaste
Sights
,
the
Eye
;
wicked
Speeches
,
the
Ear
;
so
that
when
one
of
these
is
tainted
,
yet
the
rest
may
be
clear
from
Pollution
,
but
in
the
Theatre
none
of
them
is
free
from
the
guilt
of
Infection
,
inasmuch
as
the
Mind
is
there
defiled
with
corrupt
Thoughts
,
the
Affections
with
naughty
Desires
,
the
Eyes
by
seeing
,
the
Ears
by
hearing
;
all
which
are
so
lewd
,
that
no
Man
,
without
blushing
,
can
so
much
as
name
them
,
much
less
fully
describe
them
.
For
what
modest
Man
is
there
,
who
can
recount
those
Representations
of
beastly
Actions
,
those
filthy
Speeches
,
and
Motions
,
and
Gestures
,
which
how
sinful
they
are
we
may
from
hence
conjecture
,
that
they
cannot
well
be
related
?
which
being
so
,
behold
what
manner
of
things
all
,
or
at
leastwise
the
greatest
part
,
of
the
Romans
practis'd
.
And
would
to
God
that
all
that
is
here
said
were
not
too
too
applicable
to
our
English
Playhouses
.
That
the
Roman
Luxury
was
incredible
,
appears
by
their
own
Writers
,
both
Poets
and
Historians
;
and
to
that
purpose
Juvenal
,
in
his
6th
Satyr
,
has
these
remarkable
Expressions
:
Nunc
patimur
Long
a
pacis
mala
,
saevior
armis
Luxuria
incumbit
,
victumque
ulsciscitur
orbem
Nullum
crimen
abest
,
fauinusque
libidinis
ex
quo
Paupertas
Romana
perit
.
Pariterque
&
Luxuria
nata
est
&
Carthago
sublata
,
saith
Pliny
;
i.
e.
Luxury
was
born
and
Carthage
demolish'd
at
the
same
time
;
meaning
,
that
when
the
Romans
had
no
Enemies
to
keep
'em
in
the
exercise
of
their
Arms
,
they
became
luxurious
.
And
Causabon
,
in
his
Preface
to
Polybius
,
says
,
It
is
evident
that
those
Times
are
by
Tacitus
described
in
his
Annals
,
than
which
there
were
never
any
Times
more
fruitful
in
most
shameful
and
abominable
Vices
,
or
more
opposite
to
Virtue
.
And
by
that
means
,
as
Juvenal
expresses
it
well
,
their
Luxury
became
more
destructive
to
them
than
their
Arms
,
and
by
making
a
Conquest
of
them
,
reveng'd
their
Conquest
of
the
World
.
And
thus
fell
the
great
Roman
Empire
.
We
have
already
taken
notice
of
the
Lasciviousness
of
the
Romans
,
and
their
Incontinence
as
to
the
Lusts
of
the
Flesh
;
we
come
now
to
take
a
short
view
of
their
Luxury
in
other
respects
,
which
being
equally
a
breach
of
the
Seventh
Commandment
,
were
either
naturally
introductive
of
their
Bodily
Uncleanness
,
or
the
unavoidable
Consequences
of
it
,
and
contributed
to
the
Ruine
of
their
Empire
.
To
begin
with
their
Excess
in
Drinking
,
Ammianus
Marcellinus
,
lib.
22
,
says
,
That
their
Cups
were
heavier
than
their
Swords
;
and
those
Cups
were
made
of
the
Leaves
of
the
Egyptian
Bean
,
which
Pliny
,
lib.
21
,
c.
15
,
says
,
were
as
broad
as
a
Thessalian
Hat
.
They
had
a
Master
of
Misrule
in
their
Carrouses
,
who
was
call'd
Modiperator
,
or
Magister
,
whose
Office
was
to
prescribe
Rules
,
and
see
them
executed
;
and
the
principal
Chance
or
Lot
they
cast
for
Drinking
was
call'd
Venus
.
Those
Rules
of
Drinking
they
borrow'd
for
the
most
part
from
the
Grecians
,
the
most
drunken
Nation
that
ever
was
;
and
of
these
Rules
one
was
to
drink
down
the
Evening-Star
,
and
up
the
Morning-Star
:
Saith
Plautus
,
Ad
diurnam
Stellam
matutinam
potantes
.
Another
Rule
commonly
practis'd
among
'em
was
,
to
drink
as
many
Healths
as
there
were
Letters
in
their
Mistresses
Names
;
as
appears
by
Martial's
Epigram
:
Naevia
sex
Cyathis
,
septem
Justina
bibatur
,
Quinque
Lycas
,
Lyde
quatuor
,
Ida
tribus
.
These
drunken
Matches
were
in
a
manner
the
daily
Trade
of
their
Poets
,
as
appears
to
any
that
peruse
Horace
and
Martial
.
The
former
,
Lib.
1
,
Ode
37
,
says
,
Nunc
est
bibendum
,
nunc
pede
libero
Pulsanda
tellus
.
And
the
latter
,
Book
11
,
Epigr.
7
,
says
,
Possum
ego
nil
sobrius
,
bibenti
Succurrunt
mihi
quindecini
Poetae
.
Nay
,
Seneca
assures
us
,
Nat.
qu.
4.
13
,
that
their
Women
exceeded
the
Men
in
these
Debauches
;
Non
minus
pervigi●…ant
,
non
minus
potant
:
i.
e.
They
sit
up
as
late
,
they
drink
no
less
,
nay
,
they
challenge
Men
to
the
anointing
of
their
Bodies
,
and
the
swilling
down
of
Wine
,
disgorging
what
they
eat
and
drink
as
well
as
they
;
neither
do
they
forbear
to
chew
upon
Snow
,
as
Men
do
,
for
refreshing
their
boiling
Stomachs
.
Those
Debauches
are
yet
more
graphically
describ'd
by
Pliny
,
lib.
14
,
c.
12
,
where
he
says
,
To
the
end
that
we
may
take
the
more
Cups
,
and
pour
it
down
the
Throat
the
more
lustily
,
we
let
it
run
through
a
Strainer
,
to
abate
the
force
thereof
:
Some
take
Hemlock
before
they
sit
down
,
because
they
must
drink
perforce
then
,
or
else
die
;
and
others
the
Powder
of
the
Pumice-stone
,
and
such-like
Stuff
,
which
I
am
asham'd
to
rehearse
,
and
teach
those
that
be
ignorant
of
such
Lewdness
;
and
yet
we
see
those
that
be
the
stoutest
Drinkers
lye
sweating
so
long
in
the
Baths
and
Brothel-houses
to
digest
their
Surfeit
of
Wine
,
that
ever
now
and
then
they
are
carried
forth
dead
for
their
labour
.
You
shall
have
some
again
,
when
they
are
in
the
Hot-house
,
that
won't
stay
so
long
as
they
may
go
to
their
Beds
,
nay
,
nor
as
they
may
put
on
their
Shirts
,
but
immediately
,
naked
as
they
are
,
and
panting
and
puffing
for
Breath
,
catch
up
great
Tankards
of
Wine
,
to
shew
what
valiant
Champions
of
Bacchus
they
are
,
and
pour
them
down
one
after
another
,
till
they
vomit
twice
or
thrice
what
they
have
drank
.
Then
describing
their
Pots
out
of
which
they
us'd
to
quaff
;
They
were
engraven
,
says
he
,
with
fair
portraitures
of
Adulteries
,
as
if
Drunkenness
it self
were
not
sufficient
to
kindle
the
heat
of
Lust
,
and
to
teach
them
Wantonness
.
Then
,
continues
he
,
when
they
come
to
be
fuddled
they
cast
their
wanton
Eyes
upon
Mens
Wives
;
then
fall
they
to
court
fair
Dames
and
Ladies
,
and
openly
bewray
their
Folly
even
before
their
jealous
and
stern
Husbands
:
And
thus
many
a
Man
,
by
his
lavish
Tongue
in
his
Wine
,
hath
come
by
his
Death
,
and
had
his
Throat
cut
.
But
if
they
escape
these
Dangers
,
they
never
live
to
be
old
Men
,
but
dye
in
the
strength
of
their
Youth
:
Hence
cometh
it
that
some
of
them
look
pale
,
with
flaggy
Cheeks
,
others
have
bleared
and
sore
Eyes
;
and
there
be
of
'em
that
shake
so
with
their
Hands
,
that
they
cannot
hold
a
full
Cup
,
but
pour
it
on
the
Floor
.
They
are
generally
disturb'd
with
fearful
Dreams
,
which
is
the
very
beginning
of
their
Hell
in
this
Life
;
or
else
have
restless
Nights
;
and
finally
,
if
they
chance
to
sleep
,
for
a
due
reward
of
their
Drunkenness
,
they
are
deluded
with
the
imaginary
Conceits
of
the
Delights
of
Venus
,
defiled
with
filthy
abominable
Pollutions
;
and
thus
sleeping
or
waking
they
sin
with
pleasure
.
Then
he
proceeds
to
particular
Instances
,
and
names
Nivellius
Torquatus
a
Milanois
,
who
won
the
Victory
from
all
the
Italians
in
Drinking
,
adding
,
That
he
had
gone
thro'
all
the
Degrees
of
Dignity
at
Rome
,
had
been
Pretor
and
Proconsul
,
and
in
all
these
Offices
of
State
he
won
no
great
Name
,
but
for
drinking
in
the
presence
of
Tiberius
three
Gallons
of
Wine
at
one
draught
,
for
which
he
was
dubb'd
Knight
,
by
the
Surname
of
Tricongius
,
or
the
Three
Gallon
Knight
.
This
Torquatus
had
the
Art
of
Drinking
,
never
was
known
to
falter
in
his
Tongue
,
never
eased
himself
by
vomiting
,
always
drank
without
drawing
his
Breath
,
and
never
left
a
drop
behind
in
the
Cup.
His
next
Instance
is
in
Mark
Antony
,
who
strove
to
win
the
Victory
in
Drinking
,
and
made
a
Profession
thereof
;
as
appear●…d
by
a
Book
which
he
publish'd
under
the
title
of
his
own
Drunkenness
,
whereby
he
was
not
asham'd
to
justifie
his
Excesses
that
way
,
and
thereby
approved
,
under
pretence
of
his
Drunkenness
,
all
the
Outrages
he
committed
,
and
all
those
Miseries
and
Calamities
that
he
brought
upon
the
World
.
This
Treatise
,
says
Pliny
he
vomited
out
a
little
before
his
Defeat
at
Actium
.
That
same
Author
gives
us
two
other
memorable
Instances
of
Antony's
Drunkenness
,
the
first
as
follows
.
Cleopatra
,
his
Paramour
,
perceiving
his
Jealousie
of
her
,
insomuch
that
he
would
neither
eat
nor
drink
without
his
Taster
,
she
design'd
to
make
Sport
of
his
needless
Fear
;
and
therefore
causing
a
Chappelet
or
Garland
of
Flowers
to
be
made
for
Antony
,
she
dipp'd
all
the
edges
of
the
Flowers
in
strong
Poyson
;
and
having
thus
prepar'd
it
,
set
it
upon
Antony's
Head
;
and
having
sate
at
Meat
a
good
while
,
and
drank
themselves
merry
,
she
challeng'd
Antony
for
each
of
them
to
drink
their
Chappelets
;
and
having
first
drank
off
her
own
,
Antony
minc'd
his
,
and
putting
it
into
his
Cup
,
prepar'd
to
drink
it
off
;
but
just
as
he
was
setting
it
to
his
Head
,
she
put
her
Hand
between
and
staid
him
,
and
then
utter'd
these
Expressions
:
My
dear
and
best-beloved
Antony
,
now
see
what
she
is
whom
thou
dost
so
much
dread
and
stand
in
fear
of
,
that
for
thy
security
thou
must
have
extraordinary
Tasters
,
a
Curiosity
more
nice
than
needful
:
Lo
,
how
I
am
not
to
seek
of
Means
and
,
Opportunities
to
compass
thy
Death
,
if
I
could
find
in
my
Heart
to
live
without
thee
.
And
then
she
sent
for
a
Prisoner
out
of
the
Jayl
,
whom
she
caus'd
to
drink
off
the
Cup
that
Antony
had
prepar'd
for
himself
,
and
the
poor
Wretch
died
by
that
time
he
had
well
taken
the
Cup
from
his
Lips
.
The
next
Instance
is
this
:
Cleopatra
being
possess'd
of
two
Pearls
,
the
richest
and
fairest
that
were
ever
known
in
the
World
,
being
left
to
her
by
descent
,
and
accounted
Nature's
Wonder
,
she
began
to
undervalue
the
Expence
that
Antony
had
been
at
in
treating
her
from
day
to
day
,
to
the
utmost
of
his
might
;
and
when
he
demanded
of
her
how
it
was
possible
to
go
beyond
the
magnificence
and
cost
of
his
Treat
,
she
answer'd
,
That
she
would
spend
upon
him
One
hundred
thousand
Sestertii
at
one
Supper
.
Antony
thought
that
impossible
,
and
therefore
wager'd
with
her
,
that
she
could
not
do
it
.
Next
night
she
made
him
a
Supper
,
royal
enough
,
but
much
short
of
those
that
he
had
before
prepar'd
for
her
;
whereupon
he
began
to
laugh
her
to
Scorn
,
and
demanded
a
Bill
of
the
Particulars
,
to
which
she
answer'd
,
That
what
had
been
brought
in
already
was
meer
Overplus
,
and
that
she
would
yet
in
that
Supper
eat
Six
hundred
thousand
Sestertii
for
her
own
part
:
Upon
which
she
took
one
of
those
Pearls
from
her
Ears
,
and
dissolving
it
in
Vinegar
,
drank
it
off
:
And
as
she
was
about
to
do
the
like
with
the
other
,
L.
Placentius
,
the
Judge
of
that
Wager
,
laid
fast
hold
upon
it
,
and
pronounced
,
That
Antony
had
lost
;
upon
which
he
fell
into
a
mighty
Passion
.
There
was
an
end
of
one
Pearl
;
and
the
fellow
thereof
being
taken
from
this
Queen
when
she
was
a
Prisoner
,
it
was
divided
in
two
,
in
memory
of
that
half
Supper
of
theirs
,
and
hung
in
the
Ears
of
Venus
at
Rome
,
in
the
Temple
of
Pantheon
.
And
yet
,
saith
Pliny
,
as
prodigal
as
they
were
,
they
shall
not
go
away
with
the
Prize
;
for
long
before
their
time
Clodius
,
the
Son
of
Aesop
the
Tragedian
practis'd
the
like
in
Pearls
of
great
price
;
so
that
Antony
hath
,
to
match
him
in
all
his
Magnificence
,
one
little
better
than
a
Stageplayer
.
Lest
Drunkenness
should
be
thought
to
be
only
the
Vice
of
some
particular
persons
among
the
Romans
,
Lipsius
in
his
Epistles
tells
us
,
That
it
was
a
common
Crime
among
them
,
because
the
Emperors
themselves
were
deeply
infected
with
it
,
and
highly
rewarded
it
in
others
.
He
names
one
Firmus
,
who
was
Deputy
of
Egypt
under
Aurelian
,
and
drank
off
two
Buckets
full
of
Wine
at
a
time
.
Bonosus
the
Emperor
was
wont
to
say
,
That
he
was
not
born
to
live
,
but
to
drink
;
and
when
he
was
hang'd
for
some
Misdemeanour
,
he
was
call'd
an
hanging
Tankard
,
and
not
a
Man
.
The
Emperor
Maximinus
is
charg'd
with
drinking
nine
Gallons
of
Wine
in
one
day
.
And
one
Phagon
,
in
Aurelian's
time
,
is
accus'd
of
drinking
more
;
insomuch
that
Lipsius
says
,
He
should
tremble
to
write
those
things
,
but
that
he
had
them
from
good
Authors
.
Nero
promoted
Piso
to
be
Provost
of
Rome
,
for
his
Drunkenness
;
and
Flaccus
Pomponius
to
be
Governour
of
Syria
for
that
same
Quality
.
He
likewise
prefer'd
an
ignoble
and
obscure
Fellow
before
the
Chief
of
the
Nobility
,
to
be
a
Questor
or
Treasurer
,
because
he
drank
off
nine
Gallons
of
Wine
at
a
Feast
which
Nero
himself
had
made
.
And
how
far
that
beastly
Vice
of
Drunkenness
had
infected
the
common
People
of
Rome
,
appears
by
the
Fannian
Law
,
says
Macrobius
,
Saturnal
,
lib.
3
,
c.
17
,
which
was
made
against
Drunkenness
,
because
,
says
he
,
matters
were
come
to
that
pass
,
that
the
greatest
part
of
the
common
People
of
Rome
came
ordinarily
drunk
into
the
Council-house
,
to
consult
of
the
Safety
of
the
State
.
The
more
to
excite
them
to
Drunkenness
,
the
Vessels
out
of
which
they
drank
were
very
costly
and
curious
in
their
Workmanship
,
being
chas'd
,
emboss'd
,
or
wrought
in
Imagery
and
Flowerwork
,
as
if
the
Painter
had
drawn
them
.
These
Celatures
were
so
fram'd
,
that
they
might
put
them
on
or
take
them
off
at
pleasure
,
and
were
therefore
call'd
Emblemata
:
Such
was
that
whereof
Juvenal
the
Satyrist
speaks
,
Sat.
1
,
Stantem
extra
pocula
Caprum
;
a
Goat
standing
out
from
the
Cup
;
two
of
this
kind
c●…st
Lucius
Crassus
the
Oratour
One
hundred
thousand
Sesterces
,
that
is
about
Five
hundred
thirty
three
Pounds
Sterlin
.
Sometimes
they
were
made
of
Onix-stones
,
dug
from
the
Mountains
of
Arabia
,
sometimes
of
Mother
of
Pearl
,
and
other
curious
Shells
;
and
all
those
kinds
they
richly
enamel'd
with
Pearls
and
precious
Stones
.
We
drink
,
saith
Pliny
,
lib.
33.
11
,
in
rows
of
Pearl
,
and
garnish
our
Pots
with
Emeralds
;
it
delights
us
to
hold
the
Indies
in
our
Hands
,
as
a
provocation
to
Drunkenness
.
And
because
of
the
richness
of
their
Cups
,
they
set
some
at
their
Feasts
to
watch
their
Drinking-vessel
.
They
thought
not
themselves
dainty
enough
,
saith
Pacatus
,
unless
Luxury
had
chang'd
the
Season
of
the
Year
,
unless
Winter-roses
swam
upon
the
top
of
their
Pots
,
and
unless
their
pleasant
Wines
dissolv'd
the
Summer-ice
in
a
large
Gemm
.
They
had
also
Cups
of
Murrin
and
Crystal
of
wonderful
great
prizes
,
and
one
of
those
bought
for
Three
hundred
thousand
Sesterces
,
or
above
Five
and
twenty
hundred
Pounds
Sterlin
,
by
Nero
,
Petronius
,
who
had
been
Consul
,
broke
in
pieces
a
little
before
his
death
,
on
a
spight
to
Nero
,
that
he
might
disinherit
his
Table
thereof
.
We
shall
conclude
this
point
of
their
Drunkenness
with
the
beastly
Forms
of
many
of
their
Cups
;
Vitreo
bibit
ille
Priapo
,
saith
Juvenal
,
He
drinks
out
of
a
Priapus
made
of
Glass
.
And
Pliny
to
the
same
purpose
saith
,
In
poculis
libidines
caelare
Juvat
,
&
per
obscaenitates
bibere
:
They
delight
to
engrave
their
Lustful
Dalliances
upon
their
Cups
;
and
to
drink
in
Obscenity
:
The
next
thing
that
falls
under
our
Consideration
is
their
Gluttony
,
which
being
also
a
Sin
of
the
Flesh
,
and
an
Incentive
of
Lust
and
Uncleanness
,
does
properly
belong
to
our
Subject
.
Their
Luxury
in
this
respect
appear'd
in
their
Tables
,
Platters
,
Number
and
Order
of
their
Servants
,
as
well
as
in
their
Courts
.
They
had
Tables
of
Silver
and
Gold
,
as
appears
by
that
of
Martial
,
Epig.
31
:
Sustentatque
tuas
Aurea
mensa
dapes
;
i.
e.
Thy
Dishes
are
set
upon
Tables
of
Gold
:
But
the
Tables
which
they
valued
most
were
of
Citron
,
which
they
brought
from
Africa
.
Tully
had
one
which
cost
him
Ten
thousand
Sesterces
,
tho'
he
was
both
severe
in
his
Morals
,
and
poor
,
compar'd
with
others
.
A●…nius
Pollio
had
one
which
was
sold
for
Eleven
thousand
Sesterces
;
and
the
more
knotty
those
Tables
were
,
the
more
they
were
valued
.
And
those
Tables
stood
also
upon
Ivory
Frames
and
Feet
.
Dion
reports
of
Seneca
,
That
notwithstanding
his
severe
and
Stoical
Profession
,
he
was
stor'd
with
Four
hundred
such
Tables
;
and
Annius
had
three
hundred
of
them
,
and
as
many
Servants
to
attend
them
.
Then
as
to
their
Platters
or
Chargers
,
Pliny
says
,
That
Drusillanus
,
one
of
the
Emperor
Claudius's
Slaves
,
and
his
Treasurer
in
High
Spain
,
had
a
Silver
Charger
of
Five
hundred
pound
weight
;
and
Vitellius
had
one
which
cost
him
a
Million
of
Sesterces
,
or
about
Eight
thousand
Three
hundred
and
Thirty
three
pounds
Sterlin
;
so
that
Mucianus
up
braided
the
Memorial
of
him
,
calling
his
Excess
that
way
Palinarum
Paludes
,
Platters
as
broad
as
Ponds
.
Then
as
to
their
Waiters
at
Table
,
they
sometimes
made
use
of
naked
Wenches
:
And
thus
Tiberius
the
Emperor
sent
a
Message
to
Sextus
Claudius
,
that
he
would
come
and
sup
with
him
,
on
condition
that
he
would
change
nothing
of
his
wonted
fashion
,
which
was
,
that
he
should
have
naked
Wenches
waiting
on
him
at
Supper
.
Seneca
,
in
his
95th
Epistle
,
faith
,
they
had
whole
Troops
of
unfortunate
Ganimedes
,
and
Troops
of
exsolete
or
stale
Catamites
grown
to
Man's
estate
,
waiting
on
them
at
Table
,
and
those
they
rank'd
into
several
Bands
,
according
to
their
Nations
and
Complexions
.
He
further
tells
us
of
the
infinite
number
of
their
Cooks
,
Bakers
,
&c.
and
then
cries
out
,
Dii
boni
quantum
hominum
unius
Venter
exercet
!
Good
God
,
what
a
number
of
Men
doth
one
Belly
set
at
work
!
They
had
also
Schools
,
and
Masters
to
teach
the
Art
of
Carving
to
their
Scholars
,
by
Dishes
fashion'd
in
Wood
after
what
manner
and
with
what
gesture
of
the
Body
they
should
cut
them
up
.
Seneca
,
in
his
97th
Epistle
,
says
,
Do
you
wonder
that
our
Diseases
are
innumerable
?
Number
our
Cooks
if
you
can
.
The
Schools
of
Philosophers
are
empty
,
but
how
are
our
Kitchins
frequented
?
Pliny
,
lib.
9.
17
,
says
,
That
scarce
any
Man
was
in
greater
request
than
those
Cooks
that
could
most
artificially
waste
their
Master's
Substance
.
The
infinite
waste
they
made
this
way
,
the
only
Story
of
Apicius
,
an
infamous●…
Belly-God
,
may
suffice
to
shew
,
who
having
laid
up
Ninety
Millions
of
Sesterces
for
his
Kitchin
,
besides
many
great
Gifts
of
Princes
,
and
a
mighty
Revenue
of
the
Capitol
,
being
deep
in
Debt
,
he
began
at
last
,
tho'
sore
against
his
Will
,
to
look
into
his
Reckonings
,
and
found
that
,
all
being
cast
up
,
he
had
still
remaining
clear
Ten
Millions
of
Sesterces
,
or
Eighty-three
thousand
Three
hundred
and
thirty
pounds
Sterlin
;
and
yet
,
for
fear
that
he
should
live
in
an
Hunger-starv'd
fashion
,
he
poison'd
himself
:
Upon
which
Seneca
exclaims
,
How
great
was
that
Luxury
to
which
ten
Millions
of
Sesterces
seem'd
Poverty
?
And
that
this
Gluttony
was
common
among
the
Romans
,
appears
from
Juvenal
and
Seneca
;
the
former
,
Sat.
1
,
says
,
Una
comedunt
patrimonia
mensa
;
They
devour
whole
Estates
at
one
sitting
:
And
the
latter
,
Ep.
95
,
says
,
What
is
more
lewd
than
a
sumptuous
Supper
,
that
wastes
a
Knight's
Revenues
,
of
which
the
most
frugal
,
if
it
be
but
any
way
solemn
,
costs
Three
hundred
thousand
Sesterces
,
or
Two
thousand
Five
hundred
and
Fifty
five
pounds
Sterling
?
Nor
did
they
only
exceed
as
to
the
Quantity
and
Quality
,
but
as
to
the
Frequency
of
their
Banquets
.
Tiberius
spent
a
Night
and
two
days
in
continual
eating
and
drinking
.
It
was
usual
with
Nero
to
eat
from
Noon
till
Midnight
;
and
Vitellius
seasted
usually
three
or
four
times
a
Day
,
every
sitting
being
valued
at
Four
hundred
thousand
Sesterces
,
or
Thirty-three
thousand
Three
hundred
and
thirty-three
pounds
Sterling
;
which
was
One
million
Thirty-three
thousand
Three
hundred
and
thirty-two
pounds
Sterling
per
Day
;
being
easily
able
to
go
through
them
all
by
a
continual
Custom
of
Vomiting
,
which
was
common
among
them
:
Says
Seneca
,
De
Consolatione
ad
Albinam
,
c.
9.
They
vomit
that
they
may
eat
,
and
eat
again
that
they
may
vomit
;
and
those
Delicates
which
they
hunt
for
through
the
World
,
they
vouchsafe
not
so
much
as
to
digest
:
Nay
,
the
very
Women
practise
it
as
well
as
Men
;
they
eat
against
their
Stomachs
that
which
they
soon
return
by
their
Mouths
.
The
number
of
their
Courses
were
usually
seven
;
and
at
one
Feast
that
Monster
Heliogabalus
had
two
and
twenty
Courses
of
the
choicest
Fare
serv'd
in
.
Nay
,
Suetonius
tells
us
,
That
at
a
casual
Supper
made
to
the
Emperor
Vitellius
,
by
his
Brother
,
there
were
Two
thousand
of
the
choicest
Fish
,
and
Seven
thousand
Fowl
,
serv'd
in
.
Seneca
,
in
the
above-cited
place
,
says
,
They
fetch
that
from
the
furthest
part
of
the
Ocean
which
their
Stomachs
,
weaken'd
with
Delicacies
,
will
hardly
admit
.
And
then
a
little
after
he
adds
;
O
wretched
Men
,
says
he
,
whose
Pallates
are
not
stirred
but
with
precious
Meats
,
especially
when
that
which
makes
them
be
accounted
precious
is
not
their
singular
Relish
or
excellent
Savour
,
but
only
their
Scarcity
,
and
the
Difficulty
of
procuring
them
.
Latinus
Pacatus
,
in
his
Panegyrick
says
much
the
same
,
viz.
That
this
our
World
was
too
narrow
for
their
Throats
;
for
,
not
valuing
their
Cates
by
their
Tast
,
but
by
their
Cost
,
they
were
only
content
with
that
Provision
which
they
had
from
the
uttermost
parts
of
the
East
,
or
Colchus
,
seated
beyond
the
Roman
Empire
.
Many
think
it
(
saith
Plutarch
,
in
his
Book
concerning
the
Precepts
of
Health
)
an
absurd
thing
not
to
feed
liberally
on
things
which
are
rare
,
and
can
hardly
be
got
,
such
as
the
Paps
of
a
Sow
when
she
is
newly
farrow'd
,
Italian
Mushromes
,
Samian
Cakes
,
or
Snow
out
of
Egypt
.
Among
these
Excesses
,
Vitellius's
Platter
deserves
our
notice
,
which
,
for
the
bigness
of
it
,
he
call'd
Minerva's
Buckler
;
and
this
he
cramm'd
with
the
Livers
of
Guiltheads
,
the
Brains
of
Phesants
and
Peacocks
,
the
Tongues
of
Phaenicopters
,
and
the
Melts
of
Lampreys
,
brought
from
the
Spanish
and
Carpathian
Seas
.
And
the
like
,
that
of
Aesop
the
Tragedian
,
which
he
furnish'd
out
with
the
rarest
Singing-birds
,
or
such
as
imitated
Man's
Voice
,
which
cost
him
Six
thousand
Sesterces
,
or
Fifty
pounds
Sterling
,
a
piece
;
and
the
whole
Dish
Six
hundred
thousand
Sesterces
,
or
Five
thousand
pounds
Sterling
;
as
is
mention'd
by
Valerius
and
Seneca
.
The
latter
says
,
concerning
Caligula
,
That
Nature
seem'd
to
have
brought
him
forth
to
shew
what
Effects
the
greatest
Vices
joyn'd
with
the
greatest
Fortune
cou'd
produce
:
And
Suetonius
says
of
him
,
That
in
thriftless
Expences
he
exceeded
the
Wits
of
all
the
Prodigals
that
ever
were
,
inventing
most
monstrous
kinds
of
Meats
and
Suppers
;
the
most
Orient
Pearls
that
were
to
be
gotten
,
he
dissolv'd
in
Vinegar
,
and
swallow'd
down
,
and
set
before
his
Guests
Bread
of
Victuals
and
Gold
.
And
Lampridius
says
of
Heliogabalus
,
That
at
one
Supper
he
caus'd
to
be
serv'd
in
,
the
Heads
of
Six
hundred
Ostriches
,
only
for
the
eating
of
their
Brains
.
The
same
Authors
give
surprizing
Accounts
of
the
wonderful
niceness
of
the
Romans
,
in
the
strangeness
,
weight
,
and
newness
of
their
Fishes
;
as
also
of
the
vastness
of
their
Fishponds
,
and
numbers
of
Fishes
in
them
.
They
were
so
nice
in
their
Fishes
,
that
they
would
not
eat
them
except
they
saw
them
kill'd
;
and
for
that
end
they
were
brought
into
their
Dining-rooms
swimming
in
Glass-bottles
,
that
the
Guests
might
feed
their
Eyes
with
the
change
of
Colours
that
appear'd
in
the
dying
Fishes
.
Severus
the
Emperor
had
the
Fishes
brought
to
his
Table
by
Men
wearing
Garlands
and
Chappelets
,
as
if
they
had
been
to
sacrifice
to
the
Gods
.
Licinius
Crassus
,
counted
a
grave
staid
Citizen
,
mourned
in
black
for
a
Lamprey
that
died
in
one
of
his
Fish
ponds
,
and
was
thereupon
afterwards
call'd
Licinius
Murena
,
as
is
related
by
Cice●…o
.
Octavius
,
Admiral
of
the
Roman
Navy
,
finding
that
the
Fish
call'd
Scarus
was
not
to
be
had
in
the
Italian
Seas
,
brought
vast
quantities
of
'em
from
other
parts
,
sow'd
them
in
those
Seas
,
as
Men
do
Corn
upon
Lands
,
and
for
five
Years
together
imploy'd
his
utmost
Endeavours
,
if
any
of
'em
happen'd
to
be
taken
by
the
Fishermen
,
that
they
should
be
thrown
back
again
into
the
Sea
.
Domitian
the
Emperor
delighted
so
much
in
his
Lampreys
,
that
he
gave
each
of
'em
a
Name
,
and
they
would
come
to
him
one
by
one
upon
his
Call
.
Antonia
,
the
Wife
of
Drusus
,
hung
Jewels
in
the
Gilds
of
a
Lamprey
which
she
lov'd
;
and
Hortensius
the
Orator
wept
for
the
death
of
one
of
his
Lampreys
.
Their
Luxury
as
to
their
Fowl
was
no
less
remarkable
;
those
they
chiefly
delighted
in
were
Phoenicopters
,
Peacocks
,
Thrushes
,
and
Pigeons
,
which
tho'
they
had
in
great
abundance
,
yet
their
Riot
and
Luxury
made
very
dear
,
so
that
in
Columella's
time
fair
Pigeons
were
sold
at
Four
thousand
Sesterces
a
pair
;
and
they
had
whole
bands
of
Hunters
,
marching
under
several
Colours
,
in
the
Provinces
,
the
end
of
whose
Wars
was
,
to
make
provision
for
their
Feasts
,
saith
Latinus
Pacatus
.
And
they
were
so
curious
as
to
their
Bakers
,
that
they
would
give
Five
hundred
pounds
Sterling
for
a
good
one
.
Then
they
had
a
thousand
kinds
of
sawces
for
stirring
up
the
Appetite
.
They
made
use
of
Bathings
and
Anointings
before
their
Feasts
,
Perfumes
and
sweet
Odours
of
divers
kinds
at
their
Feasts
;
they
strew'd
their
Rooms
with
Saffron
,
chang'd
their
Apparel
,
nay
,
and
the
very
Roofs
of
their
Rooms
where
they
sate
,
at
the
bringing
in
of
every
new
Dish
;
and
,
last
of
all
,
us'd
such
damnable
lustful
practices
after
their
Feasts
,
as
are
not
fit
to
be
nam'd
amongst
Christians
;
as
may
appear
to
any
that
will
consult
the
Authors
above-mention'd
.
The
Quantities
which
some
of
them
devour'd
at
Meals
is
also
worth
our
Notice
.
Maximinus
the
Emperor
,
saith
Codrus
,
devour'd
many
times
in
one
day
sixty
pounds
of
Flesh.
Clodius
Albinus
,
in
a
Morning
fasting
,
would
eat
Five
hundred
dry'd
Figs
,
One
hundred
Peaches
of
Campania
,
ten
Melons
of
Ostia
,
twenty
pound
weight
of
Grapes
of
Lavica
,
One
hundred
Gnatknappers
,
and
forty
Oysters
.
Phago
,
in
whom
Aurelian
the
Emperor
took
so
much
delight
,
would
,
says
Vopiscus
,
at
one
Meal
eat
up
a
whole
Boar
,
One
hundred
Loaves
,
a
Weather
,
and
a
young
Pigeon
.
And
Athenaeus
us'd
to
set
before
every
Guest
a
Boar
in
a
several
Dish
.
Their
prodigious
superfluity
in
their
temporary
Buildings
,
and
such
as
were
only
design'd
for
pleasure
,
was
no
less
abominable
,
fetching
Marble
from
the
remotest
parts
of
the
Earth
,
hewing
down
the
tops
of
Mountains
,
and
transporting
them
by
Sea
,
at
the
expence
of
many
Mens
Lives
.
Of
this
nature
was
the
Theatre
of
Scaurus
,
which
was
capable
of
receiving
Eighty
thousand
persons
to
sit
at
their
ease
;
the
Stage
of
it
had
three
Stories
,
wherein
were
Three
hundred
and
sixty
Columns
of
Marble
;
the
nethermost
part
of
the
Stage
was
of
Marble
,
the
middle
of
Glass
,
and
the
uppermost
of
gilded
Boards
;
the
Columns
beneath
were
thirty-eight
foot
high
,
and
between
them
there
stood
three
thousand
Statues
and
Images
of
Brass
.
The
Hangings
of
this
Theatre
were
of
Cloth
of
Gold
;
and
they
had
painted
Tables
,
the
most
exquisite
that
could
be
found
:
And
yet
,
says
Pliny
,
this
Theatre
was
not
to
continue
above
a
Month.
Of
the
same
nature
was
Caligula's
Bridge
,
mention'd
by
Suetonius
,
built
from
Puteoli
to
Bauly
,
over
a
Bay
of
the
Sea
,
for
no
other
use
but
Ostentation
,
and
that
he
might
imitate
Xerxes
;
and
upon
this
he
marched
with
the
Senate
and
Souldiery
,
in
a
triumphant
manner
,
feasted
and
passed
the
Night
in
Dalliance
and
Gaming
.
Then
,
as
to
their
permanent
Amphitheatres
,
Ammianus
gives
us
this
Account
of
that
built
by
Titus
,
viz.
the
heighth
thereof
was
such
,
that
the
Eye
of
Man
could
hardly
reach
it
.
It
was
rear'd
,
saith
Cassiodorus
,
with
Rivers
of
Treasure
poured
out
:
It
contain'd
upon
the
very
Steps
of
it
easie
Seats
for
Eighty-seven
thousand
Men
;
and
,
in
other
places
,
room
for
Twenty
thousand
more
.
And
as
the
mass
of
Treasure
was
infinite
which
they
cast
away
in
the
raising
of
these
Buildings
,
only
to
make
People
sport
,
it
was
incredible
what
they
spent
in
furnishing
them
,
and
setting
forth
their
Games
therein
.
They
spent
in
exhibiting
Sword-fights
,
saith
Lactantius
,
Treasure
enough
to
maintain
great
Cities
.
And
the
Magistrate
,
upon
Theatrical
Games
,
says
Ambrose
,
in
his
81st
Sermon
,
lavishes
out
his
whole
Patrimony
to
purchase
one
hours
Applause
.
The
whole
Furniture
of
those
Theatres
was
sometimes
all
of
Silver
,
as
that
of
Julius
Caesar
and
Caius
Antonius
,
and
sometimes
of
Gold
.
And
thus
Nero
,
for
the
Ostentation
of
his
Greatness
to
Teredates
King
of
Armenia
,
cover'd
over
not
the
Stage
only
,
but
the
whole
Theatre
,
with
Gold
.
The
Curtains
which
kept
them
from
the
heat
of
the
Sun
was
all
of
Purple
,
embroider'd
with
Stars
of
Gold
,
and
the
place
below
,
call'd
Arena
,
because
strow'd
with
Sand
,
Nero
caused
to
be
strow'd
over
with
Dust
of
Gold
,
he
himself
being
to
try
a
Match
of
Chariot-driving
therein
.
Their
incredible
Expence
and
Luxury
in
abusing
the
Creature
at
those
Shows
,
mee●…ly
out
of
a
Principle
of
Pride
and
Ostentation
,
will
yet
further
appear
by
the
Instances
following
.
They
were
at
a
vast
Expence
in
the
multitude
of
Fencers
,
whom
they
hir'd
for
great
prices
,
because
they
were
to
expose
their
Lives
,
besides
the
Charge
of
their
Arms
and
Diet
before
they
enter'd
:
And
when
they
exhibited
Beasts
,
the
Relations
made
by
Historians
concerning
their
number
are
incredible
.
Thus
Vopiscus
tells
us
,
That
the
Emperor
Probus
commanded
to
be
let
loose
at
once
a
thousand
Ostriches
,
a
thousand
Staggs
,
a
thousand
wild
Boars
,
and
a
thousand
fallow
Deer
,
besides
wild
Goats
,
wild
Sheep
,
and
other
Beasts
,
all
which
he
gave
over
to
the
Mercy
,
or
rather
to
the
Rage
,
of
the
People
,
every
one
to
catch
what
he
could
,
the
Circus
at
the
same
time
being
set
all
over
with
tall
and
mighty
Trees
,
which
the
Souldiers
took
up
by
the
Roots
in
the
Wood
,
brought
them
thither
,
and
fasten'd
them
with
green
Turf
,
and
Bars
,
and
Irons
.
The
next
day
he
let
into
the
same
place
an
hundred
crested
Lions
,
an
hundred
Leopards
of
Lybia
,
an
hundred
of
Syria
,
an
hundred
Lionesses
,
and
three
hundred
Bears
;
which
filled
the
Air
with
Roaring
,
as
if
it
had
been
with
Thunder
.
Nay
,
the
Madness
of
Heliogabalus
was
yet
greater
,
who
exhibited
Ships
in
the
Circus
sailing
and
fighting
in
Wine
.
And
,
during
those
Shows
,
it
was
usual
to
refresh
the
Spectators
with
pleasant
Perfumes
,
sweet
Water
,
Oyntments
,
Saffron
mixed
with
Wine
,
or
somewhat
of
that
kind
,
which
they
convey'd
in
close
Pipes
through
the
whole
Amphitheatre
.
And
the
Fight
being
ended
,
they
commonly
cast
a
Largess
among
the
People
,
wrapping
up
the
Names
of
those
things
in
little
pellets
,
which
they
intended
to
give
,
and
every
one
,
as
he
could
catch
them
,
brought
them
to
the
Master
of
the
Games
,
who
deliver'd
them
the
things
themselves
specified
in
the
Pellet
;
and
those
Gifts
consisted
not
only
in
Meat
,
Drink
,
and
Apparel
,
but
in
Vessels
of
Silver
and
Gold
,
Horses
,
Cattel
,
Slaves
,
and
the
like
.
And
Nero
added
curious
Pictures
,
precious
Stones
,
yea
,
Ships
,
Horses
,
Farms
,
Islands
;
A
thing
hardly
to
be
credited
,
says
Lypsius
,
though
deliver'd
by
Suetonius
,
a
most
faithful
Historian
.
Their
Luxury
did
likewise
extend
it self
to
their
Baths
,
which
some
of
them
had
so
accustom'd
themselves
unto
,
that
they
could
neither
eat
nor
drink
without
bathing
first
,
or
being
sweated
in
a
Stove
.
Pliny
says
,
That
the
number
of
them
at
Rome
,
in
his
time
,
was
infinite
;
that
Agrippa
,
during
his
Aedileship
,
built
for
publick
use
One
hundred
and
seventy
;
And
some
of
them
,
says
Ammianus
,
were
so
large
,
that
they
were
built
in
the
manner
of
Provinces
.
Diocle●…ian's
Baths
alone
were
so
capacious
,
that
they
contain'd
,
for
the
use
of
Washing
,
Sixteen
hundred
several
Seats
,
and
those
all
of
polish'd
Marble
.
Seneca
,
in
his
86th
Epistle
,
hath
most
elegantly
express'd
,
and
bitterly
censur'd
the
Ornament
and
Beauty
of
those
bathing
places
,
those
of
the
Common
People
having
their
Walls
shining
with
great
and
precious
Circles
,
and
the
Shavings
of
Numidian
Marble
,
inlaid
with
that
of
Alexandria
,
their
Borders
painted
or
inlaid
with
diverse
Colours
,
their
Arched
Roofs
covered
over
with
Glass
,
and
the
whole
adorn'd
with
Thasian
Stone
,
formerly
a
rare
Sight
but
in
Temples
;
and
the
Water
was
convey'd
into
them
by
Silver
Cocks
.
But
how
much
beyond
all
this
,
says
he
,
are
the
Baths
of
their
Freed-men
?
how
many
Statues
and
Pillars
have
you
there
,
for
no
other
use
,
but
only
for
Ornament
and
Expence
?
Pliny
goes
farther
,
and
tells
us
,
That
not
only
the
sides
of
the
Cisterns
in
which
they
bathed
were
of
Silver
,
but
the
Seats
and
Footing
for
the
Bottom
,
so
as
they
could
hardly
stand
for
sliding
upon
it
.
Nay
,
Rosinus
,
in
his
Roman
Antiquities
,
says
,
They
us'd
to
anoint
the
very
Walls
of
their
Baths
with
rich
Oyntments
,
even
such
as
were
but
for
the
use
of
Servants
.
Another
piece
of
their
Vanity
and
Pride
of
Life
was
the
infinite
numbers
of
chargeable
Statues
that
the
People
of
Rome
erected
to
themselves
,
and
those
for
the
most
part
overlaid
with
Gold
.
This
itching
Humour
of
theirs
to
eternize
themselves
,
as
they
thought
they
would
do
by
this
means
,
did
in
time
beget
almost
as
many
Inhabitants
to
the
City
as
Nature
brought
forth
;
says
Cassiodorus
,
They
were
so
numerous
,
that
they
fill'd
every
Corner
,
pester'd
their
Streets
,
and
streighten'd
their
Ways
;
insomuch
that
an
Edict
was
publish●…d
in
the
time
of
Claudius
,
forbiddimg
any
private
Men
to
erect
Statues
to
themselves
,
but
by
Leave
first
obtain'd
from
the
Senate
.
The
basest
of
those
Statues
were
made
of
Marble
,
the
rest
of
Ivory
,
and
Silver
and
Gold
,
and
those
also
solid
and
massy
.
Domitian
would
suffer
no
Statues
to
be
erected
for
himself
in
the
Capitol
,
but
of
massy
Gold
,
and
weighing
no
less
than
an
hundred
pound
.
And
Commodus
had
one
of
a
thousand
pound
weight
.
They
were
also
at
great
charge
in
guarding
those
Statues
,
and
to
this
purpose
maintain'd
an
Officer
of
great
Honour
,
who
had
the
Title
of
Comes
Romanus
;
his
province
was
to
walk
through
the
Streets
of
the
City
in
the
Night
time
,
with
his
Souldiers
,
chiefly
to
take
care
that
no
Wrong
should
be
offer'd
to
the
Statues
;
so
prodigally
careful
were
the
Romans
of
their
own
Shadows
,
and
at
the
same
time
prodigally
careless
of
the
Lives
of
others
.
We
come
next
to
take
notice
of
their
prodigality
and
sumptuousness
in
their
private
Buildings
.
The
elegant
Poet
Claudian
speaking
of
them
in
general
,
says
,
Qua
nil
in
terris
complectitur
altius
Aether
,
&c.
Blondus
,
in
his
Book
de
Roma
Triumphante
,
says
,
That
Cicero
alone
had
eighteen
great
Houses
in
the
Country
fit
to
be
Palaces
for
Kings
:
Their
Houses
were
so
excessive
large
,
that
a
Man
would
wonder
what
use
they
could
be
of
;
and
therefore
Valerius
upbraids
one
of
them
,
who
thought
he
was
straiten'd
in
his
Dwelling
,
thus
,
whose
House
is
no
larger
than
were
all
Cincinnatus
's
Grounds
.
Some
of
Nero's
Slaves
had
Kitchins
which
took
up
above
two
Acres
of
Ground
;
and
the
Lands
of
those
who
laid
the
Foundation
of
the
Empire
were
of
less
extent
than
the
Cellars
of
some
that
came
after
.
Salust
says
,
Their
Houses
and
Farms
were
built
in
the
manner
of
Cities
.
Nay
,
Seneca
,
de
Benef.
7.
10
,
says
,
that
private
Mens
Houses
exceeded
the
largeness
of
great
Cities
.
And
Juvenal
,
Sat.
14
,
says
,
some
of
them
exceeded
their
chiefest
Temples
,
and
the
Capitol
it self
,
in
heighth
;
and
upon
the
tops
of
those
high
Houses
they
planted
Gardens
,
Orchards
,
and
Groves
.
Their
Riches
and
Ornament
were
suitable
to
their
Greatness
,
for
they
brought
the
most
skilful
Architects
from
all
the
known
parts
of
the
World
,
whose
Wit
and
Boldness
was
such
,
that
they
attempted
to
effect
what
Nature
seem'd
to
deny
.
Lucullus
caus'd
Mountains
to
be
cut
,
to
let
the
Sea
into
a
Pleasure-house
of
his
near
Naples
,
for
the
conveniency
of
keeping
his
Fish
,
and
for
that
same
purpose
built
Rooms
in
the
Sea
.
Amongst
other
Ornaments
for
their
Houses
,
they
delighted
chiefly
in
Pillars
or
Columns
of
great
heighth
,
and
sometimes
two
hundred
in
number
in
one
Gallery
or
Entry
.
They
guilded
the
very
Beams
,
Roofs
,
and
Walls
of
their
Chambers
with
Pictures
and
precious
Stones
intermingled
;
and
they
so
fram'd
the
movable
Roofs
of
their
Dining-rooms
,
that
they
could
change
them
upon
the
bringing
in
of
every
new
Course
to
the
Table
:
And
sometimes
they
represented
Groves
,
with
Birds
singing
in
them
.
And
answerable
to
these
Roofs
were
their
Pavements
;
whereupon
Martial
reprehends
them
for
treading
upon
Onyx-stones
.
We
shall
conclude
this
point
with
a
short
Account
of
the
Houses
of
Domitian
,
Nero
,
and
Heliogabalus
.
As
to
Domitian's
,
Plutarch
says
thus
of
it
;
If
any
Man
wonder
at
the
Magnificence
of
the
Capitol
,
were
he
in
Domitian's
Palace
,
and
saw
but
one
Gallery
,
Hall
,
Path
,
or
Parlour
for
his
Concubines
,
he
would
presently
cry
out
with
Epicharmus
,
That
all
the
Glory
of
the
Capitol
is
but
a
Trifle
,
in
comparison
of
Domitian's
own
House
.
As
to
Nero's
,
Suetonius
describes
it
thus
:
In
the
Porch
there
was
a
Colossus
,
shap'd
like
himself
,
One
hundred
and
twenty
foot
high
;
the
House
had
three
Galleries
in
it
,
each
of
them
a
Mile
long
;
a
standing
Pool
,
like
a
Sea
,
surrounded
with
Buildings
in
manner
of
a
City
;
Fields
,
in
which
were
Arable
Grounds
,
Pastures
,
Vineyards
,
and
Woods
,
with
a
multitude
of
tame
and
wild
Beasts
of
all
kinds
.
In
the
other
parts
thereof
all
was
cover'd
with
Gold
,
and
shining
with
precious
Stones
,
or
Mother
of
Pearl
.
The
Dining-rooms
were
Roofed
with
Ivory
Planks
,
that
were
movable
for
the
casting
down
of
Flowers
,
and
had
Pipes
in
them
for
the
sprinkling
of
Oyntments
.
The
Roof
of
the
principal
Dining-room
was
round
,
and
wheel'd
about
Day
and
Night
,
according
to
the
Motion
of
the
Heavens
.
And
when
he
had
thus
finish'd
this
House
,
he
said
,
He
began
to
dwell
like
a
Man
.
Then
as
to
Heliogabalus
,
the
same
Autho●…
gives
an
Account
,
That
he
built
of
Cedar
many
Barges
,
whose
Sterns
were
set
with
Pearls
and
precious
Stones
;
they
carried
Sails
of
diverse
colours
,
and
had
in
them
Baths
,
Galleries
,
and
Parlours
of
great
largeness
,
with
variety
of
Vines
,
and
Trees
bearing
Fruit
;
and
lying
along
in
those
,
in
the
midst
of
his
Musick
,
he
was
carried
up
and
down
the
Coast
of
Campania
.
In
the
building
of
his
Country-houses
he
set
aside
all
Reason
,
and
desir'd
nothing
so
much
,
as
that
which
was
told
him
could
not
be
done
;
so
that
he
would
order
huge
Piles
to
be
laid
in
the
Sea
,
to
stop
the
course
of
it
,
cut
through
Rocks
of
the
hardest
Flint
,
raise
the
Plains
as
high
as
the
Mountains
,
and
level
the
Mountains
with
the
Plains
.
The
next
thing
we
take
notice
of
is
their
Excess
in
Houshold-stuff
.
Their
Bedsteads
by
degrees
came
to
be
of
Silver
,
then
guilded
,
and
at
last
of
massy
Gold
.
Nay
,
Heliogabalus
had
his
Closestools
and
Chamberpots
of
the
same
;
and
't
was
ordinary
for
them
to
have
their
Beds
perfum'd
with
rich
and
precious
Odours
.
Then
for
the
Ornament
of
their
Houses
,
they
bought
them
Pictures
at
excessive
rates
:
Lucius
Lucullus
gave
for
the
Copy
of
Glycera
with
a
Chappelet
of
Flowers
in
her
Hand
,
two
Talents
or
Three
hundred
and
eighty
Pounds
Sterling
.
Hortensius
the
Orator
gave
for
a
Picture
of
the
Argonauts
One
hundred
forty
four
thousand
Sesterces
,
or
Twelve
hundred
pounds
Sterling
;
of
which
Seneca
says
wittily
thus
:
What
difference
is
there
herein
betwixt
us
and
Children
,
who
value
counterfeit
Rings
,
and
Jewels
,
and
Bracelets
at
high
prices
,
save
that
we
dote
about
Statues
and
Pictures
,
playing
the
fool
at
a
dearer
rate
?
Then
the
Workmanship
of
those
Pictures
was
many
times
lascivious
and
beastly
,
and
full
of
obscene
postures
,
enough
to
corrupt
the
chaste
Minds
of
the
beholders
.
Their
Luxury
in
Apparel
,
Dressing
,
&c.
was
equal
to
their
Luxury
in
all
other
things
.
Concerning
their
Effeminacy
in
general
,
Seneca
says
,
What
is
yet
left
of
Good
manners
or
Fashions
we
extinguish
by
trimming
and
decking
our
Bodies
;
We
have
exceeded
the
Niceness
of
the
Women
,
and
wear
light
and
whorish
Colours
,
not
becoming
Matrons
;
We
fashion
our
Gate
to
a
wanton
and
mincing
pace
,
and
do
not
walk
,
but
creep
:
It
is
now
held
the
accomplish'd
Gallantry
of
our
Youth
to
frizzle
their
Hair
like
Women
,
to
speak
with
an
affected
smallness
of
Voice
,
in
tenderness
of
Body
to
match
them
,
and
to
bedeck
themselves
with
most
undecent
Trimming
.
In
his
Book
De
brevitate
Vitae
,
he
says
,
How
do
they
chafe
if
the
Barber
be
never
so
little
negligent
!
How
do
they
take
on
if
any
thing
be
lopp'd
off
of
their
Foretops
,
if
any
thing
lie
out
of
order
,
if
every
thing
fall
not
even
into
their
Rings
and
Curls
,
which
of
these
would
not
chuse
,
that
the
State
whereof
he
is
a
Member
should
be
in
Combustion
,
rather
than
his
Hair
should
be
displaited
.
It
was
common
for
them
to
have
their
Hair
plaited
behind
,
and
besmear'd
with
Oyntments
and
Perfumes
;
and
for
their
Faces
they
us'd
so
much
Slibber-sauce
,
such
daubing
and
painting
,
that
they
look'd
like
Ulcers
.
Their
Garments
were
artificially
press'd
,
to
make
them
shine
brighter
,
and
so
curiously
plaited
,
that
Hortensius
the
Orator
commenced
a
Suit
against
his
fellow
in
Office
,
for
that
meeting
him
by
chance
in
a
narrow
way
,
he
had
disorder'd
the
Plaits
of
his
Robe
;
he
held
it
a
capital
matter
,
that
a
Fold
upon
his
Shoulder
was
displac'd
:
And
so
excessive
they
were
in
the
multitude
of
their
Apparel
,
that
when
any
of
them
went
to
the
publick
Baths
,
they
had
as
much
Apparel
carried
after
them
as
might
well
suffice
a
dozen
of
Men.
Lucullus
,
says
Horace
,
Ep.
6.
had
Five
thousand
short
Cloaks
;
and
at
their
publick
Feasts
they
chang'd
Suits
at
the
coming
in
of
every
Course
,
meerly
for
Ostentation
;
as
we
have
shew'd
already
.
It
was
also
usual
with
them
to
have
Rings
on
every
Finger
,
and
sometimes
one
for
every
Joynt
.
Nay
,
't
is
recorded
of
Charinus
,
that
he
wore
six
upon
every
Finger
;
and
they
arriv'd
to
that
heighth
of
Luxury
in
this
point
,
that
they
had
Summer-rings
and
Winter-rings
.
Then
as
to
their
Women
:
If
the
Men
were
so
nice
,
we
may
well
suppose
that
their
Women
exceeded
,
concerning
whom
Seneca
,
de
Benef.
7.
9
,
says
,
'
I
see
their
Silken
Apparel
,
if
it
may
be
call'd
Apparel
,
wherewith
they
can
neither
cover
their
Bodies
nor
their
Shame
,
which
when
a
Woman
wears
,
she
cannot
safely
swear
that
she
is
not
naked
.
Yet
these
things
are
brought
from
Nations
with
whom
we
have
no
Traffick
,
that
our
Women
may
expose
no
less
to
the
publick
view
when
they
come
abroad
,
than
they
do
to
their
Paramours
in
Bed
.
Lollia
Paulina
,
a
Wife
,
and
afterwards
Widow
to
Caligula
the
Emperor
,
when
she
went
to
any
ordinary
Feast
,
us'd
to
have
so
many
Jewels
about
her
,
that
she
shone
again
as
she
went
,
and
offer'd
to
prove
,
that
those
Ornaments
alone
stood
her
in
Four
hundred
thousand
Sesterces
.
St.
Jerome
,
in
Vita
Pauli
Eremitae
,
and
Tertullian
,
de
habitu
Muliebri
,
complain
of
the
Prodigality
of
their
Times
,
saying
,
That
upon
one
Necklace
hung
the
price
of
diverse
Lopps
;
and
,
that
upon
one
Twine
there
were
threaded
up
Ten
hundred
thousand
Sesterces
.
Nay
,
one
Pearl
bought
by
Julius
Caesar
for
his
Paramour
Servilia
,
the
Mother
of
Brutus
,
cost
him
Sixty
hundred
thousand
Sesterces
,
or
near
Forty-five
thousand
pounds
Sterling
.
Nay
,
saith
Seneca
,
the
Women
had
not
sufficiently
brought
the
Men
into
subjection
,
if
they
did
not
hang
two
or
three
Patrimonies
at
each
Ear.
Propertius
accuses
the
Roman
Matrons
of
jetting
it
about
with
the
Estates
of
their
Heirs
upon
them
:
Yet
all
this
had
been
more
tolerable
,
had
they
not
worn
them
upon
their
Feet
,
of
which
Pliny
can
hardly
speak
with
Patience
.
Lib.
33.
3
,
Let
our
Women
,
saith
he
,
wear
their
Pearl
and
precious
Stones
upon
every
Finger
,
about
their
Necks
,
in
their
Ears
,
upon
their
Chappelets
and
Tresses
,
but
must
they
also
wear
them
upon
their
Feet
?
And
Book
9.
35
,
he
says
,
Nay
,
they
garnish
their
Feet
with
them
,
and
not
only
the
higher
,
but
the
lower
part
of
their
Slippers
,
so
that
it
is
not
held
sufficient
to
wear
Pearl
,
unless
we
tread
and
walk
upon
it
.
Lampridius
tells
us
of
Heliogabalus
,
that
he
wore
Jewels
curiously
engraven
on
his
Feet
,
as
if
the
Gravings
of
famous
Workmen
could
be
discern'd
there
.
Their
Women
did
not
blush
to
own
,
that
they
painted
their
Eyebrows
and
Faces
,
and
dy'd
their
Hair
,
and
had
such
infinite
numbers
of
little
Boxes
full
of
Trash
for
hiding
their
Deformities
,
that
Ovid
,
as
great
an
Admirer
of
the
fair
Sex
as
he
was
,
says
,
Non
semel
hic
stomacho
nausea
facta
meo
;
i.
e.
They
had
oftentimes
turn'd
his
Stomach
.
Their
Looking-glasses
were
in
heighth
and
breadth
answerable
to
their
Bodies
,
engraven
in
their
Borders
with
Gold
and
Silver
,
and
emboss'd
with
precious
Stone
;
Some
of
those
,
says
Seneca
,
Nat.
Quaest.
lib.
1.
17
,
cost
more
than
the
Ancients
gave
in
Dowry
with
their
Daughters
;
nay
,
than
that
which
by
publick
allow●…
ance
was
given
the
Daughters
of
the
poorer
Emperors
.
And
a
little
further
he
says
,
Now
a
days
,
says
he
,
that
Dowry
which
the
People
of
Rome
gave
with
Scipio's
Daughter
,
will
not
suffice
to
buy
a
Glass
for
a
Manumited
Slave's
Daughter
,
and
that
was
Eleven
thousand
Asses
,
which
was
upwards
of
Forty
pound
Sterling
;
so
that
by
this
we
may
guess
what
Luxury
reign'd
among
Persons
of
Quality
.
Then
as
to
the
number
of
their
Servants
,
they
were
so
numerous
,
that
Athenaeus
says
,
some
of
them
had
above
Twenty
thousand
.
Marcellinus
describes
their
Order
of
ranging
their
Servants
when
they
went
abroad
,
as
if
it
had
been
an
Army
,
insomuch
that
they
were
under
a
necessity
of
having
Comptrollers
,
or
Nomenclators
,
to
tell
them
the
Names
of
their
Servants
.
And
,
that
their
Women
did
also
exceed
in
this
kind
,
may
be
gather'd
from
St.
Jerome's
Epistle
to
Furia
,
wherein
he
forbids
her
to
go
abroad
with
an
Army
of
Eunuchs
marching
before
her
,
after
the
manner
of
licentious
Widows
.
Thus
we
have
finish'd
our
Collections
from
the
Roman
History
,
which
are
sufficient
to
demonstrate
,
that
that
great
Empire
was
ruin'd
by
Luxury
and
Uncleanness
,
and
will
serve
to
convince
any
judicious
Reader
what
Monsters
particular
Men
,
and
whole
Nations
,
become
when
judicially
given
up
of
God
to
work
all
manner
of
Uncleanness
with
Greediness
.
We
come
in
the
next
place
to
search
into
Ecclesiastical
History
,
to
see
what
we
can
find
for
our
purpose
there
.
In
the
2d
Book
of
Eusebius
we
find
,
that
Simon
Magus
,
that
great
Enemy
to
the
Christian
Religion
,
is
accus'd
of
keeping
company
with
one
Helena
,
who
had
formerly
been
a
common
Prostitute
in
the
Stews
of
Tyre
,
a
City
of
Phoenicia
,
whom
his
Followers
call'd
the
prime
Notion
or
first
Conception
from
him
,
and
us'd
to
prostrate
themselves
before
the
Images
and
Pictures
of
this
Simon
and
his
Strumpet
Helena
.
And
suitable
to
this
was
their
Practise
,
viz.
so
impure
,
that
't
was
impossible
for
Men
of
Modesty
to
utter
them
,
by
reason
of
their
excessive
Obscenity
,
there
being
nothing
to
be
invented
so
impure
,
which
their
lewd
Sect
did
not
far
surpass
,
deluding
silly
Women
laden
with
all
manner
of
Iniquity
;
a
pregnant
and
strong
Instance
that
Impurity
of
Life
and
Principle
leads
Men
naturally
to
a
hatred
of
true
Religion
.
The
next
Instance
is
in
Book
3
,
Cap.
28
,
of
the
Heretick
Cerinthus
,
of
whom
he
says
,
That
being
a
Lover
of
his
Body
,
and
altogether
carnally
minded
,
he
earnestly
lusted
after
those
things
wherein
he
dreamt
the
Kingdom
of
Christ
consisted
,
viz.
in
the
satiety
of
the
Belly
,
and
of
those
parts
beneath
the
Belly
,
that
is
,
Meats
,
Drinks
,
and
Marriages
.
And
Nicephorus
,
lib.
3
,
cap.
14
,
says
,
That
under
the
name
of
Sacrifices
Cerinthus
hid
his
Lusts
,
that
he
might
make
a
shew
of
Honesty
and
Decency
.
Cap.
29
,
he
gives
us
an
account
of
the
Nicolaitans
,
who
took
their
denomination
from
Nicholas
,
one
of
the
Deacons
concerning
whom
they
say
,
That
having
a
beautiful
Wife
,
and
being
accus'd
of
Jealousie
by
the
Apostles
,
he
brought
his
Wife
forth
,
and
permitted
her
to
marry
whom
she
had
a
mind
to
,
and
that
his
Followers
pretending
to
imitate
him
,
gave
themselves
up
to
all
manner
of
Fornication
,
but
that
those
Hereticks
were
on
a
sudden
wholly
extinct
.
Book
14
,
Cap.
7
,
he
gives
us
an
account
of
the
Gnosticks
,
who
boasted
of
their
amorous
Potions
,
and
of
certain
Spirits
and
Familiars
,
maintain'd
,
that
they
who
would
arrive
to
Perfection
in
their
Mysteries
,
must
act
all
things
that
were
most
filthy
and
unclean
,
being
no
other
ways
able
to
avoid
the
Rulers
of
the
World
,
as
they
call
them
,
unless
they
distributed
to
all
of
them
their
Dues
by
most
filthy
and
detestable
Acts
of
Obscenity
,
which
brought
a
Scandal
on
the
Christians
of
those
Times
,
as
if
they
had
indulg'd
themselves
in
promiscuous
Uncleanness
with
their
Mothers
and
Sisters
;
but
the
Truth
and
Purity
of
their
Doctrin
and
Practice
did
quickly
vindicate
it self
from
those
Calumnies
.
Book
6
,
Cap.
8
,
he
gives
us
an
account
of
Origen's
emasculating
himself
upon
his
understanding
those
words
of
our
Saviour
in
a
literal
sense
,
viz.
Some
there
are
who
have
made
themselves
Eunuchs
for
the
Kingdom
of
Heavens
sake
.
This
shews
how
much
Fornication
and
Uncleanness
was
condem'd
by
the
Christians
in
his
time
,
and
how
careful
he
was
to
avoid
giving
any
occasion
of
Slander
to
the
Enemies
of
the
Christian
Religion
,
tho'
this
Act
in
it self
was
no
way
justifiable
.
Book
7
,
Cap.
30
,
he
gives
us
an
Account
,
that
Paulus
Samosatenus
,
who
spoke
against
the
Godhead
of
Jesus
Christ
,
and
became
a
Founder
of
that
Heresie
,
was
a
sensual
Man
,
countenanc'd
those
call'd
Subintroduc'd
Women
,
who
were
neither
Wives
nor
Concubines
,
but
a
third
sort
,
whom
they
kept
,
as
they
pretended
,
not
to
gratifie
their
Lusts
,
but
out
of
a
pious
design
:
And
they
take
particular
notice
,
that
this
Paul
glutted
himself
with
all
Sensual
Delights
,
as
Feasting
,
Drinking
,
and
the
like
,
which
are
the
common
Incentives
of
Lust
,
and
that
he
carried
two
beautiful
Women
constantly
along
with
him
.
And
thus
he
is
accus'd
by
an
Assembly
of
Bishops
,
in
their
Letter
to
the
Bishop
of
Rome
and
Alexandria
,
which
confirms
the
Observation
we
have
had
sometimes
occasion
to
make
,
that
a
Love
to
Sensual
Pleasures
seems
to
be
a
great
Motive
to
the
Deists
and
Socinians
of
our
Times
to
embrace
those
damnable
Heresies
.
In
his
8th
Book
we
have
an
Account
,
That
a
Gentlewoman
at
Antioch
and
two
beautiful
Virgins
her
Daughters
,
threw
themselves
into
a
River
,
where
they
were
drown'd
,
rather
than
they
would
submit
to
the
Brutish
Lusts
of
their
Heathen
Persecuters
.
And
in
Cap.
14
,
of
that
same
Book
,
we
have
a
Relation
,
how
Maxentius
,
and
other
Persecuters
of
the
Christians
,
omitted
no
manner
of
Action
that
was
impure
and
libidinous
;
they
committed
Adulteries
and
Rapes
of
all
sorts
;
he
parted
Husbands
,
by
Divorce
,
from
their
lawful
Wives
,
and
when
he
had
defil'd
them
he
most
dishonourably
sent
them
back
again
to
their
Husbands
.
And
thus
he
treated
Persons
of
all
Qualities
.
He
passed
through
no
City
in
his
Journey
without
ravishing
Women
and
Virgins
;
and
these
his
vile
Practises
succeeded
according
to
his
desire
against
all
Persons
,
the
Christians
only
excepted
,
who
having
contemn'd
Death
,
despis'd
his
outragious
Tyranny
.
And
thus
one
of
the
most
noted
Women
of
Alexandria
,
being
a
beautiful
Person
,
and
sollicited
to
commit
Adultery
with
him
,
chose
rather
to
expose
her
Life
to
Danger
,
and
so
was
sent
into
Exile
:
And
a
Roman
Lady
,
whose
Husband
was
Prefect
of
Rome
,
being
sent
for
by
Maxentius
,
in
order
to
be
defil'd
by
him
,
and
finding
that
her
Husband
had
,
for
fear
,
permitted
the
Souldiers
to
carry
her
away
,
she
kill'd
her self
,
rather
than
she
would
be
defil'd
by
the
lustful
Tyrant
.
So
that
to
the
shame
of
many
who
call
themselves
Christians
now-adays
,
their
abominable
Lecheries
were
formerly
the
Character
of
their
Persecuters
;
and
nothing
could
be
more
odious
to
the
Primitive
Christians
than
such
vile
Practises
,
as
many
who
bear
that
Name
do
now
indulge
themselves
in
.
But
to
return
to
this
Monster
of
Tyranny
Maxentius
,
the
Divine
Vengeance
pursu'd
him
;
for
,
his
Army
being
defeated
by
Constantine
,
he
himself
,
and
a
great
part
of
them
,
were
drown'd
in
the
Tiber
,
after
which
his
Corps
were
dragg'd
out
,
and
his
Head
being
cut
off
,
it
was
carried
about
on
a
Launce
,
as
a
joyful
Spectacle
to
the
People
.
Eusebius
also
takes
notice
,
that
the
Heathens
were
at
that
time
punish'd
with
intestine
Wars
,
Famine
,
and
Pestilence
,
on
the
account
of
their
Persecution
and
those
impure
Practises
;
and
,
that
Galerius
Maximianus
,
who
to
his
Persecution
of
the
Christians
had
also
added
Impurity
of
Life
,
died
of
a
most
dreadful
Distemper
in
his
Genitals
,
and
a
Fistula
in
Ano
,
to
the
Horrour
and
Amazement
of
all
that
were
about
him
,
the
stink
of
his
Body
being
so
intolerable
,
that
it
kill'd
divers
of
his
Physicians
.
In
his
●…oth
Book
,
he
gives
us
an
Account
of
the
wicked
Emperor
Licinius
,
who
to
his
hatred
of
the
Christian
Religion
and
Learning
of
all
sorts
,
join'd
abominable
Uncleanness
,
forcing
Wives
from
their
Husbands
,
and
giving
them
to
be
defi●…'d
by
his
Slaves
.
Nay
,
his
own
Lustful
Rage
was
so
great
,
that
his
decrepit
Years
could
not
asswage
the
same
,
but
even
then
he
abus'd
married
Women
and
Virgins
,
towards
the
fulfilling
of
his
insatiable
Lust
;
at
last
Judgment
p●…rsu'd
him
;
for
being
overcome
by
Constantine
the
Great
,
and
continuing
unreclaimable
,
notwithstanding
the
Clemency
us'd
towards
him
by
that
gracious
Christian
Emperor
,
he
order'd
him
to
be
strangl'd
:
And
thus
was
his
Exit
suitable
to
his
inglorious
Life
.
Socrates
,
lib.
5
,
cap
18
,
gives
us
an
Account
,
That
the
Heathen
Romans
had
Victualling-houses
under
Ground
,
wherein
they
prostituted
Whores
,
by
which
Devices
they
trepann'd
many
persons
,
some
going
in
thither
to
supply
themselves
with
Food
,
others
to
satisfie
their
libidinous
and
filthy
Desires
,
for
by
a
certain
Engine
purposely
made
for
that
end
,
they
were
convey'd
from
the
Victualling-house
down
into
the
Bakehouse
,
where
they
were
forc'd
to
work
,
and
continued
there
till
they
were
grown
old
,
and
being
never
suffer'd
to
go
out
,
their
Relations
took
it
for
granted
that
they
were
dead
.
This
Trick
was
chiefly
put
upon
Strangers
,
and
was
discover'd
by
one
of
the
Emperor
Thcodosius's
Souldiers
,
who
being
trappan'd
in
this
manner
,
kill'd
some
of
those
with
his
Dagger
that
would
have
detain'd
him
;
and
escaping
by
this
means
,
acquainted
the
Emperor
with
it
,
who
order'd
those
Houses
to
be
pull'd
down
,
and
the
Masters
of
them
to
be
punish'd
.
Another
a●…ominable
Custom
they
had
,
which
was
abolish'd
also
by
this
Emperor
,
of
which
he
gives
the
following
Account
:
If
a
Woman
were
taken
in
Adultery
,
they
shut
her
up
in
a
narrow
Brothel-house
,
and
forc'd
her
to
play
the
Whore
in
a
most
impudent
manner
;
and
during
the
performance
of
that
unclean
Act
,
they
caus'd
little
Bells
to
be
rung
,
to
the
end
that
what
was
done
within
might
be
known
to
those
who
passed
by
;
of
which
the
Emperor
Theodosius
being
inform'd
,
he
order'd
those
Stews
to
be
pull'd
down
,
and
commanded
,
that
Women
taken
in
Adultery
should
be
otherwise
punish'd
.
It
's
true
that
Valesius
,
in
his
Notes
upon
this
Passage
,
thinks
that
this
Custom
was
discontinu'd
long
before
,
Adultery
being
punish'd
by
the
Romans
as
a
capital
Crime
,
after
Constantine's
Reign
,
and
says
,
that
they
were
common
Prostitutes
,
who
rung
Bells
to
invite
Passengers
in
to
them
;
and
quotes
Dio
Cassius
,
speaking
of
the
Emperor
Heliogabalus
,
thus
:
Having
made
a
Cell
within
the
Palace
,
he
acted
his
Lechery
therein
,
standing
naked
before
the
Door
thereof
,
as
Whores
usually
do
,
shaking
his
Shirt
,
which
was
hung
up
with
Golden
Rings
,
and
with
a
soft
,
delicate
,
broken
Voice
inviting
his
Companions
to
him
.
So
that
,
be
how
it
will
,
it
's
plain
that
those
abominable
things
were
practis'd
by
the
Heathens
,
and
the
Houses
or
Vaults
(
whence
the
word
Fornication
is
deriv'd
)
where
they
acted
those
Impurities
were
destroy'd
by
the
Christians
;
whereas
so
many
of
those
who
call
themselves
by
that
venerable
Name
,
in
our
Days
,
frequent
such
loathsom
and
execrable
Houses
.
In
the
19th
Chapter
of
that
same
Book
,
he
relates
how
the
Office
of
the
Penitentiary
Presbyter
was
abrogated
at
Constantinople
,
because
a
certain
Gentlewoman
,
who
had
by
him
been
injoyn'd
to
Prayer
and
Fasting
in
the
Church
,
upon
the
account
of
her
Faults
,
was
debauch'd
there
by
the
Deacon
of
the
said
Church
,
for
which
he
was
ejected
,
and
the
People
were
in
hazard
of
making
a
Tumult
,
because
that
Fact
had
brought
an
Infamy
and
Disgrace
upon
the
Church
;
and
therefore
Eudaemon
,
a
Presbyter
of
that
Church
,
advis'd
Nectarius
the
Bishop
to
abolish
the
Penitentiary
Presbyters
,
and
to
leave
every
person
to
his
own
Conscience
for
the
participation
of
the
Holy
Mysteries
.
Evagrius
Scholasticus
,
in
his
3d
Book
,
Cap.
1
,
gives
us
an
Account
,
That
the
Emperor
Zeno
was
a
lewd
debauch'd
Man
;
that
he
gave
himself
wholly
up
to
the
Attempts
and
Alurements
of
Lust
;
that
he
restrain'd
himself
from
no
manner
of
filthy
and
flagitious
Facts
,
but
wallow'd
in
the
commission
thereof
,
in
such
a
manner
,
that
he
thought
it
vile
and
mean
to
commit
those
things
in
Darkness
and
Obscurity
,
and
that
to
perpetrate
them
openly
and
in
the
sight
of
all
he
accounted
Royal
and
becoming
an
Emperor
.
These
Courses
did
quickly
render
Zeno
odious
in
the
sight
of
all
Men
;
whereupon
Basilisc●…s
improving
the
general
Hatred
against
Zeno
,
usurp'd
the
Imperial
Diadem
,
and
dethron'd
him
:
It
's
true
,
that
Zeno
afterwards
reobtain'd
his
Crown
,
and
counterfeited
the
good
Christian
;
but
persisting
however
in
his
Impurities
and
Drunkenness
,
which
threw
him
into
an
Epilepsie
or
Falling-sickness
,
he
was
miserably
buried
by
the
Empresses
Order
,
(
says
Baronius
)
in
one
of
those
Fits
;
and
when
he
recover'd
in
his
Grave
,
and
cried
to
the
Souldiers
to
take
him
out
,
they
answer'd
,
That
there
was
another
chosen
in
his
room
;
whereupon
he
intreated
to
be
taken
out
,
and
suffer'd
at
least
to
end
his
days
in
a
Monastery
;
but
this
was
also
denied
him
,
and
in
this
miserable
condition
he
ended
his
wretched
Life
,
while
the
Souldiers
in
the
mean
time
did
barbarously
scoff
at
him
.
This
Method
did
his
Empress
Ariadne
take
to
be
reveng'd
on
him
for
having
defil'd
her
Bed
,
which
tho'
it
cannot
be
justified
in
her
,
yet
must
certainly
be
justified
,
as
coming
from
the
Hand
of
God
.
Evagrius
,
Book
3
,
Cap.
39
,
gives
us
an
account
of
a
wicked
Tax
,
that
had
continued
a
long
time
among
the
Romans
,
call'd
Chrysargyrum
,
which
was
impos'd
upon
those
Women
who
prostituted
themselves
,
and
also
upon
Catamites
,
insomuch
that
this
Tax
,
instead
of
a
Law
,
made
loud
Proclamation
,
That
those
who
had
a
mind
,
might
securely
,
and
with
Impunity
,
commit
such
abominable
Lechery
;
which
the
good
Emperor
Anastasius
thought
so
disgraceful
to
a
Christian
Empire
,
that
he
not
only
abolish'd
the
said
Tax
,
but
burnt
all
the
Records
concerning
it
,
and
the
Papers
which
contain'd
the
Methods
of
collecting
it
,
that
none
of
his
Successors
might
renew
the
Infamy
of
this
Exaction
.
Having
thus
taken
a
short
view
of
what
is
to
be
found
suitable
to
our
purpose
in
the
Ecclesiastical
Histories
of
Eusebius
,
Socrates
,
and
Evagrius
,
we
shall
conclude
this
part
with
some
account
of
the
Pennance
which
the
Ancients
injoin'd
upon
Christians
for
Uncleanness
,
viz.
The
time
of
Pennance
for
Fornication
was
Seven
Years
,
and
for
Adultery
Fifteen
.
The
Penitents
presented
themselves
before
the
Door
of
the
Church
,
in
poor
,
fordid
,
and
ragged
Apparel
;
being
enter'd
into
the
Church
,
they
receiv'd
Ashes
upon
their
Heads
and
Hair-Cloth
upon
their
Bodies
,
and
then
went
out
of
the
Church
,
the
Door
being
usually
shut
after
them
.
It
was
customary
for
them
to
remain
shut
up
weeping
and
groaning
,
unless
on
Festival
days
,
when
they
presented
themselves
in
the
Church
Porch
;
some
time
after
they
were
admitted
to
hear
the
Lectures
,
with
command
to
go
out
before
Prayers
.
At
the
end
of
a
certain
time
they
were
allow'd
to
pray
with
the
Congregation
,
but
lying
all-along
upon
the
Earth
,
and
at
length
,
were
suffer'd
to
pray
standing
,
until
the
Offertory
,
when
they
went
out
:
The
space
of
time
was
often
abridg'd
by
the
Clergy
,
according
as
they
perceiv'd
the
Penitents
deserv'd
Indulgence
.
Thus
we
see
what
an
odious
Sin
Uncleanness
was
reckon'd
amongst
the
Primitive
Christians
.
Clemens
Alexandrinus
thought
that
there
was
no
Mercy
nor
Repentance
for
them
that
were
guilty
of
Uncleanness
above
once
or
twice
.
Nay
,
some
Authors
say
,
That
in
the
first
times
perpetual
Pennance
was
injoin'd
for
Adultery
,
and
they
were
scarcely
admitted
into
Communion
at
the
Hour
of
Death
,
till
Pope
Zephyrinus
,
about
the
Year
216
,
appointed
a
shorter
time
,
wherein
he
was
opposed
by
the
African
Churches
.
The
Ancyran
Council
,
Anno
315
,
appointed
seven
Years
Pennance
for
the
first
Fault
,
and
upon
a
Relapse
forbad
the
receiving
of
them
into
Communion
at
the
hour
of
Death
.
In
the
Synod
of
Illiberis
,
Can.
1
,
they
injoyn
the
same
punishment
upon
Bawds
,
and
such
as
prostitute
the
Bodies
of
their
Children
.
It
is
well
known
,
says
Bishop
Taylor
,
that
the
Civil
Laws
in
the
Primitive
Church
punish'd
Adultery
with
Death
,
the
Husband
killing
the
Wife
in
the
Act
,
with
the
Allowance
of
the
Law
.
If
the
Christians
in
Clemens
Alexandrinus's
time
had
been
guilty
of
those
Impurities
which
many
of
those
that
bear
that
Name
now
are
,
with
what
Face
could
he
have
upbraided
the
Heathens
of
his
time
,
as
he
does
in
his
Admonition
to
the
Greeks
,
p.
39
,
40.
viz.
That
as
they
had
order'd
the
matter
,
by
t●…e
Marriages
,
Propagation
,
Adulteries
,
and
Banquets
of
their
Gods
,
they
had
turn'd
Heaven
into
a
Comical
Scene
,
and
jested
Religion
into
Scorn
and
Laughter
?
there
being
nothing
more
usual
with
them
,
than
to
hang
their
Rooms
with
the
Pictures
of
their
Gods
,
drawn
in
the
most
obscene
postures
,
and
engag'd
in
the
most
filthy
and
dishonest
actions
,
enough
to
shame
even
Vice
it self
.
These
,
says
he
,
are
the
Original
Patterns
of
your
soft
Effeminacy
;
this
is
your
brutish
and
prophane
Divinity
;
these
are
the
Doctrines
of
your
Gods
,
Copartners
with
you
in
your
Uncleanness
and
Adultery
.
The
like
we
may
observe
from
that
passage
of
Tertullian
,
ad
Nationes
,
lib.
1
,
cap
4
,
where
he
says
,
That
he
knew
of
some
Husbands
,
when
Heathens
,
who
were
so
very
jealous
of
their
Wives
(
and
possibly
not
without
reason
)
that
a
Mouse
could
not
stir
in
the
Room
,
but
it
must
be
a
Gallant
creeping
to
their
Bed
:
Yet
,
upon
their
turning
Christians
,
they
became
so
eminently
reserved
,
chaste
,
and
modest
,
that
there
was
not
the
least
Foundation
of
Suspicion
;
their
Jealousie
was
converted
into
Hatred
,
and
they
vow'd
they
had
rather
their
Wives
should
be
Strumpets
than
Christians
.
Of
the
same
nature
is
the
Passage
of
Origen
to
Celsus
,
lib.
1
,
p.
21.
where
he
says
,
They
(
meaning
the
Heathens
)
must
needs
confess
the
Excellency
and
Divinity
of
Christ's
Doctrin
,
who
do
but
look
into
the
Lives
of
those
who
adhere
unto
it
,
comparing
their
former
Course
of
Life
with
that
which
they
now
lead
,
and
considering
in
what
Impurities
,
Lusts
,
and
Wickedness
every
one
of
them
wallow'd
before
they
embraced
this
Doctrin
;
but
since
,
how
much
better
they
are
become
,
insomuch
that
some
of
them
,
out
of
a
more
transcendent
desire
of
Purity
,
and
that
they
may
worship
God
with
a
chaste
Mind
,
deny
themselves
even
the
Pleasures
of
a
Lawful
Bed
.
And
,
lib.
7
,
p.
365
,
That
the
Christians
had
no
need
,
as
some
of
the
best
among
the
Gentiles
had
,
to
use
Arts
and
Medicines
,
or
to
have
Guardians
over
them
,
to
preserve
their
Chastity
,
the
Word
of
God
being
sufficient
to
expel
irregular
Appetites
.
Nay
,
and
that
which
is
more
observable
,
Pliny
,
tho'
a
Heathen
himself
,
and
a
persecuter
,
wrote
to
the
Emperor
Trajan
,
That
the
Christians
detested
Murther
,
Adultery
,
and
such
other
Ungodliness
.
Tertullian
,
in
his
Apology
,
cap.
9
,
p.
10
,
says
of
the
Heathens
,
Wherever
you
are
,
at
home
or
abroad
,
Lust
is
your
Companion
;
whereas
Chastity
,
diligently
and
faithfully
preserv'd
,
keeps
us
from
any
such
Event
;
and
we
are
far
from
Incest
,
which
ye
often
stumble
upon
in
your
Lusts
,
as
we
are
from
Whoredom
,
or
any
Excess
in
a
married
state
.
And
in
the
close
of
his
Apology
,
cap.
ult.
p.
40
,
he
says
,
While
you
chuse
to
condemn
a
Woman
that
is
a
Christian
,
to
the
Stews
,
rather
than
to
the
Lions
,
you
plainly
own
,
that
the
violation
of
Chastity
is
accounted
by
us
an
heavier
Penalty
than
any
Punishment
or
kind
of
Death
which
you
can
inflict
upon
us
.
And
that
this
may
appear
not
to
have
been
their
Doctrin
only
,
but
also
their
Practise
,
we
referr
to
the
Instances
of
the
Chastity
of
the
Governor
of
Rome's
Wife
,
who
chose
rather
to
kill
her self
than
to
be
defil'd
by
the
Emperor
Maxentius
,
as
before
mention'd
.
And
that
remarkable
Instance
related
by
St.
Jerome
,
in
the
Life
of
Paul
the
Hermit
,
Tom.
1
,
p.
237.
In
the
Decian
Persecution
,
a
young
Man
,
a
Christian
,
in
the
Flower
of
his
age
,
was
carried
into
a
Garden
that
had
all
things
conspiring
to
make
it
a
place
for
pleasure
and
delight
;
being
laid
upon
a
Bed
of
Doune
,
and
fasten'd
to
it
with
silken
Cords
,
the
Company
withdrawing
,
a
beautiful
Strumpet
was
sent
in
to
him
,
who
caressing
and
treating
him
with
all
the
Arts
of
Wantonness
,
not
consisting
with
Modesty
to
name
,
the
young
Man
finding
the
Temptation
ready
to
prevail
,
presently
bit
off
his
Tongue
,
and
spit
in
her
Face
as
she
attempted
to
kiss
him
.
Many
other
Instances
of
this
nature
might
be
added
,
but
these
are
enough
to
testifie
how
much
the
Primitive
and
Ancient
Christians
abhorr'd
Uncleanness
,
in
Practice
as
well
as
Principle
.
Then
as
to
the
Opinion
which
the
Primitive
Christians
had
of
Marriage
,
and
their
Reasons
for
entering
into
it
;
let
us
hear
what
Athenagoras
says
in
his
Apology
,
p.
37.
Either
,
says
he
,
we
marry
not
at
all
,
but
keep
our selves
always
continent
,
or
if
we
do
marry
,
't
is
for
no
other
End
,
but
the
bringing
up
of
Children
:
Whoever
among
us
takes
a
Wife
,
according
to
the
Laws
prescrib'd
us
,
he
reckons
he
does
it
only
for
the
begetting
of
Children
;
within
this
his
Desires
are
bound
and
limited
,
as
the
Husbandman
concerns
himself
no
further
in
tilling
his
Ground
and
sowing
his
Corn
,
than
to
bring
forth
the
Crop
at
Harvest
.
And
hence
it
was
that
they
seldom
married
oftener
than
once
,
as
Minutius
Faelix
says
,
p.
26.
Origen
against
Celsus
,
lib.
5
,
p.
264
,
says
,
We
in
all
our
Abstinences
do
it
only
to
keep
under
the
Body
,
and
to
bring
it
into
subjection
,
endeavouring
to
mortifie
the
Deeds
of
the
Body
,
to
expel
and
extinguish
our
Members
upon
the
Earth
,
Fornication
,
Uncleanness
,
Inordinate
Affection
,
and
every
evil
Concupiscence
and
Desire
.
The
Hatred
which
that
Great
Man
had
against
Uncleanness
is
sufficiently
manifest
by
his
dismembring
himself
,
as
formerly
mention'd
,
and
chusing
rather
to
have
Incense
forc'd
into
his
Hand
,
and
so
offer'd
up
to
Idols
at
Athens
,
than
to
have
his
Body
abus'd
by
an
Ethiopian
,
which
the
Heathens
threatned
him
with
.
How
careful
the
Primitive
Christians
were
to
avoid
all
occasions
of
Uncleanness
,
appears
from
Cyprian
,
de
Discip.
&
Habit.
Virg.
p.
167.
where
he
justly
chides
some
Virgins
for
being
present
at
Weddings
,
where
they
laugh'd
freely
,
could
not
but
hear
loose
Discourses
,
see
uncomely
Behaviour
,
feed
upon
luxurious
Dishes
,
all
which
must
not
only
kindle
,
but
add
Fuel
to
the
Fire
,
and
fill
the
Mind
with
undecent
Thoughts
and
Desires
.
St.
Jerome
on
the
other
hand
does
as
much
commend
such
Virgins
who
always
kept
at
home
on
Festival
days
,
to
avoid
the
crowds
and
Gazes
of
the
People
,
and
would
never
go
abroad
at
those
times
when
they
could
not
venture
into
the
publick
without
the
greatest
Care
and
Custody
of
themselves
.
Such
was
the
Cautiousness
of
the
Primitive
Christians
,
they
stood
at
a
distance
from
whatever
was
offensive
either
to
their
Eyes
or
Ears
.
Their
Ears
they
stopp'd
against
all
loose
idle
Songs
,
all
filthy
and
obscene
Discourses
;
their
Eyes
they
shut
against
all
uncomely
Objects
,
all
wanton
and
lascivious
Pictures
,
and
,
as
Clemens
Alexandrinus
tells
us
,
not
doing
any
thing
that
seem'd
to
carry
an
ill
colour
with
it
.
The
Council
of
Laodicea
,
in
their
30th
Canon
,
forbad
Christian
Men
to
use
the
same
common
Baths
with
Women
;
nay
,
so
abominable
were
all
Uncleannesses
to
the
ancient
Church
,
that
they
were
even
too
severe
against
second
Marriages
,
as
Zonaras
tells
us
,
Can.
7
,
Concil.
Neocaes
.
suspended
such
as
married
twice
from
the
Communion
a
whole
Year
.
And
the
Council
of
Laodicea
,
Can.
1
,
requir'd
,
that
they
should
spend
some
time
at
least
in
Pennance
,
Fasting
,
and
Prayer
,
before
they
be
receiv'd
to
the
Communion
.
Ter
ullian
,
Cyprian
,
Minutius
,
Faelix
,
and
St.
Jerome
,
inveigh●…d
also
against
second
Marriages
,
wherein
tho'
they
acted
not
only
without
,
but
even
against
Divine
Authority
,
seeing
the
Apostle
limits
no
number
of
Times
,
but
says
positively
,
that
it
is
better
to
marry
than
to
burn
,
yet
it
shews
how
careful
the
ancient
Christians
were
to
avoid
those
Impurities
,
which
many
who
call
themselves
Christians
will
scarcely
own
now
to
be
a
Crime
.
St.
Ambrose
says
,
The
Apostle
did
well
to
warn
Christians
to
flee
Fornication
,
by
which
the
Sons
of
God
,
says
he
,
are
made
the
Children
of
the
Devil
.
Nay
,
the
Schoolmen
make
simple
Fornication
to
be
a
deadly
Sin
,
and
that
in
such
measure
as
Peraldus
a
Papist
concludes
,
That
if
one
who
had
never
before
sinned
,
but
had
done
all
the
Good
that
could
be
imagin'd
,
should
but
once
commit
this
Sin
,
he
must
of
necessity
be
damn'd
without
Repentance
.
Aquinas
says
,
That
simple
Fornication
,
inas
much
as
it
is
against
the
Good
of
the
Offspring
to
be
brought
forth
,
is
so
unlawful
,
that
it
is
a
deadly
Sin
.
Epiphanius
,
against
the
Carpoeratians
,
Lib.
1
,
Tom.
2
,
Cap.
27
,
says
,
That
because
of
their
Debaucheries
they
were
sent
forth
by
Satan
,
to
the
Reproach
and
Scandal
of
the
Church
of
God
,
as
the
Gnosticks
had
been
before
them
.
Gluttony
,
Drunkenness
,
and
Effeminacy
were
much
exclaim'd
against
by
the
Ancients
,
because
they
were
Incentives
to
Uncleanness
,
whereupon
St.
Jerome
says
,
It
's
a
difficult
thing
to
preserve
Chastity
in
the
midst
of
Feasting
.
Bernard
says
,
That
Chastity
is
much
endanger'd
by
Delicacies
.
Ericius
Putecinus
saith
,
That
Lust
is
nourish'd
by
Feasting
and
Dainties
.
And
St.
Augustine
,
in
his
33d
Sermon
,
ad
Fr.
in
Er.
gives
us
this
strange
Instance
of
the
Effect
of
Drunkenness
,
viz.
That
the
Son
of
one
Cyril
a
noble
Citizen
of
Hippo
,
who
had
a
Son
whom
he
lov'd
even
above
his
Maker
,
not
contradicting
him
in
any
Desire
,
nor
correcting
him
for
any
Fault
.
This
riotous
Youngster
,
not
content
to
roar
it
abroad
,
and
spend
his
Father's
Estate
,
came
home
drunk
,
villainously
ravish'd
his
own
Mother
,
big
with
Child
,
endeavour'd
to
deflower
one
of
his
Sisters
,
wounded
two
of
them
,
that
they
d●…d
and
kill'd
his
Father
outright
.
FINIS
.