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CHAP, vi.] The Sin of Incontinence. \ 2 1
means, unless he flies
away
he is lost. He that loveth
danger shall perish in 1
it.
As to the second means, it is necessary to know that
we have not strength to resist temptations of the flesh.
This strength must be the gift of God. But God grants
it to those only that pray and ask for it. The only
defence against this temptation, says St. Gregory of
Nyssa, is prayer. 2 And before him the Wise Man
said: And as I knew that I could not otherwise be con
tinent, except God gave it, . . . / went to the Lord and be
sought Him?
[They that desire more information on the means of
overcoming sins of the flesh, and especially on the two
means above mentioned, the avoidance of occasions,
and prayer, should read the instruction on chastity in
the second part of this work.]
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3 "
Qui amat periculum, in illo peribit." Ecclus. iii. 27.
Oratio pudicitiae presidium
est." De or. Dom. or. I.
Et ut scivi quoniam aliter nom possem esse continens, nisi Deus
det, . . . adii Dominum, et deprecatus sum ilium." Wisd. viii. 21.