Rehearse the seuenth Commandement.
Thou shalt not commit adulterie.* 1.1
How many things are heere forbidden?
1 Thrée. 1 All those outward actes, wherby the bodie is defiled, as adulterie, fornication, and vncleannesse, and this
A briefe and necessarie catechisme, concerning the principall poynts of our Christian religion Written for the good of all such as seeke after consolation in Christ. By R.C.
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- A briefe and necessarie catechisme, concerning the principall poynts of our Christian religion Written for the good of all such as seeke after consolation in Christ. By R.C.
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- R. C., fl. 1602.
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is committed two waies.
1 Eyther against our owne bodies, which is vnnatural, or against the bodies of other creatures, which is monstrous. 2 By marrying one either of a false re∣ligion, or no religion, or within the de∣grees forbidden, or by the intemperate vse of the marriage bed.
2 All those instruments and occasions are forbidden, whereby this sinne is stir∣red vp, or strengthened in vs, and they be all contained in this word, wantones. Which is, 1 When eyther the whole body is abused in idlenes, or vaine sports, or else when any part of the bodie, as the eye, the eare, the tongue, the nose, the head, or the foot, are abused to euil.
2 When we vse intemperately, meat, drinke, sleepe, or apparrell, or any in∣conuenient company, time or place.
3 All that inward setled lust is forbid∣den, whereunto the hart doth giue con∣sent.
VVhat good is commaunded.
1 To keepe my selfe pure and chast in minde and bodie.
2 To vse those means carefully which may keepe vs chast.
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What meanes be those.
Continuall temperance in meat, drinke, sleepe, and apparrell, continuall paineful∣nesse in our calling, fasting and watch∣ing so long as need requireth.
What if by these meanes we cannot be kept chast.
Then may we marrie, and in marri∣age to vse those meanes carefully, wher∣by the marriage bed may be kept pure and vndefiled.
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* 1.1
Com. 7.