Marriage and the church (Day, Monastic institutions, 2nd ed., 1846)
Text: "Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women..." Daniel 11:37 "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry..." 1 Timothy 4:1-3
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"The doors through which the sisters are pleased to afford an entrance to clergymen and laymen, are open even at night; and therefore such places resemble rather houses of bad fame than holy cloisters!"*
* Portæ indifferenter clericis et laicis quibus placet sororibus introitum dare, etiam in ipsis noctibus sunt apertæ. Et ideò talia loca similiora lupanaribus quàm sanctis claustris. Rev. S. Bir. lib. iv. c. 33.
Day, Samuel Phillips, Monastic institutions: their origin, progress, nature, and tendency, 2nd ed., London: James Nisbet and Co.; Dublin: Wm. Curry, Jun. and Co., 1846, p. 72.
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