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SFRM.
XXVII.
CHRISTIAN MORALITY,
ß'I7,. OVASTITY,
&C.
449
enticed
away
by
strange women from the
God
and
relu
gion
of
his
fathers, when
he
paid such profane and crimi-
nal regard
to
the
idols
of
his
mistresses,
as
to build tem-
ples
for them
near the
temple
of Jehovah
;
and
the
Lord
was
angry
with
Solomon, when
his wives
turned
away his
heart after other
gods,
and
he
rent
the kingdom
from him in
the
days
of
his
son
Rehoboam, and
made a
long and fatal
separation
between the tribes
of Israel
for
many generations. And,
to name no more,
"
turn your
eyes to
Sodom
and Gomorrah,
and the cities
of
the plain,
giving
themselves over
to
fornication, and going after
strange
flesh
;
mark
how
the Lord rained
fire
and brim-
stone
out of
heaven
upon
them,
and
they
are set forth
for
an
example, suffering the vengeance
of eternal
fire."
Jude
7.
IV. Think of
the dreadful threatenings
that
are de-
nounced against impure sinners
in
the
word
of
God,
and
you
will find
these
are
flaming witnesses
against
their
practice
;
Hos.
iv.
1
-5.
"
The Lord
hath
a
controversy
with the
inhabitants of
the
land,
because
of
killing,
steal
-
ing,
and
adultery
;
therefore
shall the
landmourn.'
And
God
seems to
forbid
the
prophets
to
give
them
reproof,
as
though
he
resolved
to
destroy
them.
Let
no
man
strive
and reprove another.
His mercy and
forgiveness
seem to
be
put
to
a
stand
;
Jer.
v.
7,
9.
How
shall
I
pardon
thee
for
this
?
saith the Lord
;
thy
children have
forsaken
nie when
I
fed
them to the
full,
they then çom-
niitted
adultery, and
assembled themselves
in
troops
in
the
harlots' houses. Shall
I
not
visit them
for these
things
saith the
Lord;
and
shall
not
my
soul be avenged on
such
a
nation
as this
?"
When the apostle
Paul
had
re-
presented
this
sort of
vice in
i
Cor.
vi.
18,
19. as
a de-
filement
of
the
body,
which
is
the
temple
of
God, and the
habitation
of
the Holy
Spirit
:
the
adds
this
word
of
ter-
ror;
iii.
17.
"
If
any man
defile
the temple
of
God,
him
shall
God destroy;"
for
the
temple
of
God
is
and ought
to be holy,
and
not kept
as
a
nest
for
unclean vermin.
"
Be
not
deceived
;
neither fornicators, nor
idolators,
nor adulterers,
nor
those
who
indulge
vile
impurities,
shall
inherit
the kingdom
of
God
;
1
Cor.
vi.
9,
10.
Such
were some
of
you
indeed,
says
St.
Paul
to his
con-
verts,
but
ye
are
washed
and sanctified from these polio
tions,
or
you
could never
have been saved.
Therefore'
vol.
I.
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