Jn 4, 6

Jn 4, 7

Jn 19, 28

land which Jacob gave to his
son Joseph.

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Afterwards Jesus said: I Jn 19, 28thirst.-Now there was a vesNow Jacob's well was there. sel set there full of vinegar. Jesus therefore being wearied And they putting a sponge with His journey, sat thus on full of vinegar about hyssop, the well. It was about the put it to His mouth. sixth hour.

Jesus therefore when He Jn 19, 30 There cometh a woman of had taken the vinegar, said: Samaria to draw water. It is consummated. And Jesus saith to her: Give Me bowing His Head, He gave up to drink. the ghost.

Afterwards, Jesus knowing It is good not to eat Ro 14, 21 that all things were now ac-flesh, and not to drink wine, complished, that the Scripture nor any thing whereby thy might be fulfilled, said: I brother is offended, or scanthirst. dalised, or made weak.

11. BENEFITS AND EXAMPLES OF CONTINENCE

AND CHASTITY.

Ge 39, 8,9 Behold, my master blessed for ever. [Pharao] hath delivered all Thou knowest, O Lord To 3, 16 things to me [Joseph]-[said Sara, the wife of young Neither is there anything Tobias], that I never coveted which is not in my power, or a husband, and have kept my that he hath not delivered to soul clean from all lust.

Jd 15, 11

1 T4, 3-5

me, but thee, who art his As I knew that I could not W8, 21
wife how then can I do otherwise be continent, except
this wicked thing, and sin God gave it, and this also was
against my God?
a point of wisdom, to know

W 9, 4

Thou hast done manfully, whose gift it was: I went to and thy heart has been the Lord, and besought Him, strengthened, because thou and said with my whole hast loved chastity, and heart :-Give me wisdom, &c. after thy husband hast not I made a covenant with know any other therefore my eyes, that I would not so also the Hand of the Lord much as think upon a virgin. hath strengthened thee, and As for him that is pure, his Pv 21, 8 therefore thou shalt be work is right.

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(See Chastity, Virginity.)

12.-INCONTINENCE AND EVERY KIND OF LUST
FORBIDDEN.

Jb 31, 1

This is the Will of God, possess his vessel in sanctifiyour sanctification : that cation and honour.-Not in you should abstain from the passion of lust, like the fornication. That every one Gentiles that know not God. of you should know how to Marriage honourable in all, He 13, 4

1 C6, 13

1 C6, 15

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2 C 12, 7

Pv 7, 6-9

1 C6, 9

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and the bed undefiled. For know you not, that your
fornicators and adulterers members are the Temple of
God will judge.
the Holy Ghost, Who is in
The body is not for forni- you, Whom you have from
cation, but for the Lord, and God, and you are not your
the Lord for the body. own?-For you are bought
Know you not that your with a great price. Glorify
bodies are the members of and bear God in your body.
Christ? Shall I then take Why art thou seduced, my Pv 5, 20
the members of Christ, and son, by a strange woman,
make them the members of a and art cherished
God forbid.-Or bosom of another ?

harlot ?

in the

Thou shalt not commit Ex 20, 14

know you not, that he who is
joined to a harlot is made adultery.
one body? "For they shall

Neither shalt thou desire Ex 20, 17

be," saith He, "two in one his wife.
flesh."-But he who is joined Whosoever shall look on a Mt 5, 28
to the Lord, is one spirit.-woman to lust after her,
Fly fornication. Every sin hath

already committed

that a man doth, is without adultery with her in his

the body but he that com- heart.
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mitteth fornication, sinneth How long shall hurtful Je 4, 14
against his own body.-Or thoughts abide in thee?

13. EVEN THE GOOD ARE TEMPTED TO

LUST;

ONLY THE UNWARY AND UNWISE OVERCOME
BY TEMPTATION.

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Lest the greatness of the and obscurity of the night. revelations should lift me up, She entangled him with Pv 7, 21there was given me a sting many words, and drew him of my flesh, an Angel of satan away with the flattery of her to buffet me. lips.-Immediately he folI looked out of the window loweth her as an ox led to be of my house through the a victim, and as a lamb lattice,-And I see little playing the wanton, and not ones, I behold a foolish young knowing he is drawn like a man,-Who passeth through fool to bonds. --Till the arrow the street by the corner, and pierce his liver: as if a bird goeth nigh the way of her should make haste to the house,-In the dark, when it snare, and knoweth not that grows late, in the darkness his life is in danger.

14. LUST HURTFUL TO BOTH BODY AND SOUL.

nor

Know you not that the un--Nor the effeminate, nor just shall not possess the liers with mankind, Kingdom of God? Do not thieves, nor covetous, nor err. Neither fornicators, drunkards, nor railers, nor nor idolators, nor adulterers, extortioners shall possess the

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Kingdom of God.
sword. Her feet go down
Know ye this and under- into death, and her steps go
stand that no fornicator, nor in as far as hell.-They walk
unclean, nor covetous per- not by the path of life, her
son (which is a serving of steps are wandering, and un-
idols) hath inheritance in the accountable.
Kingdom of Christ and of Let not thy mind be drawn Pv 7, 25-
God.
away in her ways; neither
Her house inclineth unto be thou deceived with her
death, and her paths to hell. paths. For she hath cast
Give not thy substance to down many wounded, and
women, and thy riches to the strongest have been
destroy kings.
slain by her.-Her house is
I made a covenant with my the way to hell, reaching
eyes, that I would not so even to the inner chambers
much as think upon a virgin. of death.
-For what part should God For a harlot is a deep Pv 23,27-
from Above have in me, and ditch: and a strange woman
what inheritance the Al- is a narrow pit.-She lieth in
mighty from on High ?-Is wait in the way as a robber,
not destruction to the wicked and him whom she shall see
and aversion to them that unwary, she will kill.
work iniquity?

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The woman catcheth the Pv 6, 26 Mind not the deceit of a precious soul of a man. woman. For the lips of a Dearly beloved, I beseech 1 Pt2,11 harlot are like a honeycomb you as strangers and pilgrims, dropping, and her throat is to refrain yourselves from smoother than oil.-But her carnal desires which war end is bitter as wormwood, against the soul. and sharp as a two-edged Flee youthful desires.

15.-LUST PERVERTS THE UNDERSTANDING AND

THE WILL.

They will not set their unto the end.

2 Ti 2, 22

thoughts to return to their Wine and women make Eci 19, 2 God for the spirit of forni- wise men fall off, and shall

cation is in the midst of rebuke the prudent.

them, and they have not A man of sense will praise Eci 21, 19
known the Lord.
every wise word he shall
None that go in unto her hear, and will apply it to
shall return again, neither himself the luxurious man
shall they take hold of the hath heard it, and it shall
paths of life.
displease him, and he will
cast it behind his back.

The price of a harlot is scarce one loaf.

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Wo to you that are wan- Am 6,4,6 To a man that is a forni- ton on your couches :-And cator all bread is sweet; he are not concerned for the will not be weary of sinning affliction of Joseph.

Eci 19, 3

Ap 2, 22, 23

Dt 22, 20, 21

16. LUST ROBS MAN OF HEALTH, WEALTH, AND
LIFE.

He that joineth himself house, and the men of the
to harlots, will be wicked. city shall stone her to death,
Rottenness and worms shall and she shall die: because
inherit him, and he shall be she hath done a wicked thing

lifted up for a greater in Israel, to play the whore
example, and his soul shall in her father's house; and
be taken away out of the thou shalt take away the evil
number.
out of the midst of thee.

Behold, I will cast her He that maintaineth har- Pv 29, 3
into a bed; and they that lots, shall squander away his
commit adultery with her substance.

shall be in very great tribula- Give not thy soul to har- Eci 9,6
tion, except they do penance lots in any point: lest thou
for their deeds :-And I will destroy thyself and thy
kill her children with death. inheritance.
If what he charged her The younger son gather- Lu 15, 13
with be true, and virginity be ing all together, went abroad
not found in the damsel :- into a far country, and there
They shall cast her out of wasted his substance, living
the doors of her father's riotously.

17.-LUST DESTROYS REPUTATION AND HONOUR. Eci 41, 21 Be ashamed of fornication as dung in the way. before father and mother.

Pv 5, 9-11

Ps 37, 8

Kci 9, 10

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Many walk that are ene- Ph 3, 18, Give not thy honour to mies of the Cross of Christ : strangers, and thy years to -Whose end is destruction : the cruel.-Lest strangers be whose god is their belly: filled with thy strength, and and whose glory is in their thy labours be in another shame.

man's house. - And thou By thy body thou wast Eci 47, mourn at the last, when thou brought under subjection.- 21,22 shalt have spent thy flesh Thou hast stained thy

and thy body.

glory.

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My loins are filled with They changed the truth Ro 1, 26, illusions; and there is no of God into a lie.-For this health in my flesh. cause God delivered them Every woman that is a up to shameful affections.harlot shall be trodden upon They are worthy of death.

18. THE TEMPORAL AND ETERNAL PUNISHMENTS
OF THE SINS OF LUST.

Ge 19, 24, The Lord rained upon out of Heaven.-And He
Sodom and Gomorrha brim- destroyed these cities, and all
stone and fire from the Lord the country about, all the

Ge 6, 3

inhabitants of the cities, and sand men.

every

all things that spring from The battle grew hot JC, H the earth. against the children of BenGod said: My Spirit shall jamin and they undernot remain in man for ever, stood not that present death because he is flesh, and his threatened them on days shall be a hundred and side.--And the Lord defeated twenty years. them before the children of Nu 25, 6-9 Behold, one of the chil- Israel; and they slew of dren of Israel went in before them in that day five-andhis brethren to a harlot of twenty thousand, and one Madian, in the sight of hundred, all fighting men Moses, and of all the chil- and that drew the sword. dren of Israel, who were I will destroy man whom I Ge 6, 7 weeping before the door of have created, from the face the Tabernacle.--And when of the earth, from man even Phinees, the son of Eleazar, to beasts, from the creeping the son of Aaron the priest, thing even to the fowls of saw it, he rose up from the the air.

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midst of the multitude, and, Jacob called his sons, and Ge 49, 3-4
taking a dagger,-Went in said to them: Reuben, my
after the Israelite into the first-born, thou art
my
brothel-house, and thrust strength, and the beginning
both of them through to- of my sorrow, excelling in
gether, to wit, the man and gifts, greater in command.-
the woman, and the scourge Thou art poured out as water,
ceased from the children of grow thou not because thou
Israel.-And there were wentest up to thy father's bed,
slain four-and-twenty thou-l and didst defile his couch.

19. TRUE AND FALSE SHAME.

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Eci 4, 24, For thy soul be not ashamed Accept no person against Eci4, 26to say the truth.-For there thy own person, nor against is a shame that bringeth sin, thy soul a lie. Reverand there is a shame that ence not thy neighbour in bringeth glory and grace. his fall:-And refrain not Eci 41, 19, Have a shame of these to speak in the time of salthings I am now going to vation. Hide not thy wisdom speak of. For it is not good in her beauty.-For by the to keep all shamefacedness: tongue wisdom is discerned : and all things do not please and understanding, and all men in opinion. knowledge, and learning by Repeat not the word the word of the wise, and which thou hast heard, and steadfastness in the works of disclose not the thing that is justice. In no wise speak secret, so shalt thou be truly against the truth, but be without confusion, and shalt ashamed of the lie of thy find favour before all men. ignorance.-Be not ashamed

Eci 42, 1