ín ontníbíng" six an'I iantniption, 317 What thereforeGod bathjoyned together, let no man put Chap. i 7. afunder.Fromtheunity ofthe Perfon,that one Male was L VwJ made and one Female, it follows That the fuper-induc- ingofanother into the Marriage-bed is againft the firft Inftitutián. And the Union that is between them not being only civil in a confent of wills, but natural by the joyning of two bodies, fonìething natural mutt intervene to diffolve it, viz, the Adultery of one party. Excepting that cafe, our Saviour feverely forbids . the putting the Wife away and marrying another, as a vi- olation of Conjugal honour. 4.0ur Redeemer hath improved theobligations'of the moral Law, by a clearer difcoveryof the purity and ex- tent of its Precepts, and by peculiar and powerful En- forcements.Inhis Sermon on theMount he clears itfrom the darkening gloífes ofthe Pharifees, who obferved the letter of the Law,, but not the deign ofthe Lawgiver. He declares that not only the grofs act,, but all things of the fame alliance are forbidden ; not only Murder . but ra(h Anger, and vilifying words whichwound the Re- putation : Not only actual pollution,but the impurity ofthe Eye, and the flaming ofthe Soul with unclean thoughts, are all comprifed inthe prohibition. He in- forms them that every Man in calamity is their Neigh bour,and to be relieved,and commands them to love their deadlieft enemies. Briefly, He tells themultitude, That mat. s ?fnlefs their Righteoufnefexceed the ¡ighteoufnefs of the Scribes and Pharifees, that is, the utmoft that they' thought themfelves obligedto, theyfhould not enter into the- KingdomofHeaven. Betides,. our Saviour hath fu- peradded fpecial Enforcements to his Precepts,. The Argument§ to perfwade Chrifiians to be univerfally Holy,fromChrift's Redeeming them for that great end, was not known either in the Oeconomy of Nature, or the Law : For before our. l'apfed (fate there-was no need:
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