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Packet IV.

1817.

Not Paul.

III. Doctrine.

Asceticism for Vol. III

to be published not till

afterwards.

[Before folio 215]

Not Paul Part III Doctrine 1 Asceticism

Ch. 1. Paul’s false Doctrines: viz. 1. Injunction of Ascetic practices - Asceticism -

its mischievousness - its want of sanction from the principles or practice of Jesus.

Positions to be proved.

[Around folios 215 to 224]

Not Paul III. Doctrine Asceticism

Ch. 1. Principle of Utility - its dictates in relation to pleasure

§. 1. Principle of Utility what - its relation to pleasure and pain

§. 2. Senses - their double function

§. 3. Principle of Utility - its dictates in relation to pleasure.

[Around folios 225 to 226]

Not Paul

III. Doctrine Asceticism

Ch. 2 Utility

§. 2. Senses - their double function.

[Around folios 227 to 233]

Not Paul III. Doctrine Asceticism

Ch. 2 Utility.

§ 3 Utility - its dictates in relation to pleasure

[Around folios 234 to 238]

Ch 2 Asceticism. what -

§. 1. Asceticism - what - asceticism restrictive and afflictive - its relation to

Happiness, Pleasure and Pain

[Before folio 239]

III Doctrine.

Ch. 3 Asceticism continued 2 o

War made by Asceticism against the eccentric pleasures of the bed - its groundlessness -

its causes - its inconsistencies

§. 1 its groundlessness considered in a general view

§. 2. its causes

§. 3. Groundless charges employed: 1. supposed injury to population

§. 4. — 2. Imaginary deterioration of the lot of the female sex.

§. 5 — 3. Imaginary injury to personal security - Blackstone examined

§. 6. Inconsistencies in the war thus made

§. 7. Causes of the peculiar asperity of the vituperation lavished upon this mode.

[Around folios 239 to 245]

III Doctrine

Ch. Asceticism

§. 2. Pursuit of pleasure - limits set to it by Virtue

Asceticism is Vice.

[Around folios 246 to 257]

Not Paul III. Doctrine Asceticism

Ch. 3. Asceticism - its mischievousness and absurdity false arguments in support of it.

§. 1. Asceticism what - restrictive and positive - its relation to Happiness, pleasure

and pain

§. 2. Pursuit of pleasure - Limits set to it by Virtue i.e. by Self-regarding Prudence,

and effective Benevolence - Asceticism is Vice

§. 3. Happiness and Virtue how injured by Asceticism in an indirect way.

Genuine and useful obligations elbowed out by spurious and mischievous ones

§. 4. Inconsistency inseparable from Asceticism

§. 5. Preaching in support of Asceticism mischievous

§. 6 Pretences employed by Asceticism for the interdiction of pleasure

[Around folios 246 to 247]

III. Doctrine.

Ch. 2 Asceticism

§ 3 Happiness and Virtue, how injured /diminished/ by Asceticism in an indirect way -

Genuine and useful obligations elbowed out by mischievous and spurious ones.

[Around folios 248 to 253]

Not Paul III. Doctrine - Asceticism

Ch

§. 4 Inconsistency inseparable from /essential to/ Asceticism.

[Around folios 254 to 257]

III Doctrine Asceticism

Ch. 2

§. 5.[?] Preaching in support of Asceticism - its mischievousness.

[Around folios 258 to 265b]

III. Doctrine

Ch 2 Asceticism.

§. 6. Pretences employed by Asceticism for the interdiction of pleasure

[Around folios 266 to 269]

III. Doctrine.

Ch. 2 Asceticism continued 1 o

§ War made by Asceticism against the pleasures of sense in general - its groundlessness.

[Around folios 270 to 272]

III. Doctrine

Ch Asceticism continued

War made by Asceticism upon the eccentric pleasures of the bed - its groundlessness -

its causes - its inconsistencies.

§. 1. - its groundlessness

[Before folio 273 (single sheet, unfolded)]

III. Doctrine

Ch. Asceticism continued 2 o

§. 1. War made by Asceticism against the eccentric pleasures of the bed - its causes -

[Around folios 314 to 322]

III. Doctrine.

Ch. 4. Asceticism continued 3 o

Evils produced by the pleasures of the bed in this ordinary mode

Remedies to them interdicted by Asceticism.

§. 1. Idem

[Around folios 323 to 335]

III. Doctrine

Ch. 5. Asceticism continued - Suicide, the all-comprehensive remedy against all evils -

Groundlessness of the interdiction put upon it by Asceticism.

[Around folios 339 to 340]

Sex.

Ch. 12.

Aspect of Jesus towards the irregularities of the sexual appetite.

[Around folios 341 to 347]

Ch. 7. or 1. II Doctrine

In Jesus no Asceticism

§. 1. Negative proof. No ascetic doctrine ascribed in any one of the Gospels to Jesus -

Paul the only authority referred to for any such doctrines. Witness Bishop Gastrel in

his Institutes

[Around folios 348 to 352]

III. Doctrine Part II

Ch 8 or 2

Asceticism

Proof positive from discourse continued.

§.§. 1 Fasts scorned. Occasion hence taken to declare the utter abolition of the Mosaic

Law.

[Around folios 362 to 367]

III Doctrine

Ch.

Asceticism

Proof positive from discourse

§§ 2 1. Asceticism in regard to the pleasure of the table condemned - Occasion hence

taken to declare the utter abolition of the Mosaic Law

[Around folios 368 to 370]

Ch. 8. or 2

II. Doctrine

In Jesus no Asceticism.

Positive proof from discourse

§. 3. Sabbath scorned.

[Before folio 371]

III. Doctrine

Ch. 8. or 2. Part II In Jesus no Asceticism

§. 1. The Mosaic law including all its asceticism, abrogated on the occasion of the

condemnation passed in Pharisean[?] fasts

§. 2. Condemnation passed on the Mosaic asceticism in regard to Meats the pleasures of

the Table.

§. 3. Condemnation passed on Mosaic Asceticism in regard to the Sabbath

§. 4. Perfume accepted

§. 5. Condemnation passed on Mosaic asceticism in regard to pleasures of the bed 1. by

Liberation of the adulteress

§. 6. — 2. Samaritan women cohabiting without marriage are improved

§. 7. — 3. Harlots declared to go to heaven before Pharisees.

[Around folio 371]

Ch. 8 or 2

III Doctrine

In Jesus no Asceticism

Positive proof from discourse

§. 4 Pretious perfume accepted and approved.

[Around folios 372a to 380]

Ch 8. or 2.

II Doctrine

In Jesus no Asceticism.

§. 5. Positive proof from discourse continued

3 Liberation of the adulteress

[Around folios 381 to 383]

III. Doctrine

Ch. 8. or 2.

Asceticism

Proof positive from discourse

§. 7. 3. Harlots declared to go to heaven before Pharisees

[Around folios 384 to 390]

Ch. 9. or 3

III Doctrine

Ch. In Jesus no Asceticism

Presumptive proof from his practice

§. 1. 1. Introduction

[Around folios 391 to 394]

Ch. 9 or 3 II. Doctrine Part II

In Jesus no Asceticism

III Presumptive proof from practice

§. 2. Intercourse with Mary Magdalene and other females.

[Around folios 395 to 410]

III Doctrine Part II

In Jesus no Asceticism

Ch. 9. or 3

Presumptive proof from his practice

§. 1. Introduction

§. 2 Intercourse with Mary Magdalene and other females

Paul’s notice of it

§. 3 Mary Magdalene - No warrant for supposing her a Prostitute.

§. 4 Origin of the supposition of her being a prostitute

[Around folios 395 to 410]

Ch.

II. Doctrine Part II

In Jesus no Asceticism

*5 III. Presumptive proof from practice

§ 3 Mary Magdalene no prostitute

 Post off to Appendix or Omitt?

[Before folio 411]

III Doctrine Part II

Ch. 10 or 4

In Jesus no Asceticism

Eccentric pleasures of the bed - the condemnation passed on those forms not any part of

the religion of Jesus

§. 1. In the allusion made by Jesus to the destruction of the ill-famed cities no

condemnation of the eccentric pleasures of the bed are contained

§. 2. The propensity to the eccentric pleasures of the bed, when reaped by consent, was

not the reported cause of the destruction of the ill-famed cities.

§. 3. With the exception of Paul in no Epistles of the Apostles is this or any other

ascetic condemnation contained.

[Around folios 431 to 433]

Ch. 10 or 4

III. Doctrine

Asceticism

§. 2 The propensity to the eccentric pleasures of the bed when reaped by consent, not

the reported cause of the consumption of the ill-famed cities

[Around folios 434 to 443]

III. Doctrine

Ch. 10 or 4

In Jesus no Asceticism.

§. 3. In the Epistles of the other Apostles no ascetic condemnation or precepts are

contained.

[Around folios 444 to 453]

III. Doctrine

Ch. 10. or 4

In Jesus no Asceticism

§. 1 By /In/ the allusions made by Jesus to the destruction of the consumed cities no

condemnation of the eccentric pleasures of the bed is contained

[Around folios 444 to 453]

Ch. 11 or 5 III. Doctrine

Ch

Asceticism

Condemnation passed in the Mosaic law on the eccentric pleasures of the bed - it had its

source in an illusion of the fancy.

[Before folio 454]

III. Doctrine

Part II

Ch. 12 or 6.

In Jesus no Asceticism

Irr.

Ch 12 or 6. Disregard shewn to the Mosaic prohibitions against the eccentric pleasures

of the bed.

§. 1. Story of the Young Levite and his Concubine, Judges XIX.

§. 2. Story of Jonathan and David.

§. 3. Houses of resort for this purpose protected under the Kings.

§. 4? In the discourses of the Prophets no condemnation of these pleasures is contained.

 To be inserted here or by itself?

[Around folios 454 to 456]

III. Doctrine Part II

Ch. 12 or 6

In Jesus no Asceticism Irr.

Ch. 7. Disregard shewn to Mosaic prohibitions against the eccentric pleasures of the bed

demonstrated /continued/

§ L[?] 1. Story of the Young Levite and his Concubine

[verso]

III Doctrine

Ch.

Asceticism

Proof positive continued -

Moses repealed

[Around folios 457 to 461]

Ch. 12 or 6

III. Doctrine Part II

Irr.

In Jesus no Asceticism

§. Disregard shewn to the Mosaic prohibitions against the eccentric pleasures of the

bed.

§.§. 2 2. Story of Jonathan and David.

[Around folios 462 to 463]

Ch. 12 or 6

III. Doctrine Part II

In Jesus no Asceticism

§. Disregard shewn to the Mosaic prohibitions against the eccentric pleasures of the bed

continued.

§.§. 3. 3. Houses of resort for this purpose protected under the Kings.

[Around folios 464 to 482]

III. Doctrine Part II

Ch. 12 or 6.

In Jesus no Asceticism

§. Disregard shewn to the Mosaic prohibitions against the eccentric pleasures of the bed

continued

§ 4 In the discourses of the Prophets no condemnation of the propensity in question is

contained.

 Insert in the body or post off to the Appendix

[Around folios 475 to 482]

Ch. 13 or 7

III Doctrine

In Jesus no Asceticism

The eccentric pleasures of the bed whether partaken of by Jesus?

§. 1. 1. Introduction

[Before folio 485]

Ch. 13 or 7.

III Doctrine Part II

In Jesus no Asceticism

The eccentric pleasures of the bed whether partaken of by Jesus.

2. Intercourse with the Apostle John.

[Around folios 487 to 499]

Ch 14 or 8

III. Doctrine Part II

In Jesus no Asceticism

The eccentric pleasures of the bed whether partaken of by Jesus.

§. 3. Intercourse with the stripling in the loose attire

[Before folio 500]

III. Doctrine

Ch. 14 or 8.

In Jesus no Asceticism

Irreg.

§. 4. Jesus and Socrates compared in this respect

[Around folios 503 to 507]

III. Doctrine

Ch. 14 or 8.

Asceticism

§ 1. How asceticism not being part of the religion of Jesus came to be received as such.

 This after the Chapter on Paul’s motives for introducing

Asceticism.

§. 2 ( To be written Jan. y 24. 1818. Non-Ascetic Sects extinguished

by the Ascetic.

[Before folio 502]

Ch. 13 or 7.

III. Doctrine Part II

In Jesus no Asceticism

The eccentric pleasures of the bed whether partaken of by Jesus.

§. 1. Introduction

§. 2. Intercourse of Jesus with the Apostle John ‘whom Jesus loved’.

§. 3. Intercourse of Jesus with the stripling in the loose attire.

§. 4. Jesus and Socrates compared in this respect.

[verso]

Jug. True.

1. Pr.

Ch.

[verso again]

Ch. 7.

v. Paul’s Miracles.

[Around folios 508 to 519]

Not Paul. III Doctrine.

Ch. 15. Relation of Paul’s Doctrines, Practice, and Motives to Asceticism

§. 1. Paul’s Motives for the application of asceticism to the pleasures of the bed.

[After folio 523]

Not Paul

III. Doctrine

Asceticism

Ch. 15 Relation of Paul’s Doctrines, Practice, and Motives, to Asceticism

§. 2. Paul’s Motives for not including the pleasures of the table in his condemnation of

the pleasures of the bed

§ 3 Paul’s condemnation of the eccentric pleasures of the bed

§ 4 Paul’s practice in relation to the pleasures of the bed.

[After folio 523]

Ch

III Doctrine

Ch. Relation of Paul &c to Asceticism

§. 1 Paul’s Motives for not including the pleasures of the table in his condemnation of

the pleasures of the bed.

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1817.

Bit Oayk,

IIII. Doctrine.

Asceticism.

JB_161_273.xml

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Description: 1818 Jan y 2

Not Paul

III. Doctrine

Ch. Asceticism continued

§. 5. Eccentricity condemned

§. 5. War made by Asceticism against the eccentric pleasures of

the bed: its causes—its groundlessness

§. In eccentric conjunctions that between male and male the chief but of popular

rage—why:—Sole grounds of condemnation in this case bearing reference to Utility

what.

Of these several shapes that in which, partnership having place, the species is

/being/ the same, but the sex instead of correspondent and opposite, the same, has

attracted preferably /with preferences/ principally and almost exclusively attracted

/fixed/ the attention of /provoked the hostility /attacks/ /rage of// the dæmon of

asceticism. In this case too almost /little less than/ the whole of it /that passion/

has been engrossed /occupied/ by that modification in which the sex is on both sides

the male. Were consistency /If consistency had/ at all consulted, between this case

and that in which the sex is on both sides the female, little or no /if any/

difference should have place in the energy of the expressions by which the sentence

of condemnation is pronounced. But from the whole system of reasoning rather

imagination by which on this ground the course taken by the principle of asceticism

is determined, /it may be seen/ consistency is /will be seen to be/ altogether

excluded all regard to consistency is (it may be seen) excluded no such guide

consideration as that of regard for consistency ever has place to no such guide as

consistency is any attention ever paid /admission every permitted /granted//.

Of the difference between /in respect of/ the aspect shewn in two cases between

which the difference if any is so inconsiderable, the cause /causes/ lies not far

beneath the surface.

1. In the punishment /sufferings/ of those who presume to disobey its /his/

prohibitions the malevolent affection of /in/ the ascetic looks for /beholds/ a sort

of compensation or indemnity for the privations to which it /he/ subjects itself

/himself/. To the infliction of punishment, delivery of evidence is a necessary

preliminary: and in the case of the female sex physical circumstances refuse

constantly /pertinaciously/ that evidence which they are capable of affording, and

occasionally /which occasionally/ and accordingly do occasionally afford in the case

of the female.

JB_161_508.xml

Title: [1818 Feb 2 Not Paul III. Doctrine]

Description: 1818 Feb 2

Not Paul

III. Doctrine

Ch. Motives to Doctrine

Asceticism II. Bed

I. Ordinary

1. Celibacy

 Shew how his successors improved upon this by Monkery.

Cause of his apathy in this respect, inappetency the result of antecedent excess

which must have come upon him early if it continued not after his conversion.

Paul’s [...?] continues—I. Cor. 7. / vii. 7. 8./ all as

myself. ib. ix. 27. my body under subjection.

Ch. or §. 1. Paul’s Motives for the application of asceticism to the pleasures of

the bed.

For the ascertaining of the motives which produced application made by Paul /him/ of

asceticism to the pleasures of the bed, no very deep research, no very extraordinary

refinement /discernment/, nothing of that which by impostors and their dupes is so

hated and calumniated under the name of philosophy is necessary. It stands declared

by himself; it may be seen in his own words.

I. Cor. vii. 32.

Of the 7 th Chapter of the first of his two Epistles to his

Corinthians, the whole of the matter has for its subject the pleasures of the bed

reaped in the ordinary shape. in the 32 d of the 40 verses into

which it stands divided, the object to which the whole of his doctrine was directed

stands disclosed: ‘I would have you (says he) without carefulness;’ and again v. 35.

‘And this I speak .... that you may attend upon the Lord without distraction.’