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Judgement.
They are to be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
In this law only adulterers dye: the man, because he humbled his neighbours wife, whether betrothed onely or marryed: the woman, because she broke the covenant of her God. In which is much justice.
In this law, ravishments of such as are unmarryed, and neither of them betrothed, are freed from death, either by marriage, or cor∣poral or penal punishments: which is of exceeding mercy.
Who shall do more in one, or less in the other, and be innocent before God? O where is law, or justice, or mercy, or righteousness, but in this law of the Lord! how then shall we yet justifie and set up our own, and condemne and suppress the law of the Lord!
This command is broken by intemperance, or insobriety, in meat, drink, and apparel; the evil whereof, especially that of drunken∣ness, abounds in this Nation, and is very great before the Lord.