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to carry out the glory of Virginity, and to succeed in coming
thoroughly, without a view to salvation. For God gave manalso a Volce; and yet love-songs and indecent things are noton that account to be sung. And God willed iron to bo fortite culture of the earth, but not on that account musim dera be committed. or bocause God ordained incense, and wine, and fire, are We thence to sacrifice to idols Τ Or
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to immolato victims and offerings to the goici otherWiso a large estate is a temptation, unless the wealth minister togood uses; so that every man, in proportion to his mealth, ought by his patrimony rather to reduem his transgressions than to increase them. 12. The characteristics of ornamenis, and of garmenis, and the allurements of beau , aro not fitting sor any but prostitutes and immodest Women; and the dress of none is more precious than os those whose modesty is lowly.' Thus
in the holy Scriptures, by whicli tho Lord Wishod us to beboth instructod and admonishod, tho hariot city is described
more beautifully arrayed and adorned, and with her ornaments ; and the rather on account of those Very ornaments
carriod me aWay in spirit; and I saW a Womau sit upon abeast, and that Woman was arrayed in a purple and scarlet mantio, and was adorned With gold, and precious stones, and pearis, having a goiden cup in her hand, fuit os curses, and fit thiness, and fornication of the wholo earthyy Let chastoand modest virgins avoid tho dress of the unchaste, themanners of tho immodest, the en signs of brotheis, the ornaments of hariois.
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tahe aWay the ψοπ of their apparet, and their ornamenta, and their hair, and thela curis, and their round tires like the moon, and their crispinypins, and their braceleis, and thela clustera of pearis, and their armieis and rings, and ea rings, and sillis
laces, they have lost the ornaments of the heari and spirit. Who mouid not execrato and avoid that which has been thodestruction of anotheri Who Would destre and talio up that which has sorved as tho sword and weapon for tho death of
ol, nor arranged nechlaces With stones set in gold, and with pearis distributed in a Woven series or numerous eluster,
wherowith yon would hide tho nech which He made; that What God formed in man may be covered, and that may be seenupon it whicli the devii has invented in addition. Has God
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can corrupi the native lineaments. God says, Let us maheman in cur image and likeness; and does any one dare in
delineate in enutous colonring the countenance and likenem
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flock of virgini , test by living together they should polluto
gence they come into use, have made for themselves a usurpedlicence, contrary to modest and Sober manners. Some arenot ashamed to be present at marriage parties, and in thatheodom os lascivious discourse to mingle in unchaste conversation, to hear What is not becoming, to say What is notia fui, to expose themsolvos, to be present in the midat os disgracesul mords and drunken banquois, by whicli the ardouros lust is hindlod, and tho brido is animaled to boar, and thebridegroom to dare lewdness. What place is there at weddings sor hor Whose mind is not to arda marriago Τ or What can there be pleasant or joyous in those engagements for her, where both destres and wishes aro different hom her own What is learnt there-what is seen Τ HOW greatly a Virgintalis stiori of her resolution, When she who had come there modest goes a V immodest i Although she may remain a virgin in body and mind, yet in eyes, in ears, in longue, shelias diminishod the viriues that she possessed. 19. But what of those who frequent promiscuous ballis; Who prostitute to Ves that are curious to lust, hodies that
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Fou, a great recompense of Viriue, the immense advantage
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ting of numbers, and we increase to the enlargement of the human race. hen the worid is filled and the oarth
living after the manner of eunuchs, are made eunuchs unto the
indeed who attain to the divino gift and inheritanee by the sanctification of baptism, therein put off the old man by the
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350TNE TREA INSES OF CYPRIAM grace of the saring laver, Ud, reneWed by the Holy Spirithom tho filii, of the old contagion, are purged is a secondnativi . But the greater holiness and truth of that repeatodbirili belongs to you, Who have no longer any destres os theflein and of the body. Οnly the things Which belong to virine and tho Spirit have remained in you in glo . It is the