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Title: [1818 Feb y 3 Not Paul III.]

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Not Paul

III. Doctrine

Ch. Motives to Doctrine

Asceticism II. Bed

I. Ordinary

5. Next /Lastly/ as to separation. n case of unbelief on the one part conjoined to

belief on the other, to have extorted or even encouraged the believing spouse to have

separated herself from the unbelieving one without his or her consent would have been

too much: by such doctrine enmity and enemies would have been raised up against the

whole. But if without opposition from the other it be the pleasure of either to

depart, ‘let them (says he) depart. As says the modern song and without profaneness

‘let her—let her go—let her go—never mind her—[...?] where you are fairly rid.’ So

says the song; and though a modern not a profane one.

So long as they continue to live together on sexual terms a prospect will generally

speaking remain a prospect /hope/ that by the believer the unbeliever may be

converted with [...?]: but should that hope cease, then it is that in the convenience

of freeing himself or herself from an unpleasant yoke /a galling yoke/, any one who

either is or by the view of the accommodation thus afforded may be engaged /rendered

desirous/ to be a disciple of this Saint, may see proffered to him or her in the

character of a bonus, the comfort of a divorce.

I. Cor. vii. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.

10. And to the married I command, {yet} not I, but the Lord,

Let not the Wife depart from her husband:

11. But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband:

and let not the husband put away his Wife.

12. But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a Wife that believeth

not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

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Title: [1817 Not Paul II Doctrine]

Description: 1817

Not Paul

II Doctrine

Ch In Jesus no

Adulteress

To be copied

1. Leviticus XX. 10.

And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth

adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be

put to death.

2. Deuteronomy XXII. 22. If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband,

then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with

the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

3. Deuteronomy XXIV. 1. 2. 3. 4. When a man hath taken a wife and married her, and it

come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some

uncleanness in her, then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

2. And when she is departed out of his house she may go and be another man’s wife.

3. And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement and giveth

it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house, or if the

latter husband die, which took her to be his wife,

4. Her former husband which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife,

after she is defiled; for that is abomination before the Lord: and thou shat not

cause the land to sin, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for

an inheritance.

4. Deuteronomy XVII. 2 to 7. If there be found among you, within any of thy gates

which the Lord thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the

sight of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his covenants,

3. And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the Sun, or moon,

or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

4. And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and,

behold it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:

5. Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that

wicked thing, unto thy gate, even that man or that woman, and shall stone them with

stones, till they die.

6. At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of

death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

7. The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and

afterwards the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among

you.

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Title: [1817 Sept. 2 Not Paul 12 2]

Description: 1817 Sept. 2

Not Paul

12 2 o

Ch. 9. Paul’s Doctrines

1 §. Causes of Paul’s Asceticism

§. 4. Paul against Jesus as to marriage &c.

§. 4. Paul led into opposition to Jesus by anxiety to obtain female married converts

What All men? Yes: all men. For rather than the dominion / empire / of Paul should lose a single subject, and in that one subject the degree of obsequiousness should by any rival pursuit or propensity lose any thing of its compleatness, content is he yea and desirous―so at least does he express himself―that the whole of the human species should come to an end / perish / that with the longest lives of / among / those who at that time were alive the whole of the species of the human species yea of his own species―should become / be / extinct / that with the then present generation the human species should become extinct /.

Another case. Marginal note at this point: ‘ib. I. Cor. VII. 15’, i.e. ‘But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.’ Suppose man and wife: one of them a believer viz. a believer in Paul: the other not. Displeased with the union purely spiritual as it is thus formed with Paul, the wife / husband / suppose wishes to part from her husband / his wife /. Shall he use any endeavours to detain her? Oh no: let her go / depart /, as let him go and welcome.―’What God hath joined together let no man put asunder’ (says Jesus). Bentham note at this point: ‘Mark X. 9.’ This is / Behold there / what was said by somebody. But that somebody, who was he? Oh it was only Jesus: Lord Jesus: the Jesus in whose name Paul was for ever preaching―preaching whatsoever happened from time to time happened to suit that same Paul’s purpose. Here rather than that the dominion of Paul should risk the loss of a subject any marriage that ever had been contracted every marriage that ever had been contracted should be dissolved. And so, at so easy a price as the saying I believe in Jesus―i.e. I believe in Paul, at the pleasure either of the / a / husband alone or of the wife alone, a divorce from bed and board at least―a divorce the extinction of all the comforts, and thereby to all the use / sweets / of matrimony―a separation having nothing but some of the bitters[?], was to be effected.