vy, desire of revenge ;m all excessive passions," distracting cares ; immoderate use of meat, drink,P labour, and recreations; provoking words, oppression,t quarrelling, striking, wounding, and whatsoever else tends to the destruction of the life of any.*

i Mat. v. 22. But I say unto you, That whosover is angry with his Brother without a cause, shall be in danger of the judgment: 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 iii. 15. Whosoever hateth his brother, is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. Lev. xix. 17. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

I Prov. xiv. 30. A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the gottenness of the bones.

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

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

o Mat. vi. 31, 34. Therefore, take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or what shall we drink? or wherewithal shall we be clothed? Take, therefore, no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself: sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof..

p Luke xxi. 34. And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. Rom. xiii. 13. Let us walk honestly as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

q Eccl. xii. 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. ii. 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.

r Isa. v. 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.

s Prov. xv. 1. A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. Prov. xii. 18. There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword but the tongue of the wise is health.

t Ezek. xviii. 18. As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good ameng his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity. Exod. i. 14. And they made their 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.

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

w Numb. xxxv. 16, 17, 18, 21. And if he smite him with an instra

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, words,a and behaviour;b and the preservation of it in ourselves and others; watchfulness over the eyes and all the senses ;d temperance,e keeping of chaste company,f modesty in apparel;g mar

ment of iron, (so that he die,) he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. And if he smite him with throwing a stone, (wherewith he may die,) and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. Or if he smite him with an hand-weapon of wood, (wherewith he may die,) and 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. xxi. 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.]

137. y Exod. xx. 14. 138. z 1 Thess. iv. 4. That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour. Job xxxi. 1. I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? 1 Cor. vii. 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. iv. 6. Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

61 Peter iii. 2. While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

c 1 Cor. vii. 2, 35, 36. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. And this I speak for your own profit, not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that you may attend upon the Lord without distraction. But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

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

e Acts xxiv. 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. ii. 16 to 20. To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words: which forsaketla the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. None that go unto her, return again, neither take they hold of the paths of

riage by those that have not the gift of continency, conjugal love, and cohabitation ;k diligent labour in our callings; shunning all occasions of uncleanness, and resisting. temptations thereunto.m

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," are, adultery, fornication, rape, incest,P sodomy, and all unnatural lusts ;9

life. That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

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

h 1 Cor. vii. 2, 9. Nevertheless, 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.

i Prov. v. 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 stranger?

k 1 Peter iii. 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 hindred.

7 Prov. xxxi. 11, 27, 28. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he 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. v. 8. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house. Gen. xxxix. 8, 9, 10. But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, 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 me, but thee, 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 hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

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

o 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 manifest, which are these, adultery, forni cation, uncleanness, lasciviousness.

p 2 Sam. xiii. 14. Howbeit, he would not hearken unto her voice: but being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her. 1 Cor. v. 1. It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and auch fornication, as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

q Rom. i. 24, 26, 27. Wherefore, God also gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves. For this cause God gave them up

all unclean imaginations, thoughts, purposes, and affections; all corrupt or filthy communications, or listening thereunto;s wanton looks, impudent or light behaviour, immodest apparel; prohibiting of lawful,w and dispensing with unlawful marriages; allowing, tolerating, keeping of stews, and resorting to them ; intangling vows of single unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use unto that which is against nature and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. Lev. xx. 15, 16. And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast. And if a woman approach unto any beast and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman and the beast : they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

7 Mat. v. 28. But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on & woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Mat. xv. 19. For, out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. Col. iii. 5. Mortify, therefore, your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupis cence, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

s Eph. v. 3, 4. But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, Jet 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. Prov. vii. 5, 21, 22. That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flatter eth with her words. With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks.

t Isa. iii. 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. i. 14. Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls

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

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

x Lev. xviii. from verse 1 to 21. Mark vi. 18. For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife. Mal. ii. 11, 12. Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem: for Judah hath profaned the holi ness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. The Lord will cut off the man that doth this: the master and the scholar out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the Lord of hosts.

y 1 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 house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

life, undue delay of marriage; having more wives or husbands than one at the same time ;b unjust divorce, or desertion ;d idleness, gluttony, drunkenness, unchaste com

Deut. xxiii. 17, 18. There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a Sodomite of the sons of Israel. 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: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God. Lev. xix. 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. v. 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. vii. 24 to 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. xix. 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. vii. 7, 8, 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. Gen. xxxviii. 26. 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.

b Mal. ii. 14, 15. Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. And did not he make one? yet had he the residue of the Spirit: and wherefore one? that he might seek a godly seed therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. Mat. xix. 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. ii. 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. v. 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. vii. 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. xvi. 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 the poor and