An edition of Imitation of Christ
The following of Christ, in four books
translated from the original Latin by the Rt. Rev. and Ven. Richard Challoner, D.D. V.A., To which are added, Practical reflections and a prayer at the end of each chapter, translated from the French [of J. de Gonnelieu] by the Rev. James Jones.
by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu, Richard Challoner, Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, Michael Oakley, Paul M. Bechtel, Joseph N. Tylenda, Elder Mullan, Henri Belleau, Félicité Robert de Lamennais, John Payne, William C. Creasy, Thomas Rogers, Sixtus V Pope, Hal McElwaine Helms, Harold C. Gardiner, Richard Whitford, Rogers, Thomas, Edgar Daplyn, David Alexander MacLennan, E. M. Blaiklock, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton, Richard Whitford, Wilfrid Raynal, Richard Challoner, Henry Parry Liddon, Félicité Robert De Lamennais, Jon M. Sweeney, Rev. William Benham, Rev. William Rev. William Benham, Valenti Angelo, Challoner, Leo Sherley-Price, Paul Wesley Chilcote, Pierre Corneille, Thomas Chalmers, and George Hickes
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CONTENTS.
BOOK I.
CHAP.
1 - Of following Christ and despising all the vanities of the world 1
2 - Of having an humble sentiment of one's self 4
3 - Of the doctrine of truth 7
4 - Of prudence in our doings 12
5 - Of the reading the holy scriptures 14
6 - Of inordinate affections 16
7 - Of flying vain hope and pride 18
8 - Of shunning too much familiarity 21
9 - Of obedience and subjection 23
10 - Of avoiding superfluity of words 26
11 - Of acquiring peace & zeal of spiritual progress 26
12 - Of the advantage of adversity 33
13 - Of resisting temptation 35
14 - Of avoiding rash judgment 40
15 - Of works done out of charity 42
16 - Of bearing the defects of others 45
17 - Of a monastic life 48
18 - Of the examples of the holy fathers 51
19 - Of the exercises of a good religious man 65
20 - Of the love of solitude and silence. 66
21 - Of compunction of heart 65
22 - Of the consideration of the misery of man 69
23 - Of the thoughts of death 74
24 - Of Judgment and the punishment of sins 80
25 - Of the fervent amendment of our whole life 86
BOOK II.
1 - Of interior conversation 95
2 - Of humble submission 102
3 - Of a good peaceable man 104
4 - Of a pure mind and simple intention 110
5 - Of the consideration of one's self 111
6 - Of the joy of a good conscience 114
7 - Of the love of Jesus above all things 118
8 - Of familiar friendship with Jesus 121
9 - Of the want of all comfort 126
10 - Of gratitude for the grace of God 132
11 - of the small number of the lovers of the cross of Jesus 136
12 - Of the King's highway of the Holy Cross 140
BOOK III.
1 - Of the internal speech of Christ to a faithful soul 152
2 - That truth speaks within us without the noise of words 153
3 - That the words of God are to be heard with humility, and that many weigh them not 156
A prayer to implore the grace of devotion 159
4 - That we ought to walk in truth and humility in God's presence 162
5 - Of the wonderful effect of divine love 166
6 - Of the proof of a true lover 173
7 - That grace is to be hid, under the guardianship of humility 178
8 - Of acknowledging our unworthiness in the sight of God 184
9 - That all things are to be referred to God, as to our last end 188
10 - That it is sweet to serve God, despising this world 190
11 - That the desires of our heart, are to be examined and moderated 195
12 - Of learning patience and of fighting against concupiscence 198
13 - of the obedience of an humble subject, after the example of Jesus Christ 201
14 - Of considering the secret judgments of God, lest we be puffed up by our good works 205
15 - How we are to be disposed, and what we are to say, when we desire any thing 208
A prayer for fulfilling the will of God 209
16 - That true comfort is to be sought in God alone 212
17 - That we ought to cast all our care upon God. 215
18 - That temporal miseries are to be borne with patience, after the example of Jesus Christ 217
19 - Of bearing injuries, and who is proved to be truly patient 221
20 - Of the confession of our own infirmity, and of the miseries of this life 224
21 - That we are to rest in God above all goods and gifts 228
22 - Of the remembrance of the manifold benefits of God 234
23 - Of four things which bring much peace 238
A prayer against evil thoughts 239
A prayer for the enlightening of the mind 239
24 - That we are not to be curious in inquiring into the lives of others 242
23 - In what things the firm peace of the heart and true progress doth consist 244
26 - Of the eminence of a free mind, which humble prayer procures better than reading 247
27 - That self-love chiefly keeps a person back from the sovereign Good 251
A prayer for the cleansing of the heart, and the obtaining of heavenly wisdom 252
28 - Against the tongues of detractors 255
29 - How in the time of tribulation God is to be invoked and blessed 257
30 - Of asking the divine assistance, and of confidence of recovering grace 260
31 - Of disregarding all things created, that so we may find the Creator 265
32 - Of denying ourselves, and renouncing cupidity 269
33 - Of the inconstancy of our heart, and of directing our intention to God 273
34 - That he that loves God relishes him above all things, and in all things 276
35 - That mere is no being secure from temptation in this life 279
36 - Against the vain judgments of men 283
37 - Of a pure and full resignation of ourselves for the obtaining freedom of heart 286
38 - Of the good government of ourselves in outward things, and of having recourse to God in dangers 289
39 - That a man must not be over eager in his affairs 292
40 - That a man hath no good of himself, and that he cannot glory in anything 294
41 - Of the contempt of all temporal honour 298
42 - That our peace is not to be placed in men 301
43 - Against vain and worldly learning 304
44 - Of not drawing to ourselves exterior things 307
45 - That credit is not to be given to all men ; and that men are prone to offend in words 310
46 - Of having confidence in God, when words arise against us 314
47 - That all grievous things are to be endured for life everlasting 319
48 - Of the dav of eternity, and of the miseries of this life 322
49 - Of the desire of eternal life, and how great things are promised to them that fight 328
50 - How a desolate person ought to oft'er himself into the hands of God 334
51 - That we must exercise ourselves in humble works, when we cannot attain to high things 341
52 - That a man ought not to esteem himself worthy of consolation, but rather deserving of stripes 344
53 - That the grace of God is not communicated to the earthly-minded 348
54 - Of the different motions of nature and grace. 352
55 - Of the corruption of nature, and of the efficacy of divine grace 360
56 - That we ought to deny ourselves and to imitate Christ by the cross 365
57 - That a man should not be too much dejected when he falls into some defects 370
58 - Of not searching into high matters, nor into the secret judgments of God 374
59 - That all hope and confidence is to be fixed in God alone 381
BOOK IV.
OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT.
1 - With how great reverence Christ is to be received 387
2 - That the gTeat goodness and charity of God is shewn to man in this sacrament 397
3 - That it is profitable to communicate often 404
4 - That many benefits are bestowed on them who communicate devoutly 410
5 - Of the dignity of the sacrament, and of the priestly state 415
6 - A petition concerning the exercise before communion 424
7 - Of the examination of one's own conscience, and of a resolution of amendment 426
8 - Of the oblation of Christ on the cross, and of the resignation of ourselves 432
9 - That we must offer ourselves, and all that is oars to God, and pray for all 435
10 - That the holy communion is not lightly to be forborne 439
11 - That the holy body of Christ and the holy scripture are most necessary to a faithful soul 446
12 - That he who is to communicate ought to prepare himself for Christ with great diligence 453
13 - That a devout soul ought to desire with her whole heart to be united to Christ in the sacrament 458
14 - Of the ardent desire of some devout persons to receive the body of Christ 465
15 - That the grace of devotion is obtained by humility and self-denial 469
16 - That we ought to lay open our necessities to Christ, and crave his grace 474
17 - Of a fervent love and vehement desire to receive Christ 480
18 - That a man be not a curious searcher into this sacrament, but an humble follower of Christ, submitting his sense to holy faith 483
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