Immorality, debauchery, and profaneness, exposed to the reproof of Scripture, and the censure of the law containing a compendium of the penal laws now in force against idleness, profaneness, and drunkenness, houses of unlawful games, profane swearing and cursing, speaking or acting in contempt of the Holy Sacrament, disturbing of ministers, profane jesting with the name of God, absenting from the church, profanation of the Lord's day, debauched incontinency, and bastard-getting : with several texts of Scripture prohibiting such vices : also a brief collection of several signal judgments of God against offenders in the said vices and debaucheries / published for the advancement of reformation of manners, so happily begun and carried on by several societies, by G. Meriton, Gent.
- Title
- Immorality, debauchery, and profaneness, exposed to the reproof of Scripture, and the censure of the law containing a compendium of the penal laws now in force against idleness, profaneness, and drunkenness, houses of unlawful games, profane swearing and cursing, speaking or acting in contempt of the Holy Sacrament, disturbing of ministers, profane jesting with the name of God, absenting from the church, profanation of the Lord's day, debauched incontinency, and bastard-getting : with several texts of Scripture prohibiting such vices : also a brief collection of several signal judgments of God against offenders in the said vices and debaucheries / published for the advancement of reformation of manners, so happily begun and carried on by several societies, by G. Meriton, Gent.
- Author
- Meriton, George, 1634-1711.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for John Harris and Andrew Bell ...,
- 1698.
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- Subject terms
- Law (Theology)
- Conduct of life.
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"Immorality, debauchery, and profaneness, exposed to the reproof of Scripture, and the censure of the law containing a compendium of the penal laws now in force against idleness, profaneness, and drunkenness, houses of unlawful games, profane swearing and cursing, speaking or acting in contempt of the Holy Sacrament, disturbing of ministers, profane jesting with the name of God, absenting from the church, profanation of the Lord's day, debauched incontinency, and bastard-getting : with several texts of Scripture prohibiting such vices : also a brief collection of several signal judgments of God against offenders in the said vices and debaucheries / published for the advancement of reformation of manners, so happily begun and carried on by several societies, by G. Meriton, Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50664.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- dedication
- THE PREFACE TO THE READER.
- A Catalogue of the Authors Names out of whose Works the signal Examples of God's severe Justice, mentioned in this ensuing Treatise, are excerpted.
- THE Laws against Profaneness.
- table of contents
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BOOKS Lately printed for and sold by John Harrisat the Harrowin Little-Britain. -
BOOKS Lately printed for and sold by A. Bellat the Cross-Keysand Biblein Cornhil,near Stocks-Market.