LXXVIIII. De poenitentia peccati eontra naturam.
LXXVIIII. De poenitentia peccati eontra naturam.
But those who, through contrary fornication, have abandoned the right order of human nature, both in men and women, and who desire to be free from the guilt of the same sin through repentance, and who punish themselves with sackcloth, fasting, and scourging, and who, with pure prayers, make God favorable to themselves through humble kneeling,
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Qui vero contraria fomicatione, et in masculis et in feminis, rectitudinera humanae naturae destituerint, et pocnis ejusdem peccati per poenitentiam abesse desideraverint, et ipsi cilicio et jejuniis et flagellis se castigent, ac genuum incurvationibus cum purissimis orationibus Deum sibi placabilem faciant.
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