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 1 1 |         In fact, neither is such continence laudable because it is heretical,
 2 1 |     deservedly called Spiritual, continence is as religious as licence
 3 1 |        harmony with the Creator. Continence honours the law of marriage,
 4 3 |        prescribed a virginity or continence total and absolute, so as
 5 3 |          gives the preference to continence. ("Yes"), you say, "but
 6 3 |          gives the preference to continence. "Good," he says, "(it is)
 7 3 |        turns their minds back to continence, ("But I will you all so
 8 3 |    granted, or the preference of continence which is imposed. why, after
 9 3 |       stringency of) an absolute continence.~
10 8 | Christian sanctity, Monogamy and Continence: one modest, in Zechariah
11 16|      rise again from the ease of continence to the works of the flesh,
12 17|        on the ground of absolute continence: the virgins of Vesta, and
13 17|         Apollo. On the ground of continence the priests likewise of