Hof. iv. 4. My People are as they that strive with the Prieft. Zech. vii. 11. They refused to hearken and pulled away the Shoulder, and stopped their Ears that they should not hear the Words which the Lord hath fent in his Spirit by the Prophets, therefore came Wrath from the Lord of Hofts. Matt. xviii. 17. If one neglect to hear the Church, let him be unto thee as an Heathen Man, and a Publican. X. 11. Into whatsoever City ye enter, and they receive you not, fhake the Duft off your Feet. Ver. 15. It fhall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the Day of Judgment than for that City. Ver. 16. He that defpifeth you despiseth me. John i, 11. Chrift came to his own, and his own received him not. iii. 11. Jefus faid, ye receive not our Witness. V. 43. Jefus faid, I am come in my Father's Name, and ye receive me not, if another come in his own Name, him ye will receive. xii. 48. Jefus faid, he that rejecteth me and receiveth not my Words, hath one that judgeth him, the Word that I have spoken, the fame fhall judge him at the last Day. Eph. iv. 14. Be no more Children toffed to and fro, with every Wind of Doctrine. Theff. iv. 8. He that defpifeth, defpifeth not Men but God, who hath given unto us his Holy Spirit. See Matt. 23. 37. Luke 13. 34. 2 Tim i. 15. Paul faid all that are in Afia, be turned away from me. 2 Tim. iv. 3. The Time will come when they will not endure found Doctrine, but after their own Lufts fhall they heap to themselves Teachers having itching Ears. Ver. 4. And they shall turn away their Ears from the Truth, and shall be turned into Fables. 1 Cor. iii. 4. One faith I am of Paul, another I am of Apollos, &c. Ch. 1. 12. iv. 6. Puffed up for one against another. 143. Not fupporting them. Mal. iii. 9. Ye are curfed with a Curfe, for ye have robbed me, even this whole Nation. Ver, 10. Neh. 13. 10: 12. Sixth Commandment. 144. Of Murder. Exod. xx. 13. Thou shalt not kill. Matt. 19. 18. 1 Tim. 1.9; Death the Punishment of Murderers. Gen. ix 6. Whofo sheddeth Man's Blood, by Man fhall his Blood be fhed. Ver. 5. Exod. xxi. 12. He that fmiteth a Man so that he die, shall furely be put to Death. Ver. 13. 14. Lev. 24. 17. Numb xxxv. 16. The Murderer fhall furely be put to Death. Ver. 17, 18. 21.30. Ver. 31, Ye fhall take no Satisfaction for the Life of a Murderer, he fhall furely be put to Death. Ver. 33. Blood defileth the Land, and the Land cannot be cleanfed of the Blood that is thed therein, but by the Blood of him that shed it. Deut. xix. 11. If a Man hate his Neighbour and lie in wait for him, and fmite him mortally that he die, Ver. 13. Thine Eye fhall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the Guilt of innocent Blood. 145. Cafes excepted wherein the Killing of a Man was not to be punished with Death. Exod. xxi. zo. If a Man fmite his Servant with a Rod and he die under his Hand, he fhall be furely punished. xxii. 2. If a Thief be found breaking up, and be finitten that he die, there fhall no Blood be fhed for him.' Ver. 3. But if the Sun be rifen upon him, there fhall be Blood shed for him. Deut. xix. 4. Whofoever killeth his Neighbour ignorantly whom he hated not, Ver. 6. He is not worthy of Death. Numb. 35. 15. 22. 146. Threatnings against Murderers., Pf. v. 6. The Lord will abhor the bloody Man. See Pf. 51. 14. Jonah 1.14 Iv. 23. Bloody Men fhall rot live Half their Days: cvi. 38. The Land was polluted with Blood. Ver. 40. Therefore the Wrath of the Lord was kindled.: cix. 31. The Lord shall stand at the right Hand of the Poor, to fave him from those that condemn his Soul. › Prov. vi. 17. The Lord doth hate Hands that fhed innocent Blood. xxviii. 17. A Man that doth Violence to the Blood of any Perfon, fhall flee to the Pit, let no Man flay him. Ifa lix. 3. Your Hands are defiled with Blood. Ver. 7. Ver. 10. We are as dead Men. Jer. ii. 34. Alfo in thy Skirts is found the Blood of the Souls of the poor Innocents. vii. 9. Will ye fteal, murder, commit Adultery, &c. Ver. 15. I will caft you out of my Sight. Ch. 16. Pray not for this People. xix. 3. I will bring Evil upon this Place, Ch. 4. with the Blood of Innocents: Lam. 4. 14. 16. They have filled it Ezek. xxiv. 6 Woe to the bloody City. Ch. 9. Neh. 3. 1. xxxv. 6 As I live, faith the Lord God, I will prepare thee unto Blood, and Blood hall purfue thee; fith thou haft not hated Blood, even Blood fhall pursue thee. Hab. ii. 10. Thou haft confulted Shame to thy House by cutting off many People, and haft finned against thy Soul. Ver. 1 For the Stone fhall cry out of the Wall, and the Beam out of the Timber fhall answer it. John viii. 44. The Devil was a Murderer from the Beginning. 1 John iii. 15. No Murderer hath eternal Life abiding in him. Rev. xxi. 8. Murderers shall have their Part in the Lake that burneth with Fire and Brimftone, which is the fecond Death. xxii. 15. Without the heavenly Jerufalem are Murderers, &c. See Hof. 4. 2. 3. Matt. 23. 35. 147 Inftances of the Punishment of Murder. Upon Cain, Gen. 4. 5: 24. Upon Simeon and Levi, Gen. 49. 5, 6, 7-34. 25. 26. Upon David, 2 Sam 11th, and 12th, Chapters, and upon Ahab, 1 Kings 21. Ch. 22. 38. Upon Manaffeh. 2 Kings 24. 3. 4. 148. Striking, wounding, maiming, How to be punished. Exod. 21. 18. to 25. Lev. 24. 19. Deut. 22, 23, 24.-27. 24. Seventh Commandment. 149. Adultery and Fornication. Exod. xx. 14. Thou shalt not commit Adultery. Mark 10. 19. James 2. 11. Deut. xxiii. 17. There fhall be no Whore of the Daughter of Ifrael. Lev. 19. 29. 150. Threatnings, or the evil Confequences of Adultery, and Fornication, &c. Gen. xii. 17. The Lord plagued Pharaoh and his House with great Plagues, because of Sarah Abraham's Wife, who was taken into Pharaoh's House. Ver. 15. xx. 2. Abimelech took Sarah Abraham's Wife. Ver. 3. God faid to him, thou art a dead Man, for she is a Man's Wife. Ver. 7. If thou reftore her not thou shalt furely die. Ver. 9. Abimelech faid to Abraham thou haft brought on me and on my Kingdom a great Sin. Ch. 26. 7. 10. 11. XXXV. 22. Reuben lay with Bilhah his Father's Concubine. Ch. 49. 4. Jacob faid, thou shalt not excel, because thou wenteft up to thy Father's Bed, and didft defile it. Exod. xxii. 16. If a Man entice a Maid, that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall furely endow her to be his Wife. Ver. 17. If her Father refuse to give her to him, he fhall pay Money according to the Dowry of Virgins. Lev. xviii. 20. Thou shalt not lie carnally with thy Neighbour's Wife, to defile thyself with her. Ch. 28, That the Land spue you not out. xx. 10. The Man that committeth Adultery with another Man's Wife, the Adulterer and the Adulterefs fhall furely be put to Death. See to Ver. 22. xxi. 7. The Pricft fhall not take a Wife that is a Whore, or profane. Ver. 9. And the Daughter of the Priest, if the profane herself by playing the Whore, the profaneth her Father, the shall be burnt. Numb. v. 12. If a Man's Wife go afide and commit a Trespass against him. Ver. 13. And a Man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the Eyes of her Husband, and there be no witness against her, Ver. 19. The Prieft fhall charge her with an Oath of curfing. Ver. 21. Ver. 27. And if the be defiled, her Belly fhall fwell, and her Thigh fhall rot. Deut. xxii. 22. If a Man be found lying with a Woman married to an Hufband, they fhall both of them die. Ver. 23. If a Damfel that is a Virgin, be betrothed unto an Husband, and a Man find her in the City and lie with her, Ver. 24. Ye fhall Stone them both with stones that they die, the Damfel because she cried not, being in the City, and the Man because he hath humbled his Neighbour's Wife. Deut. xxii. 25. But if a Man find a betrothed Damfel in the Field and force her and lie with her, then the Man only fhall die. Ver. 28, If a Man find a Damfel that is a Virgin which is not betrothed and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; Ver. 29. Then the Man fhall give unto the Damfel's Father fifty Shekels Shekels of Silver, and she shall be his Wife, because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his Days. Deut. xxiii. 2. A Bastard fhall not enter into the Congregation of the Lord even to his tenth Generation. Ver. 18. Thou shalt not bring the Hire of a Whore, or the Price of a Dog into the House of the Lord thy God for any Vow. 2 Sam. xi. 4. David lay with the Wife of Uriah. xii. 11. See the Punishment thereof. Job xxiv. 15. The Eye of the Adulterer waiteth for the Twilight faying, no Eye fhall fee me. Ver. 17. The Morning is to them as the Shadow of Death. Ver. 18. Their Portion is curfed in the Earth. xxxi. 9. If mine Heart hath been deceived by a Woman, or if I have laid Wait at my Neighbour's Door, Ver. 10. Then let my Wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her. Ver. 11. For it is an heinous Crime, it is an Iniquity to be punished by the Judges. Ver. 12. It is a Fire that confumeth to Destruction, and would root out all mine Increase, Prov. v. 3. The Lips of a strange Woman drop as an Honey-comb, and her Mouth is smoother than Ŏyl. Ver. 4. But her End is bitter as Wormwood, fharper than a two edged Sword. Ver. 5. Her Feet go down to Death, her Steps take Hold on Hell. Ch. 2. 16, 17, 18. Ver. 6. Left thou shouldest ponder the Path of Life, her Ways are moveable. Ver. 8. Remove thy Way far from her, come not nigh the Door of her House. Ver. 9. Left thou give thine Honour to others, and thy Years unto the Cruel, Ver. 10. Left Strangers be filled with thy Wealth, and thy Labours be in the House of a Stranger. Ver. 11. And thou mourn at the last, when thy Flesh and thy Body are confumed. Ver. 20. Why wilt thou be ravished with a strange Woman, and embrace the Bofom of a Stranger? Ver. 21. For the Ways of Man are before the Eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his Goings, vi. 24. Keep thee from the evil Woman, from the Flattery of the Tongue of a strange Woman. Ver. 25. Luft not after her Beauty in thine Heart, neither let her take thee with her Eye-lids. Ver. 26. For by Means of a whorish Woman a Man is brought to a piece of Bread, and the Adulterefs will hunt for the precious Life. Ver. 27. Can a Man take Fire in his Bofom and not be burnt. Prov. vi 28. Can he go upon hot Coals, and his Feet not be burnt. Ver. 29. So he that goeth into his Neighbour's Wife, whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. Ver. 32. Whofo committeth Adultery with a Woman, lacketh Understanding, he that doth it deftroyeth his own Soul. Hhh 2 Prov. Prov. vi. 33. A Wound and Dishonour thall he get, and his Reproach fhall not be wiped away. Ver 34. For Jealoufy is the Rage of a Man, Ver. 35. He will not regard any Ranfom. Ch. 7. 5. See the Description of a whorish Woman, and of the Fool taken by her Snares, to Ver. 26. Ver. 27. Her Houfe is the Way to Hell, going down to the Chambers of Death. Prov. ix. 17. She faith, ftolen Waters are fweet. Ver., 18. But know that the Dead are there, and that her Guests are in the Deeps of Hell. xxii. 14. The Mouth of a strange Woman is a deep Pit, he that is abhorred of the Lord fhall fall therein. xxiii. 27. A Whore is a deep Ditch, and a strange Woman is a narrow Pit. Ver. 28. She lieth in Wait as for a Prey, and increaseth Tranfgreffors among Men. xxx. 20. An Adulterous Woman faith I have done no Wickednefs. xxxi. 3. Give not thy Strength unto Women, nor thy Ways to that which deftroyeth Kings. Eccl. vii. 26. I find more bitter than Death, the Woman whose Heart is Snares and Nets, and her Hands as Bands, whofo pleaseth God fhall efcape from her, but the Sinner fhall be taken by her. Jer. vii. 9. Will ye fteal, murder, and commit Adultery, and fwear falfely, &c. Ver. 10. And come and ftand before me in this Houfe. Ver. 15. I will call you out of my Sight. v. 7. When I fed them to the full, they then committed Adultery, and affembled themselves by Troops in the Harlots Houfes. Ver. 8. They were as fed Horfes in the Morning, every one neighing after his Neighbour's Wife. Ch. 13. 27. my Ver. 9. Shall I not vifit for thefe Things, faith the Lord, and shall not Soul be avenged on fuch a Nation as this? ix. 2. They be all Adulterers, Ver. 9. Shall not my Soul be avenged on fuch a Nation ? xxiii. 10. The Land is full of Adulterers. The Land mourneth. Ver. 14. xxix. 23. Because they have committed Adultery with their Neighbours Wives, even I know and am a witness, faith the Lord. Ezek. xxii. 11. One hath committed Abominations with his Neigh bour's Wife, another hath defiled his Daughter-in-law, and another hath humbled his Sifter. Ver. 14. Can thine Heart endure, or thine Hands be strong in the Day that I will deal with thee? Hof. iv. 2. By fwearing and lying, and killing and stealing, and committing Adultery they break out. Ver. 3. Therefore fhall the Land mourn. Ver. 11. Whoredom and Wine take away the Heart. Ver. 13. Your Daughters fhall commit Whoredom, and your Spoufes fhall commit Adultery. 14. I will not punish your Daughters nor your Spouses; for themfelves are feparated with Whores. Hof. |