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sacred-texts.com  Conjugial Love   VI. THEREFORE IN POPULOUS
CITIES PUBLIC STEWS ARE TOLERATED. This is adduced as a
confirmation of the preceding article. It is well known that
they are tolerated by kings, magistrates, and thence by judges,
inquisitors, and the people, at London, Amsterdam, Paris,
Vienna, Venice, Naples, and even at Rome, besides many other
places: among the reasons of this toleration are those also
above mentioned.   VII. FORNICATION IS (COMPARATIVELY) LIGHT SO
FAR AS IT LOOKS TO CONJUGIAL LOVE AND GIVES THIS LOVE THE
PREFERENCE. There are degrees of the qualities of evil, as there
are degrees of the qualities of good; wherefore every evil is
lighter and more grievous, as every good is better and more
excellent. The case is the same with fornication; which, as
being a lust, and a lust of the natural man not yet purified, is
an evil; but as every man (_homo_) is capa