A65285:2454
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
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Use III. It exhorts us to keep our selves from this Sin of Adultery. Let every Man have his own Wife, saith Paul, 1 Cor. 7.2. Not his Concubine, not his Courtesan. Now that I may debtor you from Adultery, let me show you the great Evil of it.
Vse III. It exhorts us to keep our selves from this Sin of Adultery. Let every Man have his own Wife, saith Paul, 1 Cor. 7.2. Not his Concubine, not his Curtezan. Now that I may deterr you from Adultery, let me show you the great Evil of it.
First, It is a thievish Sin. Adultery is the highest sort of Theft. The Adulterer steals from his Neighbour that which is more than his Goods and Estate, he steals away his Wife from him, who is Flesh of his Flesh.
Secondly, Adultery debaseth a Person, it makes him resemble the Beasts. Therefore the Adulterer is described like an Horse neighing. Jer. 5.8. Every one neighed after his Neighbours Wife. Nay, this is worse than brutish; for some Creatures that are void of Reason, yet by the Instinct of Nature observe a kind of Decorum, or Chastity. The Turtle-Dove is a chaste Creature, and keeps to it's Mate. The Stork, where-ever he flies, comes in no Nest but his own. Naturalists write, if a Stork leaving his own Mate joineth with any other, all the rest of the Storks fall upon him, and pull his Feathers from him. Adultery is worse than Brutish, it degrades a Person of his Honour.
Secondly, Adultery debaseth a Person, it makes him resemble the Beasts. Therefore the Adulterer is described like an Horse neighing.