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Rh and to guard them against the temptations to which they were exposed, not only "during their sojourn in the desert," but when they were settled in the promised land. And was not the seventh commandment published for the same reason?

It appears then to us, that these statutes, this law of Leviticus, is implied in the Decalogue; and that it confirms the same prohibitions which the seventh commandment, when rightly understood, contains. How comprehensive it is, was taught by our great and supreme Lawgiver, when he uttered these words: "Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: but I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery already with her in his heart." Matt. 5:27, 28.

But, says the Puritan, "There is not there" (in the Decalogue) "the least intimation of any defined boundaries to the liberty of marriage." (Page 5, first line.) We reply: If God has, in these Levitical statutes, defined these boundaries, as we hope hereafter to prove, then it will follow, that to contract such prohibited