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S the Procreation of Children is the only, or at least the chief Reason of Matrimony; so when the Woman has once conceived, it is the Opinion of the learned and modest World, her Husband ought to know her no more till she has brought forth, and is delivered of her Burthen.

will have this be called a rigid Law; that there is nothing in the Laws of to direct such a Restraint, and that therefore 'tis what the Text calls binding heavy Burthens; like the Pharisees imposing Severities on others, which they would not be bound by themselves; and, as the same Text hints, would not touch them with one of their Fingers, that is to say, would not observe, or be under the Obligation of