Sunt qui existimant Christianos, expeditum morti genus, ad hanc obstinationem abdicatione voluptatium erudiri, quo facilius vitam contemnant amputatis quasi retinaculis eius nec desiderent, quam iam supervacuam sibi fecerunt, ut hoc consilio potius et humano prospectu, non divino praescripto definitum existimetur.
There are those who think that Christians, a race of men ever ready for death, are trained in that stubbornnessa of theirs by the renunciation of pleasures, that they may find it easier to despise life, when once its ties (if the word be allowed) are severed, and they no longer crave what they have emptied of meaning for themselves. This would make it a rule of human prudence and fore thought rather than of divine command.
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