Of the love of God
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- Of the love of God
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- 1888
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Of the love of God
Author: Francis, de Sales, Saint, 1567-1622
Year: 1888
CONTENTS. BOOK I. INTRODUCTION TO THE WHOLE TREATISE. I. How, in order to the perfecting of human nature, God has committed the government of all the soul's faculties to the will 1 II. Of the different ways in which the will rules the powers of the soul 3 III. How the will contests the sensuous appetite 5 IV. Love governs all the affections and passions, and even the will, although that in its turn governs love 8 V. The affections of the will 10 VI. How the love of God predominates over all other love 12 VII. What love is 14 VIII. What that attraction is which excites love 18 IX. Love tends to union 20 X. The union which love seeks is spiritual 21 XI. There are two parts of the soul 26 XII. In these two parts of the soul there are four different degrees of reason 29 XIII. Of different kinds of love 31 XIV. Charity synonymous with love 33 XV. The adaptation between God and man 34 XVI We have a disposition to love God above ail things 36 XVII. Nature alone cannot love God in all things 37 XVIII. Our natural inclination to love God is not without its use 39 BOOK II. THE ORIGIN OF DIVINE LOVE. I. God's Perfection is manifold yet one 41 II. God's sole action is His Divinity 43 III. Of D