Supposing the
noluerunt
to mean
nequeunt
, or at least any state of mind and feeling that does not exclude moral attachment, I, as a Protestant, abominate this decree of Gregory III; for I place the moral, social, and spiritual helps and comforts as the proper and essential ends of Christian marriage, and regard the begetting of children as a contingent consequence. But on the contrary tenet of the Romish Church, I do not see how Gregory could consistently decree otherwise.
Ib.
s. iii. p. 82.
Nor that Origen taught the pains of hell not to have an eternal duration.
And yet there can be no doubt that Taylor himself held with Origen on this point. But,
non licebat dogmatizare oppositum, quia determinatum fuerat.