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The spiritual combat; together with the supplement; and, The path of paradise

CONTENTS THE SPIRITUAL COMBAT Chap. page I. In what Christian Perfection consists; and that the attainment of it involves a struggle, and of four things necessary for this conflict 1 II. Of Distrust of ourselves 8 III. Of Trust in God 12 IV. How we may know whether we are acting with self-distrust and Trust in God 15 V. Of the mistake of many, who hold Timidity for a Virtue 16 VI. Further advice as to obtaining this Distrust of self and Trust in God 17 VII. Of Spiritual Exercise; and first of the Exercise of the Understanding, which must be preserved from Ignorance and Curiosity 19 VIII. Of the Hindrances to a right Discernment of things, and of the course which we should take in order to Judge truly concerning them 21 IX. Of another thing from which the Understanding must be preserved in order to exercise a Right Judgment 24 X. Of the Exercise of the Will, and of the End to which all our Actions, both inward and outward, should be directed 27 XI. Of some Considerations which may induce the Will to seek in all things the Good Pleasure of God 33 XII. Of the divers Wills which are in Man, and of the Warfare between them 34 XIII. Of the way to resist the Sensual Impulses, and of the A

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