The third sort are the Sarabites, a most wicked class; these not having been proved by rule and discipline, as gold is proved in the furnace, but softened, rather, as lead, by their sensual and worldly manner of life, make a public declaration of their infidelity to their sacred engagements, by wearing the Monastic tonsure. Shutting themselves up, two or three together, and, sometimes, even alone, without a shepherd—not in the sheepfolds of the Lord, but in those of their own choosing, they observe no other law, than the gratification of their vicious appetites; calling, holy, whatever is
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