childless. And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless. Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them; that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out. Deut. xxvii, 20-23. Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt: and all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast: and all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother: and all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law and all the people shall say, Amen. me. FATAL RESULTS. sons are dead: for Amnon only is | quarrel against him, and would ADULTERY A HEINOUS SIN. Gen. xx, 9-11. Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done. And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing? And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake. Gen. xxvi, 10. And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us. Lev. xviii, 20. Moreover, thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. And David have sinned And Nathan Deut. v, 18. Neither shalt thou John viii, 10, 11. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. Jer. xi, 15. What hath my be loved to do in mine house, sizing she hath wrought lewdness wit many, and the holy flesh is passe from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest. Jer. xiil, 27. I have seen thing adulteries, and thy neighings, t lewdness of thy whoredom, das thine abominations on the bills. the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jer usalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be Ezek. xvi, 30-32. How weak thine heart, saith the Lord Gan seeing thou doest all these this ja the work of an imperious whers. woman; In that thou buildes, thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thira high place in every street; al hast not been as an barlot, in tlai thou scornest hire; But as a wi that committeth adultery, s taketh strangers instead of hir husband! 2 Sam. xiil, 15-22, 32, 33. Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her; and Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone. And she said unto him, There is no cause: this evil in sending me away is greater than the other that thou didst unto But he would not hearken Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her. And she had a garment of Ezek. xxiii, 5, 43-48. And Aholah divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king's daughplayed the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers ters that were virgins apparelled. on the Assyrians her neighbours Then his servant brought her out, Job xxxi, 9-12. If mine heart Then said I unto her that was eli and bolted the door after her. have been deceived by a woman, in adulteries, Will they now come And Tamar put ashes on her or if I have laid wait at my neigh-mit whoredoms with her, and she head, and rent her garment of bour's door; Then let my wife with them? Yet they went in divers colours that was on her, grind unto another, and let others to her, as they go in unto a woust and laid her hand on her head, bow down upon her. For this is that playeth the harlot: so wes and went on crying. And Absa-an heinous crime; yea, it is an ini- they in unto Aholah and un lom her brother said unto her, quity to be punished by the Aholibah, the lewd women. A Hath Amnon thy brother been judges. For it is a fire that the righteous men, they sh with thee? but hold now thy consumeth to destruction, and judge them after the manner peace, my sister: he is thy bro-would root out all mine increase.adulteresses, and after the ma not be burnt? Can one go upon ther; regard not this thing. So cent. Matth. v, 27. Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery. Mark vi, 18, 19. For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife, Therefore Herodias had a ner of women that shed blood; t cause they are adulteresses, ani blood is in their hands. Ferti saith the Lord GoD, I will be. up a company upon them, a will give them to be removed at spoiled. And the company sh stone them with stones, and cr patch them with their swords they shall slay their sons 2 their daughters, and burn up the houses with fire. Thus will ! cause lewdness to cease out of 12land, that all women may 1. taught not to do after your is we ness. Hosea 1, 1, 2. Say ye unto y " brethren, Ammi; and to your sixters, Ruliamah. Plead with your mother, plead; for she is but my wife, neither am I her busband: | le: ber therefore put away her wLoredoms out of her sight, and ber adulteries from between her breasts. Ber. ii, 22. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that emmit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repeat of their deeds. INSTANCES IN PURPOSE OB REALITY. Gen. xil,16-20. And he entreated Acam well for her sake, and he bad sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and menservants, and maidserTs, and she asses, and camels. And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife. And Pharaoh called Abram, and Bald, What is this that thou hast dens unto me? why didst thou not el me that she was thy wife? Why saidst thou, She is my sister? I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. Aud Pharaoh commanded his men Cancerning him: and they sent An away, and his wife, and all that he had. Gen. xx, 14. And Abimelech tock sheep, and oxen, and menBervants, and women-servants, gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife. Gen. xxxix, 7-11. And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with De. But he refused; and said to his master's wife, Behold, by master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath Committed all that he hath to my band: There is none greater in This house than I; neither hath be kept back any thing from me bat Lee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great Wickedness, and sin against God? And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he bearkened not unto her, to lie by ber, or to be with her. And it came to pass, about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was bone of the men of the house there within. aside from any thing that he com- Job xxiv, 15, 16. The eye also Prov. vii, 19-21. For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. the With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with flattering of her lips she forced him. Jer. xxix, 23. Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know; and am a witness, saith the LORD. Hosea iil, 1, 3. Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine. And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days: thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man; so will I also be for thee. Mark vi, 17. For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her. John vili, 3, 4. And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. PUNISHMENT BY LAW. committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adultress shall surely be put to death. Deut. xxii, 22-24. If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel. If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall die; the damsel, because she cried stone them with stones that they not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you. John viii, 5-7. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned; but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting cuse him. But Jesus stooped him, that they might have to acdown, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. AND IN PROVIDENCE. Gen. xii, 17. And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Auram's wife. 2 Sam. xii, 10-12. Now therefore the sword shall never depart hast from mine house; because thou despised me, and hast tiken the wife of Uriah the Thus Hittite to be thy wife. saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun. Lev. xix, 20-22 And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman that Prov. vi, 32, 33. But whoso comis a bond-maid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, mitte h adultery with a woman nor freedom given her, she shall lacketh understanding: he that be scourged: they shall not be put doeth it destroyeth his own soul. 2 Sam. xi, 3, 4. And David sent to death, because she was not A wound and dishonour shall he and enquired after the woman. free. And he shall bring his tres-get; and his reproach shall not be And one said, Is not this Bath-pass offering unto the LORD, unto wiped away. Jer. v, 8, 9. They were as fed seba, the daughter of Eliam, the the door of the tabernacle of the horses in the morning: every one wife of Uriah the Hittite? And congregation, even a ram for a David sent messengers, and took trespass-offering. And the priest neighed after his neighbour's wife. Shall I not visit for these her, and she came in unto him, shall make an atonement for him so he lay with her; (for she was with the ram of the trespass-offer-things? saith the LORD: and shall purified from her uncleanness;) ing before the LORD, for his sin not my soul be avenged on such and she returned unto her house. which he hath done: and the sin a nation as this? 1 Kings xv, 5. Because David which he hath done shall be fordii trat which was right in the given him. eyes of the LORD, and turned not i Ezek. xvi, 38-40. And I will judge thee, as women that break blood are Leo. xx, 10. And the man that wedlock and shed 439 judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and Jealousy. And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare. They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords. Ezek. xxxiii, 26. Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neigh bour's wife: and shall ye possess the land? JEALOUSY. 2 Tim. II, 22. Flee also youthfu lusts: but follow righteousne faith, charity, peace, with the that call on the Lord out of a pu heart. 1 Peter i, 11. Dearly beloved, beseech you, as strangers and pi grims, abstain from fleshly las which war against the soul. morial in her hands, which is the [ you should know how to posses jealousy offering: and the priest his vessel in sanctification au shall have in his hand the bitter honour; Not in the lust of co water that causeth the curse. And cupiscence, even as the Gentile the priest shall charge her by an which know not God. For Ge oath, and say unto the woman, If hath not called us unto unce no man have lain with thee, and ness, but unto holiness. if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse: But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband: Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing; and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, oath among thy people, when the and thy belly to swell: And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot. And the woman shall say, Amen, amen. And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water; And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, 2 Cor. xl, 2. For I am jealous and become bitter. Then the over you with godly jealously: for priest shall take the jealousy I have espoused you to one hus-offering out of the woman's band, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. Gen. xxxix, 19. And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled. Prov. vi, 34, 35. For jealousy is the rage of a man; therefore he will not spare in the day of his vengeance. He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts. ORDEAL. Num. v, 12-31. Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner; And the spirit of jealousy come upon hin, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled; or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD. And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water. And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of me hand, and shall wave the offering CHASTITY AND MODESTY Gen. xxlv, 63-65. And let at the even-tide; and he lifted & went out to meditate in the de his eyes, and saw, and, behek the camels were coming. 4 Rebekah lifted up her eyes u when she saw Isaac, she lights off the camel. For she had s unto the servant, What man this that walketh in the field t meet us? And the servant As said, It is my master: thereht she took a vail, and covered bet self. LEWDNESS. he said, Behold, I have given th Gen. xx, 16. And unto Sara brother a thousand pieces of silver behold, he is to thee a covering a the eyes, unto all that are w thee, and with all other: thus s was reproved. to pass about this time, tha Gen. xxxix, 11, 12. And it ca Joseph went into the house to his business; and there was of the men of the house then his garment, saying, Lie with a within. And she caught him and he left his garment in hand, and fled, and got him out. Lev. xx. 17. And if a man she take his sister, his father's dauze ter, or his mother's daughter, at see her nakedness, and she see t nakedness; it is a wicked thi and they shall be cut off in to sight of their people: he hath covered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity. Deut. xxii, 5. The woman not wear that which pertain unto a man, neither shall a m put on a woman's garment; for that do so are abomination the LORD thy God. Deut. xxv, 11, 12. When m strive together one with anoth and the wife of the one drawe near for to deliver ber husba out of the hand of him that st eth him, and putteth forth is 1 Thess. iv, 3-5, 7. For this is the hand, and taketh him by te will of God, even your sanctifica-secrets: Then thou shalt cut tion, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of her. her hand, thine eye shall not p Prov. vi, 25. Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. Proc. xxiii, 28. She also lieth in Wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. Ezek. xxiii, 14, 16, 19-21. And Bet she increased her whoredos: for when she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the ages of the Chaldeans pourthayed with vermillion, And as Bean as she saw them with her eyes, e doted upon them, and sent essengers unto them into Challex Yet she multiplied her boredoms, in calling to rememrance the days of her youth, therein she had played the harlot the land of Egypt. For she edupon their paramours, whose his as the flesh of asses, and lose issue is like the issue of ses. Thus thou calledst to reabrance the lewdness of thy th, in bruising thy teats by the yptians for the paps of thy beth Matth. v, 28. But I say unto you, at whosoever looketh on a Man to lust after her, hath mitted adultery with hier aldyin his heart. Aph iv, 19. Who, being past slag, have given themselves Der unto lasciviousness, to work cleanness with greediness. Aph. v, 3 4. 12. But fornication. all uncleanness, or covetouslet it not beoncenamed among as becometh saints; Neither thiness, nor foolish talking, nor King, which are not convenient: rather giving of thanks. For a shame even to speak of things which are done of Em in secret. 1 Tim. v, 6. But she that liveth I pleasure is dead while she James v, 5. Ye have lived in asure on the earth, and been Platon; ye have nourished your arts, as in a day of slaughter. 1 Peter iv, 3, 4. For the time at of our life may suffice us to ave wrought the will of the eatles, when we walked seriousness, lusts, excess of ine, revellings, banquetings, and Dominable idolatries: Wherein ey think it strange that ye run w with them to the same excess not, speaking evil of you. in Peter 11, 14, 18. Having eyes fell of adultery, and that cannot Own cease from sin; beguiling unstable but he that committeth fornica- clean escaped from them who live Jude 8. Likewise also these CAUTIONS AGAINST IT. from the strange woman, even Prov. v, 8. Remove thy way far Prov. vi, 24. To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. Prov. vii, 4-9, 24-26. Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call understanding thy kinsthee from the strange woman, woman: That they may keep from the stranger which flattereth with her words. For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man Vold of understanding, Passing through the street near her corner: and he went the way to her house, In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night; 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. FORNICATION. Prov. xxxi, 3. Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings. 1 Cor. vi, 13-18. Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. Know ye not that your shall I then take the members of bodies are the members of Christ? Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. What! know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two (saith he) shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body: 1 Cor. x, 8. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of the committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. fornicator, or profane person, as Heb. xii, 16. Lest there be any Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. Rev. ii, 14. But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught before the children of Israel, to Balac to cast a stumbling block eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. » INSTANCES WITH AGGRAVATIONS. Gen. xxxviii, 25, 26. When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, By the man whom these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff. And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son: and he knew her again no more. Num. xxv, 1, 6, 14, 15. And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman, in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites. And the name of the Mid lanitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian. would not hearken to him: so the Judges xix, 25, 26. But the men man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go. Then came the woman in the dawning of the the man's house where her lord day, and fell down at the door of was, till it was light. SPIRITUAL ALLUSIONS. Ps. cvi, 39. Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions. Isa. i, 21. How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it: but now murderers. hand over thee, and have dimin- livered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of Isa. xxiii, 17. And it shall come to pass, after the end of seventy the Philistines, which are ashamyears, that the LORD will visited of thy lewd way. Thou hast Tyre, and she shall turn to her played the whore also with the hire, and shall commit fornica- Assyrians, because thou wast untion with all the kingdoms of satiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldthe world upon the face of the est not be satisfied. Thou hast earth. moreover multiplied thy foruication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith. Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about. hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the Isa. Ivil, 7, 8. Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed, even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it. Jer. ii, 20. For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. LORD. Thou Ezek. xx, 30. Wherefore say Ezek. xxiii, 2, 3, 7, 8. 11-13, 17, Jer. 1, 2, 6, 9. Lift up thine 35. Son of man, there were two eyes unto the high places, and see women, the daughters of one where thou hast not been lien mother; And they committed with. In the ways hast thou sat whoredoms in Egypt; they comfor them, as the Arabian in the mitted whoredoms in their youth: wilderness; and thou hast pollut-there were their breasts pressed, ed the land with thy whoredoms and there they bruised the teats and with thy wickedness. The of their virginity. Thus she LORD said also unto me in the committed her whoredoms with days of Josiah the king, Hast them, with all them that were the thou seen that which backsliding chosen men of Assyria, and with Israel hath done? she is gone up all on whom she doted: with all upon every high mountain and their idols she defiled herself. under every green tree, and Neither left she her whoredoms there hath played the harlot. brought from Egypt: for in her And it came to pass, through the youth they lay with her, and they lightness of her whoredom, that bruised the breasts of her virginshe defiled the land, and com-ity, and poured their whoredom mitted adultery with stones and upon her. And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms. with stocks. Ezek. xvl, 7, 16, 25-29, 57, 58. I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent orna ments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare. And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms. Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. Behold, therefore I have stretched out my upon She doted upon the As- Hosea iv, 12. My people ask them to err, and they have gen a whoring from under their Go Hosea v, 3, 4. I know Ephrai and Israel is not hid from me: now, O Ephraim, thou committe whoredom, and Israel is dee They will not frame their doir to turn unto their God; for t spirit of whoredoms is in t midst of them, and they have r known the LORD. Hosea vi, 9, 10. And as tro of robbers wait for a man, 80 company of priests murder in way by consent: for they c lewdness. I have seen an hor thing in the house of Israel to is the whoredom of Ephra Israel is defiled. Hosea ix, 1. Rejoice nt, Israel, for joy, as other pet for thou hast gone a whoring fr thy God; thou hast loved a rew upon every corn-floor. Rev. xvii, 1-5, 15-18. And came one of the seven which had the seven vials, talked with me, saying u Come hither, I will shew t thee the judgment of the g whore that sitteth upon a waters: With whom the A of the earth have committed nication, and the inhabitant the earth have been made i with the wine of her fornica So he carried me away in spirit into the wilderness: saw a woman sit upon & coloured beast, full of nan blasphemy, having seven h and ten horns. And the w was arrayed in purple and s colour, and decked with go precious stones, and pearls.i a golden cup in her hand abominations and filthiness fornication: And upon be head was a name written TERY, BABYLON THE GR THE MOTHER OF HAK AND ABOMINATIONS OF EARTH. And he saith tu The waters which thoa s where the whore sitteth, are ples, and multitudes, and and tongues. And the tet. Which thou sawest upon the these shall hate the whore, her descla shall make naked, and shall eat her fles burn her with fire. For Gol put in their hearts to fut will, and to agree, and give kingdom unto the beast, words of God shall be And the woman which th est is that great city, which eth over the kings of the eart Rev. xvill, S. For all have drunk of the wins c wrath of her fornication & kings of the earth have com fornication with ber, merchants of the earth are w |