A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

That these things ought to be spoken of, none will deny; that they belong to one of the Commands, the perfection of the Law requireth it; and that they come in here under this Command, the nature of them, and their conjunction with, or influence upon the sin condemned, or duty commanded here, will make it evident; the sin of Adultery being a prime branch of the carnalness of our nature, under it the rest of that kind are comprehended for making of them the more odious.

Now in considering the act of vileness forbidden, we may 1. Look to these ills, that are simply unnatural, of which these that be guilty are called in the Scripture, Rev. 21.8. the abominable, such are these 1. who prostitute themselves to the abomination of filthy Fellowship with Devils, as they suppose and imagine. 2. These who commit bestiality, a vileness most detestable in reasonable creatures, it is called confusion, Levit. 18.23. 3. These who abuse themselves with mankind spoken of, 1 Tim. 1. •0. Rom. 1.26, 27, called also in the Scripture Sodomy, going after strange flesh, having been the abominable practise of these miscreants, whom God set forth for an Example suffering the vengeance of eternal fire, when he rained, as it were, something of hell from heaven on them burning them quick, and frying them in a manner to death in their own skins, because of the lusts wherewith they burned. These are abominations against nature, against which the Laws both of God and men do severely animadvert, see Lev. 18. and 20. Deut. 22.

Now in considering the act of vileness forbidden, we may 1. Look to these ills, that are simply unnatural, of which these that be guilty are called in the Scripture,