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It was a most important remark of OEcolampadius, commenting, in his celebrated Epistle to the Waldenses, upon the injunction of the celibacy of priests—‘It is not marriage that spoils priests, but sloth, self-indulgence, and the fear of the cross.’ Scott’s Continuation of Milner, vol. i. 147. Dr. Watts’s caution will explain this remark with valuable minuteness: ‘Guard’ (he says to his young Minister)—‘against a love of pleasure, a sensual temper, an indulgence of appetite, an excessive relish of wine or dainties; this carnalizes the soul, and gives occasion to the world to reproach all too justly.’—Humble Attempt, pp. 80, 81.