Chap.5. according to St+44`A T T H H VV. not more weary of his boils, then they are of their bedfellows a Leaco btu- curling their wedding -day as much, as he did his birth-day and ;tie erirus d xir, thirfting after adivorce, as he did after death : Which, becaufe it ietttu -Perm' be had, their lives prove like the fojourning of Ifraelin Marab, where almoft nothing could be heard but murmuring and mourning, conjuring and complaining. Verfe 32. Saving fir the caufe of fornication.] Taken in the B,cman dè o. targeft fenfe for adultery alfb. Adulterium eft quafi etdalter: m_ì, riSinéMzr, 41st alreriut locum. This finne (trikes at the very finew, heart and life of the marriage-knot, and d.ffolves it. Further, it direa- ly fights againft humane fociecy ( which the Law mainly refpefts) and was therefore co be punished with death, as aen moft a notorious dv b theft. Altier ((ay they) this *omanWas tak y hei 4. the very a51. In the very thtfr, faith the originali, to intimate, .i' 4' belike, the great theft that is in adultery, whiles the childe of a Lb-angercarries away the goods or lands of the family. Neicher May any coed :.idefrom our Saviours wards to chic womm, ver. t. (Neither dye 1 e - nelernn thee) that adulte-y is not to be pu- nvíhed; any more then hemay,thit inheritances are not to be d,vi- d d, becaufe Chritt ( who was no 42 s`iftrate) wiuld not divide them, Lak 12.14. Taeinirriage -bed is honourable, and fhould be kept inviolable : SJci:ty and the purity ofpoRerity cannot o- therwife con :Moe amangft men ; witch is well obeerved by D- vins to be the reafon why adultery is named in the Com- mandment, under it all uncleanentfle being forbidd_n ; when yet other violat ons are more hainous, as Sodomy and be- ftialicy. Canfeth her t' commit adultery] B:caure is is God that both maketh and keepech the bonds or wedlock ; which is there- fore called , Tie Covenant of God , Nov. 2. 17 Covenants are either, i. Rtligious, as when a man tieth himtelfby vow to God, to (hun fuch afinne, or doe Poch a duty. a. Civil, betwec n man and man, as in our common contracts, bargains and bull- ntf es. Or, 3. Mist, that are made partly with God, and part- ly with man. And of this tort is the Marriage-Covenant : the parties th:reby tie themtelvtsfirft to God, and then to one ano- ther. Hence it i3 that the knot is inditToluble, and cannot be un- doneor recalls dat the pleature of the parties that make it, becaute there is a third 1 erfon ingaged in the bufineffe, and that is God, to whom the bond is made ; and if afterward they bleak, he will L 4 take igt
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