Of the Love of God
Publisher: Rivingtons
Published: 1888
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: BOOK I.; title: INTRODUCTION TO THE WHOLE TREATISE.; title: I. How, in order to the perfecting of human nature, God has committed the government of all the soul's faculties to the will 1; title: II. Of the different ways in which the will rules the powers of the soul 3; title: III. How the will contests the sensuous appetite 5; title: IV. Love governs all the affections and passions, and even the will, although that in its turn governs love 8; title: V. The affections of the will 10; title: VI. How the love of God predominates over all other love 12; title: VII. What love is 14; title: VIII. What that attraction is which excites love 18; title: IX. Love tends to union 20; title: X. The union which love seeks is spiritual 21; title: XI. There are two parts of the soul 26; title: XII. In these two parts of the soul there are four different degrees of reason 29; title: XIII. Of different kinds of love 31; title: XIV. Charity synonymous with love 33; title: XV. The adaptation between God and man 34; title: XVI We have a disposition to love God above ail things 36; title: XVII. Nature alone cannot love God in all things 37; title: XVIII. Our natural inclination to love God is not without its use 39; title: BOOK II.; title: THE ORIGIN OF DIVINE LOVE.; title: I. God's Perfection is manifold yet one 41; title: II. God's sole action is His Divinity 43; title: III. Of Divine Providence 45; title: IV. God's supernatural Providence over man 48; title: V. God's Providence has provided a plenteous redemption for man 50; title: VI. The special favours bestowed in the redemption of man by God's Providence 52; title: VII. The marvellous variety of graces which God vouchsafes to men in His Providence 53; title: VIII. How greatly God desires our love 55; title: IX. How God's Eternal Love draws our hearts to love Him 58; title: X. How we often reject God's inspirations, and refuse to love Him 60; title: XI. It is from no lack of Divine Love if we are not filled with love; title: XII. God leaves us wholly free to follow or reject His leadings 65; title: XIII. The first feelings of love which Divine Grace kindles in the soul before it attains to faith 68; title: XIV. How love is accepted by faith 70; title: XV. How largely holy hope feeds love 72; title: XVI. How love is carried out by hope 74; title: XVII. The love which comes of hope is good, albeit imperfect 77; title: XVIII. Love is to be found in penitence 79; title: XIX. Penitence without love is imperfect 81; title: XX. How love and grief are mingled in contrition 82; title: XXI. How our Lord's Love draws us on to faith and charity 86; title: XXII. What charity is 88; title: BOOK III.; title: THE PROGRESS AND PERFECTION OF LOVE.; title: I. How Divine Love may be continually growing in us 90; title: II. How easy our Lord has made the growth of love 92; title: III. How the loving soul advances in love 94; title: IV. Of perseverance in this holy love 98; title: V. The privilege of dying in holy love is a special gilt of God 101; title: VI. We cannot attain to the perfection of unitive love of God in this mortal life 104; title: VII. The charity of saints in this life may equal, or even sometimes exceed, that of the blessed 105; title: VIII. The matchless love of the Mother of God 107; title: IX. What is the union of the blessed with God? 110; title: X. Past earthly longing will greatly increase the union of the blessed with God 112; title: XI. The union of the blessed with God through His vision 1x3; title: XII. The eternal union of the blessed with God through the vision of the Eternal Birth of the Son of God 115; title: XIII. The union of the blessed with God through the vision of the Holy Ghost's Procession 116; title: XIV. The holy sight of glory will tend to unite the blessed with God 117; title: XV. There will be sundry degrees in the union of the blessed with God 118; title: BOOK IV.; title: THE DECAY AND RUIN OF CHARITY; title: I. We may lose the love of God so long as we are in this life 121; title: II. How the soul's love grows cold 124; title: III. How we forsake Divine for earthly love 126; title: IV. Divine Love may be lost in a iqoment 128; title: V. The only cause of failure and slackness in charity lies in man's will 130; title: VI. Whatever love we bear to God is His Gift 132; title: VII. It is our part to shun idle curiosity, and humbly acquiesce in God's All-wise Providence 135; title: VIII. The loving submission which we owe to the decrees of God's Providence 139; title: IX. There is a certain form of love which yet lingers in the soul which has lost Divine Charity 141; title: X. The danger of this imperfect love 143; title: XI. How to distinguish this imperfect love 145; title: BOOK V.; title: THE TWO CHIEF ACTS OF DIVINE LOVE, WHICH ARE COMPLACENCY AND BENEVOLENCE; title: I. Wherein the complacency of holy love consists 147; title: II. This holy complacency renders us the babes of Christ 150; title: III. The love of complacence turns our hearts to God, and gives a perpetual longing after Him 152; title: IV. The loving sympathy which attends the love of complacency 155; title: V. The sympathy and complacent love found in the Passion of our Lord 158; title: VI. The love of benevolence we practise towards our Lord through desire 159; title: VII. The desire to exalt and magnify the Lord draws us from inferior pleasures, and fixes our mind on His Divine Passion 161; title: VIII. How the love of holy benevolence tends to the praise of the Dear Lord 163; title: IX. The love of benevolence makes us call upon all creation to join in praising God 166; title: X. The desire to praise God makes us long after Heaven 167; title: XI. We share in the praises rendered to God by our Redeemer and His Mother 169; title: XII. God's sovereign praise of Himself, in which we share through the love of benevolence 172; title: BOOK VI.; title: THE PRACTICE OF HOLY LOVE IN PRAYER AND MEDITATION; title: I. Mystical theology is nothing else save meditation and prayer 175; title: II. Of meditation, the first step in prayer or mystic theology 279; title: III. Contemplation; the first point of difference between that and meditation 183; title: IV. Love in this world takes its rise, but not its perfection, from the knowledge of God 284; title: V. The second difference between meditation and contemplation 287; title: VI. The third difference, namely, that contemplation is pursued without difficulty 190; title: VII. The loving recollection of the soul in contemplation 293; title: VIII. The rest of the recollected soul is its Beloved 296; title: IX. How to attain this blessed repose 198; title: X. The different degrees of this quietude, and how to maintain it 299; title: XI. Self-abnegation in this matter 202; title: XII. How the soul flows into God 204; title: XIII. The wound of love 207; title: XIV. Some other ways by which holy love wounds the heart 220; title: XV. The loving weakness of the soul wounded by love 213; title: BOOK VII.; title: THE UNION OF THE SOUL WITH ITS GOD AS PERFECTED BY PRAYER.; title: I. The union of the soul with God in prayer is through love 317; title: II. The various degrees of holy union with God which are found in prayer 221; title: III. The highest degree of union in rapture 224; title: IV. Of the first species of rapture 227; title: V. The second kind of rapture 229; title: VI. The signs of true rapture, and the third kind thereof 231; title: VII. Love is the soul's life 233; title: VIII. S. Paul on the extatic superhuman life 236; title: IX. The supreme effort of love is the death of those who love 238; title: X. Of those who have died of love and for Divine Love 241; title: XI. Of some who died solely of love 242; title: XII. The history of one who died of love on Mount Olivet 244; title: XIII. The blessed Virgin Mother died of love for her Son 246; title: XIV. The blessed Virgin must have died a loving, peaceful death 248; title: BOOK VIII.; title: THE LOVE OF CONFORMITY, BY WHICH WE UNITE OUR WILL TO THAT OF GOD, AS SIGNIFIED TO US BY HIS COMMANDMENTS, COUNSELS, AND INSPIRATIONS.; title: I. The love of conformity springs from holy complacency 252; title: II. The conformity of submission proceeding from the love of benevolence 254; title: III. How to conform to God's Will when it is signified to us 256; title: IV. Conformity of our will to that of God for our salvation 258; title: V. The conformity of our will to God's, as signified to us in His Commandments 260; title: VI. Conformity of our will to that which God has signified by His Counsels 262; title: VII. How love for God's Will, as signified in His Commandments, leads us to love for His Counsels 264; title: VIII. Contempt for the evangelic Counsels is a great sin 267; title: IX. All men can respect, if all cannot follow, the evangelic Counsels, and each man ought to follow them so far as he is able 269; title: X. How to conform to God's Will, as signified by inspiration, and of the various means by which God so inspires us 272; title: XI. The union of our will with that of God, when He inspires us to extraordinary acts of virtue. Perseverance in vocation a first test of inspiration 274; title: XII. The union of our will with that of God when He inspires us to do what seems contrary to His ordinary laws. Peace and quiet a second test of inspiration 277; title: XIII. Obedience to the Church, and to those set over us, the third test of inspiration 279; title: XIV. How to recognise the Will of God 281; title: BOOK IX.; title: THE LOVE OF SUBMISSION, BY WHICH OUR WILL IS UNITED TO GOD'S GOOD PLEASURE; title: I. The union of our will with God's Will, called the will of good pleasure 284; title: II. Man's will is best united to God's Good Pleasure amid tribulation 286; title: III. The union of our will with that of God in spiritual trials by resignation 289; title: IV. The union of our will with that of God by indifference 290; title: V. Holy indifference embraces all things 292; title: VI. The practice of loving indifference in what concerns God's Own service 294; title: VII. Holy indifference as to progress in virtue 297; title: VIII. The union of our will with that of God in His sufferance of sin 300; title: IX. How to exercise indifference even in what concerns holy things 302; title: X. How to test the reality of this holy love 303; title: XI. The trouble of a loving heart which knows not whether it is pleasing to the Beloved 305; title: XII. Amid such interior trials the soul cannot realise its own love of God, or the spiritual death that self-will is undergoing 307; title: XIII. The will, once dead to self, lives solely in God's Will 309; title: XIV. The death of the will 311; title: XV. The best course we can take, amid the interior and exterior troubles of life, when the will is dead to self 313; title: XVI. The perfect self-renunciation of the soul which is united to God's Will 3x5; title: BOOK X.; title: THE COMMAND TO LOVE GOD ABOVE ALL THINGS.; title: I. The graciousness of this precept 318; title: II. This commandment is of Heaven, although it is given to the faithful on earth 320; title: III. The heart which is filled with love of God will love all else in Him 321; title: IV. Two manners of perfection of love in this mortal life 324; title: V. Two yet higher degrees of the love of God above all else 326; title: VI. All who really love will alike love God above all things 329; title: VII. Continuation of the same subject 330; title: VIII. Wherein the strength and virtue of sacred love lie 332; title: IX. Testimony of Holy Scripture to this assertion 334; title: X. We ought to love God far more than ourselves 336; title: XI. How the love of God leads to the love of our neighbour 338; title: XII. How love brings forth zeal 340; title: XIII. God is a jealous God 342; title: XIV. Our zeal or jealousy for our Lord 344; title: XV. The wise guidance of religious zeal 347; title: XVI. Concerning certain saints whose zealous indignation is in nowise irreconcilable with the above 350; title: XVII. Our Lord's Life the perfection of all acts of love 353; title: BOOK XI.; title: THE SUPREME AUTHORITY OF LOVE OVER ALL THE SOULES VIRTUES, ACTIONS, AND PERFECTIONS.; title: I. All virtues are acceptable to God 357; title: II Love endows virtue with a power of pleasing God which by nature it cannot have 359; title: III. Some virtues achieve higher excellence than others by reason of the presence of Divine Love 361; title: IV. Divine Love a special sanctifier of obedience 362; title: V. Divine Love enhances every other Virtue in proportion as it is infused into them 364; title: VI. The exceeding excellence which love imparts to those acts which spring either from itself or from other virtues 366; title: VII. The highest virtues cannot exist apart 369; title: VIII. Charity comprehends all virtues 372; title: IX. All virtues derive their perfection from holy love 375; title: X. The heathen virtues were very imperfect 377; title: XI. All human actions are worthless if performed apart from the love of God 379; title: XII. God's Love, if renewed in the Soul, revives all that sin had slain 381; title: XIII. All our actions should be done in the light of love 384; title: XIV. The practical result thereof 386; title: XV. Love includes all the sevenfold gifts 388; title: XVI. The loving fear of the Bride 390; title: XVII. How far servile fear may abide with holy love 391; title: XVIII. How love employs natural, servile, and mercenary fervor 393; title: XIX. Divine Love includes the fruits of the Holy Ghost and the Beatitudes 396; title: XX. Love disposes of all the passions and emotions, subjecting them to itself 398; title: XXI. Sadness is for the most part unprofitable, and even opposed to Divine Love 401; title: BOOK XII.; title: COUNSELS CONCERNING THE SOUL'S ADVANCE IN DIVINE LOVE.; title: I. Advance in Divine Love does not depend upon natural temperament 405; title: II. We must have a continually growing desire to love 406; title: III. He who would long after God's Love must check worldly longings 408; title: IV. Our lawful callings in nowise hinder the exercise of Divine Love 409; title: V. An illustration of this principle 410; title: VI. It is important to avail ourselves of the present moment to advance in Divine Love 411; title: VII. Every act should be done as perfectly as possible 412; title: VIII. How to turn all our actions to God's service 413; title: IX. Further means of working all things for God 415; title: X. The grace of a voluntary sacrifice 416; title: XI. The motives for Divine Love 418; title: XII. How to make use of these motives 418; title: XIII. Mount Calvary is the true school of love 419