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- On Continence
- Section 1. It is difficult to treat of the virtue of the soul
- Section 2. And lest it should seem that necessary Continence was to be hoped for from
- Section 4. For which cause our Lord Himself also with His own mouth saith
- Section 5. And on this account that, which, the parts that beget being bridled by modesty
- Section 7. This conflict none experience in themselves, save such as war on the side of
- Section 8. Such soldiers the Apostolic trumpet enkindles for battle with that sound
- Section 9. And also, when he exhorts us, that we live not after the flesh
- Section 10. But in order that we fall not away from Continence
- Section 12. When, therefore, you hear it said, |Sin shall not reign over you
- Section 13. In this so great conflict, wherein man under Grace lives
- Section 14. And some indeed, who are used to excuse their own sins
- Section 16. But God wanted not power to make man such as that he should not
- Section 18. All we therefore, who believe in the Living and TRUE God
- Section 19. For the flesh lusts after nothing save through the soul
- Section 20. There are therefore in us evil desires, by consenting not unto which we live
- Section 21. That, therefore, the flesh lusteth against the Spirit
- Section 22. I say not, therefore, with what error, but with what utter madness
- Section 23. The Apostle has made known to us certain three unions
- Section 25. But, say they, how is the flesh by a certain likeness compared unto the
- Section 26. Thus much will suffice to have treated on behalf of TRUE Continence against the
- Section 29. Thus the spirit of man, cleaving unto the Spirit of God
- Section 30. But, after that he had made mention of these evils
- Section 31. |But now do ye also,| saith he, |put down all
- Section 32. But whether keenly contending, that we be not overcome