Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org

All who are addicted to riot and excess, to drunkenness and gluttony,
to extravagant pleasures, to inactivity and slothfulness; in short and in
sum, all who are influenced by indolence, intemperance, and disorderly
passions, by which life is prostrated and abridged, are murderers.
A man who is full of fierce and furious passions, who has no command
of his own temper, may in a moment destroy the life even of his friend,
his wife, or his child. All such fell and ferocious men are murderers; they
ever carry about with them the murderous propensity, and are not praying
to God to subdue and destroy it.
A vindictive man excludes himself from all hope of eternal life, and
himself seals his own damnation.
Malice and envy are never idle, they incessantly hunt the person they
intend to make their prey.
Reader, hast thou a child or servant who has offended thee, and
humbly asks forgiveness? Hast thou a debtor or a tenant who is insolvent,
and asks for a little longer time? And hast thou not forgiven that child or
servant? Hast thou not given time to that debtor or tenant? How, then,
canst thou ever expect to see the face of the just and merciful God? Thy
child is banished or kept at a distance; thy debtor is cast into prison, or
thy tenant sold up; yet the child offered to fall at thy feet; and the debtor
or tenant, utterly insolvent, prayed for a little longer time, hoping God
would enable him to pay thee all; but to these things thy stony heart and
seared conscience paid no regard! O monster of ingratitude! Scandal to
human nature, and reproach to God! If thou canst, go hide thyself, even
in hell, from the face of the Lord!
THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT.
Against adultery, fornication, and uncleanness.—One principal part of
the criminality of adultery consists in its injustice:—l. It robs a man of his
right, by depriving him of the affection of his wife; 2. It does him a