...this is one end of Marriage, we learn from S.PW, iCor.vii.2. " Neverthelers, to "•avoid Fornication, let every Man have his own Wife, " and every Woman her own Husband. The former end was to procure a great good to Man-kind, and this is to prevent a great evil-, wherefore...

...this reftraint, there is a remedy provided j the Apoftle tells us what it is, * fo avaid fornication let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own bufband. If they cannot contain, let them marry ; for it is better to marry than to burn. '\ Marriage...

...competent judges in this matter. St Paul's inftruftions in tliii cafe are very plain. To avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own hulband : Every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, another after that. If they...

...from it : I mean thofe very grave and fober words of the apoftle Paul — " To avoid fornication, , let EVERY man have his own wife, and EVERY woman her own hufband."f — " Marriage is HONOURABLE in ALL, and the bed undefiled : But whoremongers and adulterers...

...the holy Scriptures is very different. To avoid Fornication^ faith St. Pottlt DISCO UR SE XIIT. 27* let every Man have his own Wife, and every Woman her own Hushand, i Cor. vii.. 2. Thofe are condemned as giving Heed tofedudng Spirits, and.fpeaking Lyes in...

...to ver. 5, inclulive. The words of the text alluded to are — Neverthelefs, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own "wife, and every 'woman her own hujband. The ftrength of the whole argument drawn from this paflage confifts in a fort of * quibble...

...are, from Genefis, ch. 2. v. 18. where two only were joined together, &c. and i Corinth, ch. 7. v. 2. Let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own hufband. Arguments againft polygamy, from the confufion it introduces into families — from the negle&...

...Galilee. Ver. 2. Jesus was called and his disciples to the marriage. 1 Cor. vii. 2. To avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband. See ver. 9, 28, 36. ix. 5. Have we not power to lead about a wife as well as other apostles, and as...

...unlawful now, when that necessity is ceased! Besides this, the Apostle hath commanded, 1 Cor. vii. 2. Let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband. v. Here also are forbidden all those monsters of UNNATURAL LUST, and those prodigies of villainy and...

...while the iir-i wife is alive. ' Let every man have his own wife, and every woman her owm hdsband,' 1 Cor. vii. 2. and the reason given for it, ver. 2,...5, is only applicable to monogamy. If it be said, thai that was for the time to come ; but did it dissolve the polygamies before contracted ? I suppose...