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. The sinner's hope 42 THIRD MEDITATION. A BEMOANING OF VIRGINITY SADLY LOST. 17. The sinner's past 44 18. The sinner's future 48 FOURTH MEDITATION. TEACHING THE SINNER TO BESTIR HIMSELF FOR THE AMENDMENT OF HIS SINS. 19. The necessity and the benefit of careful self-examination 53 20. The goodness of God, and the malignity of the Devil 56 21. The compassion of Jesus 58 FIFTH MEDITATION. 22. On the life of soul and of flesh 62 23. And of the glory of the good soul 64 24. And the misery of the wicked soul, on their departure from the body 65. SIXTH MEDITATION. DESIGNED TO BRACE THE HEART AGAINST DESPAIR, FORASMUCH AS WE SHALL WITHOUT DOUBT FIND TRUE MERCY FOR ALL OUR SINS IF WE DO TRUE PENANCE. 25. The condition of the sinner 69 26. The Divine mercy before the Incarnation 70 27. The Divine mercy in the Incarnation 72 28. The sinner's contemplation of himself 75 29. The sinner's prayer to Jesus Christ 77 SEVENTH MEDITATION. 30. Of the changefulness of all that is in the world 81 31. Of the manifold blessings of Almighty God 82 32. Here the sinner chides himself for his ingratitude 83 33. An acknowledgment of sin 85 34. The sinner's review of himself 87 35. The sinner's cry to God 89 EIGHTH MEDITATION. THE PENITENT'S ADDRESS TO GOD HIS FATHER. 36. A prayer for mercy and help 93 37. The penitent's hope in the Divine mercy 97 NINTH MEDITATION. OF THE HUMANITY OF CHRIST. 38. The glories and the condescension of our Lord Jesus Christ 101 39. The Nativity of Christ, and its sanctification of poverty 104 40. The hidden life and ministry of our Lord 106 41. The meekness and humility of Christ 109 42. The agony and the betrayal 111 43. The condemnation and the crucifixion 114 44. The humiliations of the Passion 117 45. The glories of the Passion 119 46. Joseph in Egypt a type of Christ 120 47. Love our only possible return to Christ for His sufferings 122 48. The likeness of His Death and of His Resurrection 124 49. Aspiration and prayer 180 TENTH MEDITATION. 50. Of the Passion of Christ 133 ELEVENTH MEDITATION. OF THE REDEMPTION OF MANKIND. 51. Cur Deus Homo 136 52. Thanksgiving for the liberation of mankind 145 53. Man's past condition and present privilege 147 54. The soul's surrender of itself to God 150 TWELFTH MEDITATION. OF THE HUMANITY OF CHRIST. 55. The Mystery of the Incarnation 152 56. Hope inspired by the thought of the Incarnation 153 57. Joy inspired by the thought of the Incarnation 155 58. Love inspired by the thought of the Incarnation 157 59. Jesus the Salvation of sinners 160 THIRTEENTH MEDITATION. OF CHRIST. 60. The Son of God, archetypal Beauty 163 61. The nine Choirs of Angels 166 62. The desires of the soul aspiring to God 170 63. The Saints in heaven 174 64. The joys of Mary, Queen of Heaven, and Mother of God 176 65. The loving aspirations of the soul to Jesus 177 FOURTEENTH MEDITATION. 66. Of the wonderful Being of God 181 67. Of the science of God, and the inadequacy of human speech to utter it 184 68. Of the desire of a bouI thirsting after God 185 69. Of the misery of a soul that loves not and that seeks not our Lord Jesus Christ 187 70. Of the desire of the soul 189 71. Of the happiness of the soul set free from her earthly prison 190 72. Of the joy of Paradise 192 73. Of the kingdom of heaven 193 74. God comforts the sorrowing sonl after her great griefs 195 FIFTEENTH MEDITATION. OF THE MEMORY OF PAST BENEFITS FROM CHRIST, OF THE EXPERIENCE OF PRESENT BENEFITS, AND OF THE HOPE OF FUTURE. 75. On the subjects of meditation 197 76. The Annunciation 199 77. The Visitation, Nativity, and Adoration of the Kings 200 78. The flight into Egypt 202 79. The early life, baptism, fasting, and ministry of our Lord 203 80. Out Lord's works of mercy 205 81. Bethany and the Ccenaculum 207 82. Gethsemane and the high-priest's palace 211 83. The Prsetorium 213 84. The Crucifixion 214 85. The Entombment and Resurrection 217 SIXTEENTH MEDITATION. OF PRESENT BENEFITS FROM GOD. 86. The writer's review of his past life, and exhortation to his sister 221 SEVENTEENTH MEDITATION. OF FUTURE BENEFITS FROM GOD, 87. Death and its immediate sequel 228 88. The Day of Judgment : the right hand and the left 231 89. The joys of Heaven, and the joy of joys 234 EIGHTEENTH MEDITATION. THANKSGIVING FOB THE BENEFITS OF THE DIVINE MERCY, AND PRAYER FOR THE DIVINE ASSISTANCE. SECT. PAGE 90. Thanksgiving for past blessings, and prayer for future 238 91. The same subject 245 NINETEENTH MEDITATION. OF THE SWEETNESS OF THE DIVINE MAJESTY, AND OF MANY OTHER THINGS. 92. Wonder at the unspeakable goodness of God the Creator, and the deep misery of man the creature 252 93. The degree to which man may be loved by man, and the reason why God should be more loved than any human being 254 94. God made all things good, but He alone is Good essentially 256 95. The praise of the Creator by the whole creation 258 96. The resemblance of man to his Creator 259 97. Man is composed of two parts ; by the one of which he is raised to highest things, and by the other dragged down to lowest 261 98. Here man prays God not to allow him to make ill use of his free power of choice 262 TWENTIETH MEDITATION. 99. Complaint of the soul banished from God 266 100. The soul's absence from God 269 101. Complaint of the soul banished from God 273 102. The soul's return to God 275 TWENTY-FIRST MEDITATION. THE SOUL OF MAN URGED TO SEEK AND TO FIND ITS GOD. 103. The mind aroused to the contemplation of God 281 104. The inapproachable dwelling-place of God 286 105. The goodness of God, the creative Life 288 106. The fulness of joy 292 Digitized by Google.

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