350 A Sermon on Occel on f a public Fait. SERM. generally committed. And, furely, of them XIII. there are many, and of a very heinous kind. It is notorious that debauchery is fo common and fo bare- faced, as to be the plain cha- rater of many, and they are not afhamed of it. Some men in high Rations are ring- leaders in wickednefs, in drunkennefs, forni- cation, adultery, which however profligate (inners may make light of them, I hope you will confider as crying abominations, forwhich Cod hath threatened that his /òulwill be avenged on any land that is flamed with them. From the wicked of diftinguifhed outward condi- tion, the more infamous becaufe they are great in titles and riches, thefe vices have fpread_ through inferior ranks down to the loweft of the people. Women quite abandoning that modefty which is naturally the honour of their fex, even profeffedly live by the fcan- dalous gain of their proftitution, and the adul- terers of mble in troops, as the fcripture ex- preffes it, in the harlots houfes. Men endea- vour by fubtie arts and bribes (nay and im- pudently pique themfelves upon their fuccefs) to corrupt virgin innocence, and thereby bring poor creatures into the greateft difgrace and mifery ; nay, they treacheroufly and vil- lainoufly pollute the marriage bed, and are guilty
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