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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34542	The remains of the reverend and learned Mr. John Corbet, late of Chichester printed from his own manuscripts.; Selections. 1684	Corbet, John, 1620-1680.	1684 (1684)	Wing C6262; ESTC R2134	198,975	272

members of Christs body Which shews that to marry for the said end is not an yielding to Lust but a means of that Chastity which becomes the members of Christ to have § 31. Marriage being ordained 1. For procreation of Children 2. For a remedy against sin 3. For that mutual society help and comfort that is necessary in this Animal life of mankind here upon earth the sober and regular use of the marriage-bed in order to any necessary help and comfort doth not defile the conscience but is sanctified to the pure and consciencious even then when respect to procreation or the avoiding of sin doth not urge it Particularly it is no way against Chastity or Christian purity to use it for that necessary health of body which is evidently promoted by it and especially if probably it cannot be well procured without it § 32. It hath been judged by some of the Ancients to be not only sinful but nefarious for a man to lye with his Wife while she is with child But I find not this utterly forbidden in Scripture either expresly or by manifest consequence As for the judgment of Reason about it these things may be considered 1. That by Divine perpetual Ordinance towards mankind one Male is confined to one Female whereas other creatures are not so limited 2. Conception is not only the end of this duty for it is to be rendered to those that are barren 3. That wherein the brutes are led by natural propension in man falls under the government of Reason And in the present case it seems reasonable that the sensitive desire either be gratified or denied as Reason guided by the general Rules of Gods word doth shew what is most expedient within the limits of goodness and honesty This may certainly be determined That if Congress in this case will destroy the Foetus whosoever useth it sinneth greatly and heinously And if there be danger of destroying it he that useth it exposeth himself to the danger of great and heinous sin § 33. It is most certain that there are times and occasions wherein abstinence from the marriage-bed is strictly enjoined The Precept forbidding to approach carnally to a woman in the time of that known infirmity which is common to that S●x was not meerly Mosaical but moral that is universal and perpetual as appears Lev. 18.19 24. Lev. 20 18 23. For the breach thereof is noted as one of the abominable practises of those Nations which were not under the Mosaick institutions for wh●ch practises God took vengeance on them by casting them out before his people § 24. The more solemn times of Prayer and Fasting require abstinence from all manner of sensitive pleasures tho in themselves lawful and honest and particularly from conjugal embraces 1 Cor. 7.5 Defraud not one another except t● be with consent for a time that you may give your selves to fasting and prayer It is not said that you may pray but that ye may give your selves to Fasting and Prayer which imports a solemn setting of themselves apart to extraordinary Prayer with F●st●ng § 35. Not only solemn Religious Fasting but other such high and solemn acts of Religion as require the greatest raising of the mind in spiritual cogitations and retirement to converse with God and consequently the best preparedness of body and mind do also require abstinence from the heightned delights of the sensitive or animal part For which cause abstinence from conjugal embraces is most requisite for some due space of time before and after the particip●tion of the Holy Sacrament And I think this abstinence ought also to be observed on the Lords day for the same reason When the people were to meet with God in that extraordinary way upon Mount Sinai Moses gave it them in charge as a part of their preparation for it That they come not at their Wives Exod. 19.15 § 36. Yet the ordinary daily exercises of Religion and Holy walking before God in them do not require the like abstinence A sober and regular use of Marriage as of all other delights pertaining to the Animal life doth not render any man unfit for the daily Service of God With reference hereunto the Apostle speaks 1 Tim. 4.4 5. Every creature of God and so every Ordinance of God is good and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer Howbeit with this concession a caution also must here be given That the married must so cohabit that their prayers be not hindered or polluted 1 Pet. 3.7 And because prayer is a daily duty they must daily manage their mutual converse so as not to be indisposed to or diverted from this or any other daily exercise of Religion Wherefore they must not indulge themselves in this or any other high gratification of sense at those times wherein they should every day set themselves to the solemn performance of those holy exercises Some due distance of time should be always observed between the one and the other But extraordinary Prayer particularly Prayer with Fasting requires abstinence for a greater interval Christians must keep a spiritual decorum and carefully shun whatsoever practise doth not become holiness § 37. It concerns them whose aim and care is that their lives may be pure and holy to endeavour to keep themselves from all irregularity and inordinate actings in this thing and thereupon to watch against all base brutishness and unseemliness of behaviour and preposterous ways and abusive dalliances in it as knowing that they are always under the eye of the Holy God It behoves them so to use it as not to weaken their bodies or corrupt their minds as not to irritate but to allay sensuality and to have this as all other lawful gratifications of sense in a manifest and direct subserviency to spiritual ends and so to manage themselves therein as that they may be able with a good conscience to pray that it may be sanctified to them And there is as great need of prayer for the sanctifying of the marriage-bed as of any other enjoyment belonging to the Animal life and it may be greater because Reason is in danger to be put much besides its present use Let all that call themselves Christians retain in their hearts a deep impression of the words of the holy Apostle 1 Thes 4 3 4. This is the will of God even your sanctification that ye should abstain from fornication that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour not in the lust of concupiscence even as the Gentiles which know not God for God hath not called us unto uncleanness but unto holiness Christians are by the same Apostle called upon to consider that their bodies are the members of Christ and the Temple of the Holy Ghost 1 Cor. 6.15 19. And in this consideration they should lothe and dread all manner of obscenity and vile abuse of their own bodies JONAH