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 6     infamy: she needed a shield to defend that chastity abroad, which was kept inviolable at home. Too many that have not worth enough to     preserve their virginity, have yet will enough to cover their unchastity; turning the medi- cine of frailty, into the mantle of filthiness. Certainly she is mad that cuts off her leg to     get her a crutch, or that venoms her face to wear a mask. St Paul makes it one of the characters of     those that should cherish the faith, 1 Tim. iv. 3. Not to forbear marriage which may be     lawful; but to forbid it, which is sinful. One of the Popes of Rome, sprinkles this unholy drop upon it, Carnis pollutionem et immunditiem. It is strange that should be a pollution, which was instituted before corruption; or     that impurity, which was ordained in the state of innoeency; or that they should make that to be a sin, which they make to be a     Sacrament. But a bastard may be laid at the door of     chastity, and a leaden crown set upon a      golden head. Bellarmine that mighty Atlas of the papal power, blows his stinking breath upon it, " better were it for a priest to defile him-     self with many harlots, than to be married      to one wife," These children of the pur- ple whore, prefer monasteries before our marriages, a concubine before a companion. They use too many for their lusts, to chuse any for their love. Their tables are so largely spread, that they cannot feed upon one dish.