The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…

This proposition, though Boars understand it not, is proved in the annexed reasons: Nothing would tend more to household divisions and ill education, and the utter degenerating and undoing of mankind than ungoverned copulation. No one would know his own children, if lust were not bounded by strict and certain Laws; and then none ⟨p. 78⟩would love them, nor provide for them; nor would they have any certain ingenuous education. Women would become most contemptible and miserable, as soon as beauty faded, and lust was satisfied; and so one half of mankind made calamitous, and unfitted to educate their own children: and ruin and depravation of nature could not be avoided. They that think their choicest Plants and Flowers fit for the enclosure of a Garden, and carefullest culture, weeding and defence, should not think their children should be educated or planted in the Wilderness. It is not unobservable, that all flying Fowls do know their Mates, and live by couples, and use copulation with no other: and that the Beasts and more terrestrial Fowl do copulate but only so oft as is necessary to generation. And shall Man be worse than Beasts?

This proposition, though Boars understand it not, is proved in the annexed reasons: Nothing would tend more to houshold divisions and ill education, and the utter degenerating and undoing of mankind than ungoverned copulation. No one would know his own children, if lust were not bounded by strict and certain Laws; and then none ⟨p. 78⟩would love them, nor provide for them; nor would they have any certain ingenuous education. Women would become most contemptible and miserable, as soon as beauty faded, and lust was satisfied; and so one halfe of mankind made calamitous, and unfitted to educate their own children: and ruine and depravation of nature could not be avoided. They that think their choicest Plants and Flowers fit for the inclosure of a Garden, and carefullest culture, weeding and defence, should not think their children should be educated or planted in the Wilderness. It is not unobservable, that all flying Fowls do know their Mates, and live by couples, and use copulation with no other: and that the Beasts and more terrestrial Fowl do copulate but only so oft as is necessary to generation. And shall Man be worse than Beasts?