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The chapter concludes with a sovereign antidote against this infection: Therefore you shall keep my ordinance that you commit not any one of these abominable customs, Le 18:30. This is the remedy prescribed. Note,
1. Sinful customs are abominable customs, and their being common and fashionable does not make them at all the less abominable nor should we the less abominate them, but the more; because the more customary they are the more dangerous they are.
2. It is of pernicious consequence to admit and allow of any one sinful custom, because one will make way for many, Uno absurdo dato, mille sequuntur--Admit but a single absurdity, you invite a thousand. The way of sin is downhill.
3. A close and constant adherence to God's ordinances is the most effectual preservative from the infection of gross sin. The more we taste of the sweetness and feel of the power of holy ordinances the less inclination we shall have to the forbidden pleasures of sinners' abominable customs. It is the grace of God only that will secure us, and that grace is to be expected only in the use of the means of grace. Nor does God ever leave any to their own hearts' lusts till they have first left him and his institutions.
Leviticus-19
Laws of Holiness and Justice
1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say
unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy.