Vulgar words in The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained (Page 1)
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It is well to fast; but that only can be called true fasting, when we give the body no more food than is needful for it that it may retain its health and endure labor and watchfulness--that the old ass do not become too obstinate, and going on the ice to dance, break a bone; but go on subject to control, and following the spirit; not after the manner of those who, whenever they fast, fill themselves so full of fish and the best wine, that their bellies are puffed out.
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If the being shorn and anointed makes a priest, then might I easily shear an ass and anoint him, so that he should be a priest also.
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But they have hence inferred that _creatura_ means an ox or an ass, as the Pope also speaks of it.
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The prophet Samuel, also, "You know that I have taken of you no man's ass or ox."
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To blaspheme is to libel, damn, and curse; as when one condemns the christian estate as error and heresy.
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Upon this, he rose up and mounted upon an ass.
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For then you may answer, Has not God spoken even by an ass?
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Besides they are sensual or brutish men, who have no more understanding and spirit than an ox or an ass; they walk according to their natural reason and fleshly mind.