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But for those that are caught in any heinous sins, they cast them
out of their society; and he who is thus separated from them does often
die after a miserable manner; for as he is bound by the oath he hath taken,
and by the customs he hath been engaged in, he is not at liberty to partake
of that food that he meets with elsewhere, but is forced to eat grass,
and to famish his body with hunger, till he perish; for which reason they
receive many of them again when they are at their last gasp, out of compassion
to them, as thinking the miseries they have endured till they came to the
very brink of death to be a sufficient punishment for the sins they had
been guilty of.
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