St. Anselm's Book Of Meditations And Prayers
Subtitle: translated from the Latin
By: translated from the Latin by M.R., with a preface by His Grace, the Archbishop of Westminster.
Publisher: Burns and Oates
Published: 1872
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Meditations.; Prayers.
Other titles: Book of meditations and prayers; St. Anselm's meditations
Work titles: Selections.
Notes: Burns Library copy: inscription: N.[?] G.[?] Lake.

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Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: Preface xi; title: Prologue xv; title: FIRST MEDITATION.; title: OF THE DIGNITY AND THE WOE OF MAN'S ESTATE.; title: SECT.; title: 1. Our creation to the Image and Likeness of God 1; title: 2. To praise God eternally the end of our creation 4; title: 3. Wherever we are, we live, move, and are in Him; whilst also we have Him within us 6; title: 4. All of us who have been baptized in Christ have put on Christ 10; title: 5. We are the body of Christ 11; title: 6. In Christ we are one, and are with Him one Christ 12; title: 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; title: 8. A review of our Lord's Incarnation, by means of which we have recovered all these losses 19; title: 9. The duty of praying to be drawn out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs 24; title: 10. A consideration of the miseries of the present life 27; title: 11. Of the body after the soul's departure 30; title: 12. Of the soul after her separation from the body 32; title: 13. A consideration of the day of judgment, when the goats shall be set on the left hand 33; title: 14. A consideration of the joy when the sheep shall he set on the right hand 84; title: SECOND MEDITATION.; title: OF THE AWFUL JUDGMENT I FOR AWAKENING FEAR IN ONESELF.; title: 15. The sinner's fear 36; title: 16. The sinner's hope 42; title: THIRD MEDITATION.; title: A BEMOANING OF VIRGINITY SADLY LOST.; title: 17. The sinner's past 44; title: 18. The sinner's future 48; title: FOURTH MEDITATION.; title: TEACHING THE SINNER TO BESTIR HIMSELF FOR THE AMENDMENT OF HIS SINS.; title: 19. The necessity and the benefit of careful self-examination 53; title: 20. The goodness of God, and the malignity of the Devil 56; title: 21. The compassion of Jesus 58; title: FIFTH MEDITATION.; title: 22. On the life of soul and of flesh 62; title: 23. And of the glory of the good soul 64; title: 24. And the misery of the wicked soul, on their departure from the body 65.; title: SIXTH MEDITATION.; title: 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.; title: 25. The condition of the sinner 69; title: 26. The Divine mercy before the Incarnation 70; title: 27. The Divine mercy in the Incarnation 72; title: 28. The sinner's contemplation of himself 75; title: 29. The sinner's prayer to Jesus Christ 77; title: SEVENTH MEDITATION.; title: 30. Of the changefulness of all that is in the world 81; title: 31. Of the manifold blessings of Almighty God 82; title: 32. Here the sinner chides himself for his ingratitude 83; title: 33. An acknowledgment of sin 85; title: 34. The sinner's review of himself 87; title: 35. The sinner's cry to God 89; title: EIGHTH MEDITATION.; title: THE PENITENT'S ADDRESS TO GOD HIS FATHER.; title: 36. A prayer for mercy and help 93; title: 37. The penitent's hope in the Divine mercy 97; title: NINTH MEDITATION.; title: OF THE HUMANITY OF CHRIST.; title: 38. The glories and the condescension of our Lord Jesus Christ 101; title: 39. The Nativity of Christ, and its sanctification of poverty 104; title: 40. The hidden life and ministry of our Lord 106; title: 41. The meekness and humility of Christ 109; title: 42. The agony and the betrayal 111; title: 43. The condemnation and the crucifixion 114; title: 44. The humiliations of the Passion 117; title: 45. The glories of the Passion 119; title: 46. Joseph in Egypt a type of Christ 120; title: 47. Love our only possible return to Christ for His sufferings 122; title: 48. The likeness of His Death and of His Resurrection 124; title: 49. Aspiration and prayer 180; title: TENTH MEDITATION.; title: 50. Of the Passion of Christ 133; title: ELEVENTH MEDITATION.; title: OF THE REDEMPTION OF MANKIND.; title: 51. Cur Deus Homo 136; title: 52. Thanksgiving for the liberation of mankind 145; title: 53. Man's past condition and present privilege 147; title: 54. The soul's surrender of itself to God 150; title: TWELFTH MEDITATION.; title: OF THE HUMANITY OF CHRIST.; title: 55. The Mystery of the Incarnation 152; title: 56. Hope inspired by the thought of the Incarnation 153; title: 57. Joy inspired by the thought of the Incarnation 155; title: 58. Love inspired by the thought of the Incarnation 157; title: 59. Jesus the Salvation of sinners 160; title: THIRTEENTH MEDITATION.; title: OF CHRIST.; title: 60. The Son of God, archetypal Beauty 163; title: 61. The nine Choirs of Angels 166; title: 62. The desires of the soul aspiring to God 170; title: 63. The Saints in heaven 174; title: 64. The joys of Mary, Queen of Heaven, and Mother of God 176; title: 65. The loving aspirations of the soul to Jesus 177; title: FOURTEENTH MEDITATION.; title: 66. Of the wonderful Being of God 181; title: 67. Of the science of God, and the inadequacy of human speech to utter it 184; title: 68. Of the desire of a bouI thirsting after God 185; title: 69. Of the misery of a soul that loves not and that seeks not our Lord Jesus Christ 187; title: 70. Of the desire of the soul 189; title: 71. Of the happiness of the soul set free from her earthly prison 190; title: 72. Of the joy of Paradise 192; title: 73. Of the kingdom of heaven 193; title: 74. God comforts the sorrowing sonl after her great griefs 195; title: FIFTEENTH MEDITATION.; title: OF THE MEMORY OF PAST BENEFITS FROM CHRIST, OF THE EXPERIENCE OF PRESENT BENEFITS, AND OF THE HOPE OF FUTURE.; title: 75. On the subjects of meditation 197; title: 76. The Annunciation 199; title: 77. The Visitation, Nativity, and Adoration of the Kings 200; title: 78. The flight into Egypt 202; title: 79. The early life, baptism, fasting, and ministry of our Lord 203; title: 80. Out Lord's works of mercy 205; title: 81. Bethany and the Ccenaculum 207; title: 82. Gethsemane and the high-priest's palace 211; title: 83. The Prsetorium 213; title: 84. The Crucifixion 214; title: 85. The Entombment and Resurrection 217; title: SIXTEENTH MEDITATION.; title: OF PRESENT BENEFITS FROM GOD.; title: 86. The writer's review of his past life, and exhortation to his sister 221; title: SEVENTEENTH MEDITATION.; title: OF FUTURE BENEFITS FROM GOD,; title: 87. Death and its immediate sequel 228; title: 88. The Day of Judgment : the right hand and the left 231; title: 89. The joys of Heaven, and the joy of joys 234; title: EIGHTEENTH MEDITATION.; title: THANKSGIVING FOB THE BENEFITS OF THE DIVINE MERCY, AND PRAYER FOR THE DIVINE ASSISTANCE.; title: SECT. PAGE; title: 90. Thanksgiving for past blessings, and prayer for future 238; title: 91. The same subject 245; title: NINETEENTH MEDITATION.; title: OF THE SWEETNESS OF THE DIVINE MAJESTY, AND OF MANY OTHER THINGS.; title: 92. Wonder at the unspeakable goodness of God the Creator, and the deep misery of man the creature 252; title: 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; title: 94. God made all things good, but He alone is Good essentially 256; title: 95. The praise of the Creator by the whole creation 258; title: 96. The resemblance of man to his Creator 259; title: 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; title: 98. Here man prays God not to allow him to make ill use of his free power of choice 262; title: TWENTIETH MEDITATION.; title: 99. Complaint of the soul banished from God 266; title: 100. The soul's absence from God 269; title: 101. Complaint of the soul banished from God 273; title: 102. The soul's return to God 275; title: TWENTY-FIRST MEDITATION.; title: THE SOUL OF MAN URGED TO SEEK AND TO FIND ITS GOD.; title: 103. The mind aroused to the contemplation of God 281; title: 104. The inapproachable dwelling-place of God 286; title: 105. The goodness of God, the creative Life 288; title: 106. The fulness of joy 292