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Dr. Taylor, in his Discourse of Chastity mentioned above, after having spoken of Virgin Chastity and Vidual Chastity, comes of course to mention the very Thing I am now upon, and in the very same Terms, viz.
MATRIMONIAL CHASTITY.
And I choose to give it to you in his own Words, because, before I remembered that the Doctor had mentioned this Case, I had finished the next Chapters, viz. of the Bounds and Limitations which Modesty and Decency had placed to the Liberties of the Marriage Bed, and which the Doctor's Opinion so far confirms, that I could not but subjoin his Thoughts after my own was gone to the Press. The Doctor's Rules for married Persons are thus express'd:
'Concerning married Persons, besides the keeping their mutual Faith and Contract with each other, these Particulars are useful to be observed.'
'1. Although their mutual Endearments are safe within the Protection of Marriage, yet they that have Wives or Husbands, must be as tho' they had them not; that is, they must have an Affection greater to each other than they have to any Person in the World, but not greater than they have to God: but that they be ready to part with all Interest in each other's Person, rather than fin against God.
' In their Permission and Licence, they must be sure to observe the Order of Nature, and the Ends of God. He is an ill Husband, that uses his Wife as a Man treats a Harlot, having no other End but Pleasure. Concerning
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