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…

These abominations then are not restricted to the outward act, but are extended further, and many ways men commit this wickedness: as 1. In heart, Christ calleth the lusting of a man after a woman a committing of Adultery in his heart, Matth. 5.28. This indeed hath degrees according to the length it cometh, and the entertainment it getteth, and other such like circumstances, but it is still accounted by God to be heart-adultery, and it is called burning, 1 Cor. 7.9. and Rom. 1.27. and is exceeding loathsome to the Lord, and hurtful to the inner man, even when men neither resolve nor intend acting, yet by not abhorring these Imaginations, but suffering them to roll in their thoughts (O! beware of carnalness upon the thoughts of this) they become guilty, and that inward fire being suffered to burn, often breaketh out into a visible flame; ⟨p. 359⟩How that 1 Cor. 7.9. differeth from the burning mentioned Rom. 1.27 we shall now forbear to mention. 2. Men are guilty of this wickedness, when they license their outward senses in the sinful pursuit of their objects: Thus eyes full of adultery are spoken of, 2 Pet. 2.14. thus Matth. 5.28. a lustful look is adultery▪ and Job c. 31. saith, he will not look upon a maid. Thus also obscene pictures, delight in them, or other spectacles of that sort, cannot but defile the man: The ears are defiled by hearing of, and listening to obscene and filthy discourses, to drunken, bawdy, or light wanton amorous Songs: the touch with embracings; and the mouth with kissings: Such are spoken of Prov. 7.13. She caught him and kissed him. To insist further here, is not suitable: but oh! there is much guilt contracted this way, and but little noticed, and mourned for. 3 Men may become guilty by gestures, as they are evidences of this vileness, or dispose to it, and postures undecent and unbecoming civility, and godliness. See what is spoken of a naughty person,