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Epbefit ns,
Chap.5.
V
E
R.3,
fpoken
off.
The
latter
is
either
of
parties
Tingle,
or
betweenefuch
as
both ofthem,
or one
of
them
are married
,
which
is
adultery.
Now
this
uncleanneffe
betweene perfons which are
free
from
bond
of
mar-
riage,
is
here
forbidden
and
the Apofile doth
every where exprefly
forbid ir, becaufe
the Heathens did account
of
it
as
a
thing
indiffe-
rent,as
may be
gathered from the
s
Cor.
6.9, t
o.
i
8.
The
precepts
forbidding
it are
many,Atis.
r
5.29.
i
Thef
4.4.
r
Cor.
6.9.
Now
we mutt know
that
we may lye
in
this,
not enely that
live
in
the
praétice of
it, but that
having at any
time
fallen,
have not
rifen
by repentance. This
is
a
fearefull fanne, breake it
off
and flye from
.
it;
as
in
the
plague, they
that
will make lure
worke,
Eye
before
it. But
this
is a fin
which will
not
be outwraftled,
if
we doe
not
run
from the
occafions,
and
by
flight
fave
our
(elves,
as lofeph.
And
fuch as have,
Beene
overtaken, but lye
in
impenitencie, let them know
that they
are
guilty
frill
of
their old
fin.
What
if
now they
keepe
them to
their
owne
e
What if
they
have married with
the
partie
e
this may
make
fatisfatfion world
-ward,
but the
finne
is
frill
before God
,
till by faith
and repentancethey have
got
the blood
of
Chrift
fprinkling
their
con-
fciences, and freeing
them
from the guilt
of
dead
works;
till
then,thy
old
finne
licth
at
the
doore
like
a
Bandog, whether
it fleep,
or
bark,
it
will never
leave till it
hathworried thee to deftruétion.
a.
Faanekanneffe,
it
may fìgnifie
all
fin
,
but
here it
is
to
be
taken
to note
all
inferiour
filthind
%rof
the
fame kinde
with fornication.
Obferve
;
That
Chrifians
mu/l
keepe
themfelves
not
onely
from
more
groffefwervings,
but
from
the leaf!
filthinepreefflefhar
fpirit.
There
is
a
double purity,
a
Cor.7. a.
of
the fpirit, or the
flefh,
which we
muff la-
bbur
to
preferve.
Now
when either their owne motions
of
uncleanneffe like
light-
nings running
through
us,
though they
abide
not,nor
win
not confent,
yet
it is a fpirit
of
uncleanneffe
to
be refitted.
a. When
filthy imaginations
and
thoughts
doe
fettle with
us, and
get aflentwithin
us,
this
is
higher contemplative
filthineffe. So for
the
body,there
is
in
the
eye,
hand,
gefure,
care, tongue
,
filthineffe
is
in
allthefe.rowlingïookes,
unchafte
touchings,
lafcivious behaviours,
luftfull fmilings,
thefe mutt be avoided.
A
fparkle
if
it
lie,
maketh
a
greatfire;
a
little
leaven
doth
run
through the whole
lumpe.
Againe,
if
we pull
not out
this eye
ofluft,
and
cut
off
this
hand
of
ir,
(for
touchings
and
feeing are
two
principal! inftruments
to
unclean
-
neffe)
we
fhall
be
all
of
us
caft intohell fire.
Againe,
there
is
an uncleanneffe
in
married parties, out
of
time;out
of
meafure, for
they
may
be drunken with their owne
fountains
,
in
Ludt
kinde
as
modefty,
much more Religion cannot but
blitfh at.
All
fuch
things mutt likewifebe avoided
of
Chriftians,they
mull learneto
poffeffe
their
veffelsin
holineffe:
The
fecond
vice
here forbidden
is
covetoufne
fie
,
that
which the
Scripture
doth well
call
us
from,
for there
is
no
vice more dangerous,
nor
letfe
regarded
:
But
of
this
we
'Wafter
fpeake
ofin
the
fifth
verf
.
Now