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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02520	Christian moderation In two books. By Jos: Exon.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1640 (1640)	STC 12648B; ESTC S103629	96,446	388

why should not every one where there is a difference of meliority strive towards the best All may strive but all can not attaine He that is able to receive it let him receive it saith our Saviour But he that cannot receive the blessing of single chastity may receive the blessing of chaste marriage an institution which if it had not been pure and innocent had never been made in Paradise by the all-holy Maker of Paradise both in earth and heaven In the managing and fruition vvhereof we may not follow bruitish appetite and lawlesse sensuality but must be over-ruled vvith right reason Christian modesty and due respects to the ends of that blessed ordinance Our strictest Casuists will grant that for the conservation of mankind even a votary may yea must marry and we have in our times known those who for the continuation of a lineall succession of some great families have been fetcht from their cells to a Bride-chamber As for the remedy of incontinency our Apostle hath passed a plaine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Come together againe As for the pleasure of conjugall society I doe not find a more clear decision then that of the voluminous Jesuite Salmeron To a faithfull man saith he unto whom Christ hath made all things cleane that turpitude and absorption of reason which commonly attends the act of matrimoniall knowledge is not a sin for as the Apostle teacheth All things are cleane unto the cleane as Clemens in the third book of his Stromata worthily expounds it Moreover that pleasure or delectation which doth naturally follow the act of generation which is by God naturally inbred in every living creature and is not desired meerly for its owne sake is no sin at all even as the delight which accompanieth eating drinking and sleeping is not judged unlawfull So therefore it is not onely to be granted that marriage is no sin but he that is at liberty and free from any vow and hath not a will to contain himself shall not acquit himselfe of a grievous sin if he seek not a wife for of such like S. Paul saith If they doe not containe let them marry for it is better to marry then to burne that is as S. Ambrose interprets it to be overcome of lust Thus far Salmeron And to the same purpose the learned Chancelor of Paris determines that however those meetings which have no other intuition but meer pleasure cannot be free from some veniall offence yet that he who comes to the marriage-bed not without a certaine renitency and regret of minde that he cannot live without the use of matrimony offends not Shortly then howsoever it be difficult if not altogether impossible to prescribe fixed limits to all ages and complexions yet this we may undoubtedly resolve that we must keepe within the bounds of just sobriety of the health and continued vigour of nature of our aptitude to Gods service of our alacrity in our vocations not making appetite our measure but reason hating that Messaline-like disposition which may be wearied not satisfied affecting to quench not to solicit lust using our pleasure as the traveller doth water not as the drunkard wine whereby he is enflamed and enthirsted the more §. IX Of the limitation of our pleasures in the manner of using them THus much for the just quantity of our lawfull delights the manner of our using them remaines Whether those of the boord or of the bed or of the field one universall rule serves for them all we may not pursue them either over-eagerly or indiscreetly If wee may use them we may not set our hearts upon them and if wee give our selves leave to enjoy them yet wee may not let our selves loose to their fruition Carelesnesse is here our best posture They that rejoyce as if they rejoyced not they that have wives as if they had none they that buy as if they possessed not they that use the world as if they used it not saith the blessed Apostle Far be it from a Christian heart so to be affected with any earthly delight as if his felicity dwelt in it his utter dejection and misery in the want of it that as Phaltiel did his wife he should follow it weeping It was a good charge that the holy man gave to his votary that he should not totus comedere and the Spouse in the Divine Marriage-song can say I slept but my heart waketh thus whiles we shall take our pleasure our pleasure shall not take us Discretion must be the second guide of our pleasure as in other circumstances so especially in the choice of meet places and seasons It was a shamelesse word of that brutish Cynick that hee would plantare hominem in foro The Jews made it a matter of their 39. lashes for a man to lie with his owne wife in the open field and if it were notoriously filthy for Absalom to come neare to his Fathers Concubines in the darkest closet surely to set up a tent upon the roofe of the house and in the sight of the Sun and all ●srael to act that wickednesse was no lesse then flagitious villany The very love-feasts of the primitive Christians were therefore cryed downe by the Apostle because they were misplaced Have yee not houses to eate and drink in and so were the vigils in the succeeding ages If markets if sports be never so warrantable yet in a Church not without a foule profanation So likewise there are times which doe justly stave off even those carnall delights which else would passe with allowance The Priests under the law whiles they did eate the holy bread which was in their severall courses twice in the yeare must abstaine from the society of their wives the like charge doth the Apostle impose upon his Corinthians Defraud not one another except it be with consent for a time that ye may give your selves to fasting and prayer It was a commendable resolution of good Vriah The Ark of God and Israel and Iudah abide in tents and my Lord Ioab and the servants of my Lord are encamped in the open fields shall I then goe in to my house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife As thou livest and as thy soule liveth I will not doe this thing When a solemne fast is indicted for a man to entertaine his friends with a feast is no better then an high impiety and disobedience neither can it be worthy of lesse then a just mulct and censure in those who cast their liberallest invitations upon those daies which by the wholsome lawes both of Church and Common-welth are designed to abstinence and it is a strange charge that Alfonsus de Vargas layes upon the Jesuites that upon a sleight pretence made no bones of a fat capon on Good Friday There is a time for all things saith wise Solomon there is a time to embrace and a time to refraine from imbracing A