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John Trapp on Ezekiel 23:14

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Ezekiel23:14

Ver. 14. For when ſhe ſaw men pourtrayed upon the wall] So unbrideled was her luſt, that ſhe fell a doating upon thoſe quos tantum per umbram & imaginem aspexerat, whoſe pictures only ſhe had beheld. In ſome Popiſh Churches there are to be ſeen wanton pictures: ſuch as do rather kindle luſt, then quicken devotion. An eyewitneſſe hath told us in print, that in ſome places they will aſſemble diverſe of the faireſt curtiſans (when they would draw a picture of the Virgin Mary, Spec. Eur. to draw the moſt modeſt beauty of a Virgin out of the flagrancy of harlots.

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