And that, First, Because she'l wound and stain our reputation. How full is the adulterer of fears and jealousies, scorching desires, and impatient waitings, tedious demurrs, sufferance of indignities, and amazements of discoveries, and his uncleanness is ever attended by shame which is its eldest daughter; for let us consider how infamous it has ever been, to be noted for a common _Pathick_, or a lustful _Amoretto_, how opprobriously Adulterers have been used by most Nations. The Law of the _Ægyptians_ was to cut off the Nose of an Adulterer; the _Locrians_ put out the Adulterers Eyes; and (the more notoriously to intimate his effeminacy) others cloathed him with wool; and _Solons_ Law was this, _If any man take an Adulterer in the fact, he may use him how he pleases_: And in the Twelve Tables, [12]If you {9} take a man in the act of Adultery, you may kill him without danger of punishment; Impunity was intailed upon the murther of him. You may observe, that this sin of Adultery is in Scripture called a _sin of darkness_; intimating to us, how the Adulterer, asham'd of the light, sneaks up and down in obscure recesses, and is onely active and vigilant when others are quiet and taking their repose. Other sinners iniquities are in Scripture numbred by the hairs of the head; but we cannot number the Adulterers so, because _as his sins increase his hairs do fall_; the _Spring_ of his sins is his hairs _Fall o' th' leaf_. The second account upon which the Adulterer will conclude, That the transitory pleasures which the strange woman affords us are accompanied with the sharpest evils, is,