What is the meaning of the seventh Commandment?
That God hath in Execration all Turpitude and Filthiness, and therefore we also must utterly hate, and detest it, and contrary-wife, live temperately, modestly, and chastly, whether we live in holy Wedlock, or in single life.
Proofs
- That God hath (Leviticus 18:27β28)
- in Execration all Turpitude and Filthiness, and therefore we also (Jude 22,23)
- must utterly hate, and detest it, and contrary-wife, live temperately, modestly, and (1 Thessalonians 4:3β4)
- chastly, whether we (Hebrews 13:4; 1 Corinthians 7:4)
- live in holy Wedlock, or in single life.