For these do but corrupt the stream, the other corrupteth the fountain.
And as wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt, into a number of petty observances.
It is wit that wageth the war against reason, against virtue, against religion; wit alone it is that perverteth so many, and so greatly corrupteth the world.
Those that fall by degrees, do some of them begin in the failing of the understanding; but most of them begin at the failing or falseness of the heart, and the corrupted will corrupteth the understanding.
Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump?
Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corruptethand embaseth it.
As wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty observances.
And so he corrupteth the understanding itself, first to omit its duty, and then to entertain deceit, and to approve of evil: and so the servant is put into the government, and the commanding powers do but serve it.
Yea, lust corrupteth the mind of the person himself, if it be not very much restrained and moderated.
It destroyeth holy meditation and conference, and turneth the thoughts to worldly things: and it corrupteth prayer, and maketh it but a means to serve the flesh, and therefore maketh it odious to God.
The similitude of superstition to religion maketh it the more deformed: and as wholesome meat corrupteth into little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty observances.
It carrieth away the thoughts, and distempereth the passions, and corrupteth the fantasy, and thereby doth easily corrupt the intellect and heart.
So must a stomach that corrupteth its food, and casteth it forth by periodical bilious evacuations.
And at last corrupteth and enticeth reason and will, to be its servants and purveyors.
As a carcass is but a ghastly sight without the soul, and quickly corrupteth and stinketh when it is separated; so the creature without God is an unlovely sight, and quickly corrupteth and becomes a snare or annoyance to you.
Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it (much more divine love); but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
Suppose you still saw written upon beauty, and tempting actions and attire, The bait of lust, by which the devil corrupteth the minds of men to their damnation.
Pride hindereth every means and duty from doing you good; and ofttimes corrupteth them, and turneth them into sin.
To the second question I say, that pestilence sores be contagious by cause of infect humoures bodies, and the reek or smoke of such sores is venomous and corrupteth the air.
For these be great causes of putrefaction: and this corrupteth the air, and so our bodies are infect of that corrupt air.
He drieth and burneth leaves and herbs, not only with touch but also by hissing and blast he rotteth and corrupteth all things about him.
The eagle's feathers done and set among feathers of wings of other birds corrupteth and fretteth them.
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