Chap. 24. 4n Expoßtion upon the Boole of JOB. Verl. 15. glance and call of the eye, as there's an Adultery of the body or in the outward ad. The text in hand (peaks only of corporal Adultery, though I.3,ira v,cet the oilier be not excluded asbeing the eoote of it. And this cor- e4!,,, ; 4_ porall adultery is taken in Scripture fometimes aridly, when ei- dartorie rhznc ther ,nail or woman to fatisfie their tuft with others break their uimhabertut cor,ogrsl Bond; and is either that a& ofuncleaneffe which is acsui!er ad atte. ram, adtt!trra comnetted by perlons who are both engaged by marriagecove- ad Ahen m fe pant to mutual! faithfulnefs,or when at leaft one of them is under. ecnferat. Fete that engagement. This latter is properly called tingle adultery; the former is double Adultery,or corporal Adultery in the high- eft and LiEteft fence of it., Secondly, Corporeal Adultery is ta- ken more largely, or in a lower fence for fornication or bodily uncleaneneffe ofany kind between man and woman. And fo iris intended in the Commandement given againft it ; ThouJhalt not commit adultery. The foulneffe and greatneffe of this fin of adultery (take it in either fence) appeares many wayes. The Apoftle puts it in the . front ofthe workes of the fleth (Gal. <. 19.) Now the worker of tlo fh qr manifeff, which are thefe, Adultery, fornication, un- cleanwife, lafciviouf':ffre, there is adultery with all its retinue ; and ( Col. 3. 5. ) it is let as the firft of our earthly members, which are to bemortified ; t-oortifce thereforeyour members which are upon earth, fornication, uncleaaenefe, inordinate affsttion. Whereas in other Scriptures fornication is included under adul- tery, in this adultery is included under fornication. Adultery ftridly taken, bath a fpeciall finfulneffe in it. Firft, as ie is the breachof a Covenant ; every fin path in it a breach of Covenant in general!, but there is a fuperadded breach of a fpe- ciall Covenant in this fin.Hence Solomon faith of the Adulterefe (Troy. z. 17.) that the forfaleeth rhoguide of her youth. One of. the Rabbins expounds this woman rnyflically for the fenfitive 'appetite, and that (he is laid to fcrfake the guise of her ysutb, hccaufe inyouth appetite commonly forfakes realon,which is ap' poin-ed to be the guide of it. But we may expound thisguide ei- ther fur her father,who had the government of her in her younger years,or elfe for her husband whom the married in her youth änd whom by marriage the received as the guide of her youth,-un- der God, who is indeed the quid bothofour youth and old age:
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