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A TREATISE ON THE LOVE OF GOD

Chapter 1  :  All virtues are pleasing to God

Chapter 2  :  Charity makes virtues so much more pleasing to God than they are in themselves

Chapter 3  :  Charity gives some virtues greater prominence than others

Chapter 4  :  Charity sanctifies virtues more perfectly, if they are done at its behest

Chapter 5  :  Charity shares its perfection with the other virtues, gives them their individual value

Chapter 6  :  The high value charity gives to its own actions, and to those of the other virtues

Chapter 7  :  Perfect virtues never come singly

Chapter 8  :  Charity includes all the virtues

Chapter 9  :  Virtues derive their perfection from charity

Chapter 10  :  The virtues of the pagans – a digression

Chapter 11  :  Human actions divorced from the love of God are valueless

Chapter 12  :  Charity recovered gives new life to virtues deadened by sin

Chapter 13  :  How to make all our actions, and the practice of virtue, expressions of charity

Chapter 14  :  Putting the previous chapter into practice

Chapter 15  :  Charity contains the gifts of the Holy Spirit

Chapter 16  :  Fear that is rooted in love

Chapter 17  :  Servile fear can exist with charity

Chapter 18  :  How charity makes use of natural fear – fear that is servile, mercenary

Chapter 19  :  Charity includes the twelve fruits of the Holy Spirit as well as the eight beatitudes of the gospel

Chapter 20  :  Charity harnesses all the passions, all the soul’s emotions, until they obey it

Chapter 21  :  Remorse rarely helps; it is contrary to charity’s function

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