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you
find this vice
of
impurity
is
twice
forbidden;
once
in
the perfect
act,
and again in
the criminal
wish
and inten-
tion, Observe
here,
that
though the
words
of
these
corn
-
mands directly point
to
adultery,
yet
it
appears
by
the
very reason
of
things,
as
well
as
from
other
passages
of
scripture,
that
all
unchaste
thoughts, words,
and actions,
are
here forbidden,
as
in
our
younger years
we
have been
taught
in
the catechism.
Nor
is
this a
law
that
belonged
only to
the
Jews,
for
the
New
Testament
mentions and enjoins
this
command
with
the
rest, which
are
of equal
force
under
the
gospel.
The
law
forbids all
manner
of
lust,
and saith
:
Thou
shalt
not
covet
;
Rom.
vii.
7.
The great
apostle
puts
the
Thessalonians
in
mind
of
what
he had
taught
them as
the
law
of
Christ.
1
Thess. iv.
2,
3,
4, 5.
For
ye
know
what
commandments
we
gave
you
by
the
Lord
Jesus.
For
this
is
the will
of
God,
even
your
sanctification,
that
you
should abstain
from
fornication
:
That
every
one
of
you
should
know
how
to possess his vessel
in sanctification
and
honour
;
not
in the
lust
of
concupiscence, even
as
the
gentiles
which know
not God.
It
is
as
much
as
if
he
had
said,
it
is
a
dishonour
to christianity, and
a step
of return
towards
heathenism, to
give
a
loose to
impure
lusts.
He
repeats
the same
thing;
Eph.
iv. 17
-21.
This
I
say
therefore,
and testify
in the
Lord,
that
ye henceforth
walk
not
as
other gentile
walk, in
the
vanity
of
their
minds,
having the
undersnding
darkened, being
aliena-
ted
from
the life
of
God
through
the
ignorance
that
is
in
them
because
of
the
blindness
of
their heart
:
Who being
past
feeling,
have
given
themselves
over
to lasciviousness,
to
work
all
uncleanness
with
greediness.
But
ye
have
not
so
learned
Christ
:
"
if
so be
ye
have been
led
by
him,,
and
taught the
truth
as
it
is
in
Jesus."
In
vain
ye
pro-
fess
to
have
learned the
truth
as
it
is
in
Jesus,
or to have
put
on
Christ,
while you
practise
the
same
abominations
as ye
did before; while
ye walk
and
live
as
the
vile hea-
then world.
H. The
hateful description
of
these
sins
which
is
given
us by
the holy writers, should
the
same
odious
image
of
them
upon
our
minds,
and
for
ever
forbid
the
practice.
Solomon, a
great
king,
and
a man
of
excel-
lent
wisdom,
had
well
known the
mischief and madness
or
this
sort
of
vice he
gives, his son
the most
soleima
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