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Show 128 DOCTRINE OF THE wherefore, I the Lord God will not suffer that this people shall be like unto them of old. Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and harken to the word of the Lord, for there shall not any man among you have save one wife, and con cubines he shall have none, for I, the Lord God, dellgkteth in the chastity of women. And whoredoms are an abomina tion before me ; thus saith the Lord."* Again : " Behold the Lamanites, your brethren, whom ye hate because of their filthiness, and the cursing that have come upon their skins, are more righteous than you ; for they have not forgotten the commandment of the Lord, which was given unto our fathers, that they should have save one wife ; and concubines they should have none, and there should not whoredom be committed among them." f To give force and applicability to these quotations, the teachings of the book, as if to prevent the use of the ar gument that such teachings were intended only for the na tions to whom they were directly given, says that " the Lord speaketh unto one nation like unto another, to prove that he is an unchangeable God." J The Book of Doctrines and Covenants the Mormons believe to be as much an inspired work as the Book of Mor mon, and to hold to it the same relation that Christians con sider the New Testament to have to the Old. This book is equally as explicit on polygamy. It is represented to con sist of the later revelations. Hear what it has to say : " Thou shalt love thy wife with all thy heart, and cleave unto her and none else, and he that looketh upon a woman to lust after her shall deny the faith, and shall not have the spirit, and if he repents not shall be cast out. || " And again I say unto yod that whoso forbids to marry * Book of Mormon, pp. n6and 118. t Ibid. p. 219. \ Book of Mormon, p. 107. Book of Mormon, p. 107. jjBook of Doctrines and Covenants, p. 124. |