Chapter XII.
That except that wholesome sorrow, which springs up in
three ways, all sorrow and dejection should be resisted as hurtful.
Wherefore
except that sorrow
which is endured either for the sake of saving penitence, or for the
sake of aiming at perfection, or for the desire of the future, all
sorrow and dejection must equally be resisted, as belonging to this
world, and being that which “worketh death,” and must be
entirely expelled from our hearts like the spirit of fornication and
covetousness and anger.