424 ;Chap;S. .4CommentcrieIris areplaced in the flea ranks, for lull saufs: forby them,men arc brought to reprobatemindes. Rom. i. 28. and totewilt out fettle or feeling. Eph.4. t9. and the bodie which fhould be; the templeof theholyGUI, is made a fiable anda ft] for the' deuill. .Adutlteriej`it is the incentinencie ofperform married, or 0 ;1 per¡ónt vvhereof one at the lea/i is married , or betrothed. I. fay betrothed: becaufe one and the famepunifhmentisdefis rued to tnarricdiandbetrothedperlons: and therefore the filmic is like in both. 1 to If adultcrie, which is the breachofwcdlocke, be a worke of the fIeth, then damnable iâ thedecretall of Syricius, that , marriage it feltswas thepollution ofthe flefb. It may be abk.' fled, that youngwiddowcs by marrying halte daranation,and break thefaith ofbaptifine. r . Ti.m.5. r 2. r.rinf. Theyare not is laide tobreake the faithof baptifine, bccaufe they marrie : but becaufe they waxe wantonagainfl ChrifL, and fo marrie : that is, call offthe reinesofobedier:cc,by committing fornication, and then for to couer their offence,they manic. This I take tobe the right finkof that place. 70 Adulterie is named in the fini place , and that for fpeciall taufe. For as it is a common, fois it altoa great finne. For itis the breachofthe couenant ofmarriage, made in the prefencc ofGod,and vino God : andAhereforeit is called the cottenant ofGod. Prou. 2.17. It -is thepunifhmentofidolatrie. Rom.t. 15 24..Tt is a finnegreater then theft.Prou.6. 3o.3 2The-commit- tersof this-finne cut off themfelues from humane focietie, and become men ofdeath , &women ofdcath,accordingtoGods law. And st will neuer bewell with humane focietie;till adul terers be made fellons , their hues taken from them, and their lo goods confifcate. Laflly, this finnebrings the ruine of the fa- milles of adulterous perlons : and it lets a fire in them that 1burnes to deflruetion. . Termination] it it the incentinencie of/ingle perron . Marke how it ismade a manifefl workeofthe flefla. Hence it follows, 15 that fornication is no light matter , or a thing indifferent, as fome haue taught. It may beobietieed , that it is numbered a. mong things indifferent, AEI. tá.29. for withfirangled, and blood, isioyned fornication. Alf: TheGentiles indeede cflee mcd it as a thing indifferent : and hereupon it may be, it is io .I nod'
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