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The spiritual combat : together with the The supplement and The path of Paradise

CONTENTS SPIRITUAL COMBAT 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 7 III. Of Trust in God 10 IV. How we may know whether we are acting with Distrust of self and Trust in God 12 V. Of the mistake of many, who hold Timidity for a Virtue 13 VI. Further advice as to obtaining this Distrust of self and Trust in God 14 VII. Of Spiritual Exercise; and first of the Exercise of tne Understanding, which must be preserved from Ignorance and Curiosity 16 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 17 IX. Of another thing from which the Understanding must be preserved in order to exercise a Right Judgment 19 X. Of the Exercise of the Will, and of the End to which all our Actions, both inward and outward, should be directed 21 XI. Of some Considerations which may induce the Will to seek in all things the Good Pleasure of God 26 XII. Of the divers Wills which are in Man, and of the Warfare between them 27 XIII. Of the way to resist the Sensual Impulses, and of the Acts to be pe

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