QUESTION 156

OF INCONTINENCE

(In Four Articles)

We must now consider incontinence: and under this head there are four

points of inquiry:

(1) Whether incontinence pertains to the soul or to the body?

(2) Whether incontinence is a sin?

(3) The comparison between incontinence and intemperance;

(4) Which is the worse, incontinence in anger, or incontinence in

desire?

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