Two Epistles Concerning Virginity.

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Contents 31 sections

Title Page.Front matter
Introductory Notice.
The Salutation.
For True Virginity Perfect Virtue is Necessary.
True Virgins Prove Themselves Such by Self-Denial, as Does the True Believer by Good Works.
Continuation of the Remarks on Self-Denial; Object and Reward of True Virgins.
The Irksomeness and the Enemies of Virginity.
Divinity of Virginity.
The True Virgin.
Virgins, by the Laying Aside of All Carnal Affection, are Imitators of God.
Continuation of the Subject of Mortification; Dignity of Persons Consecrated to God.
Denunciation of Dangerous and Scandalous Association with Maidens.
Perniciousness of Idleness; Warning Against the Empty Longing to Be Teachers; Advice About Teaching and the Use of Divine Gifts.
Rules for Visits, Exorcisms, and How People are to Assist the Sick, and to Walk in All Things Without Offence.
What Priests Should Be and Should Not Be.
He Describes the Circumspectness of His Intercourse with the Other Sex, and Tells How in His Journeys He Acts at Places Where There are Brethren Only.
His Behaviour in Places Where There Were Christians of Both Sexes.
Rules for the Conduct of Celibate Brethren in Places Where There are Only Married Christians.
Conduct of the Holy Man Where There are Women Only.
Where There is Only One Woman, the Father Does Not Make a Stay; How Carefully Stumbling-Blocks Must Be Avoided.
How Christians Should Behave Themselves Among Heathens.
Uses of Considering Admonitory Examples, as Well as Instructive Patterns.
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife; Of What Kind Love to Females Ought to Be.
Samson's Admonitory Fall.
David's Sin, So Admonitory to Us Weak Men.
Admonitory History of the Incestuous Children of David.
Solomon's Infatuation Through Women.
The History of Susanna Teaches Circumspection with the Eyes and in Society.
Examples of Circumspect Behaviour from the Old Testament.
The Example of Jesus; How We May Allow Ourselves to Be Served by Women.
Exhortation to Union and to Obedience; Conclusion.

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