Quam vana igitur, immo desperata argumentatio eorum, qui sine dubio tergiversatione amittendae voluptatis optendunt nullam eius abstinentiae []mentionem specialiter vel localiter in scripturis determinari, quae directo prohibeat eiusmodi conventibus inseri servum dei.
How vain, then,'yes! how desperate is the reasoning of those who, obviously to dodge the loss of pleasure, put forward the plea that no mention of such self-denial is made in Scripture, in definite terms or definite passage, directly forbidding the servant of God to push himself into gatherings of that kind!
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