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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Something expressly Forbidden, (viz.) The infecting our selves with Bodily Pollution, Thou shalt not commit Adultery.
2. Something expresly Forbidden, (viz.) The infecting our selves with Bodily Pollution, Thou shalt not commit Adultery.
(1.) Something Implied, That the Ordinance of Marriage should be observed. 1 Cor. 7.2. Let every Man have his own Wife, and every Woman have her own Husband. Marriage is honourable, and the Bed undefiled, Heb. 13.4. God did institute Marriage in Paradise; he brought the Woman to the Man, Gen. 2.22. He did as it were give them in Marriage. And Jesus Christ did honour Marriage with his Presence, John 2.2. The first Miracle he wrought was at a Marriage, when he turned the Water into Wine. Marriage is a Type and Resemblance of the Mystical Union between Christ and his Church, Eph. 5.32. Concerning Marriage,
(1.) Something Implyed, That the Ordinance of Marriage should be observed. 1 Cor. 7.2. Let every Man have his own Wife, and every Woman have her own Husband. Marriage is honourable, and the Bed undefiled, Heb. 13.4. God did institute Marriage in Paradise; he brought the Woman to the Man, Gen. 2.22. He did as it were give them in Marriage. And Jesus Christ did honour Marriage with his Presence,