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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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Sixthly, Adultery blots and eclipseth the Name. Prov. 6.33. Whoso committeth Adultery with a Woman, a wound and dishonour shall he get, and his Reproach shall not be wiped away. Some while they get Wounds get Honour. The Soldiers Wounds are full of Honour. The Martyrs Wounds for Christ are full of Honour: These get Honour while they get Wounds: But the Adulterer gets Wounds in his Name, but no Honour. His Reproach shall not be wiped away. The Wounds of the Name no Physician can heal. The Adulterer, when he is dead, his Shame lives. When his Body rots under ground, his Name rots above ground. His base-born Children will be the Living Monuments of his Shame.
Seventhly, This Sin doth much eclipse the Light of Reason; it steals away the Understanding, it stupefies the Heart. Hos. 4.11. Whoredom takes away the Heart: It eats out all Heart for good. Solomon besotted himself with Women, and they enticed him to Idolatry.
Seventhly, This Sin doth much eclipse the Light of Reason; it steals away the Understanding, it stupifies the Heart. Hos. 4.11. Whoredom takes away the Heart: It eats out all Heart for good. Solomon besotted himself with Women, and they enticed him to Idolatry.
Eighthly, This Sin of Adultery ushers in Temporal Judgments. The Mosaical Law made Adultery Death, Lev. 20.10. The Adulterer and the Adulteress shall surely be put to Death: And the usual Death was Stoning,