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XXV. Ib. [That it is in no Case lawful to keep a Vow of Chastity, at least among the Papists? And consequently whereas Christ saith, He that can keep this saying, Let him, It is every mans duty to break Chastity that hath once vowed it, ⟨p. 319⟩though it were no duty, but a sin before. For doubtless Marriage is a sin accidentally to some, though not in its own nature, and far from being a duty to all? But according to this doctrine, if a man were eighty years old, and utterly impotent, and unable to break his vow of Chastity if he would, he is bound to do it, which he cannot do, and to break his vow when he cannot break it? or if an old mans marriage that hath no necessity, would undo himself and his (former) children, he is bound to marry, if he have but once vowed that he will not; or at least he may do it? (For which of the contraries you choose [May or Must] I am uncertain.)

XXV. Ib. [That it is in no Case lawful to keep a Vow of Chastity, at least among the Papists? And consequently whereas Christ saith, He that can keep this saying, Let him, It is every mans duty to break Chastity that hath once vowed it, ⟨p. 319⟩though it were no duty, but a sin before. For doubtless Marriage is a sin accidentally to some, though not in its own nature, and far from being a duty to all? But according to this doctrine, if a man were eighty years old, and utterly impotent, and unable to break his vow of Chastity if he would, he is bound to do it, which he cannot do, and to break his vow when he cannot break it? or if an old mans marriage that hath no necessity, would undo himself and his (former) children, he is bound to marry, if he have but once vowed that he will not; or at least he may do it? (For which of the contraries you chuse [May or Must] I am uncertain.)

XXVI. Ib. [That either it was a sin to put Pictures in the Geneva Bibles, and a sin to have our Dutch Chimney bricks which contain all the history of the Gospel, or any other Image of Christ crucified wherever, or once to see such a Picture; or else it is a sin to have any holy affection stirred up in our hearts by seeing it: so that though all things are sanctified and pure to the pure, and I may excite holy affections when I see but a worm or flower, or any creature, or a house, or any work of man, yea when I see the sins of the wicked, I may stir up thankfulness for grace; yet if I see in a Chimney piece, or a Geneva Bible, or else-where, the Image of Christ crucified, it is a sin to excite holy affections thereupon; Though the twenty one Cases which I have named as unlawful to use an Image in, be every one observed (as the Cases of danger, scandal and all the rest.)