A65285:2487
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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(15.) If you would abstain from Adultery, use Serious Consideration. Consider,
1. God sees thee in the Act of Sin. He sees all thy Curtain-wickedness. He is Totus Oculus, All Eye. Aug. The Clouds are no Canopy, the Night is no Curtain to hide thee from God's Eye. Thou canst not sin, but thy Judge looks on. Jer. 13.27. I have seen thy Adulteries and thy Neighings. Jer. 29.33. They have committed Adultery with their Neighbours Wives, even I know, and am a Witness, saith the Lord.
1. God sees thee in the Act of Sin. He sees all thy Curtain-wickedness. He is Totus Oculus, All Eye. Aug. The Clouds are no Canopy, the Night is no Curtain to hide thee from God's Eye. Thou canst not sin, but thy Judge looks on. Ier. 13.27. I have seen thy Adulteries and thy Neighings. Jer. 29.33. They have committed Adultery with their Neighbours Wives, even I know, and am a Witness, saith the Lord.
2. Few that are entangled in the Sin of Adultery recover out of the Snare. Prov. 2.19. None that go to her return again. That made some of the Ancients conclude that Adultery was an unpardonable Sin. But not so: David repented, and Mary Magdalen was a Weeping Penitent. Her Amorous Eyes that had sparkled with Lust, she seeks to be revenged of them, she washed Christ's Feet with her Tears. So that some have recovered out of the Snare. But None that go to her return, that is, very few. It is rare to hear of any who are enchanted and bewitched with this Sin of Adultery, that recover out of it.