?hat thefornicator _finned) again!. wholefocietiei: 149 lawfull matrimony , as appeareth, Mal. z, 15. their pofierity Mal,s,_rgò is a bafierdly brood , polluted with vncleannetie,, euer in their generation, which by the law ofGodmight not corneDaut,z3.z, into the congregation ; and anfwerablyare excluded out of the number ofthe inuifibleChurch, vnletre theLord extra- ordinarily , to (hew the richesof his power andgoodneffe, doe with his word and fpirit fan6lifieand cleanfe them from the impurity of their conception,and foadmit them into the number ofhis holy people,The which as it canot bedenied, but that it is in %tile rneafure the flare and condition ofall the poflerity of Adam; fo mufi it altobee granted,that it is verified in the childrenof fornication , in an extraordinary andpeculiar manner. Soalfo they fin againli thecountry and common-wealth, §.sett 4 flrfl,by polluting it, and by robbing it of good and honefi ci- Fornicators'fin tizens.For families beingdefiled,che commonwealth cannot againfl tbe: becleane, feeing they are. the roote fromwhich it fpringeth; cooniryand the private Seminaries whereby the large orchard of the `0mmlrb, on- State is (lured and furnifhed, andas it were the particularWea members ofthis great bodie . If therefore thebud and blof- fome be blatled andcorrupted in the family, they wil hardly euer bring forth good fruit in the common-wealth; ifthe roote bee poifoned, the treecannot flouriíái, andifthe parti- cular membersbe rotten and full of corruption , the body cannot be whole and found , $efides,astheydefile the com- mon-wealth with fin,fo they make it grone voider theheauy waight ofGods iudgenients:for as the Prophet fpeaketh,be- caufe of the fornications ofthe people the land mourneth, neither tatting ofanyofGods gracious benefits , whereby it Ier,2.3,In night be nourithed , nor clothing it Idle with her beautif it were wich her kingly coateof dinerscolours , but fltteth in the darke, defolate and forfaken,beíng depriued of the comfortablebeanies ofGods fauour,which fhould ripen all her hopes,Yea and as it makcth the country liable topri- uatiue judgements : fcalto to poficiuc plagues and punifh- ments, as'wee may fee by many examples . WhenSodome and Gomorrah were heated with luit like a bakers ouen, as the Prophet fpeakcth, they inflamedGods wrath,and were 140í7. V, 3 dcthoied
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