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CHAP.II.
Of Matrimonial Chastity, what is to be understood by the Word; a Proof of its being required by the Laws of God and Nature, and that wrong Notions of it have possess'd the World. Dr. Taylor's Authority quoted about it.
Am yet settling Preliminaries; the Work I am upon will have so many Opposers, such Cavillings and Quarrellings, as well at the Subject, as at the Manner of of handling it, that I am obliged to provide my Defences in time against all the Batteries of the Enemy.
I have this to boast of for Encouragement, (viz.) that I know my Argument to be invulnerable; all the Arts of Hell cannot evade the force of it; if there is the least Defect, it must be in the weakness of the Performance. Good Weapons may be rendred useless or insufficient in an unskilful Hand; but as no Man else has ever undertaken it, I must venture. I'll manage it as well as I can.
In the former Chapter I have explained the matrimonial Obligation, what I mean by
