The harmonie of Holie Scriptures vvith the seuerall sentences of sundry learned and vvorthy vvriters : collected for the comfort of all such as are desirous to seeke after theyr soules health / by I.B.

§. 9.

Enforce thy selfe therefore vvith all the might thou maist, to abstaine from vngod∣ly lusts: and the better to bridle the vn∣rulie passions of thine ovvne affections, endeuour diligently to study and follovve vertue: for, the desires that are good, vvill euermore mortifie and destroy, the desires that are euill.

But if so be that thou canst not abstaine, thou maist then vse the lawful remedy that God hath appoynted: namely, marriage. For, it is better to marry, then to burne.

Also;] to auoyde fornication, let euerie man haue his vvife, and let euery vvoman haue her owne husband.

For,] marriage is honourable among all men, and the bedde vndefiled: but whore∣mongers and adulterers, God will iudge.

Notes

• Erasmus.
• 1. Cor, 7, 9.
• 1, Cor, 7, 2,
• Hebr, 13, 4,