Certain sermons, first preached, and after published at several times, by M. Thomas Gataker…Certaine sermons, first preached, and after published at severall times, by M. Thomas Gataker…

It is the saying of some of the Ancients, and it is a true saying, that^c A man may commit adultery with his own wife: So a man may commit ⟨p. 166⟩spiritual fornication with the lawful means, that he useth and lawfully may use, if he use them in unlawful manner. For the preventing and avoiding whereof our Saviour Christ biddeth us,^d Take no care, (or, no thought rather, if you will) what we shall eat or drink, or wherewith we shall he clad. In which precept, or prohibition rather, he forbiddeth not the use of lawful means, but the distrustful affection in the use of those means. Which appeareth both by some of the instances that there he maketh use of, as that^e of the fowls, that yet^f labour and fly about for their food and their living, but without covetousness and care; as also by^g the word that he there useth, signifying properly such^h a carking care, as even divideth the mind in twain, and cutteth the very soul as it were asunder.

It is the saying of some of the Ancients, and it is a true saying, that^c A man may commit adulterie with his owne wife: So a man may commit ⟨p. 166⟩spirituall fornication with the lawfull means, that hee useth and lawfully may use, if he use them in unlawfull manner. For the preventing and avoiding whereof our Saviour Christ biddeth us,^d Take no care, (or, no thought rather, if you will) what we shall eat or drinke, or wherewith we shall he clad. In which precept, or prohibition rather, he forbiddeth not the use of lawfull means, but the distrustfull affection in the use of those means. Which appeareth both by some of the instances that there he maketh use of, as that