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Answ. 1. Do you believe in your Conscience that the Scripture meaneth that a Virgin sinneth not at all in any circumstance or defect in the manner or Concomitants of her Marriage? Then I pray tell your Nuns so, that if they marry they sin not. Tell Priests so, that if they marry they sin not. Your own reason can expect no other sense in the words, but that Marriage, as such, is no sin to the Virgin. And this we grant: But yet if you think that in this or in any other work, you see God as apprehensively, and believe as strongly, and restrain every ⟨p. 285⟩wandering thought as exactly, and Love God as much as you are bound to do by the very Law of Nature it self; so that you are perfectly blameless, and need not be beholden to the blood of Christ, to the Mercy of God, to the Spirit of Grace, either for the forgiveness of these failings; or the cure of them, you show then a proud Pharisaical spirit, unacquainted with it self and with the Gospel. Do you go on and say, Lord I thank thee that I am not as other men: and I will rather say, Lord be merciful to me a sinner: and which shall be rather justified, Christ hath told us. The streams cannot be perfectly sinless, till the fountain be so: and [Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? Prov. 20. 9.] [For there is not a just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not, Eccl. 7. 20.] Christ telleth us that the fruit will be like the Tree, the actions like the heart: and therefore an imperfect Heart will have imperfect duties. If you dare say there is no remnant of sin in your hearts, you have so much of it that hindereth you from seeing it. Humility and self-knowledge would soon end this controversy. We say not that all our works are sins, that is, either materially forbidden, or done in wickedness, and from vicious predominant habits; But that the same works which Materially are good, are tainted with our sinful imperfections, having not in them that measure of knowledge, faith, love, &c. as we ought to have; and therefore that we must beg pardon for our imperfections, and fly to the blood and merits of Christ, through whom God will accept both our works and us, for all the imperfections, which he pardoneth to us of his grace.

Answ. 1. Do you believe in your Conscience that the Scripture meaneth that a Virgin sinneth not at all in any circumstance or defect in the manner or Concomitants of her Marriage? Then I pray tell your Nuns so, that if they marry they sin not. Tell Priests so, that if they marry they sin not. Your own reason can expect no other sense in the words, but that Marriage, as such, is no sin to the Virgin. And this we grant: But yet if you think that in this or in any other work, you see God as apprehensively, and believe as strongly, and restrain every