"First, all honest hearts are put into a just; but unprofitable horror, to think that such a flagitious wickedness could be committed; Then the Mother, who had rinced her soule with a fountain of teares, for so hatefull a miscarriage, and reconciled her self to that God, who was the only witness of her sin, should bee so late exposed to the unseasonable shame of that world, wch, never was privy to her offence."
— Hall, Joseph (1574-1656)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by R.H. and J.G.
Date
1654
Metaphor
"First, all honest hearts are put into a just; but unprofitable horror, to think that such a flagitious wickedness could be committed; Then the Mother, who had rinced her soule with a fountain of teares, for so hatefull a miscarriage, and reconciled her self to that God, who was the only witness of her sin, should bee so late exposed to the unseasonable shame of that world, wch, never was privy to her offence."
Metaphor in Context
On the one side, it is shamefull to thinke that so grievous a sin should passe without som exemplary censure, & that so foule blood should be propagated to succeeding ages, for want of the timely intervention of a vindicative authority; but on the other side, it would be well considered what miserable inconveniences, yea mischiefs would follow upon so late a discovery; First, all honest hearts are put into a just; but unprofitable horror, to think that such a flagitious wickedness could be committed; Then the Mother, who had rinced her soule with a fountain of teares, for so hatefull a miscarriage, and reconciled her self to that God, who was the only witness of her sin, should bee so late exposed to the unseasonable shame of that world, wch, never was privy to her offence.
(pp. 416-7)
(pp. 416-7)
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Citation
Hall, Joseph (1574-1656). Cases of Conscience Practically Resolved. 3rd edition. London: Printed by R.H. and J.G., 1654. <Link to EEBO>
Date of Entry
01/13/2010
