A Solemn Appeal

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 conduct of the divine Being in relation to it. The prominent place he has given to the law forbidding it - having written it in common with nine others, on tables of stone, for the universal government of universal man - and, also, the sanction he has placed upon it - having announced it amid the most sublime and awful, symbols of the divine presence which the world ever witnessed - these considerations make it abundantly evident that God looks upon unchastity with the extreme of loathing and abhorrence. SOAP 8.3

This view, however, is further evidenced in the fact that throughout both Testaments, unchastity is made the subject of frequent rebuke, in language of the greatest detestation. Against no other form of sin are men more frequently and earnestly admonished. SOAP 9.1