...performance the crime. The highest wisdom, it is true, has identified the two. " He that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath already committed adultery with her in his heart." But this is not the rule by which we are to judge our past actions, but to guard our future...

...Bragwell. Well, come let us make haste and get through these commandments. The next is, ' Thou shall not commit adultery." Thank God, neither I nor my...her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.' Theso are no farfetched expressions of mine, Mr. Bragwell, they are the words of Jesus Christ....

...Bragwell. Well, come let us make haste and get through these commandments. The next is, ' Thou shall not commit adultery.' Thank God, neither I nor my...Here again, remember how Christ himself hath said, l whoso lookfith on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.'...

...involuntarily thought of Sophia, and remembered the warning words of his Redeemer, " Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath already committed adultery with her in his heart." Flight, by removing us from the proximity, in which lies principally the power of such a temptation,...

...said ; Thou shalt not 27 ' commit adultery ; but I say unto you, that every man, 28 ' that looketh at a woman to lust after her, hath already ' committed adultery with her in his heart. And if thy 29 ' right eye maketh thee sin, pluck it out, and cast it from ' thee ; for it is...

...fool, shall be guilty of hell fire."* Know you not that Christ has said: " That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart."t Do you forget the admonition of Jesus Christ? "Not everyone that saith to me, Lord, Lord,...

...had actually committed the sin I meditate, agreeably to the Lord's words, that " Whoso looketh upon a woman to lust after her hath already committed adultery with her in his heart?' 1 159. Do I habitually consider the consequences of all the acts I meditate, whether they are...

...said to them of old : Thou shalt not commit adultery ; but I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart" (Matt. v. 27, 28). This stands to reason, for if we do not reject evil desires, it would be...

...express will of God. branded with the reprobation of the Almighty Judge — *• He that looketh upon a woman to lust after her hath already committed adultery with her in his heart;"* "for from within, out of the heart proceed murders, adulteries, fornications, lasciviousness,"f...

...lust is enkindled as a fire." (Eccles. ix. 3, 5, 8, 9.) "Whoever," says Jesus Christ, " shall look on a woman to lust after her hath already committed adultery with her in his heart." (Matt. v. 28.) How many adulteries of this kind are there not committed in dances, where people...