The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan…

Contemplative Uncleanness is, when the mind pleaseth it self with lascivious and wanton thoughts, delighting the sensual appetite. And thus there may be a world of wickedness in a mans heart, though the act of pollution be refrained: There's many a Whorish heart, where there have not been Whorish acts. And I am persuaded, that the outward act of Fornication and Adultery is not more heinous among men, than the lustful and unclean thoughts of the heart are to God. An Adulterous heart, an Adulterous eye, an Adulterous tongue, are all an abomination to the Lord.

Contemplative Uncleanness is, when the mind pleaseth it self with lascivious and wanton thoughts, delighting the sensual appetite. And thus there may be a world of wickedness in a mans heart, though the act of pollution be refrained: There's many a Whorish heart, where there have not been Whorish acts. And I am perswaded, that the outward act of Fornication and Adultery is not more heynous among men, than the lustful and unclean thoughts of the heart are to God. An Adulterous heart, an Adulterous eye, an Adulterous tongue, are all an abomination to the Lord.

Of Practical uncleanness there are many degrees.

1. Fornication; Which is, when the sin of Uncleanness is committed by single and unmarried persons. 2. Adultery, When both, or one of the Parties delinquent, are Married; as the Notation of the word intimates, Adulterium, quasi ad alterius torum, the going to another's Bed. And this is so much the more ⟨p. 84⟩heinous, as it is a wilful shipwreck abroad, when it hath an Harbour, and safe remedy provided at home. 3. Incest; Which is committed by persons that are within the prohibited degrees of Consanguinity, or Affinity. 4. Polygamy; The having of many Wives at once. 5. Rape, or Ravishment; Which is a violent deflowering of a Woman, who never consented thereunto. Such was Amnon's sin in deflowering his Sister Tamar.