wanton stories or wicked actions of ourselves or others.-3. By singing unchaste songs, or reciting immodest verses. 4. By soliciting others to any sort of impurity.

IV. By the touch.-In using indecent actions, or by touching one's self or others immodestly.

V. By thoughts.-1. By entertaining impure thoughts wilfully and with delight. -2. By desiring to commit the things thought on.-3. In resolving to commit them.

VI. By immodest actions.—1. In occasioning pollution in one's self or others.-2. In committing the sin of impurity; and whether effected by soliciting, seducing with promises, or forcing; and whether it be fornication, or adultery, or incest. 3. In sins against nature.

The seventh Commandment is broken,

1. By taking another's goods, and to what value.-2. By retaining what we know belongs to another.-3. By denying our debts, or wilfully delaying payment, to the prejudice of our neighbours. 4. By making unjust bargains or contracts, into which every trade or profession ought to make a strict inquiry.-5. By causing any damage to our neigh bours.-6. By putting off false and

counterfeit money.-7. By desiring another's property.-8. By not giving alms when necessity requires.-9. By not paying tithes.-10. By simony.

The eighth Commandment is broken,

1. By witnessing what is false, or defending a false accusation, as in lawyers and solicitors; or condemning the innocent, or discharging the guilty, as judges and arbitrators.-2. By detraction, either in laying something false to another's charge, or reporting for truth what is merely doubtful; or in revealing something as yet secret and unknown, though true, to the prejudice of some third person: with a declaration, whether it be done out of levity and indiscretion, or out of malice or ill-will; whether in the presence of many, or in a matter of importance.-3. By lying, or speaking what we judge to be otherwise than we say whether out of custom, or to the considerable prejudice of others.-4. By hypocrisy, which is a lie in action.

The ninth and tenth are broken,

1. By all unlawful and wilful desires of impurity and theft; which have been already mentioned in the sixth and seventh commandments.

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Jenis The Precepts of the Church. 11913 d. To keep certain appointed days holy, with the obligation of hearing Mass, and resting from servile works II. To observe the days of abstinence and fasting. III. To confess our sins to our pastors at least once a year. IVTo receive the blessed sacrament at Easter, or thereabouts. V. To pay tithes to our 'bo) rol spurtiterg

pastor.

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1979z bas THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS.

The Sin of Pride consists, I

1. IN entertaining too great an opinions? or valuing ourselves above our deserts. 2. In publishing what we think good inb ourselves, that we may be esteemed by others, 3. In arrogance, by attributing to ourselves the good we have not4m In presumption and ambition, by conid fiding too much in our own strengthid conceiting ourselves capable of accom plishing things above our abilities, and ins rashly attempting them. 5. In contempt

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f others, on account of the good opinion we have of ourselves, and when this con-of tempt is manifested by words or actionspa or by being severe, and exacting on ineis feriors. 6. In want of submission to our s uperiors, by disobeying them, blamingai

their conduct, or murmuring against them.7. In not acknowledging our faults, or when confessing the facts, we maintain we have done well, or at least allege false excuses. 8. In contempt of admonitions and corrections. 9. In discord./10. In hypocrisy. 11. In cu riosity, which inclines us to know things prejudicial to our salvation. 12. By ingratitude for God's benefits.

The sins of covetousness, luxury, and sloth," have been already examined, in the first, sixth, and seventh commandments.

The Sin of Gluttony.

In eating or drinking to excess, as far as they are prejudicial either to our health or our reason, or any ways sean dalous or of ill example to others.

The Sin of Envy.

Trouble at the good success of our neighbour, or when we endeavour to do him an unkindness, or speak often against him or create an ill opinion of him in the mind of another. 2. When we rejoice at our neighbour's harm.

Jqma The Sin of Anger.

1. Not to endure any thing contrary to our inclinations. 2. To suffer our-" selves to be hurried away by the emotions of wrath, against those that give us any trouble. 3. To proceed to quarrel, injurious language, oaths, curses, threats;

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to take revenge, or to desire and wish to be in a capacity of doing it. 4. To refuse to pardon injuries, or to be reconciled to our enemies, or to such of our neighbours with whom we have had some misunderstanding or falling out.

An Examination of Sins which one 1. commits in the Person of another.

1. In doing an evil action, or what is esteemed to be so, in the presence. cf others; more especially if it be done with a design to excite others to sin. 2. By forcibly compelling them to evil. 3. In giving aid or assistance to wicked actions, by money or otherwise. 4. In harbouring or concealing bad people, that they may not be discovered or punished. 5. In sharing in an evil, whether it be in the action itself, or in the profits arising from it. 6. In not preventing evil when one may. 7. By teaching one an evil of which he was ignorant before. 8. By commanding, counselling, soliciting, threatening, or otherwise provoking another to evil. 9. By approving wicked actions, or applauding them that commit them. 10. By boasting of the sins we have committed, or of such as we never did commit. 11. By slighting the good