come not at your wives] But give yourselves to prayer, and abstinence, that you may at this time attend onely upon the Lord, 1 Corinthians 7:5. The use of the marriage bed was never noted among the legall pollutions: and indeed (being instistuted in the state of innocencie, Gen. 2. and honourable in all, and the bed undefiled, Hebrews 13:4.) this forbearance was not prescribed, as from a thing profane, or uncleane in it selfe: but that the mind might be more fully, and sincerely set upon the holy covenant, to be made with God; and hence the godly that they may be alwaies estranged from things unlawfull, must sometimes abstaine from things lawfull. The Papists who apply this, to be the Priests disavowing of marriage, make an inference as absurd, as if because the people must sometimes at solemne Fasts abstaine from meats, therefore the Clergie must eat no meat at all.