uncleanness, lasciviousness or lust, idolatry or witchcraft, enmity and strife, spite and anger, contention and sedition, heresy and envy, murder and drunkenness, surfeiting and other such like, the which I tell you beforehand, even as I told you formerly; for they who work such works shall not attain to God's kingdom.' Every one may cease from evil and amend; but if he continueth in wickedness and despiseth his Creator's commands and pleaseth the devils, then shall he against his will suffer in eternity, in the unquenchable fire, amidst the worst serpent-kind which shall never be destroyed, but shall ever chew the bodies of the wicked in the fire of hell. Again, said the Apostle in another epistle, ' Fratres, nolite errare ; neque fornicarii, neque idolis seruientes, neque adul- teri, neque molles, neque fures, neque auari, neque ebriosi, neque maledici, neque rapaces, regnum dei non possidebunt. ' — ' My brethren, be ye not deceived; neither fornicators, nor those who serve idols, nor those who have other men's wives, nor the effeminate or weak-minded — these are they who have no sternness against sins — nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drinkers — these are they who love drunkenness — nor revilers, whose mouths are ever filled with poisoned cursing, nor robbers, shall ever possess God's kingdom.' He said yet again to the people thus, 'Such ye were, but now are ye cleansed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord our Saviour Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.'
Idolatry is that a man forsake his Lord and his Christianity, and yield to diabolical heathenism, dishonouring his Creator. There is another idolatry, hurtful to the soul, when the man despiseth his Creator's commands, and practiseth the shameful sins which the devil teacheth him.
