Book,  Chapter

 1     I,  Int|      in the sight of God. (2) Abstinence is no better than a thankful
 2     I,  3  |      is no difference between abstinence from food, and its reception
 3     I,  7  |      the spirit by subsequent abstinence, and what you cannot show
 4    II,  Int| heathen (7) many instances of abstinence. They recognize (8) the
 5    II,  Int|       testify to the value of abstinence. The Old Testament stories (
 6    II,  Int|       Cornelius, &c., commend abstinence. If some heretics inculcate
 7    II,  Int|       17) will find a help in abstinence.~III. (c. 18–34). The fourth
 8    II,  5  |     observe the 4723 rites of abstinence connected with the Mother
 9    II,  7  |      of our new birth: who by abstinence subjugate our refractory
10    II,  12 |     get credit for protracted abstinence, and all the while we devour
11    II,  14 |      they practised perpetual abstinence from wives, wine, and flesh,
12    II,  14 |   reverence for the gods, and abstinence from flesh. 4777 Orpheus
13    II,  15 |    not be consecrated without abstinence from food. So long as he
14    II,  15 |   drunkenness was regained by abstinence, a proof that by fasting
15    II,  15 |       s meal, for by a week’s abstinence he had merited so distinguished
16    II,  15 |     promise, and conceived in abstinence and fasting. 4804 Aaron
17    II,  16 |       who inculcate perpetual abstinence, to destroy, and express
18    II,  16 |       leanness to corpulence, abstinence to luxury, fasting to fulness. 4813 “
19    II,  16 |     it passed for the highest abstinence to abstain only from food
20    II,  17 |     that poor Lazarus for his abstinence was in Abraham’s bosom;
21    II,  17 |   periodic fast and perpetual abstinence from certain kinds of food