or withdrawing the Lawful and Neceffary Means of Prefervation of Life h Sinful Anger, Ha tred, Envy, Defire of Revenge In ; all Excel five Paffions", Diftracting Cares ; immode rate Ufe of Meat, Drink P, Labour, and Re

Mat, 25.42. For I was an hungred,and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink : .43. I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: fick, and in prifon, and ye vifited me not. James 2, 15. If a brother or fifter be naked, and deftitute of daily food; v, 16. And one of you fay unto them, Depart in peace, be you warmed, and filled:notwithstanding ye give them not thofe things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Eccl. 6. 1. There is an evil which I have feen under the fun, and it is common among men: v. 2. A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, fo that he wanteth nothing for his foul of all that he defireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger cateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

i Mat. 5. 22. But I fay unto you, That whofoever is angry with his brother without a caufe, fhall be in danger ofthe judgment: and whofoever fhall fay to his brother Raca, fhall be in danger of the council: but whofoever shall fay, Thou fool, fhall be in danger of hell fire.

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1 John 3.15.Whofoever hateth his brother, is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. Lev. 19. 17. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thon fhalt in any ways rebuke thy neighbour, and not fuffer fin him. upon Prov. 14. 30. A found heart is

crea the life of the flesh but envy the rottennefs of the bones,

Rom. 12. 19. Dearly beloved avenge not your selves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is write ten, Vengeance is mine; I will re pay, faith the Lord.

"Eph. 4. 31. Let all bitternes and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking be put away f y from you, with all malice.

Mat. 6. 31. Therefore take no thought, faying, What fhall we eat! or what fhall we drink or wherewith al shall we be clothed v. 34. Take therefore no thought for the mor row for the morrow fhall take thought for the things of it felf fufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

P Luke 21.34. And take heed to your felves, left at any time your hearts be overcharged with furfeit ing and drunkenness, and the cares of this life, and fo that day come upon you unawares. Rom. 13.13. Let us walk honeftly as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, notin chambering and wantonnefs, not in ftrife and envying,

9 Eccl, 12. 12. And further, by thefe, my fon, be admonished: of making many books thereis no end, and much study is a weariness of the fleth. Eccl. 2. 22. For what hath man for all his labour, and of the vex tion of his heart wherein he hath la boured under the fun? v. 23. For all his days are forrows, and his travel grief; yea, his heart taketh

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tations; provoking Words, Oppreffion, Quarlling, Stricking, Wounding ", and whatfoever, e tends to the Deftruction of the Life of any *. 137. Queft. Which is the Seventh Commandment? Anfw. The Seventh Commandment is, Thou alt not commit Adultery ».

138. Quelt. What are the Duties required in the Seith Commandment?

Anfw. The Duties required in the Seventh Comndment, are Chastity in Body, Mind, Affections",

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Ifa. 5. 12. And the harp and viol, the tabret and the pipe, wine are in their feafts: but regard not the work of the d, neither confider the operaof his hands.

Prov. 15. 1. A soft answer turnaway wrath; but grievous words up anger. Prov. 12. 18. There hat fpeaketh like the piercings fword: but the tongue of the is health.

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that he die) he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. v. 17. And if he fmite him with throwing a ftone (wherewith he may die) and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer fhall furely be put to death. v. 18. Or if he fmite him with an hand-weapon of wood (wherewith he may die) and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall furely be put to death. v. 21. Or in enmity fmite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall furely be put to death: for he is a murderer. The revenger of blood fhall flay the murderer, when he meeteth him.

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137. y Exod. 20. 14.

Ezek. 18. 18. As for his father, aufe he cruelly oppreffed, spoilis brother by violence, and did which is not good among his x Exod. 21. from verfe 18. to the ple, lo, even he fhall die in his [Containing laws for fmiters, quity. Exod. 1. 14. And they for an hurt by chance, for an ox that de their lives bitter with hard goreth, and for him that is an occafion dage, in mortar, and in brick, of harm. ] in all manner of fervice in the d: all their fervice wherein they Ide them serve, was with rigour. Gal. 5. 15. But if ye bite and your one another, take heed that be not confumed one of another. . 23. 29. Who hath wo who th forrow? who hath contenns? who hath babbling? who hath >unds without caufe?

Numb. 35.16. And if he smite m with an inftrument of iron (fo

138.1 Thef. 4.4. That every one of you should know how to poffefs his veffel in fanctification and honour. Fob 31. 1. I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? 1 Cor. 7. 34. There is difference also between a wife and a virgin: the unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that he may be holy, both

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Words, and Behaviour; and the Prefervation of it in our felves and others c 3 Watchfulnes over the Eyes and all the Senfes ; Temperance keeping of chaft Company, Modefty in Ap parel &; Marriage by thofe that have not the Gifto Continency, Conjugal Love and Cohabitation

in body and in fpirit: but the that is married, careth for the things of the world, how the may please her husband.

a Col. 4. 6. Let your fpeech be alway with grace, feasoned with falt, that ye may know how ye ought to anfwer every man.

b 1 Pet. 3. 2. While they behold your chaft conversation coupled with fear.

1 Cor. 7. 2. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.v.35. And this I fpeak for your own profit, not that I may caft a fhare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that you may attend upon the Lord without distraction. v. 36. But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his vir gin, if the pafs the flower of her age, and need fo require,let him do what he will, he finneth not let them marry.

d fob 31. 1. I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should think upon a maid?

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• Acts 24. 24. And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drufilla, which was a Jewefs, he fent for Paul,and heard him concerning the faith in Chrift. And as he reafoned of righteouf hefs, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled,--

v. 25.

Prov. 2. 16. To deliver thee from the ftrange woman, even from

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the ftranger which flattereth with her words: v. 17. Which forfaketh the guide of her youth, and for getteth the covenant of her God v. 18. For her house inclineth uns death, and her paths unto the dead v. 19. None that go unto her retur again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. v. 20. That tho mayeft walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

1 Tim. 2. 9. In like mannerl fo, that the women adorn them felves in modeft apparel, with fhamefac'dness and fobriety: not with broidered hair, or gold, or pearls, or coftly aray.

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I Cor. 7. 2. Nevertheless, t avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. v.9 But if they cannot contain, le them marry: for it is better to ma ry than to burn.

1 Prov. 5. 19. Let her be as the lo ving hind, and pleafant roe, let her breafts fatisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravifht always with her love v. 20. And why wilt thou, my fon be ravished with a ftrange woma and embrace the bofom of a fir ger?

1 Pet. 3. 7. Likewife yel bands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour t the wife as unto the weaker veffe and as being heirs together of the

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139. Queft. What are the Sins forbidden in the Seenth Commandment?

Anfw. The Sins forbidden in the Seventh Comandment, befide the Neglect of the Duties requied, are Adultery, Fornication °, Rape, Incelt P, Sodomy and all unnatural Lufts; all unclean Ima

race of life; that your prayers be

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Prov. 31. 11. The heart of her usband doth fafely truft in her, fo hat he fhall have no need of fpoil. 27. She looketh well to the ways f her houfhold, and eateth not the tead of idleness. v. 28. Her chilen arife up, and call her bleffed; er husband alfo,and he praifeth her. Frov. 5. 8. Remove thy way at from her, and come not nigh he door of her house. Gen. 39.8. Sut he refufed, and faid unto his nafters wife, Behold, my mafter voteth not what is with me in the houfe, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand. v. 9. There is none greater in this houfe han I; neither hath he kept back ny thing from me, but thee, beaufe thou art his wife: how then an I do this great wicked nefs, and In against God v. 10. And it

ginathe works of the flesh are manifeft, which are thefe, adultery, fornication, uncleannefs, lafcivioufhefs,

P 2 Sam. 13. 14. Howbeit, he would not hearken unto her voice; but being ftronger than fhe, forced her, and lay with her. I Cor. 5. I. It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and fuch fornication, as is not fo much as named among the Gentiles, that one fhould have his fathers wife.

Rom. I. 24. Wherefore God alfo gave them up to uncleanness, through the lufts of their own hearts, to difhonour their own bodies be tween themselves. v. 26. For this caufe God gave them up unto vile affections: For even their women did change their natural ufe into that which is against nature: v. 27. And likewife alfo the men, leaving the natural ufe of the woman, burned in their luft one toward another, men with men working that which is unfeemly, and receiving in themfelves that recompence of their error which was meet. Ļev. 20.15. And if a man lie with a beaft; he fhall furely be put to death: and ye fhall flay the beaft. v. 16. And if a woHeb. 13.4. Marriage is honour- man approach unto any beaft, and able in all, and the bed undefiled: ly down thereto, thou fhalt kill the but whoremongers and adulterers woman and the beaft: they fhail Cod will judge. Gal. s. 19. Now

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139. Prov. 5. 7. Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

ginations, Thoughts, Purposes and Affections all corrupt or filthy Communications, or liftening thereunto f; wanton Looks, impudent or light Be haviour, immodest Apparel; Prohibiting of lawful, and Difpenfing with unlawful Marriages : Allowing, Tollerating, Keeping of Stews, and Reforting to them; intangling Vows of fing Life

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their feet. 2 Pet. 2. 14. Having eyes full of adultery, and that can not cease from fin; beguiling unftable fouls :--

Prov. 7. 10. And behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and fubtile of heart. v 13. So fhe caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face faid unto him.

* Mat. 5.28. But I fay unto you, that whofoever looketh on a woman to luft after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Mat. 15. 19. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blafphemies. Col. 3. 5. Mortify therefore your w 1 Tim. 4.3. Forbidding to marmembers which are upon the earth; ry, and commanding to abftain from fornication,uncleannefs,inordinate meats, which God hath created to affection, evil concupifcence, and be received with thanksgiving of covetousness, which is idolatry. them which believe and know the Eph. 5.3. But fornication, and truth. all uncleanness, or covetoufnefs, let it not be once named amongst you, as becometh saints: v.4. Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jefting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. Prov. 7.5. That they may keep thee from the ftrange woman, from the ftranger which flattereth with her words. v. 21. With her much fair fpeech the caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips the forced him. v. 22. He goeth after her ftraightway, as an ox goeth to the flaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the ftocks,

Ifa. 3.16. Moreover, the Lord faith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with ftretched forth necks, and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with

* Lev. 18. from verse 1 to 2 Mark 6. 18. For John faid unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brothers wife. Mal. 2. 11. Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an a bomination is committed in Ifrael and in Jerufalem: for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. 12. The Lord will cut off the man that doth this: the mafter and the fcholar out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the Lord of hofts.

YI Kings 15. 12. And he tock away the fodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. 2 Kings 23. 7. And he brake down the houfes of

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