70. Q. Which is the seventh commandment ?

A. The seventh commandment is, Thou shalt not commit adultery.

71. Q. What is required in the seventh commandment?

A. The seventh commandment requireth the preservation of our own, and our neighbour's chastity, in heart, speech and behavour.

Q. 1. What doth the seventh commandment respect? A. The seventh commandment doth respect, our own, and others chastity.

Q. 2. What doth the seventh commandment require, in reference unto our own, and others chastity?

A. The seventh commandment doth require, in reference unto our own, and others chastity, the preservation thereof, in keeping of ourselves unpolluted, and doing what in us lieth to prevent the defilement of others, Thess. iv. 3, 4.

Q. 3. Wherein are we bound by this commandment to preserve our own, and our neighbour's chastity?

A. We are bound by this commandment to preserve our own and our neighbour's chastity: 1. In heart, by such love unto, and desire after, and delight in one another's company, as is pure and chaste; and that whether we be men, as to the company of women, or women, as to the company of men, 1 Pet. i. 22. See that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently. 2. In speech, by such discourse one with another, as is incorrupt, and many tend to one another's edification and sanctification, Eph. iv. 29. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. 3. In behaviour, by such a conversation and actions as are modest and chaste, 1 Pet. iii, 1. Q. 5. Whereby may we preserve our chastity? A. We may preserve our chastity: 1. By watchfulness, and that, 2. Over our hearts and spirits, to oppose uncleanness in the first desire of it, and inclinations of heart to it, and risings of it in the thoughts,

Prov. iv. 23. Keep thy heart with all diligence, Mal. ii. 16. Therefore take heed to your spirit, 2. Over our sences, our eyes to turn them away from such objects as may provoke lust, Job xxi. 1. I made a covenant with mine eyes, why then should I think upon a maid? 5. Our ears, to shut them against all lascivious discourse; we must watch also against all such touches, and wanton dalliances, as may be an incentive to unchaste desires, and take heed to all light and lewd company; and watch to avoid all occasions, and resist temptations to the sin of uncleanness, Prov. v. 8. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house, Gen. xxxix. 7, 8, 9. His master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph, and she said, lye with me; but he refused: How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? 2. By dilligence in our callings wherein when our bodies and minds are busily employed, both may be preserved from these unclean practices and desires, which idle persons are more prone unto, Prov. xxxi. 27. 29. She eateth not the bread of idleness; many daughters have done virtuously but thou excellest them all, Gen xxxiv. 1, 2. And Dinah went out to see the daughters of the land and Sechem took her, and lay with her, and defiled her. 3. By temperance, in eating and drinking, excess in either of which doth pamper the body, and excite unto lust, Jer. v. 8. They were as fed horses in the morning, every one neighing after his neighbour's wife, Prov. xxiii. 31, 33. Look thou not upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth the colour in the glass, &c. Thine eyes shall behold strange women. 4. By abstinence, and keeping under the body when there is need, with frequent fasting. 1. Cor. ix. 37. But I keep under my body, and bring it under subjection: Lest that by any means when I have preached unto others, I myself should be cast away. 5. By the fear of God, and awful apprehensions of his presence, and all seeing eye, Prov. v. 20, 21. And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings. 6. By faith in Jesus Christ, and thereby drawing virtue from him, for the purifying

of the heart, and the crucifying of the fleshy lusts, Acts xv. 9. Purifying their hearts by faith, Gal. v. 24. And they that are Christ's have crucified theflesh wh the affections and lusts. 7. By application of the promises of cleansing the heart, and subduing iniquity. Ezek. xxxvi. 21. Then I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean; from all your filthiness will I cleanse you, Micah vii. 16. He will subdue our iniquities, 1 Cor. xii. 1. Having therefore these promises (dearly beloved) let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. 8. By the help of the spirit, Rom. viii. 13. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die, but if ye, through the Spirit, do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 9. By frequent and fervent prayer, Psal. li. 2, 7. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin; purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me and I shall be whiter than snow, Psal. cxix. 37. Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity. Mat. vi. 13. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 10. When no other means will prevail to quench burning desires, marriage is to be made use of, and that must be in the Lord. 1 Cor. vii. 9. But if they cannot contain, let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn. Verse 39. If her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only ` in the Lord.

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Q. 6. Why must we preserve our chastity?

A. We must preserve our chastity: 1. Because we are men and women and not beasts, who are under no law it is suitable to the principles of reason, and law of God written upon the heart, as well as the express command of the word, to keep ourselves chaste and clean. 2. Because we are christians, and not heathens, who have no knowledge and fear of God, 1 Thess. iv. 5. Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God, Eph. iv. 17, 19, This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk; who being past feeling, have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

3. Because we are true believers, our bodies are the members of Christ, and temples of the Holy Ghost, and not our own, and therefore ought to be kept clean and holy, 1 Cor. vi. 15, 16, 19. Know ye not, that our bodies are the members of Christ? 1 Cor. iii. 17.

72. Q. What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?

A. The seventh commandment forbiddeth, all unchaste thoughts, words and actions.

Q. 1. What are the sins forbidden in the seventh commandment?

A. The sins forbidden in the seventh commandment, is all unchastity and uncleanness, Eph. v. 3. Fornication and uncleanness, let it not be once named among you. Q. 2. Wherein is all unchastity and uncleanness forbidden?

A. All unchastity and uncleanness is forbidden : 1. In thoughts and desires of the heart, such as wanton thoughts and lustful desires, Mat. v. 28. Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart, James i. 14, 15. 2. In the words and speeches, such as all obscene words, lascivious songs, and enticing speeches unto any to draw them to this sin, Eph. v. 4. Neither filthiness, ner foolish talking, Prov. vii. 18, 21. 3. In the actions and that both the acts of unchastity and uncleanness itself, and whatever actions do tend thereunto.

Q. 3. What are the acts of unchastity and uncleanness which are forbidden?

A. The acts of unchastity and uncleanness which are forbidden, are either such as are without marriage, or those that are married.

Q. 4. What are the acts of unchastity and uncleanness without marriage forbidden?

A. The acts of unchastity and uncleanness without marriage forbidden, are: 1. Self polution, and all lascivious spilling of man's own seed, Gen. xxxviii. 6. And Onan knew that the seed should not be his, and he spilled it on the ground. 2. Fornication and adultery, Gen. v. 19. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, adultery, fornication, unclean

ness, lasciviousness, Lev. xviii. 20. Thou shalt not lye carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. 3. Incest, Lev. xviii. 20. None of you shall approach unto any that is near of kin to him to uncover her nakedness: I am the Lord. 4. Rape and all forcing of any unto the sin of uncleanness, Deut. xxii. 25. If any man find a betrothed damsel in the field and the man force her, and lye with her; the man shall die. 5. Sodomy, Lev. xviii. 22. Thou

shalt not lye with mankind as with woman-kind; it is abomination. 6. Buggary, Lev. xviii. 23. Thou shalt not lye with any beast to defile thyself there with it is confusion.

Q. 5. What are the acts of unchastity and uncleanness forbidden between those that are married?

A. The acts of unchastity and uncleanness forbidden between those that are unmarried, are unseasonable and immoderate use of the marriage bed, Lev. xviii. 19. Thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness, 1 Cor. vii. 5. Defraud ye not one another, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer.

Q. 6. What are these actions forbidden which do tend to unchastity and uncleanness. ?

A. The actions forbidden which do tend to unchastity and uncleanness, are: 1. Drunkenness, Gen. xix. 33. And they made their father drink wine that night; and the first-born went in, and lay with her father. 2. Gluttony and idleness, Ezek. xvi. 40, 50. Behold this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her : and she committed abomination before me. 3. Wanton gestures and attires, Isa. iii. 20. The daughters of Zion, walked with stretched forth necks, and wanton eyes, walking, and mincing as they go, Prov. vii. 10. 13. There met him a woman with the attire of an harlot : so she caught him, and kissed him. 4. Frequenting light and lewd company, reading lascivious books, beholding unchaste pictures, or doing any thing which may provoke lust.

Q. 7. Wherefore ought all to forbear all unchastity