wife, neither am I her busband: | aside from any thing that he com-
let her therefore put away her manded him all the days of his
whoredoms out of her sight, and life, save only in the matter of
her adulteries from between her Uriah the Hittite.
breasts.

Rev. ii, 22. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

INSTANCES IN PURPOSE OB

REALITY.

Gen. xil,16--20. And he entreated Abram well for her sake, and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels. And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife. And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

Gen. xx, 14. And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and women-servants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.

Gen. xxxix, 7-11. And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me. But he refused; and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand: There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her. And it came to pass, about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within.

Job xxiv, 15, 16. The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light.

Prov. vii, 19-21. For the goodman is not at home, ho is gone a long journey: He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced

him.

Jer. xxix, 23. Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know; and am a witness, saith the LORD.

Hosea iii, 1, 3. Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine. And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man; so will I also be for thee.

Mark vi, 17. For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her.

John viii, 3, 4. And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.

PUNISHMENT BY LAW.

committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adultress shall surely be put to death.

Deut. xxii, 22-24. If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel. If a damsel that

is a virgin be betrothed unto an the city, and lie with her; Then husband, and a man find her in ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried man, because he hath humbled not, being in the city; and the his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.

John viii, 5-7. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting cuse him. But Jesus stooped him, that they might have to acdown, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.

So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

AND IN PROVIDENCE.

Gen. xii, 17. And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

2 Sam. xii, 10-12. Now therefore never depart the sword shall hast from mine house; because thou despised me, and hast tiken the wife of Uriah the Thus Hittite to be thy wife. saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

wiped away.

Lev. xix, 20-22. And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman that Prov. vi, 32, 33. But whoso comis a bond-maid, betrothed to an mitteth adultery with a woman husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her, she shall lacketh understanding: he that be scourged: they shall not be put doeth it destroyeth his own soul. 2 Sam. xi, 8, 4. And David sent to death, because she was not A wound and dishonour shall he and enquired after the woman. free. And he shall bring his tres-get; and his reproach shall not bə And one said, Is not this Bath-pass offering unto the LORD, unto Jer. v, 8, 9. They were as fed sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the the door of the tabernacle of the horses in the morning: every one wife of Uriah the Hittite? And congregation, even a ram for a David sent messengers, and took trespass-offering. And the priest neighed after his neighbour's wife. Shall I not visit for these her, and she came in unto him, shall make an atonement for him and he lay with her; (for she was with the ram of the trespass-offer-things? saith the LORD: and shall purified from her uncleanness;) ing before the LORD, for his sin not my soul be avenged on such and she returned unto her house. which he hath done: and the sin a nation as this? 1 Kings xv, 5. Because David which he hath done shall be fordid that which was right in the given him. eyes of the LORD, and turned not

Ezek. xvi, 38-40. And I will judge thee, as women that break Lev. xx, 10. And the man that wedlock and shed blood are

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morial in her hands, which is the | you should know how to possess jealousy offering: and the priest his vessel in sanctification and shall have in his hand the bitter honour; Not in the lust of conwater that causeth the curse. And cupiscence, even as the Gentiles the priest shall charge her by an which know not God. For God oath, and say unto the woman, If hath not called us unto uncleanno man have lain with thee, and ness, but unto holiness. if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse: But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband: Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing; and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an

Joo xxxi, 1. I made a covenant with mine eyes: why then should I think upon a maid.

Prov. v, 3. For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honey comb, and her mouth is smoother

than oil.

Prov. vi, 25. Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

Prov. xxiii, 28. She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

Ezek. xxiil, 14, 16, 19-21. And that she increased her whoredoms for when she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermillion, And as soon as she saw them with her eyes. she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. For she dotedupon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.

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Matth. v, 28. But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her alreadyin his heart.

Eph. iv, 19. Who, being past feeling, have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Eph. v, 3, 4, 12. But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness,let it notbeoncenamed among you, as becometh saints; Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor Jesting, which are not convenient; but rather giving of thanks. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

1 Tim. v, 6. But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she

liveth.

James v, 5. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

of

1 Peter iv, 3, 4. For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatres: Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you.

2 Peter li, 14, 18. Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot

cease from sin; beguiling unstable but he that committeth fornica-
souls: an heart they have exer- tion sinneth against his own
cised with covetous practices; body.
cursed children: For when they
speak great swelling words of
vanity, they allure through the
lusts of the flesh, through much
those that were

wantonness.

clean escaped from them who live

in error.

Jude 8. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh....

CAUTIONS AGAINST IT.

Prov. ii, 16. To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

Prov. v, 8. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house.

Prov. vi, 24. To keep thee from
the evil woman, from the flattery
of the tongue of a strange wo-
man.

Prov. vii, 4-9, 24-26. Say unto
wisdom, Thou art my sister, and
understanding
call
thy kins-
woman: That they may keep
thee from the strange woman,
from the stranger which flattereth
with her words. For at the win-
dow of my house I looked through
my casement, And beheld among
the simple ones, I discerned
among the youths, a young man
Void of understanding, Passing
through the street near her cor-
ner: and he went the way to her
house, In the twilight, in the
evening, in the black and dark
night; Hearken unto me now
therefore, O ye children, and
attend to the words of my
mouth. Let not thine heart decline
to her ways, go not astray in her
paths. For she hath cast down
many wounded; yea, many strong
men have been slain by her.

FORNICATION.

Prov. xxxi, 3. Give not thy
strength unto women, nor thy
ways to that which destroyeth
kings.

1 Cor. vi, 13-18. Meats for the
belly, and the belly for meats:
but God shall destroy both it and
them. Now the body is not for
fornication, but for the Lord, and
the Lord for the body. And God
hath both raised up the Lord, and
will also raise up us by his own
power. Know ye not that your
bodies are the members of Christ?
shall I then take the members of
Christ, and make them the mem-
bers of an harlot? God forbid.
What! know ye not that he which
is joined to an harlot is one body?
for two (saith he) shall be one
flesh. But he that is joined unto
the Lord is one spirit. Flee
Every sin that a
fornication.
man doeth is without the body:
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1 Cor. x, 8. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Heb. xii, 16. Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

Rev. ii, 14. But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.

INSTANCES WITH AGGRAVATIONS.

Gen. xxxviii, 25, 26. When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, By the man whom these are, am I with child; and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff. And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son: and he knew her again no more.

Num. XXV, 1, 6, 14, 15. And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman, in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites. And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.

Judges xix, 25, 26. But the men would not hearken to him: so the concubine, and man took his brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go. Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light.

SPIRITUAL ALLUSIONS.

Ps. cvi, 39. Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

Isa. i, 21. How is the faithful

city become an harlot! it was full | hand over thee, and have dimin-
of judgment; righteousness lodged
in it: but now murderers.

Isa. xxiii, 17. And it shall come

earth.

ished thine ordinary food, and de-a

livered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of to pass, after the end of seventy the Philistines, which are ashamyears, that the LORD will visited of thy lewd way. Thou hast Tyre, and she shall turn to her played the whore also with the hire, and shall commit fornica-Assyrians, because thou wast untion with all the kingdoms of satiable; yea, thou hast played the the world upon the face of the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied. Thou hast tion in the land of Canaan unto moreover multiplied thy fornicaChaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith. wickedness was discovered, as at Before thy the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughdespise thee round about. ters of the Philistines, which hast borne thy lewdness Thou thine abominations, saith

Isa. Ivil, 7, 8. Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed, even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou

sawest it.

Jer. ii, 20. For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

LORD.

and

the

unto the house of Israel, Thus
Ezek. xx, 30. Wherefore say
saith the Lord GOD,
polluted after the manner of your
Are ye
fathers? and commit ye whoredom
after their abominations?

Ezek. xxiii, 2, 3, 7, 8, 11-13, 17,
35. Son of man, there were two
women, the daughters of
mother;

one

Jer. ili, 2, 6, 9. Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien And they committed with. In the ways hast thou sat whoredoms in Egypt; they comfor them, as the Arabian in the mitted whoredoms in their youth: wilderness; and thou hast pollut- there were their breasts pressed, ed the land with thy whoredoms and there they bruised the teats and with thy wickedness. The of their virginity. LORD said also unto me in the committed her whoredoms with Thus she days of Josiah the king, Iast them, with all them that were the thou seen that which backsliding chosen men of Assyria, and with Israel hath done? she is gone up all on whom she doted: with all upon every high mountain and their idols she defiled herself. under every green tree, and Neither left she her whoredoms there hath played the harlot. brought from Egypt: for in her And it came to pass, through the youth they lay with her, and they lightness of her whoredom, that bruised the breasts of her virginshe defiled the land, and com-ity, and poured their whoredom mitted adultery with stones and with stocks.

Ezek. xvi, 7, 16, 25-29, 57, 58. I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent orna

ments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare. And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms. Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and last increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. Behold, therefore I have stretched out my

upon her. And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms. She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men. Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way. And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom; and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

Hosea iv, 12. My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused

them to err, and they have gone whoring from under their God. and Israel is not hid from me: for Hosea v, 3, 4. I know Ephraim, now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled. They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

of robbers wait for a man, 80 the Hosea vi, 9, 10. And as troops company of priests murder in the lewdness. I have seen au horrible way by consent: for they commit thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

Israel, for joy, as other people: Hosea ix, 1. Rejoice not, 0 for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God; thou hast loved a reward upon every corn-floor.

Rev. xvii, 1--5, 15--18. And there which had the seven vials, and came one of the seven angels talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:

With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the saw a woman sit upon a scarletspirit into the wilderness: and I coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her fore head was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations,

and tongues. And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. For God bath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

Rev. xviii, 3. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed

PUNISHED IN PROVIDENCE. Hosea iv, 10, 11, 13, 14. For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase; because they have left off to take heed to the LORD. wine, Whoredom, and and new wine, take away the heart. They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks, and poplars, and elms, because the shadow thereof is good:

therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery. I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.

Prov. v, 4, 5. But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

Prov. vii, 27. Her house is the

way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

Woman

Eccles. vil, 26. And I find more bitter than death the whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso