A Sermon: Thou shalt not commit AdulteryPhillimore, Joseph
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A Sermon: Thou shalt not commit Adultery
Phillimore, Joseph
Sermons, English
Thus have I endeavoured to prove how highly culpable, every person is and
how daring to presume to break through: a commandment descended from so
great an author; the disadvantages accompanying this disobedience I have
already fully described, and am persuaded, must be unhappiness
continually while we are here, for reason before mentioned and observed,
but still there is worse punishment and inconveniencies to fear, and
greater sufferings to undergo, and that is not man’s displeasure only,
but Almighty God’s just and severe correction, remembering he will grant
his most gracious pardon to all those who ignorantly do wrong and by that
means fall into error, but this is one of his most express commandments,
and he adds, happy are ye when ye know them, if ye do them, but if ye
continue to break them, your future salvation, will be insecure when you
quit this scene of life, resting assured there is not a greater crime to
be committed by man than this, therefore write it in your hearts, that
perfect obedience to the divine will of our father which is in heaven, is
the only spring, the only fountain from whence peace in this present
world can be obtained, and the only method of receiving pardon and
forgiveness in the world to come, in those blessed mansions where the
pure alone will see God.
Remember this, O ye wives, as St. Paul saith to the Ephesians, submit
yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord, and let every man in
particular, says the same apostle, so love his wife as himself, and the
wife that she reverence her husband.
Be ye followers of God as dear children, and walk in love, as Christ also
hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and sacrifice
for a sweet smelling favour.
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FINIS.
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