Hosea 4:6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge

It is strange that should be a pollution which 
was instituted before corruption ; or that impurity:- 
which was ordained in the state of innocency ; or 
that they should make that to be a sin, which they 
make to be a sacrament ; strange stupidity !  
But ,a bastard may be laid at the door of chastity, 
and a leaden crown set upon a golden head. Bel- 
larmine (that mighty atlas of the Papal power) 
blows his stinking breath upon it: * Better were 
it for a priest to defile himself with many harlots, 
than to be married to one wife.' —These children 
of the purple whore prefer monasteries before mar- 
riages, a concubine before a companion.— They use 
too many women for their lusts, to choose any for 
their love. — -Their tables are so largely spread that 
they cannot feed upon one dish. As for their ex- 
alting of a virgin state, it is like him that com- 
manded fastings when he had filled his belly. Who 
knows not that virginity is a pearl of a sparkling 
lustre ? but the one cannot be set up, without the 
other be thrown down : No oblation will pacify the 
former, but the demolishing of the latter. Though 
we find many enemies to the choice of marriage, 
yet it is rare to find any enemies to the use of 
marriage They would pick the lock that wants 
the key, and pluck the fruit that do not plant the 
tree. The Hebrews have a saying, that he is 
not a man that hath not a wife," Though they 
climb too high a bough, yet it is to be feared that 
such flesh is full of imperfection, that is, not tending 
tp propogation : though man alone may be good, 
yet, It is not gpod that man should he alone.