band-weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murder. er: the murderer shall surely be put to death. Ver. 21. 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 burt 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.

b 1 Pet. iii. 2. While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

e 1 Cor. vii. 2. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Ver. 35. 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 ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction. Ver. 36. 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. 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. Ver. 25. And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled,

f Prov. ii. 16. To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words: Ver. 17. Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. Ver. 18, For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. Ver. 19. None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. Ver. 20. 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 shamefacedness and sobriety: not with broidered hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array.

b 1 Cor. vii. 2. Nevertheless, to

avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Ver. 9. But if they cannot contain, let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn.

i Prov. v. 19. 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. Ver. 20. And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? k 1 Pet. 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 hindered.

/ Prov. xxxi. 11. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. Ver. 27. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Ver. 28. 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. 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. Ver. 9. 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? Ver. 10. And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not un

to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

139. n Prov. v. 7. Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart 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, fornication, 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 such for. nication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

q Rom. i. 24. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves. Ver. 26. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: Ver. 27. And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. Lev. xx. 15. And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death and ye shall slay the beast. Ver 16. 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.

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r Matt. v. 28. But I say unto you, Thar whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Matt. kv. 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, unclean ness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Eph. v. 3. But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints: Ver. 4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient; but rather giving of thanks Prov. vii. 5. That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. Ver. 21. With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. Ver. 22. He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a foo to the correction of the stocks

t Isa. iii. 16. Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretchedforth necks, and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and mak. ing a tinkling with their feet. 2 Pet. ii. 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls ;

u Prov. vii. 10. And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtile of heart. Ver. 13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said anto him,

1 Tim. iv. 3. Forbidding to mar

ry, 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. 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. Ver. 12. The Lord will cut off the man that doeth 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. Deut. xxiii. 17. There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. 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: 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 assem-. pled themselves by troops in the har

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Jors' houses. Prov. vii. 24. Hearken unto me now, therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. Ver. 25. Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. Ver. 26. For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Ver. 27. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. z Mat. xix. 10. His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry. Ver. 11. But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.

a 1 Cor. vii. 7. 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. Ver. 8 I say therefore to the únmarried and widows, It is good for them, if they abide even as I. Ver. 9. 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. 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. Ver 15. 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 ye 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. 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 Ver. 13. 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 needy. Prov. xxiii. 30. They that tarry long at the wine, they that go to seek mixed wine. Ver 31. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. Ver. 32. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Ver. 33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

f Gen. xxix. 10. 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. Prov.v. 8. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house.

g Eph. v. 4. Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. Ezek. xxiii. 14. And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermillion, Ver. 15. Girded with girdles upon their loins,

exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity: Ver 16. And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea Isa. xxiii 15. And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot. Ver 16. Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot, that hast been forgotten, make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou may est be remembered. Ver. 17. And it shall come to pass, after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. Isa. iii. 16 More. over, 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-Mark vi 22. And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod, and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel. Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee. 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. 1 Pet iv. 3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness,

lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries.

2 Kings ix. 30. And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window. Compared with Jer iv. 30. And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rendest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair, thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life. And with Ezek. xxiii. 40. And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came, for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thine eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments. 140. Exod. xx. 15.

141. Psal. xv. 2. He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. Ver. 4.-Le that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not. Zech vii. 4. Then came the word of the Lord of hosts unto me, saying, Ver. 10. Oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor: and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. Zech. viii. 16: These are the things that ye shall do, Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates. Ver. 17. And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord. Rom. xiii. 7. Render therefore to