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.
Muckle Kate Not a very ordinary name! But then, Muckle Kate, or Big Kate, or Kate-Mhor, or Kate of Lochcarron was not a very ordinary woman! The actual day of her salvation is difficult to trace to its sunrising, but being such a glorious day as it was, we simply wish to relate something of what shone forth in the redeemed life of that "ill-looking woman without any beauty in the sight of God or man." Muckle Kate was born and lived in Lochcarron in the county of Ross-shire. By the time she had lived her life to its eighty-fifth year she had well-earned the reputation of having committed every known sin against the Law of God with the exception murder. Speaking after the manner of men, if it took "Grace Abounding" to save a hardened sinner like John Bunyan, it was going to take "Grace Much More Abounding" to save Muckle Kate. However, Grace is Sovereign and cannot be thwarted when God sends it on the errand of salvation, and even the method used in bri
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