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... married his own sister and his own daughter . But now the bitings of the mother's conscience were intolerable , and to her confessor she discovered the whole business within a year or two after this prodigious marriage , and asked ...
... married his own sister and his own daughter . But now the bitings of the mother's conscience were intolerable , and to her confessor she discovered the whole business within a year or two after this prodigious marriage , and asked ...
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... marry ; but he that only marries because he would triumph and brag of his freedom , may get an im- perious mistress instead of a gentle master . By the laws of Christian liberty , indifferent things are permitted to my choice , and I am ...
... marry ; but he that only marries because he would triumph and brag of his freedom , may get an im- perious mistress instead of a gentle master . By the laws of Christian liberty , indifferent things are permitted to my choice , and I am ...
Page 84
... marriages are less perfect than the first , think it more pious to embrace the other opinions , viz . that Anna was married to none but Joachim , and that Joseph was only married to the holy Virgin Mary : but because this is to take ...
... marriages are less perfect than the first , think it more pious to embrace the other opinions , viz . that Anna was married to none but Joachim , and that Joseph was only married to the holy Virgin Mary : but because this is to take ...
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... marry Orestilla . He , to answer their importunity , tells them , it is very likely Orestilla will be barren , and upon that account he marries her because she is sickly , and unlikely to become a mother . The question is , whether this ...
... marry Orestilla . He , to answer their importunity , tells them , it is very likely Orestilla will be barren , and upon that account he marries her because she is sickly , and unlikely to become a mother . The question is , whether this ...
Page 87
... marriages may be dissolved , all vices excused , upon pretence of some little probable necessity ; and drunkenness will be entertained as physic , and fornication as a thing allowed by some vicious persons whose wit is better than their ...
... marriages may be dissolved , all vices excused , upon pretence of some little probable necessity ; and drunkenness will be entertained as physic , and fornication as a thing allowed by some vicious persons whose wit is better than their ...
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Page 368 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...
Page 361 - I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt : open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Page 473 - If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Page 287 - Let no man judge you in meat or in drink, or in respect of a holiday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days...
Page 328 - And yet indeed she is my sister: she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife.
Page 333 - Have ye not read, that He who made [them] from the beginning, made them male and female, and said : For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh ? Wherefore they are no more two, but one flesh.
Page 293 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Page 332 - Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as the Lord liveth: lie down until the morning.
Page 294 - But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.