CXLI. To give them support. Deut. Ver. 17. I set watchmen over them, xii. 19. Take heed that thou forsake not saying, Hearken to the sound of the the Levite, so long as thou shalt live upon trumpet; but they said, We will not the earth. Ch. xiv. 29.-xvi. 17.

hearken. 2 Chron. xxxi. 4. Hezekiah com. xviii. 18. They said, Come, let us manded the people to give the portion smite the prophet with the tongue, of the priests and the Levites, that they and let us not give heed to any of might be encouraged in the law of the his words. See Ch. xxvi. 9. Lam. ii. Lord. Sce Neh. xiii. 10, 11. Ezek. xliv. 61, 62. 30. Mal. ii. 10.

Lam. iv. 16. The Lord will no more Matt. x. 10. Jesus said, The workman regard them; they respected not the is worthy of his meat.

person of the priests, they favoured not 1 Cor. ix. 11. Paul said, If we have the elders. sown unto you spiritual things, is it a Ezek. iii. 7. The house of Israel will great thing if we reap your carnal things? not hearken unto thee, for they will not -Ver. 13, 14. Do ye not know, that hearken unto me, saith the Lord. they which wait at the altar are partakers

xxxiii. 30. The children of thy people with the altar ? Even so hath God or- are talking against thee by the walls, and dained, that they which preach the gos. in the doors of the houses. pel, should live of the gospel. See' ver. 4 Ver. 31, 32. They come unto thee as to 9. Deut. xxv. 4.

the people cometh, and they sit before Gal. vi. 6. Let him that is taught in thee as my people; they hear my words, the word, communicate to him that teach- but they will not do them. Thou art to eth, in all good things.

them as a lovely song of one that hath a Phil. iv. 16, 17. Paul said, Ye sent pleasant voice, and can play well on an once and again to my necessity. Not instrument: for they hear thy words, because I desire a gift, but I desire fruit but do them not.–Ver. 33. They shall that may abound to your account. Ver. know that a prophet hath been among 18. Heb. x. 34.

them.

Dan. ix. 6. We have not hearkened to CXLII. Despising them, and not hear-thy servants the prophets, which spake in kening to their instructions : Threats.- thy name. Deut. xvii. 2. The man that will do pre- Hos. iv. 4. My people are as they that sumptuously, and will not hearken to the strive with the priest. priest that standeth to minister before the Zech. vii. 11. They refused to hearLord, even that man shall die.

ken, and pulled away the shoulder, and 2 Chron. xxxvi. 15, 16. The Lord sent stopped their ears, that they should by his messengers the prophets ; but they not hear the words which the Lord mocked the messengers of God, and de- hath sent in his Spirit by the prophets; spised his words, and misused his pro- therefore came wrath from the Lord of phets, until the wrath of the Lord rose hosts. against his people, and there was no re- Matt. xviii. 17. If one neglect to hear medy. Ch. vii. 25.—xxv. 3, 4.-xxvi. 5.— the church, let him be unto thee as an xxix. 19,-xxxv.

heathen man and a publican. Isa. xxx. 9, 10. This is a rebellious x. 11. 14. Into whatsoever city ye enpeople, which will not hear the law of the ter, and they receive you not, shake the Lord: which say to the seers, See not; dust off your feet.-Ver. 15. It shall be and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah us right things; speak unto us smooth in the day of judgment than for that things. 1 Kings xxii. 8. 2 Chron. xxxvi. city.-Ver. 16. He that despiseth you 15, 16. Jer. xi. 21. Mic. ii. 6.

despiseth me. liii. 1. Who hath believed our report?

John i. 11. Christ came to his own, Ch. xlix. 4.

and his own received him not. Jer. ii. 25. Thou saidst, I have loved iii. 11. Jesus said, Ye receive not our strangers, and after them I will go. witness.

v. 25. Prophets prophesy falsely, and v. 43. Jesus said, I am come in my the people love to have it so.

Father's name, and ye receive me not; if vi. 10. The word of the Lord is unto another come in his own name, him ye them a reproach, they have no delight will receive. in it.

xii. 48. Jesus said, He that rejecteth

ears.

me, and receiveth not my words, hath smite his servant with a rod; and he one that judgeth him ; the word that I die under his hand, he shall be surely have spoken, the same shall judge him at punished. the last day:

xxii. 2, 3. If a thief be found breaking Eph. iv. 14. Be no more children, up, and he be smitten that he die, there tossed to and fro with every wind of shall no blood be shed for him. But if doctrine.

the sun be risen upon him, there shall be 1 Thess. iv. 8. He that despiseth, de blood shed for him. spiseth not men but God, who hath given Deut. xix. 4. 6. Whosoever killeth unto us his Holy Spirit. See Matt. xxiii. his neighbour ignorantly, whom he 37. Luke xiii. 34.

hated not, he is not worthy of death. 2 Tim. i. 15. Paul said, all that are in Numb. xxxv. 15. 20. Asia be turned away from me.

iv. 3, 4. The time will come when CXLVI. Threatenings against mur. they will not endure sound doctrine ; derers. Ps. v. 6. The Lord will abhor the bat after their own lusts shall they heap bloody man. See Ps. li. 14. Jonaḥ i. 14. to themselves teachers, having itching lv. 23. Bloody men shall not live half

And they shall turn away their their days. ears from the truth, and shall be turned cvi. 38. The land was polluted with unto fables.

blood.-Ver. 40. Therefore the wrath of 1 Cor. iii. 4. One saith, I am of Paul; the Lord was kindlcd. another, I am of Apollos, &c. Ch. i. 12.

cix. 31. The Lord shall stand at the iv. 6. Puffed up for one against another. right hand of the poor, to save him from

those that condemn his soul. CXLIII. Not supporting them. Mal. Prov. vi. 17. The Lord doth hate hands iii. 9.' Ye are cursed with a curse, for that shed innocent blood. ye have robbed me, even this whole na- xxviii. 17. A man that doth violence tion. Ver. 10. Neh. xiii. 10. 12.

to the blood of any person, shall flee to the pit, let no man stay him.

Isa. lix, 3. 10. Your hands are defiled SIXTH COMMANDMENT. with blood. (Ver. 7.) We are as dead men.

Jer. ii. 34. Also in thy skirts is found CXLIV. Of Murder. Exod. xx. 13. the blood of the souls of the poor innoThou shalt not kill. Matt. xix. 13. 1 cents. Tim. i. 9. Death the punishment of mur. vii. 9. 15. Will ye steal, murder, derers.

commit adultery, &c.?

I will cast you Gen. ix. 6. Whoso sheddeth man's out of my sight.-Ver. 16. Pray not for blood, by man shall his blood be shed. this people. Ver. 5.

xix. 3, 4. I will bring evil upon this Exod. xxi. 12. He that smiteth a man place. They have filled it with the blood so that he die, shall surely be put to of innocents. Lam. iv. 14. 16. death. Ver. 13, 14. Lev. xxiv. 17. Ezek. xxiv. 6. Woe to the bloody city.

Numb. xxxv. 15. The murderer shall Ver. 9. Neh. iii. 1. surely be put to death. Ver. 17, 18. 21.30. xxxv. 6. As I live, saith the Lord

Ver. 31. Ye shall take no satisfaction God, I will prepare thee unto blood, for the life of the murderer; he shall and blood shall pursue thee; sith thou surely be put to death.–Ver. 33. Blood bast not hated blood, even blood shall defileth the land; and the land cannot pursue thee. be cleansed of the blood that is shed Hab. ii. 10, 11. Thou hast consulted therein, but by the blood of him that shed shame to thy house by cutting off many it.

people, and hast sinned against thy soul. Deut. xix. 11. 13. If a man hate his For the stone shall cry out of the wall, neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and and the beam out of the timber shall ansmite him mortally that he die; thine swer it. eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt John viji. 44. The devil was a mur. put away the guilt of innocent blood. derer from the beginning.

Gal. v. 21. The works of the flesh CXLV. Cases excepted, wherein the are, murders, &c. James iv. 1. killing of a man was not to be punished 1 John iii. 15. No murderer hath eter. with death. Exod. xxi. 20. If a man nal lise abiding in him.

Rev. xxi. 8. Murderers shall have their xxi. 7. The priest shall not take a part in the lake that burneth with fire wife that is a whore or profane.-Ver. and brimstone, which is the second death. 9. And the daughter of the priest, if she

xxii. 15. Without the heavenly Jeru- profane herself by playing the whore, salem) are murderers, &c. See Hos. iv. she profaneth her father ; she shall be 2, 3. Matt. xxiii. 35.

burnt. CXLVII. Instances of the punishment

Numb. v. 12, 13, 19. If a man's wife of murder. Upon Cain, Gen. iv. 5. 24.- go aside, and commit a trespass against Úpon Simeon and Levi, Gen. xlix. 5, 6, 7. him, and a man lie with her carnally, -xxxiv. 25, 26.—Upon David, 2 Sam.

and it be hid from the eyes of her hus. Ilth and 12th chapters.-Upon Ahab, i band, and there be no witness against her; Kings xxii. 38.–Upon Manasseh, 2 Kings cursing.–Ver. 27. And if she be defiled,

the priest shall charge her with an oath of xxiv. 3, 4.

her belly shall swell and her thigh shall CXLVIII. Striking, wounding, maim- rot. ing ; how to be punished. Exod. xxi. 18 Deut. xxii. 22. If a man be found lying to 25. Lev. xxiv. 19. Deut. xxij. 23, 24. with a woman married to an husband, -xxvii. 24.

they shall both of them die.

Ver. 23, 24. If a damsel that is a vis. SEVENTH COMMANDMENT. gin, be betrothed unto an husband, and CXLIX. Adultery and fornication.

a man find her in the city and lie wich Exod. xx. 14. Thou shalt not commit her, ye shall stone them both with stones adultery. Mark x. 19. James ii. 11.

that they die; the damsel because she Deut. xxiii. 17. There shall be no

cried not, being in the city ; and the man whore of the daughters of Israel. Lev.wife.-Ver. 25. But if a man find a je

because he hath humbled his neighbour's xix. 29.

trothed damsel in the field and force aer CL. Threatenings ; or the evil conse- and lie with her, then the man only stall quences of adultery, fornication, &c. Gen. die. xii. 17. The Lord plagued Pharaoh and Ver. 28, 29. If a man find damsel his house with great plagues, because of that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, Sarai Abram's wife, who was taken into and lay hold on her, and lie with her, Pharaoh's house. Ver. 15.

and they be found; then the man skall xx. 2, 3. Abimelech took Sarah, Abra- give unto the damsel's father fifty sheham's wife. God said to him, Thou art kels of silver, and she shall be his wife, a dead man, for she is a man's wife.- Ver. because he hath humbled her; he may 7. If thou restore her not, thou shalt not put her away all her days. surely die.—Ver 9. Abimelech said to xxiii. 2 A bastard shall not enter into Abraham, Thou hast brought on me and the congregation of the Lord, even to his on my kingdom a great sin. Ch. xxvi. 7. tenth generation. 10, ii.

Ver. 18. Thou shalt not bring the hire Xxxv, 22.

Reuben lay with Bilhah of a whore, or the price of a dog into the his father's concubine. Ch. xlix. 4. Ja- house of the Lord thy God for any vow. cob said, Thou shalt not excel, because 2 Sam. xii. 4. David's sin with the wife thou wentest up to thy father's bed, and of Uriah - Ver. 11. See the punishment didst defile it.

thereof. Exod. xxii. 16, 17. If a man entice a Job xxvi. 15. The eye of the adulterer maid, that is not betrothed, and lie with waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye her, he shall surely endow her to be his shall see me.

e.-Ver. 17, 18. "The morning wife. If her father refuse to give her to is to them as the shadow of death. Their him, he shall pay money according to the portion is cursed on the earth. dowry of virgins.

xxxi. 9-12. If mine heart hath been Lev. xviii. 20. Thou shalt not lie car- deceived by a woman, or if I have laid nally with thy neiglıbour's wife, to defile wait at my neighbour's door ; then let thyself with her.-Ver. 28. That the my wife grind to another, and let others land spue you not out.

bow down upon her. For it is an heinous xx. 10. The man that committeth adul. crime ; it is an iniquity to be punished by tery with another man's wife, the adul- the judges. It is a fire that consumeth to terer and the adulteress shall surely be put destruction, and would root out all mine to death. See to ver. 22.

increase.

woman.

Prov. v. 3–6. The lips of a strange xxx. 20. An adulterous woman saith, woman drop as an honey.comb, and her I have done no wickedness. mouth is smoother than oil: But her xxxi. 3. Give not thy strength unto end is bitter as wormwood, sharper women, nor thy ways to that which dethan a two-edged sword. Her feet go stroyeth kings. down to* death ; her steps take hold on Eccl. vii. 26. I find more bitter than hell

. Lest thou shouldst ponder the death, the woman whose heart is snares path of life, her ways are movable.- and nets, and her hands as bands : whoso Ver. 8–11. Remove thy way far from pleaseth God shall escape from her, but her, come not nigh the door of her the sinner shall be taken by her. house. Lest thou give thine honour Jer. vii. 9, 10. Will ye steal, murder, to others, and thy years unto the cruel: and commit adultery, and swear falsely,' Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; &c.; and come and stand before me in and thy labours be in the house of a this house ?–Ver. 15. I will cast you out stranger; and thou mourn at the last, of my sight. when thy flesh and thy body are con- v. 7-9. When I fed them to the sumed.

full, they then committed adultery, and Ver. 20, 21. Why wilt thou be ravished assembled themselves by troops in the with a strange woman, and embrace the harlots' houses. They were

as fed bosom of a stranger ? For the ways of horses in the morning, every one neigh. man are before the eyes of the Lord, and ing after his neighbour's wife. (Ch. he pondereth all his goings.

xiii. 27.) Shall I not visit for these vi. 24. Keep thee from the evil woman, things ? saith the Lord: and shall not from the flattery of the tongue of a strange my soul be avenged on such a nation as

this? Ver. 25, 26. Lust not after her beauty ix. 2. 9. They be all adulterers. Shall in thine heart, neither let her take thee not my soul be avenged, &c. ? with her eyelids. For by means of a xxiii. 10. The land is full of adulter. whorish woman a man is brought to a ers. The land mourneth. piece of bread; and the adulteress will xxix. 23. Because they have commithunt for the precious life.

ted adultery with their neighbours' wives; Ver. 27–29. Can a man take fire in even I know and am a witness, saith the his bosom and not be burnt ? Can he go Lord. upon hot coals, and his feet not be burnt? Ezek. xxii. 11. One hath committed So he that goeth in to his neighbour's abominations with his neighbour's wife, wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not another hath defiled his daughter-in-law, be innocent.

and another bath humbled his sister. Ver. 32–35. Whoso committeth adul- Ver. 14. Can thine heart endure, or thine tery with a woman, lacketh understand. hands be strong in the day that I will ing; he that doeth it destroyeth his own deal with thee? soul. A wound and dishonour shall he Hos. iv. 2, 3. By swearing and lying, get, and his reproach shall not be wiped and killing and stealing, and committing away. For jealousy is the rage of a man: adultery, they break out. Therefore shall he will not regard any ransom.

the land mourn. vii. 5 to 26. See the description of a Ver. 11. Whoredom and wine take whorish woman, and the fool taken by away the heart. her snares.-Ver. 27. Her house is the Ver. 13, 14. Your daughters shall comway to hell, going down to the chambers mit whoredom, and your spouses shall of death.

commit adultery. I will not punish your ix. 17, 18. She saith, Stolen waters daughters nor your spouses; for them. are sweet. But know that the dead are selves are separated with whores. there, and that her guests are in the vii. 4. They are all adulterers, as an depths of hell.

oven heated. Ver. 7.

There is none xxii. 14. The mouth of a strange wo. among them that calleth unto me. man is a deep pit; he that is abhorred of Mal. iii. 5. I will be a swift witness the Lord shall fall therein.

against the adulterers and false swear. xxiii. 27, 28. A whore is a deep ditch, ers, &c. and a strange woman is a narrow pit. Rom. i. 28, 29. As they did not like She lieth in wait as for a prey, and in- to retain God in their knowledge, God creaseth transgressors among men. gave them over to a reprobate mind:

a

Being filled with all unrighteousness, for. Rev, xxi. 8. Murderers and whore. nication, &c.

mongers, &c. shall have their part in the 1 Cor. iii. 16, 17. Know ye not that | lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, ye are the temples of God ? If any man which is the second death. defile the temple of God, him shall God xxii. 15. Without the heavenly Jerudestroy.

salem) are dogs, sorcerers, whoremonv. 1. It is reported that there is forni- gers, &c. cation among you, and such fornication Matt. v. 28. Whosoever looketh on a as is not so much as named among the woman, to lust after her, hath committed Gentiles.-Ver. 9. I wrote to you, not to adultery with her already in his heart. keep company with fornicators.Ver. 11. xv. 19. Out of the heart proceed evil If any man ihat is called a brother be a thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornicafornicator, with such an one no not to eat. tions, &c.; these defile a man. Ver. 20. -Ver. 13. Put away from among you that wicked person.

CLI. Examples, exhortations, promises, vi. 9. Neither fornicators nor idolaters, fc.against adultery and fornication. Gen. nor adulterers, &c. shall inherit the king- xxix. 7–9. His master's wife cast her dom of God. Ver. 10.

eyes upon Joseph, and said, Lie with me, Ver. 13. The body is not for fornica- But he refused; and said, How can I do this tion, but for the Lord.—Ver. 15. Know great wickedness, and sin against God ? ye not that your bodies are the members Job xxxi. 1. I made a covenant with of Christ? Shall I make them members mine eyes, why then should I look upon of an harlot ?-Ver. 16. He that is joined a maid? to an harlot is one body with her.-Ver. Ezek. xviii. 6. If a man be just, and 18. He that committeth fornication sin do that which is lawful and right; and neth against his own body.

hath not defiled his neighbour's wife, &c.; x. 8. Neither let us commit fornica. he shall live. Ver. 9. tion, as some of them did, and fell in one John viii. 4. Jesus said to the woman day three and twenty thousand. Numb. taken in adultery, Sin no more. xxv. 1. 9.

Acts xv. 20. Abstain from fornication. 2 Cor. xii. 20, 21. I fear lest I shall Ver. 29. not find you such as I would; and that I Rom. xiii. 13, 14. Let us walk honest. shall bewail many who have sinned, and ly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunk. have not repented of their fornication, enness; not in chambering and wanton. lasciviousness, &c.

ness. Make not provision for the flesh, to Gal. v. 19. The works of the flesh are, fulfil the lusts thereof. adultery, fornication, uncleanness.—Ver. 1 Cor. vi. 15. Know ye not that your 21. They that do such things shall not bodies are members of Christ. Ver. 18. inherit the kingdom of God.

Flee fornication. Eph. v. 5, 6. No whoremonger, nor un. vii. 9. If they cannot contain, let them clean person, hath any inheritance in the marry. kingdom of Christ and of God. Because ix. 27. I keep my body under, lest I of these things cometh the wrath of God should be a cast-away. upon the children of disobedience.

x. 8. Let us not commit fornication. Col. iii. 5, 6. Fornication, uncleanness, Eph. v. 3. Fornication, and all unclean. inordinate affection, &c. For which things iness, let it not be once named among you, sake cometh the wrath of God upon the as becometh saints. Ver. 4. children of disobedience.

Col. iii. 5. Mortify your members which 1 Tim. i. 10. The law is made for are upon the earth, fornication, unclean. whoremongers, &c.

ness, inordinate affection, &c. Heb. xiii. 4. Whoremongers and adul. 1 Thess. iv. 3. This is the will of God, terers God will judge,

even your sanctification, and that ye ab. 2 Pet. ii. 14. Having eyes full of adul. stain from fornication. tery, cursed children.

Ver. 4, 5. Every one of you should Jude 7. Sodom and Gomorrah, and know how to possess his vessel in sancthe cities about them, giving themselves tification and honour. Not in the last of

to fornication, and going after concupiscence, as the Gentiles which strange flesh, are set forth for an exam- know not God. ple, suffering the vengeance of eternal Ver. 7. God hath not called us to un. fire. Ver. 8.

cleanness, but unto holiness.

over