V. ON EXHORTATION TO CHASTITY
- CHAP. I.—INTRODUCTION. VIRGINITY CLASSIFIED
UNDER THREE SEVERAL SPECIES.
- CHAP. II.—THE BLAME OF OUR MISDEEDS NOT TO BE
CAST UPON GOD. THE ONE POWER WHICH RESTS WITH MAN IS THE POWER OF
VOLITION.
- CHAP. III.—OF INDULGENCE AND PURE VOLITION. THE
QUESTION ILLUSTRATED.[5]
- CHAP. IV.—FURTHER REMARKS UPON THE APOSTLE'S
LANGUAGE.
- CHAP. V.—UNITY OF MARRIAGE TAUGHT BY ITS FIRST
INSTITUTION, AND BY THE APOSTLE'S APPLICATION OF THAT PRIMAL TYPE TO
CHRIST AND THE CHURCH.
- CHAP. VII.—EVEN THE OLD DISCIPLINE WAS NOT
WITHOUT PRECEDENTS TO ENFORCE MONOGAMY. BUT IN THIS AS IN OTHER
RESPECTS, THE NEW HAS BROUGHT IN A HIGHER PERFECTION.
- CHAP. VIII.—IF IT BE GRANTED THAT SECOND MARRIAGE
IS LAWFUL, YET ALL THINGS LAWFUL ARE NOT EXPEDIENT.
- CHAP. IX.—SECOND MARRIAGE A SPECIES OF ADULTERY,
MARRIAGE ITSELF IMPUGNED, AS AKIN TO ADULTERY.
- CHAP. X—APPLICATION OF THE SUBJECT. ADVANTAGES OF
WIDOWHOOD.
- CHAP. XI.—THE MORE THE WIVES, THE GREATER THE
DISTRACTION OF THE SPIRIT.
- CHAP. XII.—EXCUSES COMMONLY URGED IN DEFENCE OF
SECOND MARRIAGE. THEIR FUTILITY, ESPECIALLY IN THE CASE OF CHRISTIANS,
POINTED OUT.
- CHAP. XIII.—EXAMPLES FROM AMONG THE HEATHEN, AS
WELL AS FROM THE CHURCH, TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING EXHORTATION.
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