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Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus
On exhortation to chastity

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• I. INTRODUCTION. VIRGINITY CLASSIFIED UNDER THREE SEVERAL SPECIES.
• II. THE BLAME OF OUR MISDEEDS NOT TO BE CAST UPON GOD. THE ONE POWER WHICH RESTS WITH MAN IS THE POWER OF VOLITION.
• III. OF INDULGENCE AND PURE VOLITION. THE QUESTION ILLUSTRATED.
• IV. FURTHER REMARKS UPON THE APOSTLE'S LANGUAGE.
• V. UNITY OF MARRIAGE TAUGHT BY ITS FIRST INSTITUTION, AND BY THE APOSTLE'S APPLICATION OF THAT PRIMAL TYPE TO CHRIST AND THE CHURCH.
• VI. THE OBJECTION FROM THE POLYGAMY OF THE PATRIARCHS ANSWERED.
• VII. EVEN THE OLD DISCIPLINE WAS NOT WITHOUT PRECEDENTS TO ENFORCE MONOGAMY. BUT IN THIS AS IN OTHER RESPECTS, THE NEW HAS BROUGHT IN A HIGHER PERFECTION.
• VIII. IF IT BE GRANTED THAT SECOND MARRIAGE IS LAWFUL, YET ALL THINGS LAWFUL ARE NOT EXPEDIENT.
• IX. SECOND MARRIAGE A SPECIES OF ADULTERY, MARRIAGE ITSELF IMPUGNED, AS AKIN TO ADULTERY.
• X. APPLICATION OF THE SUBJECT. ADVANTAGES OF WIDOWHOOD.
• XI. THE MORE THE WIVES, THE GREATER THE DISTRACTION OF THE SPIRIT.
• XII. EXCUSES COMMONLY URGED IN DEFENCE OF SECOND MARRIAGE. THEIR FUTILITY, ESPECIALLY IN THE CASE OF CHRISTIANS, POINTED OUT.
• XIII. EXAMPLES FROM AMONG THE HEATHEN, AS WELL AS FROM THE CHURCH, TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING EXHORTATION.

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