A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

7. Mutual ^(u)marriage-Chastity. For marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled, Heb. 13.4. And the great care both of husband and wife should be to be^(x) Chaste in marriage, to abhor all wanton speeches, and unfit incentives of lust, and to be sober, seasonable, and regular in the use of the marriage-bed. They should beware lest they make that Ordinance, which is the^(y) Remedy of impure affections, to be the Nurse and Exciter of them. They must not think that their Relation doth legitimate every folly which they can perpetrate, or that inordinate or immoderate pleasures can ever agree with the bed undefiled. ^(z)A man may be a wicked Drunkard with his own drink, and a wretched Beast in his own marriage-bed. I might here bring in Divines of late, Fathers of old, yea Philosophers themselves agreeing in their censures of these extravagances, and telling us that the pleasures of Marriage should be^(a) serious, circumspect, and mixed with severity, and that an^(b) intemperate man in wedlock differs little from an Adulterer.

7. Mutual ^(u)marriage-Chastity. For marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled, Heb. 13.4. And the great care both of husband and wife should be to be^(x) Chast in marriage, to abhor all wanton speeches, and unfit incentives of lust, and to be sober, seasonable, and regular in the use of the marriage-bed. They should beware lest they make that Ordinance, which is the