4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.



Ver. 4. Marriage is honourable] And yet say the Rhemists, upon 1Co_7:9, marriage of priests is the worst sort of incontinency. Is not this to play the Antichrist



And the bed undefiled] Admonemus in ipso etiam matrimonio quandam esse scortationis speciem, siquis pure Dei done pure et sanete non utatur, ad eum finem cuius causa est institutum, saith Beza. The marriage bed, though lawful, may be defiled by excess, &c., and a man may be an adulterer of his own wife.



God will judge] The Anabaptists of Germany inferred from hence that therefore men ought not to punish adulterers; for God reserved them to his own judgment. (Joh. Manl. loc. com.) Two of them, Monetarius and Hetserus, were notorious whoremongers; being a pair of such preachers, as Zedekiah and Ahab were, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire, because they committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives and spake lies in God’s name, &c., Jer_29:22-23. But what a bold man was Latimer, bishop of Worcester, who presented to Henry VIII, for a new year’s gift, a New Testament with a napkin, having this posie about it, "Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge."