SEVENTH
COMMANDMENT

M.—Now for the seventh commandment.

S.—Thou shalt not commit adultery.

M.—Explain what the substance of it is.

S.—That all kinds of fornication are cursed in the sight of God, and therefore as we would not provoke the anger of God against us we must carefully abstain from it.

M.—Does it require nothing besides?

S.—Respect must always be had to the nature of the Law-giver, who, we have said, not only regards the outward act, but looks more to the affections of the mind.

M.—What more then does it comprehend?

S.—Inasmuch as both our bodies and our souls are temples of the Holy Spirit, (1 Cor. iii. 16; vi. 19, ) we must observe a ; ) in short, our body must be free from all lasciviousness, our mind from all lust, and no part of us be polluted by the defilements of unchastity.