A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

This inordinateness may be in respect of frequency, unseasonableness, carnalness in the manner; and what need is there to say more? It may also have place among married persons, when their conjugal fellowship hindereth them from setting apart any time for extraordinary Devotions, which yet they ought to do, as may be drawn from what the Apostle saith, 1 Cor. 7.5. Though excess in this also is to be guarded against, but when there are times of trouble, and of private or public calamity, wherein the Bridegroom is called to come out of his Chamber; in such times as these, married persons may be readily guilty of inordinateness▪ And it is known that there were, upon some occasions, restraints under the Law when a man might not touch a woman, though his own Wife, to show that in conjugal Society men should observe a purity, and that they have not unlimited liberty in this, more then in other things, as eating, drinking, &c. For although all pleasure in meat and drink be not unlawful, yet carnal sensualness is: So what is natural, suitable, and seasonable, here is allowed, and inordinacy forbidden. Thus during the marriage-state, guilt may be contracted.

This inordinateness may be in respect of frequencie, unseasonableness, carnalness in the manner; and what need is there to say more? It may also have place among married persons, when their conjugal fellowship hindereth them from setting apart any time for extraordinary Devotions, which yet they ought to do, as may be drawn from what the Apostle saith, 1 Cor. 7.5. Though excess in this also is to be guarded against, but when there are times of trouble, and of private or publick calamity, wherein the Bridegroom is called to come out of his Chamber; in such times as these, married persons may be readily guilty of inordinateness▪ And it is known that there were, upon some occasions, restraints under the Law when a man might not touch a woman, though his own Wife, to shew that in conjugal Society men should observe a purity, and that they have not unlimited liberty in this, more then in other things, as eating, drinking, &c. For although all pleasure in meat and drink be not unlawful, yet carnal sensualness is: So what is natural, sutable, and seasonable, here is allowed, and inordinacie forbidden. Thus during the marriage-state, guilt may be contracted.