5539. In Christendom, at this day, adultery is so common that scarcely any who think from human learning or from themselves, think adulteries to be abominable. They confirm themselves in various ways [in the belief] that they are harmless; from which, also, the quality of Christendom is manifest, and, also, that its last time has arrived. The reasons are, because they do not make the doctrine of the church a matter of life; and thus because they do not care for the life; and thus, again, because they are adulterers spiritually.