Justs shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears. And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Prov. vi. 17. The Lord doth hate hands that shed innocent blood.

xxviii. 17. A man that doth violence to the blood of any person, shall flee to the pit, let

xiii. 10. 12.

SIXTH COMMANDMENT.

CXLIV. Of murder. Exod. xx. 13. Thou shalt not kill. Matt. xix. 18. 1 Tim. i. 9.

Death the punishment of murderers. Gen. ix. 6. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man

shall his blood be shed. Ver. 5.

Exod. xxi. 12. He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall surely be put to death. Ver. 13, 14. Lev. xxiv. 17.

Numb. xxxv. 16. The murderer shall surely be put to death. Ver. 17, 18. 21. 30.

Ver. 31. Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer; he shall surely be put to death.-Ver. 33. Blood defileth the land;

and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

Deut. xix. 11. 13. If a man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and smite him mortally that he die; thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood.

CXLV. Cases excepted, wherein the killing of a man was not to be punished with death. Exod. xxi. 20. If a man smite his servant with a rod; and he die under his hand, he shall be surely punished.

xxii. 2, 3. If a thief be found breaking up, and he be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. But if the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him.

Deut. xix. 4. 6. Whosoever killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not, he is not worthy of death. Numb. xxxv. 15. 22.

CXLVI. Threatenings against murderers. Ps. v. 6. The Lord will abhor the bloody man. See Ps. li. 14. Jonah i. 14.

lv. 23. Bloody men shall not live half their days.

cvi. 38. The land was polluted with blood.

-Ver. 40. Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled

cix. 31. The Lord shall stand at the right nand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

Isa. lix. 3. 10. Your hands are defiled with blood. (Ver. 7.) We are as dead men.

Jer. ii. 34. Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents.

vii. 9. 15. Will ye steal, murder, commit adultery, &c.? I will cast you out of my sight.-Ver. 16. Pray not for this people.

xix. 3, 4. I will bring evil upon this place. They have filled it with the blood of innocents. Lam. iv. 14. 16.

Ezek. xxiv. 6. Woe to the bloody city. Ver. 9. Nah. iii. 1.

XXXV. 6. As I live, saith the Lord God, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee; since thou hast not hated blood even blood shall pursue thee.

Hab. ii. 10, 11. Thou hast consulted shame hast sinned against thy soul. For the stone to thy house by cutting off many people, and shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

John viii. 44. The devil was a murderer

from the beginning.

Gal. v. 21. The works of the flesh are, mur. ders, &c. James iv. 1.

1 John iii. 15. No murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

in the lake that burneth with fire and brimRev. xxi. 8. Murderers shall have their part stone, which is the second death.

xxii. 15. Without [the heavenly Jerusalem] are murderers, &c. See Hos. iv. 2, 3. Matt. xxiii. 35.

CXLVII. Instances of the punishment of murder. Upon Cain, Gen. iv. 11, 12.—Upon Simeon and Levi, Gen. xlix. 5, 6, 7.-xxxiv. 25, 26.-Upon David, 2 Sam. 11th and 12th chapters.-Upon Ahab, 1 Kings xxii. 38.— Upon Manasseh, 2 Kings xxiv. 3, 4.

CXLVIII. Striking, wounding, maiming; how to be punished. Exod. xxi. 18 to 25. Lev. xxiv. 19. Deut. xxvii. 24.

SEVENTH COMMANDMENT. CXLIX. Adultery and fornication. Exod. xx. 14. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Mark x. 19. James ii. 11.

Deut. xxiii. 17. There shall be no whore of

the daughters of Israel. Lev. xix. 29.

CL. Threatenings; or the evil consequences of adultery, fornication, &c. Gen. xii. 17. The Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with. great plagues, because of Sarai, Abram's wife, who was taken into Pharaoh's house. Ver. 15

xx. 2, 3. Abimelech took Sarah, Abraham's wife. God said to him, Thou art a dead man, for she is a man's wife.-Ver. 7. If thou restore her not, thou shalt surely die.-Ver. 9. Abimelech said to Abraham, Thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin. Ch. xxvi. 7. 10, 11

XXXV. 22. Reuben lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine. Ch. xlix. 4. Jacob said, Thou shalt not excel, because thou wentest up to thy father's bed, and didst defile it.

Exod. xxii. 16, 17. If a man entice a maid, that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. If her father refuse to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

Lev. xviii. 20. Thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.-Ver. 28. That the land spue you not out. xx. 10. The man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. See to ver. 22.

xxi. 7. The priest shall not take a wife that is a whore or profane.-Ver. 9. And the daughter of the priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father; she shall be burnt.

Numb. v. 12, 13. 19. If a man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, and a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and there be no witness against her; the priest shall charge her with an oath of cursing.-Ver. 27. And if she be defiled, her belly shall swell and her thigh shall rot.

Deut. xxii. 22. If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, they shall both of them die.

Ver. 23, 24. If a damsel that is a virgin, be betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her, ye shall stone them both with stones that they die; the damsel because she cried not, being in the city; and the man because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife.-Ver. 25. But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field and force her and lie with her, then the man only shall die. Ver. 28, 29. If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; then the man shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all her days.

xxiii. 2. A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord, even to his tenth generation.

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.

2 Sam. xii. 4. David's sin with the wife of Uriah.-Ver. 11. See the punishment thereof. Job xxiv. 15. The eye of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me.-Ver. 17, 18. The morning is to them as the shadow of death. Their portion is cursed on the earth.

xxxi. 9-12. If my heart hath been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her. For it is a heinous crime; it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. It is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

Prov. v. 3-6. The lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb, 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. Lest thou shouldst ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable.-Ver. 8-11. Remove thy way far from her, come not nigh the door of her house. Lest thou give thine honour to others, and thy years unto the cruel : Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; and thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed.

Ver. 20, 21. Why wilt thou be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.

vi. 24. Keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Ver. 25, 26. Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. 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.

Ver. 27-29. Can a man take fire in his bosom, and not be burnt? Can he go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burnt? So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

Ver. 32-35. Whoso committeth adultery with a woman, lacketh understanding; he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away. For jealousy is the rage of a man: he will not regard any ransom.

vii. 5 to 26. See the description of a whorish woman, and the fool taken by her snares.-Ver. 27. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

ix. 17, 18. She saith, Stolen waters are sweet. But know that the dead are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

xxii. 14. The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit; he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.

xxiii. 27, 28. A whore is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow pit. She lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth transgressors among men.

xxx. 20. An adulterous woman saith, I have done no wickedness.

xxxi. 3. Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings. Eccl. vii. 26. I find more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands; whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

Jer. vii. 9, 10. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, &c.; and come and stand before me in this house? Ver. 15. I will cast you out of my sight.

v. 7-9. When I fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses. They were as fed horses in the morning, every one neighing after his neighbour's wife. (Ch. xiii. 27.) Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

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ix. 2. 9. They be all adulterers. Shall not my soul be avenged, &c.?

xxiii. 10. The land is full of adulterers. The land mourneth.

xxix. 23. Because they have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives; even I know and am a witness, saith the Lord.

Ezek. xxii. 11. One hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife, another hath defiled his daughter-in-law, and another hath humbled his sister.-Ver. 14. Can thy heart endure, or thy hands be strong in the day that I will deal with thee?

Hos. iv. 2, 3. By swearing and lying, and killing and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out. Therefore shall the land

mourn.

Ver. 11. Whoredom and wine taketh away the heart.

Ver. 13, 14. Your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery. I will not punish your daughters nor your spouses; for themselves are separated with whores.

vii. 4. They are all adulterers, as an oven heated. Ver. 7. There is none among them that calleth unto me.

Mal. iii. 5. I will be a swift witness against the adulterers and false swearers, &c.

Rom. i. 28, 29. As they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind: Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, &c.

1 Cor. iii. 16, 17. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy.

v. 1. It is reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles.-Ver. 9. I wrote to you, not to keep company with fornicators.-Ver. 11. If any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, with such a one, no, not to eat.-Ver. 13. Put away from among you that wicked person.

vi. 9. Neither fornicators nor idolaters, nor adulterers, &c., shall inherit the kingdom of God. Ver. 10.

Ver. 13. The body is not for fornication, but for the Lord.-Ver. 15. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I make them members of a harlot?—Ver. 16. He that is joined to a harlot is one body with her.-Ver. 18. He that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

x. 8. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. Numb. xxv. 1. 9.

2 Cor. xii. 20, 21. I fear lest I shall not find you such as I would; and that I shall bewail many who have sinned, and have not repented of their fornication, lasciviousness, &c.

Gal. v. 19. The works of the flesh are, adultery, fornication, uncleanness.-Ver. 21. They that do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Eph. v. 5, 6. No whoremonger, nor unclean person, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

Col. iii. 5, 6. Fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, &c. For which things' sake cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

1 Tim. i. 10. The law is made for whoremongers, &c.

Heb. xiii. 4. Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

2 Pet. ii. 14. Having eyes full of adultery, cursed children.

Jude 7. Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the ven geance of eternal fire. Ver. 8.

Rev. xxi. 8. Murderers and whoremongers, &c. shall have their part in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

xxii. 15. Without [the heavenly Jerusalem] are dogs, sorcerers, whoremongers, &c.

Matt. v. 28. Whosoever looketh on a woman, to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Ver. 35, 36. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have.

xxv. 14. If thou sellest aught unto thy neighbour, or buyest aught of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another. Prov. xi. 26.

Deut. xxv. 13, 14. Thou shalt not have in thy bags divers weights, a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thy house divers measures, a great and a small.

Ver. 15, 16. Thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have; that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. For all they that do unrighteously are an abomination to the Lord.

Prov. xi. 1. A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight. See Prov. xvi. 11.-xx. 10. 23. Hos. xii. 7, 8. 14. Amos viii. 6. Mic. vi. 10-14. Hab. ii. 6.

1 Thess. iv. 6. This is the will of God, that no man go beyond or defraud his brother in any matter; because that the Lord is the avenger of all such.

CLVI. Concerning property in lands. The law thereof. Deut. xix. 14. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's land-mark.

xxvii. 17. Cursed be he that removeth his

neighbour's land-mark: and all the people shall say, Amen. See Job xxiv. 2. xxii. 28.-xxiii. 10, 11.

Prov.

Exod. xxii. 5. If a man cause a field or a vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast into another man's field, of the best of his own vineyard and of his own field shall he make restitution.

xxii. 6. If a fire break out and catch in

lviii. 6. Is not this the fast that I have chosen to let the oppressed go free, &c.? Jer. xxi. 12. Deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor.

Luke iii. 13. John said to the publicans, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.-Ver. 14. To the soldiers he said, Do violence to no man, and be content with your wages.

made. Lev. vi. 5. 1 Sam. xii. 3. Luke xix. 8. CLIX. Restitution to the injured to be Ps. xxxvii. 21. Gen. xliii. 12.-xliv. 8.

CLX. Threatenings against oppressors. Job xxvii. 13, 14. This is the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. See to ver. 19.

Prov. xx. 21. An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning, but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

xxii. 16. He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, shall surely come to want.

Ver. 22, 23. Rob not the poor, neither oppress the afflicted; For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

xxviii. 3. A poor man that oppresseth the poor, is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for Ver. 8. He that by usury and unjust gain him that will pity the poor.

Ver. 20. 22. He that maketh haste to be

rich, shall not be innocent. He hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

kindled the fire shall make restitution.

CLVII. Concerning things found, lent, or entrusted with a neighbour to keep. The law thereof. Lev. vi. 1 to 6.-xxiv. 18. Exod. xxii. 9 to 16.

xvi. 4. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.

xxx. 12, 13. Because ye trust in oppression and perverseness, &c. therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach.

xlix. 26. I will feed them that oppress you with their own flesh, &c.

li. 23. I will put the cup of trembling into the hand of them that afflict thee.

lix. 13. In transgressing and lying against the Lord, in departing away from our God; speaking oppression and revolt.-Ver. 15. The Lord saw it and it displeased him, &c.

Jer. vi. 6. This is the city to be visited [by an enemy]; she is wholly oppression.

xvii. 11. He that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

xxii. 17-19. [Speaking of Jehoiakim]