1818 Feb. 2

Not Paul

III. Doctrine

Ch. Motives to Doctrine

Asceticism I. Table

For non-asceticism as to meals &c. see Rom. Ch. xiv. passim. I. Cor. vi. 13.

Mem. The Marginals of this not yet copied 23 d Jan y 1819.

Ch. or §. Paul’s motives for the non-application of asceticism to the pleasures of

the table.

By Paul, asceticism as hath been /will be/ seen was employed /applied/ in the way of

interdiction of /to/ the pleasures of the bed. Bu the same Paul asceticism was not

employed /applied/ in the way of interdiction to the pleasures of the table. In this

there was no inconsistency; nothing in either instance /case/ but what was

subservient to his own worldly /grand/ purposes to his own ambitious schemes of

worldly dominion under the guise /cloak/ of spiritual service.

To this purpose it was still more necessary that in its application /in reference/

to the pleasures of the table asceticism should be excluded, than that in its

application /reference/ to the pleasures of the bed it should be applied

/proscribed/. To the purpose of his own selfish /self-regarding/ /personal/ ambition

still more essentially than to the purpose of the religion of Jesus it was material

/necessary/ that all faith in /all observance of/ the Mosaic law should be extinct:

necessary both as calling men[?] off in the character of a rival pursuit /object/

from that by /on/ the engaging them in which the success of his own scheme depended;

and as precluding his disciples if /while/ still hampered by that yoke from engaging

in that free and universal converse on which the encrease of their numbers

/opportunity of gaining converts/ materially depended.