Treatise — Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis

Tract VIII: On Temperance and Annexed Virtues, Especially Humility

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Usefulness. - It will profit us not a little if, together with a more distinct knowledge, we procure for ourselves a true estimation of humility and mansuetude: both of which virtues, especially Christian, are today despised and held up to mockery by not a few.

Order of speaking. - After a brief exposition concerning the generic character of Temperance, we shall treat in distinct chapters of Humility, of Mansuetude, of Modesty, of Affability, and of Eutrapelia.

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