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A63895	A discourse on fornication shewing the greatness of that sin, and examining the excuses pleaded for it, from the examples of antient times : to which is added an appendix concerning concubinage : as also a remark on Mr. Butler's explication of Hebr. xiii, 4 in his late book on that subject / by J. Turner ...	Turner, John, b. 1649 or 50.	1698 (1698)	Wing T3297; ESTC R10983	44,117	68

teach it better Principles than its Parents had Nor is it easie to imagin that the Parents themselves shou'd do much better in this Affair It may be they have not yet repented of their own Iniquity and if not it is hard to believe that they shou'd have any great Zeal to implant Grace in others who stiffle and extinguish it in themselves But suppose they have how will they set about a Work that shall bring afresh into their Minds all the Shame and Terror and Confusion that first followed the Commission of that Sin The Sense of their own Shame will stop their Mouths and the Rebukes of their Consciences Divert their Purpose and Prevent their Good Design So that tho' other Parents may be careless and negligent in the Instruction and Tuition of their Children these lie under almost a Fatal and Inevitable Necessity of this Neglect And who knows what great what irreparable and it may be Everlasting Mischiefs this one Calamitous Misfortune may be the Cause of Or how little is it to be wondred at if such a Shameful Spurious Brood inherit the Vices of their Parents and become Persons of Reprobate Minds and given up to Vile Affections and abominable Lusts What is to be expected from such wicked Practices but a Propagation of Vice and Naughtiness and an horrid Increase in great Iniquities that without some extraordinary Operation of Divine Grace and Mercy brings the whole Generation to Everlasting Misery and Torments These are Notorious Instances of the lamentable Evils and Mischievous Consequences of this Sin But 2. The Mischiefs of it falls oftentimes upon the Offenders themselves as well as upon their Offspring and Posterity And that in the first Place in their Credit and Character and Reputation As to Female Prostitutes they even by the Heathens themselves have ever been esteemed the most Infamous and Profligate And tho' Men are generally of a less tender Fame and Credit yet so inseparable and unalienable is Shame from Sin and Vice that neither the Commonness of the Practice nor the Authority of great Examples nor all the Pleas and Apologies that are alleged for its Excuse can give it Credit and Reputation And those who are almost ready to be Advocates for it yet in the Commission of it are generally sollicitous to be conceal'd and that not only from the Sober and Pious and Grave but from others of the same ill Life and Conversation And many of these who have made a shift to harden their Hearts and sear their Consciences against the Guilt of it find it yet very difficult after all to harden their Foreheads too against the Shame and Scandal And tho' in a very Wicked and Degenerate Age yet there is no Man of what Rank soever that continues in this Sin and refuses to be reclaimed but it will prove a Blemish to him and a Scandal to any Dignity Office or Character that he bears And tho' in Civility and Good Manners he may not discover this by any outward visible Disrespect yet he must lose considerably in the inward Veneration and Esteem of Men. Nor does it often fare better with these Sinners in their Estates of which besides the Evidence of Reason we have the Confirmation of almost every Days Experience How often do such Men Ruine and Waste their Substance and at last become Poor and Despicably Miserable Thus it fared with these Offenders above two thousand Years ago Nor has Time or Experience been able to teach such Men to escape the Mischief any other way but by abstaining from the Sin Keep thee from the Evil Woman from the Flattery of the Tongue of a strange Woman Lust not after her Beauty in thine Heart Neither let her take thee with her Eye lids for by means of a Whorish Woman a Man is brought to a Piece of Bread Prov. vi 24. c. And Prov. v. 8 9 10. Remove thy way far from a strange Woman and come not nigh the Door of her House lest thou give thine Honour unto others and thy Years unto the Cruel Lest Strangers be filled with thy Wealth and thy Labour be in the House of a Stranger and thou mourn at the last when thy Flesh and thy Body are consumed Agreable to which is that Advice to the Son of Syrach Eccles ix 16. Give not thy Soul unto Harlots that thou lose not thine Inheritance I may very pertinently add here to all the former Mischiefs the Pernicious Effects of this Sin to the Bodies of those that live in it who frequently impair their Health and wast their Strength and it may be dye Infamous Martyrs to their Lusts by the Rottenness of their Bones and the Venemous Infection of a Noisom Scandalous Disease But I am unwilling to enlarge upon so Loathsome and Odious a Subject And yet methinks 't is no small Evidence no trifling Indication of God's great Displeasure against this Sin that he has entail'd a Curse and a Calamitous Distemper even to Rottenness and Putrefaction so peculiarly upon Adultery and Fornication that it is not to be brought upon any of Mankind but one of these Detestable Iniquities must be the Original Cause of it But I pass by all these things with transient Reflections Not that they are in themselves either small or inconsiderable for an Infamous and a Wicked Posterity a Reproachful Character a Beggar'd Fortune and an Infected Body are all of them very great and sore Calamities But because there are greater Evils and Consequences more pornicious and more justly to be lamented yet behind I mean 3. Lastly The Spiritual Mischiefs and Miserable Consequences to the Soul in Grieving the Holy Spirit of God and repelling his Divine Grace which is the true Fountain of Christian and Spiritual Life in us and the Blessed Author of our Sanctification This is an Evil which a very little Consideration will convince us is inseparable from this Vice and from Adultery And at the same time more deplorable than all the Evils that can befal our Credit Estate or Life because these ill Effects will follow Men thro' the Grave and make them Miserable to all Eternity For the clearing what I intend on this Head let it be remember'd that I have already shewn that our Union with God and Christ is by the Mediation of that Holy Spirit which Resides and makes its Abode within us That this is the Principle of Grace and all manner of Goodness in us that to the joint Operation of this Holy Spirit with our Spirits we owe both our good Affections and Desires and also our Strength and Power to do what is Virtuous and Good That therefore according to the Proportion of God's Spirit in us and our own Care to Cherish and Improve it Such will be the Temper and Disposition of our Souls and the Degrees of Goodness and Holiness in us And that by consequence upon the Want and Deprivation of this Spiritual Assistance we must lose both our Inclinations and our Power of being Religious

A DISCOURSE ON FORNICATION SHEWING THE Greatness of that SIN AND Examining the Excuses pleaded for it from the Examples of Antient Times To which is added an Appendix concerning Concubinage As also A Remark on Mr. Butler's Explication of Hebr. xiii 4. in his Late Book on that Subject By J. Turner M. A. Lecturer of Christ-Church London Printed at the Request of some Gentlemen of that Parish O Proceres Censore opus est an Aruspice nobis Juv. Sat. 2 LONDON Printed for John Wyat at the Rose in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCXCVIII THE CONTENTS THE Introduction page 1. I. Fornication contrary to God's Original Institution of Marriage p. 3. In what Sense that Institution is a Positive Law p. 4. Several such Laws given to Man from the beginning p. 5. The Original Institution of Marriage explain'd p. 8. How Fornication a Violation of it p. 11. Objections considered p. 13. David's Adultery with Bathsheba impertinently alleged p. 14. Abraham's Concubines were Married to him p. 15. The Laws of former Times no good objection against this Law p. 16. The Heathens corrupt in their Manners p. 17. The Jewish-Law imperfect p. 18. Divorce then allow'd but not approv'd p. 19. Polygamy was always unlawful p. 20. Abraham's Example not Universally to be imitated p. 22. Things tolerated not always approv'd the difference between Licita and Honesta p. 23. The Heathens did detest this Vice p. 24. The Jews absolutely forbid it p. 25. The Patriarchs before the Law abhor'd it p. 26. Whatever prevail'd in former Times we are now brought to the Original Institution p. 27. II. Fornication expresly forbidden by the Gospel p. 29. Reasons urged by St. Paul to disswade Men from it p. 34. 'T is inconsistent with Christian Purity and Holiness p. 38. III. Fornication a Brutish Vice and dishonourable to Humane Nature p. 41. Mischievous to the Children born of such Parents p. 42. To the Offenders themselves both in Credit Fortune and Health p. 45. It debauches Men's Spirits and makes them Enemies to Religion p. 47. The Commonness of this Sin one great occasion of Infidelity Blasphemy and Profaneness p. 49. Appendix concerning Concubinage p. 55. A Remark on Heb. xiii 4. against Mr. Butler p. 56. All Concubinage of unmarried Persons is Fornication p. 57. ERRATA PAge 1. line 7. r. has p. 2. l. 3. r. that p. 3. l 5. r. up to p. 4. l. 2. dele had p. 11. l. 5. r. this Law p. 13. l. 21. r. Title p. 16. l. 31. r. then p. 17. l. 17. r. Precedent p. 21. l. 20. r. alone l. 32. r. they p. 22. l. 15. r. him p. 37. l. 17. r. and destroy p. 40. l. 31. r. defects p. 45. l. 33. dele the p. 48. l. 15. r. Bodily p. 52. l. 1. r. their p. 53. l. 18. r. Men p. 56. l. 28. r. Contract or Marriage State p. 59. l. 22. r. their p. 60. l. 14. r. the l. 33. r. what is Scandalous and Offensive A DISCOURSE ON FORNICATION Shewing the Greatness of that Sin and examining the Excuses pleaded for it from the Examples of Ancient Times WHile all good Men lament the Wickedness and Debauchery of this Age and Nation and justly dread the heavy Judgments of God for the notorious Iniquities every Day committed among other Circumstances that increase their Grief and enhanse their Fears They have this Discomfort that the Looseness of Mens Manners had corrupted their Judgments and defaced their Sense of Good and Evil. So that instead of Humiliation before God some Men justifie themselves and are so far from abandoning their Vices that they plead Innocence and upon the Perpetration of the vilest Crimes cry out with Solomon's Harlot that they have done nothing amiss This is in no Sin more practised than in those of Adultery and Fornication Adultery may possibly be allowed to have somewhat of Ill in it especially on the Womans Side where there is a manifest Injury to a whole Family and yet it is an Argument that this makes no great Impression on some Peoples Consciences because it is so openly and publicly practised But Fornication by the leud Persons of this Age is avowed to be innocent and harmless And yet there must be a great share both of Confidence and Impiety in that Christian who disputes the Unlawfulness of a Vice which in the whole New Testament is frequently and expresly declared to shut Men out of the Kingdom of God If the Authority of the Gospel was but submitted to by these Men and suffered to guide their Consciences as it ought no more would be needful to convince and restrain them than any one of these Texts wherein it is said that no Whoremonger or unclean Person has any Inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God But this alone will not now prevail They appeal from the Gospel to the Law and tell you how as they imagin was the Practice of ancient Times They expostulate with you how it comes to pass that what was anciently tolerated and allowed comes now to be reckoned such a dreadful and enormous Crime so that they make it a matter of Debate and Controversy and must have their Objections and Scruples answered before the Gospel shall be heard or they can become sensible of their Wickedness and give any Hope of their being reclaimed The Preachers may say what they will in their Pulpits about the Justice and Severity of God and the Vengeance which he threatens against Sinners This is never like to move Men while they conceit their Actions justifiable and perswade themselves that they do not come within the Verge of those Menaces At a time therefore when the Piety and Wisdom of our Governors seem resolved to check and restrain the intolerable Growth of Impiety It may not be unseasonable to treat with these Men and lay open the Heinousness and certain Immorality of one of the most predominant Sins of this Age and if I mistake not one of the great Occasions and Promoters of a Spirit of Atheism Profaneness and Irreligion I hope what I shall say on this Subject may be serviceable to those whose Consciences are not feared and who are not wholly given unto vile Affections and a reprobate Mind But they who resolve to do any thing that gratifies their Lusts though never so expresly forbidden may believe any thing that favours those Pleasures tho' never so evidently false and absurd If I do not say all that might be said to the Advantage of so considerable a Subject I hope at least that it may either invite or provoke better Judges to take so good a Cause in hand The certain Immorality of this Practice and the Greatness of this Sin I shall endeavour to make appear by these Arguments I. That Fornication is a Violation of God's positive Law in the original Institution of Marriage II. That it is expresly forbidden in the Gospel and absolutely inconsistent with that pure and holy Life which the Christian Religion requires from us III. Lastly