The Nature of Uncleanness Consider'd: Wherein is Discoursed of the Causes and Consequences of this Sin, and the Duties of Such as are Under the Guilt of It. To which is Added, a Discourse ... By J. F. Ostervald, ...

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R. Bonwicke, W. Freeman, Tim: Goodwin, J. Walthoe, M. Wotton [and 5 others in London], 1708 - 280 pages

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Page 45 - I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. 9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry : for it is better to marry than to burn.
Page xxvi - Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel : for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Page 203 - God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But ye have not so learned Christ; if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus...
Page xxv - For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Page 36 - But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Page 40 - Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of 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.
Page vii - Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven ; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Page 47 - Let no man deceive you with vain words: for becaufe of thefe things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of difobedience.
Page xxv - For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
Page 39 - 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.

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