proximum efle noveris. Sin admonitus quo- A
que non deftiteris ; jam te laqueis irreti-
tum agnofce > unde nec facile voluptatem
vinces . Si enim ex ipfa te noxia con-
verfatione eximere nequivifti> aut potius
noluifti ; quomodo te non volet, adverfarius
jugulare ? Quod fi dixeris : Converfor qui-
dem , fed detrimentum inde non patior:
Et hoc male affedi animi indicium eft .
Quo enim pado fieri poteft , ut quis
in prunis déambulét , 6c plantas pedum
non comburat ? Si item aliquem fuam_>
violantem pudicitiam confpexeris, fed mo-
rum honeftatem præfeferentem > ac fimu-
lantem ; ab fllo tibi cave , quum_>
dolus in eo fubfit . Quid enim profilent
arbor , fub qua draco latitat ?
Licet etiam in fe frudus geftare vi-
deatur ad vefcendum aptos . Honeftum
cibum fumere , ac reverenter potu refici,
6c citra inanem gloriam fapere , ac fuo
tempore dormire > nobis a providentia__>
divina conceffum eft : Fornicari autem ,
vel ftuprum inferre , aut libidinofum—>
elle , vel quam aliam fordidam concu-
pifcentiam carnalem explere , nullo nobis
modo eft permiftum . Si volueris
cafte vivere , continentiam fedare , 6c
noxias a te converfationes amputa. Quam-
diu enim quis * fcandali occafiones non vi-
ta t , impofsibile fuerit, a corde ejus pertur-
bationes pravarum cogitationum , 6c incen-
dium improbarum concupifcentiarum recede
re : fiquidem adfpedus qui apparet, 6c
fermones pafsionem motumque in animo il-
lius excitant . Nam ficut fpongia humidis
admota , fubjedam humiditatem haurit »
participatque : ita quoque cogitationis in-
firmitate laborans , fi ad carnales homines
acceflerit , aut multum cum iis fermonem
mifcuerit, commune cum iis damnum participant
. Unde 6c propterea ebrius abfque
vino fubmergitur : Nam ex quo ipfe damno
præfenti repletur , non amplius fpiritalem
fermonem admittit. Siquidem effrænata cu-
piditas animum ejus præoccupans detinenf-
que, impedimentum fermoni Ipiritali ponit,
atque ipfi aditum intercludit : Nam fi quis
accurate perdifcere v e lit, inveniet eodem fe
modo habere pafsiones, non folum circa vo-
luptatis amorem, fed inquacumque re alia
interdira. Quandocumque enim concupi-
fcentia per res fenfibiles in animum fefe infi-
nuarit, mox ipfum cogitatione circumdat 6c
obfidet, divinoque fermoni ingreffum præ-
cludit. Et quemadmodum fi quis fpongiam
aceto intingat, & priufquam hanc exprimât,
vino earn irrorare velit,id non admittit;quum
præoccupans aceti fluxus ac liquor, ingruentibus
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Idcirco neceflarium eft novitiis religiofis,
ut rarifsime de çogitationibus .fecretis
inter fe conférant atque confabulentur.
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