1818 Feb y 2

Not Paul

III. Doctrine

Ch. Motives to Doctrine

Asceticism II. Bed

I. Ordinary

I. Pleasures of the bed in the ordinary shape.

Situation /Conduct/ of a person with reference to his or her own marriage—situation

/conduct/ of a parent with reference to the marriage of his child—situation /conduct/

of a widow with reference to remarriage—situation /conduct/ of persons engaged in

marriage.

1. Conduct of a person /man/ with reference to his /or her/ own marriage the conduct

of a man /person/ with reference to his /or her/ own marriage. I. Cor. vii. 1. Now (says he) concerning the things whereof ye wrote

to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Cor. vii. 1.

And again v. 8. ‘I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if

they abide even as I.’ As his own example as held up to view in this and the last

preceding verse, of this something will be to be said presently.

 Add here or /[...?] of his [...? ...? ...]/ further on what he says of his former

debaucheries and search whether there be not other interdictions of marriage in his

Epistles.

v. 9. But (continues he) ‘if they can not contain, let them marry: for it is better

to marry than to burn.’

Why better—for his purpose better to marry than to burn? Because he who in Saint

Paul’s sense burns will have his thoughts engaged partly by the burning, partly by

the idea /thought/ of the means how to quench the fire: causes of ‘ distraction’ from which they who are married are free.