Let us consider how the Apostle speaks, viz. with respect to a thing present or past, therefore he useth the Preterperfect Tense [Greek or Hebrew], hath been sanctified: Yea in probability he speaks of Sanctification even when both were Unbelievers, or Infidels, for he saith [Greek or Hebrew] thrice in the Preterperfect Tense, and he mentions the Unbeliever distinctly, but the Believer without the Expression of his Faith, under the Title of Husband or Wife, and saith your Children in Discrimination, with Difference, as well those they had before one was a Believer, as since; and if so, then the Children born to them whilst both were Unbelievers, were as holy as such born after one became a Believer, and what Holiness was in the Children then think you? even no other than what is in all Children born in lawful Wedlock, whether their Parents are Believers or Unbelievers. And this sense is the more confirmed in that [Greek or Hebrew] Sanctification is the same with Chastity, 1 Thess. 4. 7. so that the sense is, the unbelieving Husband is sanctified to his Wife, that is lawfully or chastely used as a Husband, without Fornication in respect of his own Wife, whether Believer or Unbeliever, and therefore not to be refused. And this sense only serves for the Apostle's purpose. The Words are a Reason why they might lawfully live together; the Reason must be taken from that which was not contingent but certain. Therefore let them live together, for tho one be an Unbeliever, yet Marriage continues still, they are Husband and Wife, and sanctified to each other in respect of their chaste Enjoyment of each other, and it is no Sin in them to company together, notwithstanding the Unbelief of one Party: for Marriage is honourable among all, even Unbelievers, and the Bed undefiled, Heb. 13. 4. and Holiness and Honour are Terms (as one observes) of like sense in this matter, 1 Thess. 4 7. ⟨p. 118⟩Now this being granted, which indeed must of necessity, then the Uncleanness must be understood of Bastardy, and the Holiness of Legitimation, as Mat. 2. 15. for no other Holiness necessarily follows to their Children, in that their Parents Marriage is lawful: See the Apostle's Conclusion, Else were your Children unclean; you leave out [Else] for you mention Children as another Doubt which was in the Corinthians about them, which cannot be gathered from the Text nor Scope of it;
Let us consider how the Apostle speaks, viz. with respect to a thing present or past, therefore he useth the Preterperfect Tense 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, hath been sanctified: Yea in probability he speaks of Sanctification even when both were Unbelievers, or Infidels, for he saith 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 thrice in the Preterperfect Tense, and he mentions the Unbeliever distinctly, but the Believer without the Expression of his Faith, under the Title of Husband or Wife, and saith your Children in Discrimination, with Difference, as well those they had before one was a Believer, as since; and if so, then the Children born to them whilst both were Unbelievers, were as holy as such born after one became a Believer, and what Holiness was in the Children then think you? even no other than what is in all Children born in lawful Wedlock, whether their Parents are Believers or Unbelievers. And this sense is the more confirmed in that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Sanctification is the same with Chastity, 1 Thess. 4. 7. so that the sense is, the unbelieving Husband is sanctified to his Wife, that is lawfully or chastly used as a Husband, without Fornication in respect of his own Wife, whether Believer or Unbeliever, and therefore not to be refused. And this sense only serves for the Apostle's purpose. The Words are a Reason why they might lawfully live together; the Reason must be taken from that which was not contingent but certain. Therefore let them live together, for tho one be an Unbeliever, yet Marriage continues still, they are Husband and Wife, and sanctified to each other in respect of their chast Enjoyment of each other, and it is no Sin in them to company together, notwithstanding the Unbelief of one Party: for Marriage is honourable among all, even Unbelievers, and the Bed undefiled, Heb. 13. 4. and Holiness and Honour are Terms (as one observes) of like sense in this matter, 1 Thess. 4 7. ⟨p. 118⟩Now this being granted, which indeed must of necessity, then the Uncleanness must be understood of Bastardy, and the Holiness of Legitimation, as Mat. 2. 15. for no other Holiness necessarily follows to their Children, in that their Parents Marriage is lawful: See the Apostle's Conclusion, Else were your Children unclean; you leave out [Else] for you mention Children as another Doubt which was in the Corinthians about them, which cannot be gathered from the Text nor Scope of it;
