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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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Quest. But how doth the Lord show his abhorring of the Adulterer?
Answ. In giving him up to a Reprobate Mind and a Seared Conscience, Rom. 1.26. And now he is in such a condition that he cannot repent. This is to be abhorred of God: Such a Person stands upon the Threshold of Hell, and when Death gives him a Jog he tumbles in. All which may sound a Retreat in our Ears, and call us off from the pursuit of so damnable a Sin as Uncleanness. I will conclude with two Scriptures, Prov. 5.8. Come not nigh the Door of her House. Prov. 7.27. Her House is the way to Hell.
Twelfthly, Adultery is a Sower of Discord: It destroys Peace and Love, the two best Flowers which grow in a Family. Adultery sets Husband against Wife, and Wife against Husband, and so it causeth the Joints of the same Body to smite one against another. And this Division in a Family works Confusion: For an House divided against it self cannot stand, Luke 11.17. Omne divisibile est corruptibile.
Twelfthly, Adultery is a Sower of Discord: It destroyes Peace and Love, the two best Flowers which grow in a Family. Adultery sets Husband against Wife, and Wife against Husband, and so it causeth the Ioynts of the same Body to smite one against another. And this Division in a Family works Confusion: For an House divided against it self cannot stand, Luke 11.17. Omne divisibile est corruptibile.