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<head>CATECHISM</head> | |||
<p>That a resolution to renounce the <hi rend='underline'>Flesh</hi> and the <hi rend='underline'>Devil</hi> amounts to nothing, any further<lb/> | |||
than as it is explained, what is <hi rend='underline'>Flesh</hi> and what <hi rend='underline'>Devil</hi>; <note>Flesh and Devil are <add>the</add> Felony and Premunire [of Morality]</note> that whatever reasons of<lb/> | |||
wisdom of necessity of temper might have determined the first planters of our religion to<lb/> | |||
renounce the world, those of <sic>it's</sic> present professors who should make such a resolution, would<lb/> | |||
deserve that it should renounce them —</p> | |||
<p>That <del>the</del> <add><sic>it's</sic></add> Pomps and vanities of the world are some of those things which hold Society<lb/> | |||
together: that <del>it is useless</del> <add>a resolution to renounce them is useless</add> for <del>one set of an</del> in one set <add>part</add> of man, <add>mankind</add> impracticable<lb/> | |||
in another, and dangerous <add>pernicious</add> to a third: that it is the desire of them alone which <add>alone</add> [draws men<lb/> | |||
from sleep or sordid gratifications - and] gives motion to half the virtues —</p> | |||
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CATECHISM
That a resolution to renounce the Flesh and the Devil amounts to nothing, any further
than as it is explained, what is Flesh and what Devil; Flesh and Devil are the Felony and Premunire [of Morality] that whatever reasons of
wisdom of necessity of temper might have determined the first planters of our religion to
renounce the world, those of it's present professors who should make such a resolution, would
deserve that it should renounce them —
That the it's Pomps and vanities of the world are some of those things which hold Society
together: that it is useless a resolution to renounce them is useless for one set of an in one set part of man, mankind impracticable
in another, and dangerous pernicious to a third: that it is the desire of them alone which alone [draws men
from sleep or sordid gratifications - and] gives motion to half the virtues —
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