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Chapter XII.—Importance of Chastity.
“But this kind of chastity is also to be
observed, that sexual intercourse must not take place heedlessly and
for the sake of mere pleasure, but for the sake of begetting
children.786
| 786 [This chapter is
more specific in its statements than Homily XI. 30, to which it has a
general resemblance.—R.] | And since
this observance is found even amongst some of the lower animals, it
were a shame if it be not observed by men, reasonable, and worshipping
God. But there is this further reason why chastity should be
observed by those who hold the true worship of God, in those forms of
it of which we have spoken, and others of like sort, that it is
observed strictly even amongst those who are still held by the devil in error, for
even amongst them there is in some degree the observance of
chastity. What then? Will you not observe, now that you are
reformed, what you observed when you were in error?
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