Atten. What other evil effects attend this sin?

Wise. Outward shame and disgrace, and that in these particulars:
{55a}

First, There often follows this foul sin, the Foul Disease, now
called by us the Pox. A disease so nauseous and stinking, so
infectious to the whole body (and so intailed to this sin) that
hardly are any common with unclean Women, but they have more or
less a touch of it to their shame.

Atten. That is a foul disease indeed: I knew {55b} a man once
that rotted away with it; and another that had his Nose eaten off,
and his Mouth almost quite sewed up thereby.

Wise. It is a Disease, that where it is, it commonly declares,
that the cause thereof is Uncleanness. It declares to all that
behold such a man, that he is an odious, a beastly, unclean person.
This is that strange punishment that Job speaks of, that is
appointed to seize on these workers of Iniquity. {55c}

Atten. Then it seems you think that the strange punishment that
Job there speaks of, should be the foul disease.

Wise. I have thought so indeed, and that for this reason: We see
that this Disease is entailed as I may say, to this most beastly
sin, nor is there any disease so entailed to any other sin, as this
to this. That this is the sin to which the strange Punishment is
entailed, you will easily perceive when you read the Text. I made
a covenant with mine eyes, said Job, why should I think upon a