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…

2. The act of vileness inhibited taketh in these ills of uncleanness, that are in some respect against nature also, though not so obviously, nor so gross, such as are betwixt persons within degrees of consanguinity and affinity; this uncleanness is called incest, such are reckoned up Levit. 18. and 20. and ⟨p. 354⟩Deut. 22. for this the Canaanites were cast out, and it was abominable even to Heathens, 1 Cor. 5.1. &c. the evil of incest flows from the unnaturalness of mens confounding the relations and degrees, that nature hath set men distinctly in; as for instance, nature hath made the fathers Wife a mother, to join therefore with her destroyeth that relation, and is unbecoming that reverence and respect we owe to parents; hence this incest is always either in a direct or oblique line, but not in the collateral, beyond the relations of brother and sister, which are indeed the very beginnings of the collateral lines, and, as it were, almost one in their common parents; thus conjunction with one of the furthest and most remote of a line that is direct is incest, which yet is not so with the very first after these excepted, of the line that is collateral; a man might not marry his fore-grandfathers wife, nor his sister, but may marry his Cousin German, and because man and wife become one flesh, it is incest which is within the degrees to the wife, as well as if it were within them to the husband himself, and it is also called confusion. Levit. 20.12. 14.

2. The act of vileness inhibited taketh in these ills of uncleanness, that are in some respect against nature also, though not so obviously, nor so gross, such as are betwixt persons within degrees of consanguinity and affinity; this uncleanness is called incest, such are reckoned up Levit. 18. and 20. and ⟨p. 354⟩