Treatise on the Love of God

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Book 1 Containing a preparation for the whole treatise I. That for the beauty of human nature God has given the government of all the faculties of the soul to the will ...17 II. How the will variously governs the powers of the soul ...19 III. How the will governs the sensual appetite ....21 IV. That love rules over all the affections and passions and even governs the will although the will has also a dominion over it ...24 V. Of the affections of the will ...26 VI. How the love of God gas dominion over other loves ...29 VII. Description of love in general ...30 VIII. What kind of affinity it is which excites love ...35 IX. That love tends to union ...37 X. That the union to which love aspires is spiritual ...39 XI. That there are two portions in the soul and how ...45 XII. That in these two portions of the soul there are four different degrees of reason ....48 XIII. On the difference of loves ...51 XIV. That charity may be nmed love ...52 XV. Of the affinity there is between God and man ...54 XVI. That we have a natural inclination to love above all things ...56 XVII That we have not naturally the power to love god above all things ...58 XVIII That the natural inclination which we have to love God is not unseless ....61 Book II The history of the generation and heavenly birth of divine love I. That the divine perfections are only a single but infinite perfection ....63 II. That in god there is but one only act, which is his own divinity ....66 III. Of the divine providence in general ...69 IV. Of the supernatural providence has provided men with a most reasonable creatures ...73 V. That heavenly providence has provided men with a most abundant redemption ...76 VI. Of certain special favours exercised by the divine providence in the redemption of man ...78 VII. How admirable the divine providence is in the diversity of graces given to men ....81 VIII. How much desires we should love him ....83 IX. How the eternal love of God prevents our hearts with his inspirations in order that we may love him ...86 X. How we oftentimes repulse the inspiration, and refuse to love god ....89 XI. That it is no fault of the divine goodness if we have not a most excellent love ...91 XII. That divine inspirations leave us in full liberty to follow or repulse them ....94 XIII. Of the first sentiments of love which divine inspirations cause in the soul before she has faith ....98 XIV. Of the sentiment of the divine love which is had by faith ...101 XV. Of the great sentiment of love which we receive by holy hope ...104 XVI. How love is practised in hope ....106 XVII. That the love which is in hope is very good, though imperfect ...109 XVIII. That love is exercised in penitence and first that there are divers sorts of penitence ...112 XIX. That penitence without love is imperfect ...115 XX. How the mingling of love and sorrow takes place in contrition ...117 XXXI. How our saviour`s loving attractions assist and accompany us to faith and charity ...121 XXII. A short description of charity ...124 Book III Of the progress and perfection of love I. That holy love may be augmented still more and more in every one of us ...127 Book IV Of the decay and ruin of Charity Book V Of the two principal exercises of holy love which consist in complacency and benevolence Book VI Of the exercises of holy love in prayer Book VII Of the union of the soul with her God, ehich is perfected in prayer 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 Book IX Of the love of submission, whereby our will; is united to god`s god-pleasure Book X Of the ommandment of loving god above all things Book XI. Of the sovereign authority which sacred love holds over all the virtues, actions and perfections of the soul Book XII Containing certain counsels for the progress of the soul in holy love