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alive, and knew the highth to which the corrupt Imaginations of Men have carried those irregular Desires: What do you pretend to call Irregular, said a cavilling favourer of Vice to me once, also before this Book was thought of? What can be Irregular between a Man and his Wife?
I shall have more to say to that Question in the next Chapters, and doubt not to speak to the Conviction of reasonable Creatures: As to human Brutes I am not looking towards them, much less talking to them in a Discourse of Chastity; let them alone to their irregular Desires, and let the success of those gratify'd Desires be their reprover; they generally end in Repentance, or, which is worse, Self-reproaches. But I come back to Dr. Taylor.
"I call all those Desires irregular", says the Reverend Doctor.
"1. That are not within the holy Institution, or within the Protection of Marriage.
2. That are not within the Order of Nature.
3. That are not within the Moderation of Christian Modesty."
In this last Head he includes (to use his own Words) all immoderate use of permitted Beds, which is exactly to the purpose that I am speaking of, and upon which Subject the second Chapter of this Book is chiefly employ'd.
"Concerning which, says the same worthy Author, Judgment is to be made as concerning Meats and Drinks, there being no certain degree of frequency or intention prescribed to
