Spiritual whoredom discovered in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons assembled…Spirituall vvhordome discovered in a sermon preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons assembled…

USE.First, It may inform us what an horrid and hateful sin Adultery is before God, in as much as of all sins, the wisdom of God hath made choice of that sin for a type and metaphor of the great sin of apostasy from God, the greatest of sins next the sin against the Holy Ghost; and is not only a degree to it, but a spice of it: In all the bed-roll of sins there is none found vile enough to make a shadow or representation of departing from God, but this sin of whoredom, the fittest emblem for that purpose, in as much as it is a base and treacherous apostasy from the marriage-bed and the Covenant of God: for so is the adulteress described:¹ She forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the Covenant of God. Oh, that as God hath set such a brand of abomination in the forehead of this sin, this peccatum non nominandum, this sin that should not be so much as named among Christians (i. e. with complacency or delight,² there should not be so much as word-obscenity among Christians:) I say, oh that as God hath set his brand upon it, so Authority would set their brand upon it too, and make it as odious and formidable in the punishment, as it is and should be to us in its own nature! When the government was immediately in Gods hands, he punished it with death; and why it should not be so in our polity, I know not: I am confident that law, as it hath been often propounded, so it had been long since established in this Kingdom, had not guilt and love of that abominable filthiness stood in the way.

ƲSE.First, It may inform us what an horrid and hateful sin Adultery is before God, in as much as of all sins, the wisdom of God hath made choyce of that sin for a type and metaphor of the great sin of apostacy from God, the greatest of sins next the sin against the Holy Ghost; and is not only a degree to it, but a spice of it: In all the bed-roll of sins there is none found vile enough to make a shadow or representation of departing from God, but this sin of whoredom, the fittest emblem for that purpose, in as much as it is a base and treacherous apostacy from the marriage-bed and the Covenant of God: for so is the adulteress described:¹ She forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the Covenant of God. Oh, that as God hath set such a brand of abomination in the forehead of this sin, this peccatum non nominandum, this sin that should not be so much as named among Christians (i. e. with complacency or delight,