St. Anselm's book of meditations and prayers

St. Anselm's book of meditations and prayers

Author: Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109

Year: 1872

CONTENTS. Preface xi Prologue xv FIRST MEDITATION. OF THE DIGNITY AND THE WOE OF MAN'S ESTATE. SECT. 1. Our creation to the Image and Likeness of God 1 2. To praise God eternally the end of our creation 4 3. Wherever we are, we live, move, and are in Him; whilst also we have Him within us 6 4. All of us who have been baptized in Christ have put on Christ 10 5. We are the body of Christ 11 6. In Christ we are one, and are with Him one Christ 12 7. A consideration of our sins, for the which our conscience does the more sting us, and by which we have forfeited all these blessings 16 8. A review of our Lord's Incarnation, by means of which we have recovered all these losses 19 9. The duty of praying to be drawn out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs 24 10. A consideration of the miseries of the present life 27 11. Of the body after the soul's departure 30 12. Of the soul after her separation from the body 32 13. A consideration of the day of judgment, when the goats shall be set on the left hand 33 14. A consideration of the joy when the sheep shall he set on the right hand 84 SECOND MEDITATION. OF THE AWFUL JUDGMENT I FOR AWAKENING FEAR IN ONESELF. 15. The sinner's fear 36 16.