Chapter III.
Of the two classes of faults and their fourfold manner
of acting on us.
Of
these faults then
there are two classes. For they are either natural to us as gluttony,
or arise outside of nature as covetousness. But their manner of acting
on us is fourfold. For some cannot be consummated without an act on the
part of the flesh, as gluttony and fornication, while some can be
completed without any bodily act, as pride and vainglory. Some find the
reasons for their being excited outside us, as covetousness and anger;
others are aroused by internal feelings, as accidie
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and dejection.
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For this word see
the note on the Institutes V. i.