33. Whereas, then, all
Christians have to guard humility, forasmuch as it is from Christ
that they are called Christians, Whose Gospel no one considers with
care, but that he discovers Him to be a Teacher of humility;
specially is it becoming that they be followers and keepers of this
virtue, who excel the rest of men in any great good, in order that
they may have a great care of that, which I set down in the
beginning, “By how much thou art great, by so much humble thyself
in all things, and thou shall find grace before God.”
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Wherefore,
because perpetual Continence and specially virginity, is a great
good in the Saints of God, they must with all watchfulness beware,
that it be not corrupted with pride.
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Ecclus. iii. 18