Good indeed is the procreation of children enjoined by the law, and good is marriage Simeon Thess., De initiat., ch. 33. on account of fornications, for it does away with these 1 Cor. vii. 2., and by lawful intercourse does not permit the madness of desire to be enflamed into unlawful acts. Good is marriage for those who have no continence: but that virginity is better which increases the fruitfulness of the soul and offers to God the seasonable fruit of prayer. Marriage is honourable and the bed undefiled, but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge Heb. xiii. 4..