The fiery soliloquy with God, of the Reverend Master Gerlac Petersen ...
Subtitle: in which are pointed out the solid and clear paths of the whole spiritual life
By: translated from the original Latin, by a secular priest ....
Contributors: Cruikshank, Alexander P. J.
Series: Mediæval library of mystical and ascetical works
Publisher: London : T. Richardson; New York : H.H. Richardson
Published: 1872
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Spiritual life -- Catholic Church -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Work titles: Brandende alleenspraak met God.
Notes: Translated by Alexander Cruikshank.
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: The First Chapter. — That he who would recover his heart from dissipation should look ever to the end of all things, and refuse to be consoled by anything out of God 2; title: The Second Chapter. — That man should frequently look to his state of exile, and take refuge in God, united to Whom he will want for nothing 5; title: The Third Chapter. — That in whatever we have to do, we should ever look to the end for which it should be done, especially in the Divine Office 8; title: The Fourth Chapter. — With how great devotion we ought to be present at the Divine Office, and above all at the Sacrifice of the Mass 9; title: The Fifth Chapter. — Of the fruit of all ceremonies and outward Sacraments 11; title: The Sixth Chapter. — That virtue is to be practised only for the love of virtue, because it is always good 13; title: The Seventh Chapter. — That with true humility, and with our eyes fixed upon the truth, ought we to resist vain thoughts and vicious morions 14; title: The Eighth Chapter. — That by selfishness or self-seeking the interior course of the soul is hindered 17; title: The Ninth Chapter.— Of true liberty, or of the beatitude of the detform soul 10; title: The Tenth Chapter. — Of the fruit of holy liberty, and the glory of the deiform soul 23; title: The Eleventh Chapter. — How the interior look of a man becometh clear and enlightened, and his exterior innocent and simple, and how the whole man is made deiform 26; title: The Twelfth Chapter. — Of the hidden sweetness of the spiritual cross, and what it is to persevere therein, and what a man ought to know concerning it 32; title: The Thirteenth Chapter. — How interior vices, together with the devil their chief, never cease to lay snares for the soul that loveth God 44; title: The Fourteenth Chapter. — That the interior man, both in the presence and in the absence of grace, maketh profit and increase, and how lie is taught by the Angels in what way he should stand in the Presence of God 54; title: The Fifteenth Chapter. — That by the love of God true security is infused into a man 62; title: The Sixteenth Chapter. — That to love justice and truth, and in all things to seek the glory of God, is to abide in the cross of our Lord 66; title: The Seventeenth Chapter.— That the soul, free from everything belonging to itself, is everywhere secure in God 69; title: The Eighteenth Chapter. — Of the exercise of the spiritual man, especially of the Religious in the Divine Office 73; title: The Nineteenth Chapter. — That nothing is sweeter or more glorious than for the soul to inhere in the Highest Good, and to become conformed to the Holy Trinity 77; title: The Twentieth Chapter. — How to a devout man his highest good is to be with God, and his greatest evil to be without God; title: The Twenty-first Chapter. — The prayer of a man, whose soul is clouded, for the illumination of his heart 83; title: The Twenty-second Chapter. — Thaj he wfcp is tfuly poor in spirit should glory in his poverty, and in his own nothing. 85; title: The Twenty-third Chapter. — Of true self- resignation 88; title: The Twenty-fourth Chapter. — How he who is poor in spirit is exceeding rich 92; title: The Twenty-fifth Chapter. — How blessed a thing it is to rise in soul above every outward exaltation, and to sink below every humiliation 96; title: The Twenty-sixth Chapter. — Of the double region, that is, of the lower region of sensuality, and the higher, of the reformed soul 99; title: The Twenty-seventh Chapter. — How strictly God will require the reformation, or the amelioration, as well of our interior as of our exterior 111; title: The Twenty-eighth Chapter. — Exhortation to conform ourselves to the image of God 114; title: The Twenty-ninth Chapter. — The heritage of the poor in spirit in this life 116; title: The Thirtieth Chapter. — Of the praise of holy poverty, and how by voluntary bearing of adversity we arrive at the clarification of the soul 117; title: The Thirty-first Chapter. — In what way the interior man is clarified, and united with the Word, and that in whatever happeneth, and in all we do, we have need of a simple eye and a pure intention 122; title: The Thirty-second Chapter. — That virtue in itself standeth unchangeable, nor doth it lie under the power of any accidents  134; title: The Thirty-third Chapter. — That besides God nothing can truly comfort the soul 140; title: The Thirty-fourth Chapter. — That by the strength of the soul the weakness of nature must be sustained 143; title: The Thirty-fifth Chapter. — That contemplation is never joined with commotion and disturbance 147; title: The Thirty-sixth Chapter. — That our Lord Jesus is to be looked at in a two-fold way, and of the efflux of love 149; title: The Thirty-seventh Chapter. — That reproof is to be borne with evenness of mind, whether it be just or unjust 153 The Thirty-eighth Chapter. — That all men in general are to be embraced in truth and love 156; title: The Thirty-ninth Chapter. — What it is that chiefly unburdeneth and rendereth the heart free 159