A Body of Practical Divinity

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. Ier. 5.8. Every one neighed after his Neighbours Wife. Nay, this is worse than bruitish; 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 joyneth with any other, all the rest of the Storks fall upon him, and pull his Feathers from him. Adultery is worse than Bruitish, it degrades a Person of his Honour.

Thirdly, Adultery doth pollute and befilthy a Person. The Devil is called an Unclean Spirit, Luke 11.24. The Adulterer is the Devils First-born; he is unclean; he is a moving Quagmire; he is all over ulcerated with Sin: His Eyes sparkle with Lust, his Mouth fomes out Filth, his Heart burns like Mount Aetna in unclean Desires: He is so Filthy, that if he die in this Sin, all the Flames of Hell will never purge away his Uncleanness. And as for the Adulteress, who can paint her black enough? The Scripture calls her a deep Ditch,