The public morals are insecure till the family is chastely planted, the state guarded by the continency of its male members.
Imparting sanity and sweetness, it spares from decay, giving life with temperance and a continency that keeps our pleasures chaste and perennial.
Then he behaued himselfe after sutch a maner, that hee exceeded in continency and compassion, all the kinges that had bin before his time.
Hence continency and perseverance seem to be species of constancy which pertains to reason; and to this power inconstancy pertains also.
But the fact that no dispensation can be granted from a vow of continency solemnized by profession is due, not to its being an act of chastity, but because through the religious profession it is already an act of religion.
Continency and perseverance seem to be not in the appetitive power, but in the reason.
Therefore, continency itself absolutely considered seems no reason why the solemn vow thereof cannot be a matter of dispensation; especially seeing that the Apostle (1 Cor.
On the other hand sexual intercourse is directly ordered to the upkeep not of the person but of the species, wherefore to abstain from such intercourse by continency does not endanger the person.
For they assert that the vow of continency cannot be canceled, save by something altogether contrary thereto, which is never lawful in any vow.
Now one man's continency may be an obstacle to the good of the whole community, for instance, in the case where, if certain persons who have vowed continency were to marry, the peace of their country might be procured.
On that side whither I had set my face, and whither I trembled to go, there appeared to me the chaste dignity of continency .
Much more, therefore, can he be dispensed from the vow of continency which is about an act of chastity.
As regards the fruits, it seems that those things correspond to the gift of fear, which pertain to the moderate use of temporal things or to abstinence therefrom; such are modesty, continency and chastity.
Because if not, the solemnity of the consecration can remain without the obligation of continency, but not if continency is essentially bound up with that for which the vow is solemnized.
A vow of temporal continency can be a matter of dispensation, as also a vow of temporal prayer or of temporal abstinence.
The reason for this is assigned by some to the fact that by continency man overcomes a foe within himself, or to the fact that by continency man is perfectly conformed to Christ in respect of purity of both body and soul.
But continency is not a virtue, as stated in Ethic.
These goodly and pleasant fruits of the spirit of fear of God are modesty in words, deeds and external things, continency of the single and chastity of the married in thoughts and desires.
The fruits of fear of the Lord are modesty, continency and chastity.
To the Gift of Fear correspond the first Beatitude and the fruits of modesty, continency and chastity.
Thus continency of the married state is said to be signified by the thirtyfold fruit; the continency of widowhood, by the sixtyfold; and virginal continency, by the hundredfold fruit.
Continency and perseverance are not perfections of the sensitive appetite.
Continency and perseverance are, however, perfections of the rational faculty, and withstand the passions lest reason be led astray.
And Alypius beginning to be my hearer again, was involved in the same superstition with me, loving in the Manichees that show of continency which he supposed true and unfeigned.
Thou enjoinest continency from concubinage; and for wedlock itself, Thou hast counselled something better than what Thou hast permitted.
Verily Thou enjoinest me continency from the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the ambition of the world.
By continency verily are we bound up and brought back into One, whence we were dissipated into many.
St. Paul gives the reason why our Savior declares continency to be a more suitable state for His ministers than that of matrimony: “He who is unmarried careth for the things of the Lord—how he may please God.
Some go so far as to declare continency impracticable.
Continency must be observed by the invalid during the nine days ceremonial and for four days thereafter.
Continency must be observed by the personators of the gods until all paint is removed from their bodies.
That there should be anyone in the twentieth century who does not know that a man or a woman who has not the gift of continency is totally unfit for marriage is really rather startling.
Besides, it signifies nothing, for there is neither continency nor virtue where there are no opposing desires.
Footnote 2: Continency must be observed by the personators of the gods until all paint is removed from their bodies.
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