The spiritual combat, by the venerable servant of God, Lawrence Scupoli, clerk regular: with the path of paradise by the same
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The spiritual combat, by the venerable servant of God, Lawrence Scupoli, clerk regular: with the path of paradise by the same
Author: Scupoli, Lorenzo, 1530-1610
Year: 1846
CONTENTS. 1. What constitutes Christian perfection. We must fight in order to attain it : of the four things necessary for this combat 1 2. Of mistrust of self 7 3. Of trust in God 10 4. How a man may know whether he is acting in mistrust of self, and trust in God 12 5. Of the error of many, who mistake fear for godliness 13 6. Further advice as to the attainment of mistrust of self, and trust in God 14 7. Of spiritual exercise, and first of the understanding, which must be guarded against ignorance and curiosity 16 8. Of the causes which hinder us from a right discernment of things, and of the method which we must adopt for enabling us to understand them aright 17 9. Of another thing from which the understanding must be guarded, to enable it to discern things rightly 19 10. Of the exercise of the will, and of the end to which all actions, whether external or internal, should tend 21 11. Of some considerations which may incline the will to seek to please God in all things 26 12. Of the divers wills that are in man, and of the warfare between them. 27 13. Of the way to resist the impulses of sense, and of the acts to be performed by the will, in order to acquire habits of holiness 3
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