- Seymar, William. (William Seymar is a pseudonymous anagram for William Ramsey.) Cf. Halkett and Laing
Conjugium conjurgium: or, some serious considerations on marriage. Wherein (by way of caution and advice to a friend) its nature, ends, events, concomitant accidents, &c. are examined. By William Seymar Esquire.
London: printed for John Amery at the Peacock over against St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleet-Street 1675. $2,800
Duodecimo: 15 X 9 cm. A-G12H8 Second Edition (the 1674 edition is a title page cancel) Bound in Modern full calf.
This book gives an interesting insight into the actual practice of marital relationships. The book begins by advocating an ideal, and emphasizes the need for the wife to submit herself totally to her husband, however, the main argument of his book seems to be to discourage men from entering the state of matrimony. For they be often deceived in this point, because if anything dislike them in their own husband, whom they have, they call to remembrance only such points as pleased them in their first husband.” William Ramsey was much blunter about the dangers of a widow taunting her second husband with the exaggerated virtues of the first: he warned any man that must marry a widow to “choose one whose first husband was hanged.”
Wing R-229; Macdonald’s Bibliography of Dryden # 172B; Arber’s Term cat.; I 208; ESTC (RLIN),; R015779
- 485J. Mainwaring, Thomas, Sir, 1623-1689
London : Printed for S. Lowndes over against Exeter-House in the Strand, 1673
price $ 750
A reply to an answer to the Defence of Amicia, daughter of Hugh Cyveliok Earl of Chester. : Wherein it is proved, that the reasons alleadged by Sir Peter Leicester, in his former book, and also in his said answer, concerning the illegitimacy of the said Amicia, are invalid, and of no weight at all. By Sir Thomas Mainwaring of Peover in Cheshire, Barone
Octavo: 15.3 x 9 cm. Signatures: A-F⁸ G⁴ ²G²
“Today, probably, no one questions that Amicia was an illegitimate daughter of
Hugh II. As Hugh was born in 1147, it is not difficult to calculate that the
date of the present charter must be c. 1180, or conceivably a year or two
earlier.”
Amicia, the author’s grandmother, was the wife of Ralph Mainwaring. Leicester, another descendant of Amicia, claimed that she was a bastard. This tract, like the others, is of legal interest for its discussion of the early common law authorities on marriage. Both authors had been students at Gray’s Inn. The issue was eventually decided in Mainwaring’s favor.
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2. 399J. Jenks, Benjamin, 1646-1724.
A letter to a gentleman of note, guilty of common swearing recommended now to all such of that rank as are under the same guilt, and fit to be perused by all Their Majesties good subjects that would please both God and the king, in helping to suppress this crying sin / by B.J.
London: Printed for Randall Taylor …, 1690. price $1,100
Quarto 21x 16 cm. Signatures: A-B4,C2
Jenks was a Church of England clergyman and author. He matriculated at Queen’s College, Oxford. He remained minister at Harley until his death. He published a number of sermons, meditations, and books of prayer. These latter proved especially popular and were reprinted into the nineteenth century. According to the ODNB, “Jenks developed moralizing messages in several of his writings, lecturing against swearing, ledness, and lust”, notably in his several letters on swearing, which were usually addressed to “a Gentleman of Note”.
Whatever, Sir, be your Station, Revenue, Titles, and Dignity, you cannot imagine, sure, that you have any Authority to be a Common Swearer, as you are a Gentle∣man, a Magistrate, or a Soldier.
First, As a Gentleman, how utterly should you scorn such Boarish Manners, as infinitely below you! That which is a Badge of Infamy to the very scum of the Peo∣ple; arguing no better Rank and Quality, than to be of the Hissing Lineage of the Old Serpent, who is for Spit∣ting his Venom most against him that is absolutely the Best. Can it become your Dignity, or ever be reckon’d as any of your Bravery? Be sure, that Lamp of Repu∣tation which is fed with God’s Dishonour, will cast but a very ill Smell in any Nostrils, except such as prefer the nastiest Dunghill before the sweetest Garden. The Svearing which I now make bold to capitulate with you concerning, but like an Imposthume issuing out of a dead Mans mouth, speaks you even Dead in Sin, and so rots your Name, and lays all your Honour in the dust.
Alas, Sir, What can you ever propose to your self, in adhering to a Scandalous Haunt, that hath no manner of Satisfaction, even to the Carnal Appetite; pleaseth never a Sense? You know what the Inge∣nious and Honourable Mr. Herbert says, Were I an Epicure, I could bate Swearing; ’tis Pleasure that drills on the Drunkard; filthy Lucre that’s the Misers bait; and the Ambitious tow’rs after the Lure of Honour; all have some Colour, tho false, for their Evil; only the Diabolical Swearer embraces Wickedness even for it self.
Let me beseech you then, Sir, for pity to your own Soul, (if not for the Fear and Love of God) Rescue it from the Bonds of this Ruining Custom, and do not yield your self to be taken Captive by the Devil at his will. But after all your impious Oaths, will you make one Religious Vow, never so to Swear again; and Fear an Oath, even as you would dread a Chain that will bind you to Fire unquenchable. O! let him that gave you a Tongue, and Power to use it, have the Praise and Glory of it. And do not make it the Weapon
| Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), J618A: McAlpin, IV, p. 388 | |
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3. 136J. Jean Frederic Ostervald1663-1747
The nature of uncleanness consider’d: wherein is discoursed of the causes and consequences of this sin, and the duties of such as are under the guilt of it. To which is added, a discourse concerning the nature of chastity, and the means of obtaining it. By J. F. Ostervald, minister of the church of Neuschâtel, author of A treatise of the causes of the present corruption of christians, a catechism,&c
London: printed for Printed for R. Bonwicke, W. Freeman, Tim : Goodwin, J. Walthoe, M. Wotton, S. Manship, J. Nicholson, B. Took, R. Parker, and R. Smith . (1708) $1,800
Octavo 19 x 12.5cm [4],xxxiv,[10],280p. First and only edition Early calf binding, hansomly tooled spine . This is a very interesting of diatribe on “clealness’ and it’s opposite.
Ostervald “His writings had a great influence, bearing spiritual renewal among Waldensian, Dutch, German, Hungarian and Scandinavian Protestants. Moreover, the English Royal Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts – of which he was a member – brought his teachings to the countries of the Middle East, India, Canada and the West-Indian Islands. His highly influential oeuvre was later called “the second Reformation”.1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 20
“Yet never was more need of Difcourses of this nature than now, when Wickednefs appears bare-fae’d, and too many are neither afraid nor alhamed to glory in it; as if it were a piece of Bravery, or a Jefting Matter, to bid Defiance to the Almighty, and daringly provoke him to his Face. When People come to this height of Impiety, it is high time to warn them of their exceilive Folly and Danger, and to intreat and befeech them to bethink themlelves in time, left the Wrath of God break forth upon them, and there be no efcaping. This is a dreadful Case, and may juftly be expefted to bring down heavy Judgments upon a People, where thefe Iniquities prevail, to make their Land mourn, and the Inhabitants thereof languid, or poffibly, as it fared with God’s own chofen People the Jews, to let them be no more a Nation.Were they only the common and more ordinary Sins of this kind, fuch as Adultery. Fornication, &c. that we have caufe to complain of, thefe would miferably expofe us to the terrible Indignation of the Almighty, and the dire Effects of it. But to our Sorrow and Shame it muft be confefs’d, that yet more grievous Abominations are found amongft us, fuch as our Country had only heard of in former Ages, but which make too fad a noife in this, to the Terror and Ailonifhment of all the Faithful in the Land.”
ESTC T86652 (two copies west of the Mississippi.)
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4. 389J Anonmyous
The humours, and conversations of the town, expos’d in two dialogues, the first, of the men. The second, of the women.
London : printed for R. Bentley, in Russel-Street, in Covent-Garden, and J. Tonson, at the Judge’s-Head in Chancery-Lane, 1693. Price $2,200
Octavo A⁶ B-G¹².
First and only edition. Bound in speckled calf, recently rebacked, with the signature of Jane Modgford on the title and page 1. Wright, James 1643-1713, antiquary and miscellaneous writer, “A versatile writer with a lucid style and a genuine touch of humour, especially as an essayist…” [DNB]. The attribution first appears, in Brice Harris’s facsimile of this edition printed in 1961. The work itself is written as a dialogue between Jovial and Pensive who have visited London and wish to return to the country. Jovial’s cousin, Sociable, enjoys the London social whirl. They argue about the various pleasures of the city versus the country. Dryden is discussed at one point: “the company of the author of Absalom and Achitophel is more valuable, tho’ not so talkative, than that of the modern men of banter; for what he says, is like what he writes; much to the purpose, and full of mighty sense…” This is followed by another, shorter, dialogue between Madam Townlove and Madam Thinkwell.
The original form ‘to a T’ is an old phrase and the earliest citation that I know of is in James Wright’s satire The Humours and Conversations of the Town.
“All the under Villages and Towns-men come to him for Redress; which he does to a T.”
The letter ‘T’ itself, as the initial of a word. If this is the derivation then the word in question is very likely to be ‘tittle’. A tittle is a small stroke or point in writing or printing and is now best remembered via the term jot or tittle. The best reason for believing that this is the source of the ‘T’ is that the phrase ‘to a tittle’ existed in English well before ‘to a T’, with the same meaning;
for example, in Francis Beaumont’s Jacobean comedy drama The Woman Hater, 1607. we find: “Ile quote him to a tittle.”
In this case, although there is no smoking gun, the ‘to a tittle’ derivation would probably stand up in court as ‘beyond reasonable doubt’. Very nice condition. Item #736
Wing; H3720; Cf. Macdonald, Hugh. John Dryden; a bibliography. Oxford, 1939, p. 275-276. :Brett-Smith 305.
ESTC Citation No. R31136
Price: $2,200.00
Wing (2nd ed.), H3720; Macdonald, Hugh. John Dryden; a bibliography. Oxford, 1939, p. 275-276.
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5. 415J #779 . Anon.), Waring, Robert, 1614-1658. Translated by John Noris.
Effigies amoris in English: or the picture of love unveil’d.
Oxford: London : Printed for James Good in Oxford, and sold by J. Nut [i.e. Nutt, London], 1701. Second edition of the English translation by John Norton. ¶ Duodecimo; A-E12, F11 (A1, half title, present) Bound in original full calf, missing some leather from spine but cords are very strong. Some wonderful quotes for this book:
The Answer of R. W. to his Friend, importunately desiring to know what LOVE might be?
I Acknowledge the wanton Ty∣ranny of imperious Love, that is always requiring the most diffi∣cult Trials of the Affections. Now though it be a kinde of an Hercu∣lean Labour it self to Love, considering those severe duties, those toyls, and hazards appendant to it; as if Cruelty were its sole delight: Nevertheless we believe it reasonable, what names so∣ever we have given to Love, that he should exercise his Soveraignty, which is certainly very great and puissant; and by the Severity of his Commands, that he should augment the glory of his high Rule, and our obedient Sub∣mission.
“However, this is the supreme Office of Reason, to make a right choice of Disposition and Conditions; to choose a Companion with whom we are sure to live with more delight than with our selves; whose judgment we may be sure to follow as our own: or else to stay till we can finde a proper Ob∣ject of Love. Then also so to love, like one who is guided by Judgment, not carried away by Passion; like one so far from ceasing, that he is always beginning to Love. This is to joyn Patience with Constancy. This is to receive the Idea more fairly imprinted in the Minde, than in Wax, and to preserve more stedfastly. ‘Tis the Of∣fice of Vertue, to determine upon one measure of wishing; to covet a dispo∣sition and inclination like his own, through all the changes of Fortune; and so to make two of one, that they may act the same person.”
ESTC Citation No. N1243
The “Amoris Effigies (anon.), London, 1649, 1664, 1668, 1671. In 1680 appeared a loose English translation, by a Robert Nightingale, which deviated in many points from the Latin original. John Norris, under the pseudonym Phil-iconerus, published a fresh translation, London, 1682; 2nd edit., 1701; In his introduction, Norris wrote of Waring’s “sweetness of fancy, neatness of style, and lusciousness of hidden sense”.
Waring also wrote Latin verses, including in Jonsonus Virbius [playwright Ben Jonson.](1639), reprinted in the 1668 and subsequent editions of the Amoris Effigies, under the title of Carmen Lapidorium.” (DNB).
Price: $1,550
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6. # 719 B ? J.B. Gent.
The young lovers guide, or, The unsuccessful amours of Philabius, a country lover; set forth in several kind epistles, writ by him to his beautious-unkind mistress. Teaching lovers how to comport themselves with resignation in their love-disasters. With The answer of Helena to Paris, by a country shepherdess. As also, The sixth Æneid and fourth eclogue of Virgil, both newly translated by J.B. Gent. (?)
London : Printed and are to be Sold by theBooksellers of London, 1699. The frontispiece is signed: M· Vander Gucht. scul:. 1660-1725, This copy is bound in original paneled sheep with spine cracking but cords holding Strong.
Wing (2nd ed.), B131; Arber’s Term cat.; III 142
Copies – Brit.Isles : British Library
Cambridge University St. John’s College
Oxford University, Bodleian Library
Copies – N.America : Folger Shakespeare
Harvard Houghton Library
Henry E. Huntington
Newberry
UCLA, Clark Memorial Library
University of Illinois. Item #71
Octavo, A4, B-G8,H6 I2( lacking 3&’4) (A1, frontispiece Present; I3&’4, advertisements lacking ) [8], 116, [4] p. : The frontispiece is signed: M· Vander Gucht. scul:. 1660-1725,
Engraved frontispiece of the Mistress holding a fan,
“Bold Poets and rash Painters may aspire With pen and pencill to describe my Faire, Alas; their arts in the performance fayle, And reach not that divine Original, Some Shadd’wy glimpse they may present to view, And this is all poore humane art Can doe”
. FIRST EDITION. . The author remains unknown.
Price: $3,500.00
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7. 375J. Centlivre, [ Susanna CENTLIVRE,]. 1667-1723
The GAMESTER: A Comedy as it is acted at the New-Theater in Lincolns-Inn-Fields,By Her MaJesty’s Servants.
London. Printed for William Turner, 1705. 1705. Bound in later quarter vellum.
The first edition of playwright and actress Susanna Centlivre’s (bap. 1667?, d. 1723) convoluted gambling comedy, adapted from French dramatist Jean Francois Regnard’s (1655-1709) Le Jouer (1696). The Gamester met with tremendous success and firmly established Centlivre as a part the pantheon of celebrated seventeenth-century playwrights, yet the professional life of the female dramatist remained complicated, with many of her works, as here, being published anonymously and accompanied by a prologue implying a male author.
Centlivre’s comedy, The Gamester, was first performed in February 1705. Here, she declared her intent to reform gamblers. This play was Centlivre’s most successful to date and was frequently revived in later years. ‘Gamester’ is an adaptation of ‘Le Joueur’ of Regnard, played 1696. 
CENTLIVRE, English dramatic writer and actress, was born about 1667, probably in Ireland, where her father, a Lincolnshire gentleman named Freeman, had been forced to flee at the Restoration on account of his political sympathies. When sixteen she married the nephew of Sir Stephen Fox, and on his death within a year she married an officer named Carroll, who was killed in a duel. Left in poverty, she began to support herself, writing for the stage, and some of her early plays are signed S. Carroll. In 1706 she married Joseph Centlivre, chief cook to Queen Anne, who survived her.
Price: $4,000.00
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8. 331j.#781 Polwheile, Theolophilus
Aὐθέντης, Authentēs. Or A treatise of self-deniall. Wherein the necessity and excellency of it is demonstrated; with several directions for the practice of it. By Theophilus Polwheile, M.A. sometimes of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now teacher of the Church at Teverton in Devon
London: :printed for Thomas Johnson, and are to be sold by Richard Scott book-seller in Carlisle, 1658.
First Edition ¶. bound in mid 19th century brown calf, (48) 424 (46) pp. including 8 pp. publisher’s catalog, errata leaf at end, text clean, bright, collated complete, ownership signature of a B. Fuller in an old hand on bottom of title page, probably not that of Bishop William Fuller, but perhaps. Wing (2nd ed.), P2782; Thomason; E.1733[1]. NO US Copy. #331j. Item #781
n 1651 he took the degree of M.A. He was preacher at Carlisle until about 1655 (Dedication to Treatise on Self-deniall). In 1654 he was a member of the committee for ejecting scandalous ministers in the four northern counties of Cumberland, Durham, Northumberland, and Westmoreland. From that year until 1660, when he was driven from the living, he held the rectory of the portions of Clare and Tidcombe at Tiverton. The statement of the Rev. John Walker, in ‘The Sufferings of the Clergy,’ that he allowed the parsonage-house to fall into ruins, is confuted in Calamy’s ‘Continuation of Baxter’s Life and Times’ (i. 260–1). Polwhele sympathised with the religious views of the independents, and after the Restoration he was often in trouble for his religious opinions. After the declaration of James II the Steps meeting-house was built at Tiverton for the members of the independent body; he was appointed its first minister, and, on account of his age, Samuel Bartlett was appointed his assistant. He was buried in the churchyard of St. Peter, Tiverton, on 3 April 1689. His wife was a daughter of the Rev. William Benn of Dorchester. Their daughter married the Rev. Stephen Lobb
¶ Polwheile was a minister based mainly in Tiverton; the year after this was published, in the Restoration of 1660, he was ejected from his ministerial position for his religious views and for his sympathies with the Independents, who advocated for local control and for a certain freedom of religion for those who were not Catholic; because of this, he was often in trouble until the Declaration of Indulgence by James II in 1687, establishing freedom of religion in England (James II being Catholic). Polwheile died in 1689. Very Good.
(DNB).
Price: $1,800.00
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Decency in Conservation
473 J Hawkins, Francis, trans. (1628-1681)
Youths behaviour, or, Decency in conversation amongst men.
In laudem Authoris.
Though here be wonder when ’tis knowne,
A Child should make this worke his owne,
(Since he that can translate and please,
Must needs command two Languages:)
Yet this is nothing to the rest
Of treasure, which this little Chest
Containes, and will in time breake forth
To call just Volumens of his worth.
If thus, a Branch! what will he bee
When he is growne to be a Tree?
So glorious in the bud, let men
Looke for th’ Hesperides agen,
And gather fruit, nor think’t unfit,
A Child should teach the world more wit.
J. S.
9. 473 J Hawkins, Francis, trans. (1628-1681)
Youths behaviour, or, Decency in conversation amongst men. Composed in French by grave persons, for the use and benefit of their youth. Now newly turned into English, by Francis Hawkins, nephew to Sir Thomas Hawkins, translator of Caussin’s Holy court. With the addition of twenty six new precepts, written by a grave author, which are marked thus (+) and some more additions. The ninth impression. Whereunto is added Lilies rules, translated out of the Latin into English verse. There is likewise added the first entrance of a youth into the university; together with English and Latin proverbs, and a very useful table, for expounding of hard words in the English tongue, much enlarged. All which new additions may be sold by themselves.
(Translation of Bienséance de la conversation entre les hommes.)
PART TWO
Second part has special title page: New additions unto youths behavour 1650. Of some letters. As also A discourse upon some innovations of habits and dressings; against powdering of hair, naked-breasts, black spots, and other unseemly customs.” With imprint: “London, printed for William Lee, and are to be sold at his shop next door to the Kings-head Tavern in Chancery-lane, 1668.”
(Robert Codrington translated the Second part Youths Behaviour, or, Decency in Conversation amongst Women in 1664)
This also contains A collection of proverbs.
London: S. Griffin for William Lee, 1668. ON HOLD
The second part of this courtesy book contains advice targeted to women, including an admonition of “that upstart impudence of naked Breasts,” a list of proverbs, and an alphabetical lexicon.
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), Y209A ESTC System No. 006169231. ESTC Citation No. R42970
“GENTLE YOUTH,
Thinke it not amisse to peruse this Peece, yet connive at the Style: for it hath neede thereof, since wrought by an uncouth & rough File of one in greene yeares; as being aged under eight. Hence, worthy Reader, shew not thy self too-too rigid a Censurer.
Hawkins is notable for two translations he made while quite young. He later had a long career among the English speaking Jesuits in exile. His father was the grammarian and physician John Hawkins; Sir Thomas Hawkins and the Jesuit leader Henry Hawkins were his uncles.[ As a young man and adult, Hawkins lived at Anglophone centers of Jesuit learning and service in Europe: he went between the Jesuit College at Watten, the English college at Liège, and the college of Saint Omer. He took his vows in 1662, and then served in multiple college positions.[DNB]
Hawkins finally settled at Liège in 1675. He died of unknown causes in 1681
FROM THE INTRODUCTION
“This his version is little disgui∣sed, and therefore likely will it appeare to thee much imperfect. It ought to be his owne, or why under the Title is his name writ∣ten? Peradventure thou wilt say, what is it to me? yet heare: Such is it really, as that I presume the Author may therein be clearely seene to be rendred faithfully: with this courteously be thou sa∣tisfied.
This small Treatise in its use, will evidently appeare to re∣dound to the singular benefit of many a young spirit, to whom solely, and purposely it is addres∣sed. Passe it therefore without mistake, and candidly.”
THIS BOOK WAS copied out by hand as a young man aspiring to the status of Gentleman,
George Washington’s 110 rules were based on a set of rules composed by French Jesuits in 1595. The first English edition of these rules was available in Francis Hawkins’ Youths Behavior, or Decency in Conversation Amongst Men, which appeared in 1640, and it is from work that Washington seems to have copied. The rules as Washington wrote them out are a simplified version of this text. However much he may have simplified them, these precepts had a strong influence on Washington, who aimed to always live by them. The rules focus on self-respect and respect for others through details of etiquette. The rules offer pointers on such issues as how to dress, walk, eat in public, and address one’s superiors
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), Y209A ESTC System No. 006169231. ESTC Citation No. R42970;
See Allison & Rogers #387
George WashingtonYouthFrench & Indian WarRevolutionary WarConstitutionFirst PresidentMartha WashingtonSlaveryNative AmericansReligionFamily
George Washington wrote out a copy of the 110 Rules of Civility in his school book when he was about 14-years old. As a young man aspiring to the status of Gentleman, George Washington’s 110 rules were based on a set of rules composed by French Jesuits in 1595. The first English edition of these rules was available in Francis Hawkins’ Youths Behavior, or Decency in Conversation Amongst Men, which appeared in 1640, and it is from work that Washington seems to have copied. The rules as Washington wrote them out are a simplified version of this text. However much he may have simplified them, these precepts had a strong influence on Washington, who aimed to always live by them. The rules focus on self-respect and respect for others through details of etiquette. The rules offer pointers on such issues as how to dress, walk, eat in public, and address one’s superiors.
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10. J. F. Ostervald
The nature of uncleanness consider’d: wherein is discoursed of the causes and consequences of this sin, and the duties of such as are under the guilt of it. To which is added, a discourse concerning the nature of chastity, and the means of obtaining it. By J. F. Ostervald, minister of the church of Neuschâtel, author of A treatise of the causes of the present corruption of christians, a catechism,&c
London: printed for Printed for R. Bonwicke, W. Freeman, Tim : Goodwin, J. Walthoe, M. Wotton, S. Manship, J. Nicholson, B. Took, R. Parker, and R. Smith . (1708) Price: $1,800
Octavo 19 x 12.5cm [4],xxxiv,[10],280p. First and only edition Early calf binding, recently rebacked. .
This is a very interesting of “clealness’ and it’s opposite. “His writings had a great influence, bearing spiritual renewal among Waldensian, Dutch, German, Hungarian and Scandinavian Protestants. Moreover, the English Royal Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts – of which he was a member – brought his teachings to the countries of the Middle East, India, Canada and the West-Indian Islands. His highly influential oeuvre was later called “the second Reformation”.1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 20
“Yet never was more need of Difcourses of this nature than now, when Wickednefs appears bare-fae’d, and too many are neither afraid nor alhamed to glory in it; as if it were a piece of Bravery, or a Jefting Matter, to bid Defiance to the Almighty, and daringly provoke him to his Face. When People come to this height of Impiety, it is high time to warn them of their exceilive Folly and Danger, and to intreat and befeech them to bethink themlelves in time, left the Wrath of God break forth upon them, and there be no efcaping. This is a dreadful Case, and may juftly be expefted to bring down heavy Judgments upon a People, where thefe Iniquities prevail, to make their Land mourn, and the Inhabitants thereof languid, or poffibly, as it fared with God’s own chofen People the Jews, to let them be no more a Nation.Were they only the common and more ordinary Sins of this kind, fuch as Adultery. Fornication, &c. that we have caufe to complain of, thefe would miferably expofe us to the terrible Indignation of the Almighty, and the dire Effects of it. But to our Sorrow and Shame it muft be confefs’d, that yet more grievous Abominations are found amongft us, fuch as our Country had only heard of in former Ages, but which make too fad a noife in this, to the Terror and Ailonifhment of all the Faithful in the Land.”
ESTC T86652 (four copies west of the Mississippi.)
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Bibliography of Courtesy and Conduct Books …
New Haven: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company 1937
https://hob.gseis.ucla.edu/Resources/Rodgers_Reference.html
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