129 Tbe T H E IMPROVEiVIENT O F TIME. O R The Right Vfe ofTimes Shortnels. SERMON XI. I Cor. 7. 29, 30. But this Z fay, brethren, the timeis ¡hort ; it remaineth, that both they that have Wives, be as though they hadnone; andthey thatweep, as though they wept not ; andthey that rejoyce,asiftheyrejoycednet ; and they that buy, as thotaghtheypofeffednot ; and they that uft this world, as not abttfing it ; forthefafhionofthisworld path away. Hat I may briefly come to opento you the fumof that that I have to deliver out of this Scripture : I delire you ( be- loved in the Lord ) in fewwords, to take notice of the drift and fcope of the holy Apol}le in this place: and that is this ; The Corinth? (as it feemeth in the beginning of this chapter ) had written a Letter to Saint Pant, wherein they did propound to him divers Cafes of Confcience : and did entreat him, that he would fend his judgement, concerning :bole point?. Some five or fix we may gather they did write to him about. Onewas this; whether he thought it either a lawful, or a fitting thing for a man o marry. The fecond was ; Whether if a man were married, his Wife and he might not 'eparate themfelves one from another. S The Cohe- rence.
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