... having been breathed out

Because sodomitical uncleanness was founded in universal corruption, the temptation to commit sodomy afflicted everyone. Even those who remained innocent of particular sinful acts were guilty in their hearts if not in deed. Shepherd [Thomas Shepherd, Puritan minister] reminded his congregation that they were all guilty of "heart whoredom, heart sodomy, heart blasphemy, heart drunkenness, heart buggery, heart oppression, heart idolatry.

—Richard Godbeer, on Puritans in early colonial New England. From Godbeer’s “The Cry of Sodom: DIscourse, Intercourse, and Desire in Colonial New England”, in Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America (via @unspeakablevice on Tumblr)