one must examine oneself so that by one’s abstention one does not expose oneself to the danger of fornication and other sins. Neither should one pay any attention to holy days or work days, or other physical considerations. What we would speak most of is the fact that the estate of marriage has universally fallen into such awful disrepute. There are many pagan books that treat of nothing but the depravity of womankind and the unhappiness of the estate of marriage, such that some have thought that