A65285:2462
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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, Deut. 22.24. The Saxons commanded the Persons taken in this Sin to be burnt. The Romans caused their Heads to be stricken off. This Sin, like a Scorpion, carries a Sting in the Tail of it. The ⟨p. 372⟩Adultery of Paris and Helena a beautiful Strumpet, ended in the Ruin of Troy, and was the Death both of Paris and Helena. Jealousy is the rage of a Man; and the Adulterer is oft killed in the Act of his Sin. Adultery cost Otho the Emperor and Pope Sixtus the Fourth their Lives.
Eighthly, This Sin of Adultery ushers in Temporal Iudgments. 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, Deut. 22.24. The Saxons commanded the Persons taken in this Sin to be burnt. The Romans caused their Heads to be stricken off. This Sin, like a Scorpion, carries a Sting in the Tail of it. The ⟨p. 372⟩Adultery of Paris and Helena a beautiful Strumpet, ended in the Ruin of Troy, and was the Death both of Paris and Helena. Iealousie is the rage of a Man; and the Adulterer is oft killed in the Act of his Sin. Adultery cost Otho the Emperor and Pope Sixtus the Fourth their Lives.
Laeta venire Venus tristis abire solet.