xxii. 14. The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit; he that is abhorred of the Lord Ishall fall therein.

xxiii. 27, 28. A whore is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow pit. She lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth transgressors among men.

1 Cor. iii. 16, 17. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy.

v. 1. It is reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles.-Ver. 9. I wrote to you, not to keep company with for

xxxi. 3. Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings. Eccl. vii. 26. I find more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands; whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

Jer. vii. 9, 10. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, &c.; and come and stand before me in this house?Ver. 15. I will cast you out of my sight.

v. 7-9. When I fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses. They were as fed horses in the morning, every one neighing after his neighbour's wife. (Ch. xiii. 27.) Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

ix. 2. 9. They be all adulterers. my soul be avenged, &c. ?

Shall not

xxiii. 10. The land is full of adulterers. The land mourneth.

xxix. 23. Because they have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives; even I know and am a witness, saith the Lord.

Ezek. xxii. 11. One hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife, another hath defiled his daughter-in-law, and another hath humbled his sister.-Ver. 14. Can thy heart endure, or thy hands be strong in the day that I will deal with thee?

Hos. iv. 2, 3. By swearing and lying, and killing and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out. Therefore shall the land

mourn.

Ver. 11. Whoredom and wine taketh away the heart.

Ver. 13, 14. Your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery. I will not punish your daughters nor your spouses; for themselves are separated with whores.

vii. 4. They are all adulterers, as an oven heated. Ver. 7. There is none among them that calleth unto me.

Mal. iii. 5. I will be a swift witness against the adulterers and false swearers, &c.

Rom. i. 28, 29. As they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind: Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, &c.

a brother be a fornicator, with such a one, no, not to eat.-Ver. 13. Put away from among you that wicked person.

vi. 9. Neither fornicators nor idolaters, nor adulterers, &c., shall inherit the kingdom of God. Ver. 10.

Ver. 13. The body is not for fornication, but for the Lord.-Ver. 15. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I make them members of a harlot ?—Ver. 16. He that is joined to a harlot is one body with her. Ver. 18. He that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

x. 8. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. Numb. xxv. 1. 9. 2 Cor. xii. 20, 21. I fear lest I shall not find you such as I would; and that I shall bewail many who have sinned, and have not repented of their fornication, lasciviousness, &c.

Gal. v. 19. The works of the flesh are, adultery, fornication, uncleanness.-Ver. 21. They that do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Eph. v. 5, 6. No whoremonger, nor unclean person, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

Col. iii. 5, 6. Fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, &c. For which things' sake cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

1 Tim. i. 10. The law is made for whoremongers, &c.

Heb. xiii. 4. Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

2 Pet. ii. 14. Having eyes full of adultery, cursed children.

Jude 7. Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Ver. 8.

Rev. xxi. 8. Murderers and whoremongers, &c. shall have their part in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

xxii. 15. Without [the heavenly Jerusalem] are dogs, sorcerers, whoremongers, &c.

Matt. v. 28. Whosoever looketh on a woman, to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

CLI. Examples, exhortations, promises, &c. against adultery and fornication. Gen. xxxix. 7-9. His master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph, and said, Lie with me. But he refused; and said, How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

Job xxxi. 1. I made a covenant with mine eyes, why then should I think upon a maid? Ezek. xviii. 5, 6. If a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right; and hath not defiled his neighbour's wife, &c.; he shall live. Ver. 9.

John viii. 11. Jesus said to the woman taken in adultery, Sin no more.

Acts xv. 20. Abstain from fornication. Ver. 29.

Rom. xiii. 13, 14. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness; not in chambering and wantonness. Make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts

thereof.

1 Cor. vi. 15. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ ?-Ver. 18. Flee

fornication.

vii. 9. If they cannot contain, let them

will cast you out of my sight. Jer. vii. 9. Will ye steal, &c.-Ver. 15. I

ing and stealing, they break out. Hos. iv. 2, 3. By swearing and lying, killTherefore

shall the land mourn.

Zech. v. 4. The curse [of the Lord] shall enter into the house of the thief, and shall consume it.

Luke xii. 33. In the heavens, where no thief approaches.

1 Cor. vi. 10. Neither thieves, nor covetous, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of heaven.

Ver. 4, 5. Every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour. Not in the lust of concupiscence, as the Gentiles which know not God.

Ver. 7. God hath not called us to uncleanness, but unto holiness.

1 Tim. i. 10. The law is made for whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind.

2 Tim. ii. 22. Flee youthful lusts.

1 Pet. ii. 11. Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

EIGHTH COMMANDMENT.

THEFT FORBIDDEN.

Ps. Ixii. 10. Become not vain in robbery. Ver. 12.

Prov. xxi. 7. The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them.

Isa. Ixi. 8. I the Lord hate robbery. Ch. x. 2.-xvii. 14.

Ezek. xxii. 29. The people have used robbery, &c.-Ver. 31. Therefore have I poured out my indignation upon them, saith the Lord. Ch. xviii. 10. 13.

Amos iii. 10, 11. They store up violence and robbery in their palaces. Therefore (saith the Lord) thy palaces shall be spoiled.

Nah. iii. 1. Woe to the bloody city, it is full of robbery.

Ver. 35, 36. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have.

xxv. 14. If thou sellest aught unto thy neighbour, or buyest aught of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another. Prov.

xi. 26.

Deut. xxv. 13, 14. Thou shalt not have in thy bags divers weights, a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thy house divers measures, a great and a small.

Ver. 15, 16. Thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have; that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. For all they that do unrighteously are an abomination to the Lord.

Prov. xi. 1. A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight. See Prov. xvi. 11.-xx. 10. 23. Hos. xii. 7, 8. 14. Amos viii. 6. Mic. vi. 10-14. Hab. ii. 6.

1 Thess. iv. 6. This is the will of God, that no man go beyond or defraud his brother in any matter; because that the Lord is the avenger of all such.

CLVI. Concerning property in lands. The law thereof. Deut. xix. 14. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's land-mark.

xxvii. 17. Cursed be he that removeth his

lviii. 6. Is not this the fast that I have chosen to let the oppressed go free, &c.? Jer. xxi. 12. Deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor.

Luke iii. 13. John said to the publicans, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.-Ver. 14. To the soldiers he said, Do violence to no man, and be content with your wages.

CLIX. Restitution to the injured to be made. Lev. vi. 5. 1 Sam. xii. 3. Luke xix. 8. Ps. xxxvii. 21. Gen. xliii. 12.—xliv. 8.

CLX. Threatenings against oppressors. Job xxvii. 13, 14. This is the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. See to ver. 19.

Prov. xx. 21. An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning, but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

xxii. 16. He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, shall surely come to want.

Ver. 22, 23. Rob not the poor, neither oppress the afflicted; For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

xxviii. 3. A poor man that oppresseth the poor, is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

Prov.

Exod. xxii. 5. If a man cause a field or a

Ver. 20. 22. He that maketh haste to be

into another man's field, of the best of his own vineyard and of his own field shall he make restitution.

xxii. 6. If a fire break out and catch in

CLVII. Concerning things found, lent, or entrusted with a neighbour to keep. The law thereof. Lev. vi. 1 to 6.-xxiv. 18. Exod. xxii. 9 to 16.

OPPRESSION FORBIDDEN, &c. CLVIII. Oppressium forbidden, and duties to the oppressed. See Duties of magistrates. -Duties of musters.

Ps. Ixii. 10. Trust not in oppression. Prov. iii. 31. Envy not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

Isa. i. 17. Relieve the oppressed. xxxiii. 15, 16. He that despiseth the gain of oppressions, &c.: He shall dwell on high. Ezek. xviii. 5. 7. 9. 16.

xvi. 4. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.

xxx. 12, 13. Because ye trust in oppression and perverseness, &c. therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach.

xlix. 26. I will feed them that oppress you with their own flesh, &c.

li. 23. I will put the cup of trembling into the hand of them that afflict thee.

lix. 13. In transgressing and lying against the Lord, in departing away from our God; speaking oppression and revolt.-Ver. 15. The Lord saw it and it displeased him, &c.

Jer. vi. 6. This is the city to be visited [by an enemy]; she is wholly oppression.

xvii. 11. He that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

xxii. 17-19. [Speaking of Jehoiakim]—

Ver. 31. He that honoureth his Maker, hath mercy on the poor.

xix. 17. He that hath pity on the poor, lendeth to the Lord; and that which he hath given will he repay him.

xxii. 9. He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

xxviii. 27. He that giveth to the poor shall not lack.

xx. 35. Support the weak. It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Eph. iv. 28. Give to him that needeth. 1 Tim. vi. 17-19. Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

Heb. xiii. 16. To do good and communi

Eccl. xi. 1. Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.

Isa. xxxii. 8. The liberal deviseth liberal things, and by liberal things shall he stand. Iviii. 6, 7. Is not this the fast that I have chosen? [saith the Lord:] To deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh ?— Ver. 9. Then shalt thou call, and the Lord will

answer.

Ver. 10, 11. If thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon-day. And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring whose waters fail not. Ver. 12. See Job xxxi. 16 to 20, and ver. 32.

Ezek. xviii. 7. Hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment.-Ver. 9. He shall surely live, saith the Lord.

Mark x. 21. Jesus said, Sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor; and thou shalt have treasure in heaven. Luke xii. 33.-xviii. 22. xii. 42-44. A poor widow threw in two mites. Jesus said, This poor widow hath cast in more than they all. She did cast in all that she had. 2 Cor. viii. 12.

Luke iii. 11. Jesus said, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat let him do likewise.

vi. 38. Give, and it shall be given unto you. xi. 41. Give alms of such things as you have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.

CLXVI. Alms to be done in secret. Matt. vi. 1. Do not your alms before men, to be seen of them.

Ver. 3, 4. When thou doest thine alms, let let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth, &c.; that thine alms may be in secret; and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

with simplicity. Rom. xii. 8. He that giveth, let him do it

CLXVII. To be given to the poor of every denomination. Luke vi. 30. Give to every man that asketh.

Ver. 35, 36. Love your enemies, and do good, and ye shall be the children of the Highest; for he is kind to the unthankful and the evil. Be therefore merciful as your Father is merciful. See an instance, chap. x. 29 to 38. Rom. xii. 20. If thine enemy hunger, feed him.

ye

Gal. vi. 10. Let us do good unto all men, especially to them who are of the household of faith.

CLXVIII. To be given to poor Christians especially. Matt. x. 42. Whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones, a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward. Mark ix. 41. See above, Gal. vi. 10.

Matt. xxv. 34 to 46. See Christ's remarkable sentence at the day of judgment, and the reasons given for it.

Rom. xii. 13. Distributing to the necessity of saints.

1 Cor. xvi. 2. Upon the first day of the week, let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him. Mark iii. 4. For is lawful to do good on the sabbath.

Phil.

See instances of such liberality to Saint Paul, and other saints: Rom. xvi. 2. iv. 10. 2 Tim. i. 16. 18. Heb. vi. 10. 3 John 5, 6.-Collections made for the saints at Jerusalem; Rom. xv. 26. 1 Cor. xvi. 3. 2 Cor. 8th and 9th chapters.

GOD'S CARE OF THE POOR. CLXIX. Promises to the poor. Job v. 15,