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By wanton touches and dalliance, mental adultery is oft committed.
John Trapp
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Indeed there is no little sin because there is no little God to sin against.
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Few that are entangled in the sin of adultery, recover from the snare.
Adultery0They are fools that fear to lose their wealth by giving, but fear not to lose themselves by keeping it.
Giving, Wealth0God is nearer to us than we are to ourselves and knows our thoughts long before, as a gardener knows what flowers he shall have at spring because he knows the roots.
God's Omniscience0Where the Scripture hath no tongue we need not have ears, but must content ourselves with a learned ignorance, lest we fall into the sin of those angel worshipers (Col. 2:18).
Angels0Reading maketh a full man, prayer a holy man, temptation an experienced man.
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As a body without a soul, much wood without fire, a bullet in a gun without powder, so are words in prayer without spirit.
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A man may as truly say, the sea burns, or fire cools, as that certainty of salvation breeds security and looseness.
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Plutarch said of the Persian kings, 'They were captives to their concubines;' they were so inflamed, that they had no power to leave their company. This consideration should make all fearful of this sin. Soft pleasures harden the heart.
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Adultery debases a person; it makes him resemble the beasts; therefore the adulterer is described like a horse neighing. 'Every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.' Jer v 8.
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That which makes adultery so sinful is, that it is needless. God has provided a remedy to prevent it. 'To avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife.' 1 Cor vii 2. Therefore, after this remedy prescribed, to be guilty of fornication or adultery, is inexcusable; it is like a rich thief, that steals when he has no need. This increases the sin.
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Idleness is the hour of temptation, and an idle person is the devil's tennis ball, tossed by him at his pleasure.
Idleness0Humility is both a grace and a vessel to receive grace.
Humility0Lie not to one another. No, not in jest, lest you go to hell in earnest.
Lying0Take heed of discontent. It was the devil's sin that threw him out of heaven. Ever since which, this restless spirit loves to fish in troubled waters.
Contentment0A contented man cannot be a poor man, especially if a godly man. For why? The Father, that Ancient of Days, fills his memory; the Son, the wisdom of the Father, fills his understanding; the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, fills his will. And so he must needs have all that thus has the Haver of All.
Contentment0Better be pruned to grow than cut up to burn.
Correction, Chastisement0Many there are that suffer the sun not only to go down upon their anger, but to run his whole race— yes, many races—ere they can be reconciled, whereby their anger becomes inveterate and turns into malice, for anger and malice differ but in age.
Anger0Anger is a tender virtue and such as by reason of our unskillfulness may be easily corrupted and made dangerous. He that in his anger would not sin must not be angry at anything but sin.
Anger0Anger is a short madness; whensoever it displaces reason, it is sinful.
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Ambition is boundless, rides without reins, builds itself on the ruins of others, and cares not to swim to its design, though in a sea of blood.
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Give God thine affections, else thine actions are stillborn and have no life in them.
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[adultery] a sin that is most usually discovered. Under the law, God appointed an extraordinary way for the discovery of it (Num. 5:13). And to this day, the providence of God doth often very strangely bring it to light, though it be a deed of darkness. The Lord hath many times brought such persons, either by terrors of conscience, temporary madness, or some other means, to be the publishers and proclaimers of their own shame.
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Silence is consent by God's law (Lev. 5:1). And by ill silence to leave men in sin is as bad as by ill speech to draw them to sin.
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