The Doctrine and Law of Marriage, Adultery, and Divorce: Exhibiting a Theological and Practical View...W. Baxter, 1826 - Divorce |
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Page 439 - thus reserving the judgment to the Almighty; he includes adultery among the most heinous sins, and makes it amenable to the heaviest judgments: Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God g
Page 25 - in proof that the true rule of marriage has always been, that the man shall cleave unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh: wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh : what therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. The licence of divorce therefore, So
Page 441 - of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns: and the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her .fornication, (apostacy,
Page 59 - exception is expressed, and that is the case of a man divorcing his wife: Whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery : Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committed] adultery.
Page 386 - The duty of husbands, as it is set forth in the Scriptures of heavenly truth, is to love their wives as they love themselves: to be not bitter against them ; to dwell with them according to knowledge; giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel; and as being heirs together of the grace of
Page 14 - The greatest of all commentators has, however, ascertained and defined their meaning and exclusive appropriation : He who made them at the beginning, made them male and female ; and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave unto his wife; and they
Page 542 - uxores, whom they had married during the captivity ; the rule of the apostle concerning marrying only in the Lord; and the text, Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot,
Page 123 - The woman who hath an husband is bound by. the law to her husband, so long as he liveth ; but if the husband be dead she is loosed from the law of her husband: so then, if while her husband liveth she be married to another man, she shall be called
Page 437 - caution which he hath prescribed in avoiding it, and by the fatal consequences which he hath attached even to mental transgression: Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: but I say unto you, Whosoever looketh upon a woman (a married woman
Page 493 - of this world, or with the covetous, or with extortioners, or with idolaters, for then must we needs go out of the world: but now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator,