AMA SCRIPTURAS SANCTAS, & AMABIT TE SAPIENTIA. HIERON. LEEDS: PRINTED BY EDWARD BAINES, FOR THE EDITORS; CONDER, BUCKLERSBURY; BUTTON, PATERNOSTER-ROW; LEEDS; COLBERT, DUBLIN; WILSON AND SPENCE, YORK; OGLE, GLASGOW; CROOKES, ROTHERHAM; ABEL, NORTHAMPTON; AND MR. FARRAND, 185, MARKET-STREET, PHILADELPHIA. THE FAMILY EXPOSITOR. A PARAPHRASE AND NOTES ON THE REMAINING PART OF THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS. SECTION XII. The apostle proceeds to answer certain questions which the Corinthians had put to him; and first, what related to the marriage. state; and in these introductory verses, he determines that in some circumstances it should be entered into, and continued in, but in others, forborne; and forbids wives to depart from their husbands. 1 Cor. VII.-1—11. I 1 COR. VII. 1. NOW concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to me. touch a woman. I CORINTHIANS VII. 1. SECT. xii. 1 Cor. NOW proceed to give you my opinion concerning those things about which you wrote to And I begin with that concerning the lawfulness or expedience of marriage. And here I VII. 1. must first observe, that as to its expedience, [it is] in present circumstances good for a man, where he is entirely master of himself, to have nothing to do with a woman; so many are the conveniences which recommend a single life to those who are proof against some of its most 2 Nevertheless, to obvious temptations. Nevertheless, as the 2, acord fornication, let God of nature has for certain wise reasons imevery man have his planted in the sexes a mutual inclination to each own wife, and let every woman have her other, in order to prevent fornication, and every other species of uncleanness, let every man have and retain his own proper wife; and let every woman have and retain her own proper husband: for neither divorce nor poligamy are A own husband. 4 VOL. IX. by |