A Body of Practical Divinity

Use II. It is matter of Lamentation to see this Commandment so slighted and violated among us. Adultery is the reigning Sin of the Times. Hos. 7.4. They are all Adulterers, as an Oven heated by the Baker. The time of King Henry the 8th was called the Golden Age, but this may be called the Unclean Age, wherein Whore-hunting is common. Ezek. 24.13. In your Filthiness is Lewdness. Luther tells of one who said, If he might but satisfy his Lust, and be carried from one Whore-house to another, he would desire no other Heaven. Afterwards he breathed out his Soul betwixt two notorious Strumpets. This is to be the right Seed of Adam, to love the Forbidden-Fruit, to love to drink of Stolen Waters. Ezek. 8.8, 9. Son of Man, dig in the Wall; and when I had digged, behold a Door; and he said, Go in and behold the wicked Abominations that they do here. Could we, as the Prophet, dig in the Walls of many Houses, what vile Abominations should we see there! In some Chambers we might see Fornication, dig further and see ⟨p. 371⟩Adultery, dig further and we might see Incest, &c. And may not the Lord go from his Sanctuary? As Ezek. 8.6. Seest thou the great Abominations that the House of Israel committeth, that I should go far off from my Sanctuary. God might remove his Gospel, and then we might write Ichabod on the Nation, The Glory is departed. Let us mourn for what we cannot reform.

Vse II. It is matter of Lamentation to see this Commandment so slighted and violated among us. Adultery is the reigning Sin of the Times. Hos. 7.4. They are all Adulterers, as an Oven heated by the Baker. The time of King Henry the 8th was called the Golden Age, but this may be called the Vnclean Age, wherein Whore-hunting is common. Ezek. 24.13. In your Filthiness is Lewdness. Luther tells of one who said, If he might but satisfie his Lust, and be carried from one Whore-house to another, he would desire no other Heaven. Afterwards he breathed out his Soul betwixt two notorious Strumpets. This is to be the right Seed of Adam, to love the Forbidden-Fruit, to love to drink of Stollen Waters.