Treatise on the Love of God

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Intro
Translator's Introduction
Dedicatory Prayer
Preface
Book I. Containing a Preparation for the Whole Treatise
Chapter I. That for the Beauty of Human Nature God Has Given the Government of All the Faculties of the Soul to the Will
Chapter II. How the Will Variously Governs the Powers of the Soul
Chapter III. How the Will Governs the Sensual Appetite
Chapter IV. That Love Rules over All the Affections, and Passions, and Even Governs the Will, Although the Will Has Also a Dominion over It
Chapter V. Of the Affections of the Will
Chapter VI. How the Love of God Has Dominion over Other Loves
Chapter VII. Description of Love in General
Chapter VIII. What Kind of Affinity (Convenance) it Is Which Excites Love
Chapter IX. That Love Tends to Union
Chapter X. That the Union to Which Love Aspires Is Spiritual
Chapter XI. That There Are Two Portions in the Soul, and How
Chapter XII. That in These Two Portions of the Soul There Are Four Different Degrees of Reason
Chapter XIII. On the Difference of Loves
Chapter XIV. That Charity May Be Named Love
Chapter XV. Of the Affinity There Is Between God and Man
Chapter XVI. That We Have a Natural Inclination to Love God above All Things
Chapter XVII. That We Have Not Naturally the Power to Love God above All Things
Chapter XVIII. That the Natural Inclination Which We Have to Love God Is Not Useless
Book II. the History of the Generation and Heavenly Birth of Divine Love
Chapter I. That the Divine Perfections Are Only a Single but Infinite Perfection
Chapter II. That in God There Is but One Only Act, Which Is His Own Divinity
Chapter III. Of the Divine Providence in General
Chapter IV. Of the Supernatural Providence Which God Uses Towards Reasonable Creatures
Chapter V. That Heavenly Providence Has Provided Men with a Most Abundant Redemption
Chapter VI. Of Certain Special Favours Exercised by the Divine Providence in the Redemption of Man
Chapter VII. How Admirable the Divine Providence Is in the Diversity of Graces Given to Men
Chapter VIII. How Much God Desires We Should Love Him
Chapter IX. How the Eternal Love of God Prevents Our Hearts with His Inspirations in Order That We May Love Him
Chapter X. How We Oftentimes Repulse the Inspiration and Refuse to Love God
Chapter XI. That it Is No Fault of the Divine Goodness If We Have Not a Most Excellent Love
Chapter XII. That Divine Inspirations Leave Us in Full Liberty to Follow or Repulse Them
Chapter XIII. Of the First Sentiments of Love Which Divine Inspirations Cause in the Soul Before She Has Faith
Chapter XIV. Of the Sentiment of Divine Love Which Is Had by Faith
Chapter XV. Of the Great Sentiment of Love Which We Receive by Holy Hope
Chapter XVI. How Love Is Practised in Hope
Chapter XVII. That the Love Which Is in Hope Is Very Good, Though Imperfect
Chapter XVIII. That Love Is Exercised in Penitence, and First, That There Are Divers Sorts of Penitence
Chapter XIX. That Penitence Without Love Is Imperfect
Chapter XX. How the Mingling of Love and Sorrow Takes Place in Contrition
Chapter XXI. How Our Saviour's Loving Attractions Assist and Accompany Us to Faith and Charity
Chapter XXII. A Short Description of Charity
Book III. Of the Progress and Perfection of Love
Chapter I. That Holy Love May Be Augmented Still More and More in Every One of Us
Chapter II. How Easy Our Saviour Has Made the Increase of Love
Chapter III. How a Soul in Charity Makes Progress in It
Chapter IV. Of Holy Perseverance in Sacred Love
Chapter V. That the Happiness of Dying in Heavenly Charity Is a Special Gift of God
Chapter VI. That We Cannot Attain to Perfect Union with God in this Mortal Life
Chapter VII. That the Charity of Saints in this Mortal Life Equals, Yea Sometimes Surpasses, That of the Blessed
Chapter VIII. Of the Incomparable Love Which the Mother of God, Our Blessed Lady, Had
Chapter IX. A Preparation for the Discourse on the Union of the Blessed with God
Chapter X. That the Preceding Desire Will Much Increase the Union of the Blessed with God
Chapter XI. Of the Union of the Blessed Spirits with God, in the Vision of the Divinity
Chapter XII. Of the Eternal Union of the Blessed Spirits with God, in the Vision of the Eternal Birth of the Son of God
Chapter XIII. Of the Union of the Blessed with God in the Vision of the Production of the Holy Ghost
Chapter XIV. That the Holy Light of Glory Will Serve for the Union of the Blessed Spirits with God
Chapter XV. That There Shall Be Different Degrees of the Union of the Blessed with God
Book IV. of the Decay and Ruin of Charity
Chapter I. That as Long as We Are in this Mortal Life We May Lose the Love of God
Chapter II. How the Soul Grows Cold in Holy Love
Chapter III. How We Forsake Divine Love for That of Creatures
Chapter IV. That Heavenly Love Is Lost in a Moment
Chapter V. That the Sole Cause of the Decay and Cooling of Charity Is in the Creature's Will
Chapter VI. That We Ought to Acknowledge All the Love We Bear to God to Be from God
Chapter VII. That We must Avoid All Curiosity, and Humbly Acquiesce in God's Most Wise Providence
Chapter VIII. An Exhortation to the Amorous Submission Which We Owe to the Decrees of Divine Providence
Chapter IX. Of a Certain Remainder of Love That Oftentimes Rests in the Soul That Has Lost Holy Charity
Chapter X. How Dangerous this Imperfect Love Is
Chapter XI. A Means to Discern this Imperfect Love
Book V. of the Two Principal Exercises of Holy Love Which Consist in Complacency and Benevolence
Chapter I. Of the Sacred Complacency of Love
and First of What it Consists
Chapter II. How by Holy Complacency We Are Made as Little Infants at Our Saviour's Breasts
Chapter III. That Holy Complacency Gives Our Heart to God, and Makes Us Feel a Perpetual Desire in Fruition
Chapter IV. Of the Loving Condolence by Which the Complacency of Love Is Still Better Declared
Chapter V. Of the Condolence and Complacency of Love in the Passion of Our Lord
Chapter VI. Of the Love of Benevolence Which We Exercise Towards Our Saviour by Way of Desire
Chapter VII. How the Desire to Exalt and Magnify God Separates Us from Inferior Pleasures, and Makes Us Attentive to the Divine Perfections
Chapter VIII. How Holy Benevolence Produces the Praise of the Divine Well-Beloved
Chapter IX. How Benevolence Makes Us Call All Creatures to the Praise of God
Chapter X. How the Desire to Praise God Makes Us Aspire to Heaven
Chapter XI. How We Practise the Love of Benevolence in the Praises Which Our Saviour and His Mother Give to God
Chapter XII. Of the Sovereign Praise Which God Gives unto Himself, and How We Exercise Benevolence in It
Book VI. Of the Exercises of Holy Love in Prayer
Chapter I. A Description of Mystical Theology, Which Is No Other Thing than Prayer
Chapter II. Of Meditation-the First Degree of Prayer or Mystical Theology
Chapter III. A Description of Contemplation, and of the First Difference That There Is Between it and Meditation
Chapter IV. That Love in this Life Takes its Origin but Not its Excellence from the Knowledge of God
Chapter V. The Second Difference Between Meditation and Contemplation
Chapter VI. That Contemplation Is Made Without Labour, Which Is the Third Difference Between it and Meditation
Chapter VII. Of the Loving Recollection of the Soul in Contemplation
Chapter VIII. Of the Repose of a Soul Recollected in Her Well-beloved
Chapter IX. How this Sacred Repose Is Practised
Chapter X. Of Various Degrees of this Repose, and How it Is to Be Preserved
Chapter XI. A Continuation of the Discourse Touching the Various Degrees of Holy Quiet, and of an Excellent Abnegation of Self Which Is Sometimes Practised Therein
Chapter XII. Of the Outflowing (Escoulement) or Liquefaction of the Soul in God
Chapter XIII. Of the Wound of Love
Chapter X. Of Some Other Means by Which Holy Love Wounds the Heart
Chapter XV. Of the Affectionate Languishing of the Heart Wounded with Love
Book VII. Of the Union of the Soul with Her God, Which Is Perfected in Prayer
Chapter I. How Love Effects the Union of the Soul with God in Prayer
Chapter II. Of the Various Degrees of the Holy Union Which Is Made in Prayer
Chapter III. Of the Sovereign Degree of Union by Suspension and Ravishment
Chapter IV. Of Rapture, and of the First Species of It
Chapter V. Of the Second Species of Rapture
Chapter VI. Of the Signs of Good Rapture, and of the Third Species of the Same
Chapter VII. How Love Is the Life of the Soul, and Continuation of the Discourse on the Ecstatic Life
Chapter VIII. An Admirable Exhortation of S. Paul to the Ecstatic and Superhuman Life
Chapter IX. Of the Supreme Effect of Affective Love, Which Is the Death of the Lovers
and First, of Such as Died in Love
Chapter X. Of Those Who Died by and for Divine Love
Chapter XI. How Some of the Heavenly Lovers Died Also of Love
Chapter XII. Marvellous History of the Death of a Gentleman Who Died of Love on Mount Olivet
Chapter XIII. That the Most Sacred Virgin Mother of God Died of Love for Her Son
Chapter XIV. That the Glorious Virgin Died by an Extremely Sweet and Tranquil Death
Book VIII. Of the Love of Conformity, by Which We Unite Our Will to the Will of God, Signified unto Us by His Commandments, Counsels and Inspirations
Chapter I. Of the Love of Conformity Proceeding from Sacred Complacency
Chapter II. Of the Conformity of Submission Which Proceeds from the Love of Benevolence
Chapter III. How We Are to Conform Ourselves to That Divine Will, Which Is Called the Signified Will
Chapter IV. Of the Conformity of Our Will to the Will Which God Has to Save Us
Chapter V. Of the Conformity of Our Will to That Will of God's Which Is Signified to Us by His Commandments
Chapter VI. Of the Conformity of Our Will to That Will of God Which Is Signified unto Us by His Counsels
Chapter VII. That the Love of God's Will Signified in the Commandments Moves Us to the Love of the Counsels
Chapter VIII. That the Contempt of the Evangelical Counsels Is a Great Sin
Chapter IX. A Continuation of the Preceding Discourse. How Every One, While Bound to Love, Is Not Bound to Practise, All the Evangelical Counsels, and Yet How Every One Should Practise What He Is Able
Chapter X. How We Are to Conform Ourselves to God's Will Signified unto Us by Inspirations, and First, of the Variety of the Means by Which God Inspires Us
Chapter XI. Of the Union of Our Will with God's in the Inspirations Which Are Given for the Extraordinary Practice of Virtues
and of Perseverance in One's Vocation, the First Mark of Inspiration
Chapter XII. Of the Union of Man's Will with God's in Those Inspirations Which Are Contrary to Ordinary Laws
and of Peace and Tranquillity of Heart, Second Mark of Inspiration
Chapter XIII. Third Mark of Inspiration, Which Is Holy Obedience to the Church and Superiors
Chapter XIV. A Short Method to Know God's Will
Book IX. Of the Love of Submission, Whereby Our Will Is United to God's Good-Pleasure
Chapter I. Of the Union of Our Will to That Divine Will Which Is Called the Will of Good-Pleasure
Chapter II. That the Union of Our Will with the Good-Pleasure of God Takes Place Principally in Tribulations
Chapter III. Of the Union of Our Will to the Divine Good-pleasure in Spiritual Afflictions, by Resignation
Chapter IV. Of the Union of Our Will to the Good-pleasure of God by Indifference
Chapter V. That Holy Indifference Extends to All Things
Chapter VI. Of the Practice of Loving Indifference, in Things Belonging to the Service of God
Chapter VII. Of the Indifference Which We Are to Have as to Our Advancement in Virtues
Chapter VIII. How We Are to Unite Our Will with God's in the Permission of Sins
Chapter IX. How the Purity of Indifference Is to Be Practised in the Actions of Sacred Love
Chapter X. Means to Discover When We Change in the Matter of this Holy Love
Chapter XI. Of the Perplexity of a Heart Which Loves Without Knowing Whether it Pleases the Beloved
Chapter XII. How the Soul Amidst These Interior Anguishes Knows Not the Love She Bears to God: and of the Most Love-Full Death of the Will
Chapter XIII. How the Will Being Dead to Itself Lives Entirely in God's Will
Chapter XIV. An Explanation of What Has Been Said Touching the Decease of Our Will
Chapter XV. Of the Most Excellent Exercise We Can Make in the Interior and Exterior Troubles of this Life, after Attaining the Indifference and Death of the Will
Chapter XVI. Of the Perfect Stripping of the Soul Which Is United to God's Will
Book X. of the Commandment of Loving God above All Things
Chapter I. Of the Sweetness of the Commandment Which God Has Given Us of Loving Him above All Things
Chapter II. That this Divine Commandment of Love Tends to Heaven, Yet Is Given to the Faithful in this World
Chapter III. How, While the Whole Heart Is Employed in Sacred Love, Yet One May Love God in Various Ways, and Also Many Other Things Together with Him
Chapter IV. Of Two Degrees of Perfection with Which this Commandment May Be Kept in this Mortal Life
Chapter V. Of Two Other Degrees of Greater Perfection, by Which We May Love God above All Things
Chapter VI. That the Love of God above All Things Is Common to All Lovers
Chapter VII. Explanation of the Preceding Chapter
Chapter VIII. A Memorable History to Make Clearly Understood in What the Force and Excellence of Holy Love Consist
Chapter IX. A Confirmation of What Has Been Said by a Noteworthy Comparison
Chapter X. That We Are to Love the Divine Goodness Sovereignly above Ourselves
Chapter XI. How Holy Charity Produces the Love of Our Neighbour
Chapter XII. How Love Produces Zeal
Chapter XIII. How God Is Jealous of Us
Chapter XIV. Of the Zeal or Jealousy Which We Have for Our Lord
Chapter XV. Advice for the Direction of Holy Zeal
Chapter XVI. That the Example of Certain Saints Who Seem to Have Exercised Their Zeal with Anger, Makes Nothing Against the Doctrine of the Preceding Chapter
Chapter XVII. How Our Lord Practised All the Most Excellent Acts of Love
Book XI. Of the Sovereign Authority Which Sacred Love Holds over All the Virtues, Actions and Perfections of the Soul
Chapter I. How Agreeable All Virtues Are to God
Chapter II. That Divine Love Makes the Virtues Immeasurably More Agreeable to God than They Are of Their Own Nature
Chapter III. That There Are Some Virtues Which Divine Love Raises to a Higher Degree of Excellence than Others
Chapter IV. That Divine Love More Excellently Sanctifies the Virtues When They Are Practised by its Order and Commandment
Chapter V. How Love Spreads its Excellence over the Other Virtues, Perfecting Their Particular Excellence
Chapter VI. Of the Excellent Value Which Sacred Love Gives to the Actions Which Issue from Itself and to Those Which Proceed from the Other Virtues
Chapter VII. That Perfect Virtues Are Never One Without the Other
Chapter VIII. How Charity Comprehends All the Virtues
Chapter IX. That the Virtues Have Their Perfection from Divine Love
Chapter X. A Digression upon the Imperfection of the Virtues of the Pagans
Chapter XI. How Human Actions Are Without Worth When They Are
Chapter XII. How Holy Love Returning into the Soul, Brings Back to Life All the Works Which Sin Had Destroyed
Chapter XIII. How We Are to Reduce All the Exercise of the Virtues, and All Our Actions to Holy Love
Chapter XIV. The Practice of What Has Been Said in the Preceding Chapter
Chapter XV. How Charity Contains in it the Gifts of the Holy Ghost
Chapter XVI. Of the Loving Fear of Spouses
a Continuation of the Same Subject
Chapter XVII. How Servile Fear Remains Together with Holy Love
Chapter XVIII. How Love Makes Use of Natural, Servile and Mercenary Fear
Chapter XIX. How Sacred Love Contains the Twelve Fruits of the Holy Ghost, Together with the Eight Beatitudes of the Gospel
Chapter XX. How Divine Love Makes Use of All the Passions and Affections of the Soul, and Reduces Them to its Obedience
Chapter XXI. That Sadness Is Almost Always Useless, Yea Contrary to the Service of Holy Love
Book XII. Containing Certain Counsels for the Progress of the Soul in Holy Love
Chapter I. That Our Progress in Holy Love Does Not Depend on Our Natural Temperament
Chapter II. That We Are to Have a Continual Desire to Love
Chapter III. That to Have the Desire of Sacred Love We Are to Cut off All Other Desires
Chapter IV. That Our Lawful Occupations Do Not Hinder Us from Practicising Divine Love
Chapter V. A Very Sweet Example on this Subject
Chapter VI. That We Are to Employ in the Practice of Divine Love All the Occasions That Present Themselves
Chapter VII. That We must Take Pains to Do Our Actions Very Perfectly
Chapter VIII. A General Means for Applying Our Works to God's Service
Chapter IX. Of Certain Other Means by Which We May Apply Our Works More Particularly to the Love of God
Chapter X. An Exhortation to the Sacrifice Which We Are to Make to God of Our Free-will
Chapter XI. The Motives We Have of Holy Love
Chapter XII. A Most Useful Method of Employing These Motives
Chapter XIII. That Mount Calvary Is the Academy of Love
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