corruption.” You who are true Christians, of course hate all these things; as Jude says, “hating even the garment spotted by the flesh;” and mind that you also hate all books in which these things are worked up into attractive narratives, for you cannot even casually glance at such books, much less read them, without polluting your whole being. But as for those who practise these sins, which the apostle here enumerates, let them not dream that they can be saved while they continue to love that which