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all taking away the life of ourselves (c), or of others (d), except in case of public justice (e), lawful war (f), or necessary defence (g); the neglecting or withdrawing the lawful and necessary means of preservation of life (h); sinful anger (i), hatred (k), envy (1), desire of revenge (m); all excessive passions (n), distracting cares (o); immoderate use of meat, drink (p), labour (q), and recrea

(c) Acts 16. 28. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm; for we are all here.

(d) Gen. 9. 6. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

(e) Numb. 35. 31. 33. Moreover, ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death; but he shall be surely put to death. So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are; for blood it defileth the land and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

(f) Jer. 48. 10. Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood. Deut. 20. 1. When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the Lord thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, &c.

(g) Exodus 22. 2. If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. v. 3. If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution :

if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

(h) Mat. 25. 42, 43. For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye

gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

(i) Mat. 5. 22. But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause, shall be in danger of the judg ment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell-fire.

(k) 1 John 3. 15. Whosoever hateth his brother, is a murderer; and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. Lev. 19. 17. Thou shalt not hate

thy brother in thine heart; thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

(1) Prov. 14. 30. A sound heart is the life of the flesh but envy the rottenness of the bones.

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(m) Rom. 12. 19. Dearly be loved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath for it is written, Vengeance is mine: I will repay, saith the Lord.

(n) Eph. 4. 31. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice.

(o) Mat. 6. 31. Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or what shall we drink or wherewithal shall we be clothed?

(p) Luke 21. 34. And take heed to yourselves, lest at any

tions (r); provoking words (s), oppression (t), quarrelling (v), striking, wounding (w), and whatsoever else tends to the destruction of the life of any (x).

Q. 137. Which is the seventh commandment?

# A. The seventh commandment is, Thou shalt not commit adultery (y)?

Q. 138. What are the duties required in the seventh commandment?

A. The duties required in the seventh commandment are, chastity in body, mind, affections (z), words (a), and

time your hearts be overcharged he shall die in his iniquity. Exod. with surfeiting, and drunkenness, 1. 14. And they made their and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. Rom. 13. 13. Let us walk honestly as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

(9) Eccl. 12. 12. And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh. Eccl. 2. 22, 23. For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart wherein he hath laboured under the sun? For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night, This is also vanity.

(1) Isa. 5. 12. And the harp and the viol, the tabret and pipe, and wine are in their feasts; but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.

(8) Prov. 15. 1. A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. Prov. 12. 18. There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

(t) Ezek. 18. 18. As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, le, even

lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field; all their service wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

(v) Gal. 5. 15. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. Prov. 23. 29. Who hath wo? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause.

(w) Numb. 55. 16, 21. And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, (so that he die) he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer; the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.

(x) Exod. 21. from verse 18 to the end. (Containing laws for smiters, for an hurt by chance, for an ox that goreth, and for him that is an occasion of harm.)

(y) Exodus 20. 14.

(z) 1 Thes. 4. 4. That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour. Job, 31. 1. I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

behaviour (b); and the preservation of it in ourselves and others (c); watchfulness over the eyes and all the senses (d); temperance (e), keeping of chaste company (f), modesty in apparel (g); marriage by those that have not the gift of continency (h), conjugal love (i), and cohabitation (k); diligent labour in our callings (1); shunning all occasions of uncleanness, and resisting temptations thereunto (m).

1 Cor. 7. 34. There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin : the unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and in spirit but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband. (a) Col. 4. 6. Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

(b) 1 Pet. 3. 2. While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

(c) 1 Cor. 7. 2. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

(d) Job 31. 1. I made a cove nant with mine eyes; why then should think upon a maid?

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(e) Acts 24. 24, 25. And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ. And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled.

(f) Prov. 2. 16. To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

(g) 1 Tim. 2. 9. In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shame-facedness and sobriety: not with broidered hair, or gold, er pearis, or costly array.

(h) 1 Cor. 7. 2. 9, Neverthe

less, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

(1) Prov. 5. 19, 20. Let her be as the loving hind, and pleasant roe: let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love. And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stran ger?

(k) 1 Peter 3. 7. Likewise, ye husbands, 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 hindered.

(1) Proverbs 31. 11. 28. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that she shall have no need of spoil. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

(m) Prov. 5. 8. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house. Gen. 89. 8. 10. But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the honse, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand. There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from

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Q. 139. What are the sins forbidden in the seventh commandment?

A. The sins forbidden in the seventh commandment, beside the neglect of the duties required (n), are, adultery, fornication, (o), rape, incest (p), sodomy, and all unnatural lusts (q); all unclean imaginations, thoughts, purposes, and affections (r); all corrupt or filthy communications, or listening thereunto (s); wanton looks (t); impudent or light behaviour, immodest apparel (v); prohibiting of lawful (w) and dispensing with unlawful mar

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(o) Heb. 13. 4. Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. Gal. 5. 19. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness.

(P) 2 Sam. 13. 14. Howbeit, he would not hearken unto her voice but being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her. 1 Cor. 5. 1. It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication, as is not so much as named amongst the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

(q) Rom. 1. 24. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves. Lev. 20. 15. And if a man lie with a beast, he shall aurely be put to death and ye ahall slay the beast.

(r) Mat. 5. 28. But I say unto

you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Mat. 15. 19. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. Col. 3. 5. Mortify, therefore, your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

(s) Eph. 5. 3, 4. But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named amongst you, as becometh saints: Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient; but rather giving of thanks.

(t) Isa. 3. 16. Moreover, the Lord saith, 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. 2. 14. Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls.

(v) Prov. 7. 10. 13. And be hold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtle of heart. So she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him.

(w) 1 Tim. 4. 3. Forbidding to marry, aud commanding to ab

riages (x), allowing, tolerating, keeping of stews, and resorting to them (y); intangling vows of single life (z), undue delay of marriage (a); having more wives or husbands than one at the same time (b); unjust divorce (c), or desertion (d); idleness, gluttony, drunkenness (e), un

stain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

(x) Lev. 18. from verse 1 to 21. Mark 6. 18. For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife. Mal. 2. 11. Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem: for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

(y) Lev. 19. 29. Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness. Jer. 5. 7. How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses. Prov. 7. 24. 27. Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

(z) Mat. 19. 10, 11. His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry. But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.

(a) 1 Cor. 7. 7-9. For i would that all men were even as I myself: but every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner; and another after that. I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn.

(6) Mat. 19. 5. And said, for this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they twain shall be one flesh.

(c) Mal. 2. 16. For the Lord the God of Israel saith, that he hateth putting away for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that you deal not treacherously Mat.5. 32. But I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced, committeth adultery.

(d) 1 Cor. 7. 12, 13. But to the rest speak I, not the Lord, If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

(e) Ezek. 16. 49. Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hands of

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