CONTENTS

APPROBATION OF THE LATIN TEXT

PREFACE

GENERAL NOTE

PRAYER OF FATHER DIERTINS

ANNOTATIONS

PRESUPPOSITION

FIRST WEEK

     Principle and Foundation

     Particular and Daily Examen

     General Examen

     General Confession with Communion

     Meditation on the First, the Second, and the Third Sin

     Meditation on Sins

     First Repetition

     Second Repetition

     Meditation on Hell

          Note

     Additions

SECOND WEEK

     The Call of the Temporal King

          Notes

     First Day

     The Incarnation

     The Nativity

          Notes

     Second Day

          Note

     Third Day

     Preamble to Consider States

     Fourth Day

     Two Standards

          Note

     Three Pairs of Men

          Note

     Fifth Day

     Sixth—Tenth Day

     Eleventh—Twelfth Day

          Notes

     Three Manners of Humility

          Note

     Prelude for Making Election

     Matter of Election

          Note

     Times for Making Election

          First Time

          Second Time

          Third Time

          First Way

          Second Way

          Note

     To Amend and Reform one’s own Life and State

THIRD WEEK

     First Contemplation

          Note

     Second Contemplation

          Notes

     Second—Fourth Day

     Fifth—Seventh Day

          Note

     Eating

FOURTH WEEK

     First Contemplation

          Notes

CONTEMPLATION TO GAIN LOVE

THREE METHODS OF PRAYER

     First Method

     Second Method

     Third Method

MYSTERIES OF THE LIFE OF CHRIST OUR LORD

RULES

     Rules for Perceiving the Movements Caused in the Soul

          First Week

          Second Week

     Rules for Distributing Alms

     Notes on Scruples and Persuasions of the Enemy

     Rules to have the True Sentiment in the Church

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