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thus doubly injured, and plunged at once into the greatest guilt and fuffering. A spiteful tongue robs us of our reputation, the thief takes our substance, the affaffin our life; these are not however the greatest loffes: our everlasting welfare is put into our own hands, and can never be wrefted from us without our confent. The worst injury a man can fuffer, is always his own act. Vice is voluntary: and it is this only can deprive us of the light of that countenance, which is Pf. xliv. 4. better than life; and deliver us up to eternal death; to that outer darkness, where there is Matth. weeping, and gnashing of teeth; where their Mark ix. worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. 44.

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SERMON XVI.

SEVENTH COMMANDMENT. PART I.

EXOD. xx. 14.

THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADUL

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HE Chriftian law of marriage which forbids polygamy, and allows not divorce but in the cafe of adultery, may be found perhaps a more equitable, and even merciful law, than fome men feem to think it; indeed the more merciful, for thefe very restraints which appear so strict and rigorous.

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