A Solemn Appeal - James White

committed adultery with her already in his heart.' "
(Matt. 5:28) And with this agrees another scripture,
which says, "Out of the heart proceedeth ...
adulteries."
By unchastity of the conduct, we are to
understand the acting out of unchastity in any of its
various ways of developing sinful thoughts, as,
1. By unchaste conversation, writing, looks,
and gestures. "Speech is the mirror of the soul."
And hence it is that "by thy words thou shalt be
justified, and by thy words thou shalt be
condemned." (Matt. 12:37) But significant looks,
writing, gestures etc., being but substitutes for
words and the tongue, are, like them, capable of
being made the ministers of sin; hence, also, they
must be subject to the same general law.
Unchastity in the sight of god
Unchastity, loathsome and abhorrent as it is in
the sight of good men, is infinitely more so in the
sight of God. This is sufficiently evident in the
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