that ye may know how ye ought to anfwer every man.

b 1 Pet. iii. 2. While they behold your chalte converfation coupled with fear.

c 1 Cor. vii. 2. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own hufband. v. 35. And this I fpeak for your own profit, not that I may caft a fnare 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 virgin, if the pass the flower of her age, and need fo require, let him do what he will, he finneth not: let

them marry.

d Job xxxi. 1. I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then fhould I think upon a maid?

e Acts xxiv. 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 Christ. v. 25. And as he reafoned of righteoufnefs, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled,

Prov. ii. 16. To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the ftranger which flattereth with her words: v. 17. Which forfaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. v. 18. For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. v. 19. None that go unto her,

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return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. V. 20. That thou mayeft walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

g 1 Tim. ii. 9. In like manner alfo, that women adorn themfeves in modest apparel, with fhamefacednefs and fobriety: not with broidered hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly

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h1 Cor. vii. 2. Nevertheless to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. V. 9. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

i Prov. v. 19. Let her be as the loving hind, and pleasant roe, let her breafts fatisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love. v. 20. And why wilt thou, my fon, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bofom of a stranger?

k1 Pet. iii. 7. Likewife, ye hufbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindred.

/ Prov. xxxi. II. The heart of her husband doth fafely truft in her, fo that he fhall have no need of fpoil. v. 27. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. v. 28.

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Her children arife up, and call her bleffed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

m Prov. v. 8. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house. Gen. xxxix. 8. But he refused, and faid unto his master's wife, Behold, my mafter wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand. v. 9. There is none greater in this houfe than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me, but thee, becaufe thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and fin against God? V. 10. And it came to pafs as fhe fpoke to Jofeph day after day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

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

• Heb. xiii. 4. Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. Gal. v. 19. Now the works of the flesh are manifeft, which are thefe, Adultery, fornication, uncleannefs, lafciviouf nefs.

p 2 Sam. xiii. 14. Howbeit, he would not hearken unto her voice: but being stronger than fhe, forced her, and lay with her. 1 Cor. v. I. It is reported commonly that there

is fornication among you, and fuch fornication, as is not fo much as named amongst the Gentiles, that one fhould have his father's wife.

Rom. i. 24. Wherefore God alfo gave them up to uncleanness, through the lufts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves. v. 26. For this caufe God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use unto 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. Lev. xx. 15. And if a man lie with a beaft, he fhall furely be put to death and ye shall flay the beaft. v. 16. And if a woman approach unto any beaft, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman and the beaft: they fhall furely be put to death; their blood fhall be upon them.

r Matth. v. 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. Matth. xv. 19. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, falfe witnefs, blafphemies. Col. ii. 5 Mortify therefore your

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members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleannefs, inordinate affection, evil concupifcence, and covetoufnefs, which is idolatry.

Eph. v. 3. But fornication, and all uncleannefs, or covetousness, let it not be once named amongst you, as becometh faints: v. 4. Neither filthinefs, nor foolish talking, nor jefting, which are not convenient; but rather giving of thanks. Prov. vii. 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 fhe 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.

t If. iii. 16. Moreover, the Lord faith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-forth necks, and wanton eyes, walking, and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet. 2 Pet. ii. 14. Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot ceafe from fin; beguiling unftable fouls: :

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

w 1 Tim. iv. 3. Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abftain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

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x Lev. xviii. from verf. 1, to 21. Mark vi. 18. For John had faid unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife. Mal. ii. 11. Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination 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 ftrange god. V. 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.

y Kings xv. 12. And he took away the Sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. 2 Kings xxiii. 7. And he brake down the houses of the Sodomites that were by the houfe of the Lord, where the wo

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wove hangings for the grove. Deut. xxiii. 17. There fhall be no whore of the daughters of Ifrael, nor a Sodomite of the fons of Ifrael. v. 18. Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog into the houfe of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both thefe are abomination unto the Lord thy God. Lev. xix. 29. Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; left the land fall to whoredom, and the land became full of wickedness. Jer. v. 7. How fhall I pardon thee for this thy children have forfaken me, and fworn by them that are no gods when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and affembled themfelves by troops in the harlots houfes.

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