that of an unmarried man with
another's wife, or of an unmarried woman with another's husband, n. 480,
481. Duplicate adultery is that of a husband with another's wife, or of
a wife with another's husband, n. 482, 483. Triplicate adultery is with
relations by blood, n. 484. There are four degrees of adulteries,
according to which they have their predications, their charges of blame,
and after death their imputation, n. 485. Adulteries of the first degree
are adulteries of ignorance, which are committed by those who cannot as
yet, or cannot at all, consult the understanding, and thence check them,
n. 486. In such cases adulteries are mild, n. 487. Adulteries of the
second degree are adulteries of lust, which are committed by those who
indeed are able to consult the understanding, but from accidental causes
at the moment are not able, n. 488. Adulteries committed by such persons
are imputatory, according as the understanding afterwards favors them or
not, n. 489. Adulteries of the third degree are adulteries of the
reason, which are committed by those who with the understanding confirm
themselves in the persuasion that they are not evils of sin, n. 490. The
adulteries committed by such persons are grievous, and are imputed to
them according to confirmations, n. 491. Adulteries of the fourth degree
are adulteries of the will, which are committed by those who make them
lawful and pleasing, and who do not think them of importance enough to
consult the understanding respecting them, n. 492. The adulteries
committed by these persons are exceedingly grievous, and are imputed to
them as evils of purpose, and remain in them as guilt, n. 493.
Adulteries of the third and fourth degree are evils of sin, according to
the quantity and quality of understanding and will in them, whether they
are actually committed or not, n. 494. Adulteries grounded in purpose of
the will, and adulteries grounded in confirmation of the understanding,
render men natural, sensual, and corporeal, n. 495, 496. And this to
such a degree, that at length they reject from themselves all things of
the church and of religion, n. 497. Nevertheless they have the powers of
human rationality like other men, n. 498. But they use that rationality
while they are in externals, but abuse it while they are in externals,
n. 499.

ON THE LUST OF DEFLORATION, n. 501-505.

The state of a virgin or undeflowered woman before and after marriage,
n. 502. Virginity is the crown of