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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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Tenthly, The Adulterer doth not only wrong his own Soul, but doth what in him lies to destroy the Soul of another, and so kill two at once. And thus the Adulterer is worse than the Thief. For suppose a Thief Rob a Man, yea, take away his Life, yet that Man's Soul may be happy, he may go to Heaven, as well as if he had died in his Bed. But he who commits Adultery endangers the Soul of another, and deprives her of Salvation so far as in him lies. Now, what a fearful thing is it to be an Instrument to draw another to Hell.
Eleventhly, The Adulterer is abhorred of God. Prov. 22.14. The mouth of a strange Woman is a deep Pit: he who is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein. What can be worse than to be abhorred of God? God may be angry with his own Children; but for God to Abhor a Man, it is the highest Degree of Hatred.
Eleventhly, The Adulterer is abhorr'd of God. Prov. 22.14. The mouth of a strange Woman is a deep Pit: he who is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein. What can be worse than to be abhorr'd of God? God may be angry with his own Children; but for God to Abhor a Man, it is the highest Degree of Hatred.
Quest. But how doth the Lord show his abhorring of the Adulterer?