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A42935 God's judgments against whoring. Vol. I being an essay towards a general history of it, from the creation of the world to the reign of Augustulus (which according to common computation is 5190 years) and from thence down to the present year 1697 : being a collection of the most remarkable instances of uncleanness that are to be found in sacred or prophane history during that time, with observations thereon. 1697 (1697) Wing G959; ESTC R40905 162,422 375

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Society have not something of a Judgment of the like nature in it And it is also plain beyond all Contradiction that those who embrace the Old Arian Heresie now revived under the name of Socinianism Deism c. Have reason to look upon the dissolute lives of most of their Fraternity in this Nation as a Just Judgment upon them from God for growing vain in their Imaginations and rejecting all those principles of Religion which they cannot Fathom with their shallow and Corrupted reason We have seen under what severe Penalties Chastity was enjoyn'd unto the Jews who under the Old Testament were the peculiar people and Church of God and with what tremendous Judgments those who violated that Law were from time to time pursued We have also hea●…d our Saviour's Exposition of the 7 th Commandment and how it reaches the Motions and Affections of the Soul as well as the external act and it hath been Proved by Divine Authority that the giving of a Person or People up to Uncleanness is a Just Judgment of God for having forsaken him So that now it remains that we take notice in what manner and under what Penalties Chastity is enjoyn'd to Christians under the new Testament We find then in the 15 of the Acts v. 20. That Fornications was one of the things which the first Synodical Meeting or General Council of the Christian Church forbid by the Authority of the Holy Ghost by which Interpreters understand that not only Marriage within prohibited degrees but Adultery single Fornication and keeping of Concubines or to use the term now in fashion keeping of Misses was forbid and the reason why that manifest violation of the Laws of Nature Creation and Revelation is mixt with those things which were Temporary as the abstaining from Blood c. was because the Gentiles especially the people of the East were very much addicted to Uncleanness and Custom had prevailed so much amongst 'em that they scarcely thought Fornication or the keeping of a Concubine any sin And that it 's plain that this first Oecumenical Council if we may so venture to call it did not design this of Fornication as a Temporary prohibition only will appear by the repeated injunctions and prohibitions of the Apostles throughout their Epistles and the Sentence of exclusion from the Kingdom of Heaven which from time to time they pronounce against Whoredom Thus in the 6th of Romans v. 19. He tells them that as they had yielded their Members Servants to Uncleanness so now they were to yield their Members Servants unto Holiness Chap. 8. 7. He tells them That if they live after the Flesh they shall die Chap. 13. 13 14. We are forbid to walk in Chambering and Wantonness or to make provision for the flesh to fullfill the Lusts thereof the Reading of which latter Verse St. A●…in was directed to by a Voice when walking in his Garden which bid him take up the Bible and read and falling upon that Text he was thereby converted he having been formerly much given to Uncleanness Then in 1 Cor. Chap. 5. he severely reproves the Church of Corinth for not having censured the incestuous Person who was one of their Members tho' guilty of such a sort of Fornication as was not so much as named amongst the Gentiles viz. That one should have his Fathers Wife not that never any such thing was committed amongst the Gentiles for History teaches us the contrary but when it did happen it was never spoken of nor mentioned without horror and was always looked upon as Monstrous and Ominous And therefore to take away the scandal from the Christian Church the Apostle Orders him to be delivered up to Satan i. e. Excommunicated and cast out of the Society of the Church by which Censure he was thrown out of the Kingdom of Christ as an Exile and by Consequence deprived of his protection by which he became a Subject or rather a Slave to Satan the God of this World there being no Medium betwixt those two of being either a Subject of Christ or a Subject of Satan and therefore he who is cast out of the Church clave non errante may very well be said to be delivered up to Satan It 's true there are some who think that by these words was meant a delivering of him up to Satan to be tormented by some bodily distemper but that Exposition is too much forced to be relied on In the 9th and 11th Verses of that Chapter the Apostle forbids them so much as to eat with a Brother who is a Fornicator such was the purity of Life that the Holy Ghost enjoined to all Christians In the 6th Chap. the Apostle informs us That neither Fornicators nor Adulterers nor Effeminate nor abusers of themselves with mankind shall inherit the Kingdom of God and by Consequence we may Judge that they were neither fit to be Members of Churches nor indeed of Politick and Civil Societes with Christians In the 11 Verse he tells them such were some of you but now ye are Sanctified v. 13. He says that the body is not for Fornication but for the Lord and the Lord for the Body And in the 15 and 16. v. argues against Fornication from the absurdity of it in Christians who thereby made their bodies that are Members of Christ Members of an Harlot which was as much as to say that you cannot make Christ a partaker of Fornication with you and therefore when you are guilty of those abominable sins you disunite your self from Christ and offer violence to your own bodies by pulling your self away from Christ and joining your self to an Harlot In the 18th Verse he enjoins them to flee Fornication because He that committeth Fornication sinneth against his own Body that is in a special manner he dishonoureth his Body by making it a Member of an Harlot and disuniting it from Christ he maketh that Body which the Holy Ghost disdaineth not to chuse for a Temple a Cage of Unclean spirits and so provoketh the Holy spirit to abandon it who will not dwell in an Impure place and as Whoredom brings a more direct blemish upon the body than any other sin doth so it tends to the dissolution and destruction of the frame of the Body In the 7th Chapter the Apostle treats of Marriage as a proper Remedy against Fornication and therefore necessary and commendable not that it was Originally instituted as a Remedy against Fornicatition for it was appointed in Paradise during the State of Innocence when there was no such thing as Fornication but it became necessary for that end since the fall and therefore as propagation was the primary end of Marriage the avoiding of Fornication became a Secondary end The reason of the Apostles insisting upon this is the opinion of Commentators because there were some among the Corinthians to whom he wrote who Counterfeiting Chastity despised Marriage and fell into hurtfull and filthy Lusts and others again under pretence of Chastity