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The reason of my continency and chastity was, the consideration of God’s presence, and providence, and judgments.
What portion of God; what fruit or recompence might be expected from God for those who do such things? Nothing but destruction, as it follows, Job_31:3. I considered, that though these practices might at first please me, yet they would be bitterness in the latter end. From above; an emphatical phrase, to note, that how secretly and slily soever unchaste persons carry the matter, so as men cannot reprove or reproach them; yet there is one who stands upon a higher place, whence he hath the better prospect, who seeth both when, and in what manner, and with what design they do these things.