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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
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Fourthly, Adultery is destructive to the Body. Prov. 5.11. And thou mourn at last, when thy Flesh and thy Body is consumed. It brings into a Consumption. Uncleanness turns the Body into an Hospital; it wastes the Radical Moisture, rots the Skull, eats the Beauty of the Face. As the Flame wastes the Candle, so the Fire of Lust consumes the Bones. The Adulterer hastens his own Death. Prov. 7.23. Till a Dart strike through his Liver. 1The Romans had their Funerals at the Gate of Venus Temple, to signify that Lust brings Death. Venus is Lust.
- 1Plutarch.
Fifthly, Adultery is a Purgatory to the Purse, as it wastes the Body so the Estate. Prov. 6.26. By the means of a Whorish Woman a Man is brought to a piece of Bread. Whores are the Devil's Horseleeches, Sponges that will soon suck in all ones Money. The Prodigal had soon spent his Portion when once he fell among Harlots, Luke 15.30. King Edward the Third's Concubine, when he lay a dying, got all she could from him, and plucked the Rings off his Fingers, and so left him. He that lives in Luxury dies in Beggary.
Fifthly, Adultery is a Purgatory to the Purse, as it wastes the Body so the Estate. Prov. 6.26. By the means of a Whorish Woman a Man is brought to a piece of Bread. Whores are the Devil's Horseleeches, Spunges that will soon suck in all ones Money. The Prodigal had soon spent his Portion when once he fell among Harlots,