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An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of…
An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of that ever-famous and reverend divine, Mr. William Perkins / by Tho. Nicols.
London: printed by W.B. for Will. Hope, 1654
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Chastity is the purity of body and Soul.
The mind is chaste, when it is free from fleshly concupiscence.
The minde is chaste, when it is free from fleshly concupiscence.
The body is chaste, when it doth not put in execution the lusts, and ⟨p. 96⟩concupiscence of the flesh, 1 Thes. 4. 5. 1 Cor. 7. 34.
Modesty and sobriety do preserve chastity.