On Attending the Church Service (1771) [ Practices ]
… houses now began to be built in every Christian country; and religious communities were established, both of men and women, who were entirely secluded from the rest of mankind; having no intercourse with their nearest relations, nor with … all its shocking circumstances in the following verses. But (what was a greater abomination still) "they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." (1 Sam. 2:22) On both these accounts, "the sin …
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