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Chapter XX.

An objection on the ease of that abstinence in which a man is sustained by two biscuits.

And this we gladly embraced, and answered that we should scarcely consider this limit as abstinence, as we could not possibly reach it entirely.


Next: Chapter XXI. The answer concerning the value and measure of well-proved abstinence.