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A TREATISE ON THE LOVE OF GOD

Translations by

1. **  Vincent Kerns

2. **  Henry Benedict Mackey

3. **  Mookenthottam, Nazareth & Kodukuthiyil 

Translated by the Rev. Henry Benedict Mackey, o.s.b

Seventh Edition, London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Translator's Introduction

Dedicatory Prayer

Preface

 

Book 1 : Containing a preparation for the whole treatise

Book 2 : The history of the generation and heavenly birth of divine love

Book 3 : Of the progress and perfection of love

Book 4 : Of the decay and ruin of charity

Book 5 : Of the two principal exercises of holy love which consist in complacency and benevolence

Book 6 : Of the exercises of holy love in prayer

Book 7 : Of the union of the soul with her God, which is perfected in prayer

Book 8 : 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 9 : Of the love of submission, whereby our will is united to God’s good pleasure

Book 10 : Of the commandment of loving God above all things

Book 11 : Of the sovereign authority which sacred love holds over all the virtues, actions and perfections of the soul

Book 12 : Containing certain counsels for the progress of the soul in holy love

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