The Spiritual Doctrine Of Father Louis Lallemant
Subtitle: Of The Company Of Jesus, Preceded By Some Account Of His Life
Publisher: Burns and Lambert
Published: 1855
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: Advertisement 1; title: Life of Father Louis Lallemant 3; title: FIRST PRINCIPLE.; title: THE CONSIDERATION OF THE END.; title: CHAP.; title: I. God alone can make us happy 37; title: II. Our happiness depends on our perfect submission to God, who ought to reign alone in our hearts 41; title: SECOND PRINCIPLE.; title: THE IDEA OF PERFECTION.; title: SECTION I.; title: OF PERFECTION IN GENERAL.; title: I. The first act of a soul seeking perfection 43; title: Art. i. How we ought to seek God in all things, and to seek but Him alone 43; title: ii. We must give ourselves wholly to God 47; title: iii. How subtlety and dissimulation keep us far from God 49; title: II. The principal means of perfection 30; title: Art. i. The sacraments are the principal means of acquiring perfection 50; title: ii. The use of penances 51; title: III. The exercise of the virtues that are most necessary to perfection 52; title: Art. i. Of faith 52; title: III. Art. ii. How much our want of confidence displeases God and injures ourselves 54; title: iii. Of humility 56; title: iv. Of the love of crosses 59; title: SECTION II.; title: OF THE PERFECTION PECULIAR TO THE COMPANY OF JESUS.; title: I. Wherein consists the perfection peculiar to this Company 61; title: Art. i. The end of the institution of the Company of Jesus, and the means of arriving thereat 61; title: ii. The Company belongs to Jesus Christ as Saviour 63; title: iii. St. Ignatius the model of the perfection of the Company 64; title: II. Of the different dispositions of religious with regard to perfection 65; title: III. The motives that induce us to labour at our perfection 67; title: Art. i. The desire of our own salvation 67; title: ii. The order of a well-regulated zeal 68; title: iii. The fruit of our labours 68; title: iv. How many persons are interested in our perfection 69; title: IV. The means of perfection peculiar to the Company 70; title: Art. i. In what way the exercise of prayer in the Company should be practised 70; title: ii. The obedience and exact observance of the rules peculiar to our Company, and the motives thereto 72; title: V. Zeal for the salvation and perfection of our neighbour 74; title: Art. i. Motive for zeal 74; title: ii. What use we ought to make of knowledge, after the example of St. Ignatius 74; title: iii. The means by which the reputation and influence of the Company are to be maintained 75; title: VI. Divers counsels 77; title: Art. i. Advice to a teacher of young religious on their coming out of the noviciate 77; title: ii. Advice to the Fathers of the third year for the time of their noviciate 82; title: iii. Advice to the Fathers of the third year, on completing their noviciate, for their conduct during the rest of their life 86; title: VI. Art. iv. Advice to preachers 90; title: v. Advice for various employments in the Company 92; title: THIRD PRINCIPLE.; title: PURITY OF HEART.; title: I. Its nature and properties 96; title: Art. i. In what purity of heart consists 96; title: ii. How necessary purity of heart is to us 96; title: iii. The order to be observed in purity of heart, and the different degrees of purity 98; title: II. The things from which we must cleanse our hearts 100; title: Art. i. Venial sins 100; title: ii. The passions 103; title: iii. The fund of pride there is in us 105; title: iv. We must not neglect our least imperfections 109; title: v. Of the denial of our inclinations, in order to put ourselves in a state of holy indifference 110; title: vi. How we ought to comport ourselves with respect to divine graces, and with what self-abnegation we must receive them 113; title: III. The care we ought to take to preserve purity of heart in action 117; title: Art. i. We must perform our actions with a pure intention 117; title: ii. We ought to act on supernatural principles 118; title: IV. Mental causes of the corruption of the heart 118; title: Art. i. Error and false maxims 118; title: ii. Ignorance 119; title: V. External causes of the corruption of the heart 122; title: Art. i. The harm that results from particular friendships, and the conversations of the imperfect 122; title: ii. The faults we ought to avoid in conversation 123; title: iii. Of unprofitable visits and conversation 124; title: FOURTH PRINCIPLE.; title: OF THE GUIDANCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND DOCILITY THERETO.; title: I. The nature of docility to the guidance of the Holy Spirit 126; title: Art. i. In what this docility consists 126; title: ii. The means of attaining this docility 127; title: iii. Objections against this doctrine of the guidance of the Holy Spirit 128; title: II. The motives which lead us to the practice of this docility 131; title: Art. i. That perfection, and even salvation, depend on docility to grace 131 \; title: ii. There are but few perfect souls, because there are but few who follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit 135; title: iii The excellence of grace, and the injustice of the opposition we offer to it 137; title: iv. The Holy Spirit exercises the office of comforter to faithful souls 139; title: III. Of the gifts of the Holy Spirit in general 141; title: Art. i. Of the nature of the gifts of the Holy Spirit 141; title: ii. Of the effects of the gifts of the Holy Spirit 143; title: iii. Whence it comes that the gifts of the Holy Spirit produce so little effect in souls 147; title: IV. Of the gifts of the Holy Spirit in detail 150; title: Art i. Of the gift of wisdom 150; title: ii. Of the gift of understanding 158; title: iii. Of the gift of science 162; title: iv. Of the gift of counsel 171; title: v. Of the gift of piety 178; title: vi. Of the gift of fortitude 182; title: vii. Of the gift of the fear of God 188; title: V. Of the fruits of the Holy Spirit 193; title: Art. i. Of the nature of the fruits of the Holy Spirit 193; title: ii. Of the fruits of ckarity, joy, and peace 195; title: iii. Of the fruits of patience and meekness 198; title: iv. Of the fruits of goodness and benignity 199; title: v. Of Ihe fruits of longanimity 199; title: vi. Of the fruits of faith 199; title: vii. Of the fruits of modesty, temperance, and chastity 201; title: VI. The obstacles which the devil puts in our way in the practice of docility to the guidance of the Holy Spirit 202; title: Art. i. How the devil prevents our spiritual advancement 202; title: ii. Different artifices of the devil to deceive us 203; title: iii. Of distinguishing between the operations of God and those of the devil 205; title: iv. Secret illusions 206; title: v. Marks of a deluded soul 207; title: vi. What we ought to observe in the movements leading us to good 208; title: FIFTH PRINCIPLE.; title: RECOLLECTION, AND THE INTERIOR LIFE.; title: I. Of the nature and causes of the interior life 209; title: Art. i. In what the interior life consists 209; title: ii. How we ought to imitate the interior life of God 211; title: iii. How it is that we make so little progress in the interior life 212; title: II. Of the motives that lead us to the interior life 213; title: Art. i. We make no progress in the ways of perfection unless we give ourselves to the interior life 213; title: ii. W ithout prayer we cannot acquit ourselves of the duties of our vocation, nor gather fruit from our ministrations 215; title: iii. Peace is not found except in the interior life, and our dissatisfactions spring only from our not being interior men 219; title: III. The occupations of the interior life 220; title: Art. i. Of watchfulness over our interior 220; title: ii. How important it is that we should join the interior life with our exterior occupations 225; title: iii. We ought not to engage in exterior occupations of our own accord 227; title: IV. Advice for the interior life 228; title: Art i. We ought to cultivate the will more than the understanding 228; title: ii. The path of faith is a safer way to perfection than that of sensible graces 229; title: iii. The best mode of practising the virtues 229; title: IV. Art iii. The advantages of contemplation 301; title: iv. Contemplation, so far from being opposed thereto, is necessary to the Apostolic life 304; title: v. What contemplation is 306; title: vi. Of the properties and effects of contemplation 308; title: vii. Different divisions of the degrees of contemplation 312; title: viii. Another division of the degrees of contemplation 317; title: ix. Opinion on the above divisions 321; title: ADDITIONS.; title: I. Of perfection in general 327; title: Art. i. Motives that excite us to perfection 327; title: ii. Wherein perfection consists, and what dispositions we ought to bring thereto 327; title: iii. Of the practice of perfection 329; title: II. Of purity of heart 330; title: III. In what the faithful service of God consists 332; title: IV. Important advice for the advancement of souls 332; title: V. Of humility 333; title: VI. Of holy simplicity 334; title: VII. Of the spirit of devotion 335; title: VIII. Of different kinds of religious, and of the things that are most prejudicial to certain holy communities 337; title: IX. Of the spirit of the Company of Jesus 338; title: X. Of the kingdom of God in souls 344; title: Art. i. In what the kingdom of God consists, and its advantages 344; title: ii. Of the conduct of the kingdom of God 345; title: iii. Of the happiness of the kingdom of God 347; title: iv. Of the practice of the interior kingdom of God, or the means of establishing it within us 349