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The Practice Of Christian And Religious Perfection, Volume 1

The Practice Of Christian And Religious Perfection, Volume 1 [you are here] The Practice Of Christian And Religious Perfection, Volume 2 The Practice Of Christian And Religious Perfection, Volume 3 CONTENTS. Life of Alphonsus Rodriguez, ix Translator to the Reader, xi Alphonsus Rodriguez to the Religious of the Society of Jesus, xiv THE FIRST TREATISE. I. The great Value we ought to set on Spiritual Things, 1 II. What a Love and ardent Desire of Perfection we ought to have, 8 III. That an ardent Desire of our Spiritual Advancement is a Means and Disposition most proper for obtaining Favours from God, 13 IV. The more we apply ourselves to spiritual Things, the more earnestly shall we desire them, 16 V. That the Desire a Man has of becoming perfect in Virtue, is a great Mark that he is in the State of Grace, 19 VI. That not to advance in Virtue is to go back, 21 VII. That a good Means of attaining Perfection is to think continually on what we are deficient in — without thinking on what we have acquired, 25 VIII. To aim at the highest Things is very conducive to the Attainment of Perfection, 31 IX How important it is not to neglect the smallest Things, 37 X. Another weighty Reason whi

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