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Theologia Germanica · CCEL ThML source edition

Contents for Theologia Germanica, CCEL ThML source edition

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61 sections in this edition

Page 1 of 2

  1. Front matter Title Page source.xml#i
  2. Preface source.xml#ii
  3. Historical Introduction source.xml#iii
  4. Letter from Chevalier Bunsen to the Translator source.xml#iv
  5. Theologia Germanica source.xml#v
  6. Of that which is perfect and that which is in part, and how that which is in part is done away, when that which is perfect is come. source.xml#v.I
  7. Of what Sin is, and how we must not take unto ourselves any good Thing, seeing that it belongeth unto the true Good alone. source.xml#v.II
  8. How Man's Fall and going astray must be amended as Adam's Fall was. source.xml#v.III
  9. How Man, when he claimeth any good Thing for his own, falleth, and toucheth God in His Honour. source.xml#v.IV
  10. How we are to take that Saying, that we must come to be without Will, Wisdom, Love, Desire, Knowledge, and the like. source.xml#v.V
  11. How that which is best and noblest should also be loved above all Things by us, merely because it is the best. source.xml#v.VI
  12. Of the Eyes of the Spirit wherewith Man looketh into Eternity and into Time, and how the one is hindered of the other in its Working. source.xml#v.VII
  13. How the Soul of Man, while it is yet in the Body, may obtain a Foretaste of eternal Blessedness. source.xml#v.VIII
  14. Section IX: How it is better and more profitable for a Man that he should perceive what God will do with him, or to what end He will make Use of him, than if he knew all that God had ever wrou source.xml#v.IX
  15. How the perfect Men have no other Desire than that they may be to the Eternal Goodness what His Hand is to a Man, and how they have lost the Fear of Hell, and Hope of Heaven. source.xml#v.X
  16. How a righteous Man in this present Time is brought into hell, and there cannot be comforted, and how he is taken out of Hell and carried into Heaven, and there cannot be troubled. source.xml#v.XI
  17. Touching that true inward Peace, which Christ left to His Disciples at the last. source.xml#v.XII
  18. How a Man may cast aside Images too soon. source.xml#v.XIII
  19. Of three Stages by which a Man is led upwards till he attaineth true Perfection. source.xml#v.XIV
  20. How all Men are dead in Adam and are made alive again in Christ, and of true Obedience and Disobedience. source.xml#v.XV
  21. Telleth us what is the old Man, and what is the new Man. source.xml#v.XVI
  22. How we are not to take unto ourselves what we have done well: but only what we have done amiss. source.xml#v.XVII
  23. How that the Life of Christ is the noblest and best Life that ever hath been or can be, and how a careless Life of false Freedom is the worst Life that can be. source.xml#v.XVIII
  24. How we cannot come to the true Light and Christ's Life, by much Questioning or Reading, or by high natural Skill and Reason, but by truly renouncing ourselves and all Things. source.xml#v.XIX
  25. How, seeing that the Life of Christ is most bitter to Nature and Self, Nature will have none of it, and chooseth a false careless Life, as is most convenient to her. source.xml#v.XX
  26. How a friend of Christ willingly fulfilleth by his outward Works, such Things as must be and ought to be, and doth not concern himself with the rest. source.xml#v.XXI
  27. How sometimes the Spirit of God, and sometimes also the Evil Spirit may possess a Man and have the mastery over him. source.xml#v.XXII
  28. He who will submit himself to God and be obedient to Him, must be ready to bear with all Things; to wit, God, himself, and all Creatures, and must be obedient to them all whether he have to suffer or to do. source.xml#v.XXIII
  29. How that four Things are needful before a Man can receive divine Truth and be possessed with the Spirit of God. source.xml#v.XXIV
  30. Of two evil Fruits that do spring up from the Seed of the Evil Spirit, and are two Sisters who love to dwell together. The one is called spiritual Pride and Highmindedness, the other is false, lawless Freedom. source.xml#v.XXV
  31. Touching Poorness of Spirit and true Humility and whereby we may discern the true and lawful free Men whom the Truth hath made free. source.xml#v.XXVI
  32. How we are to take Christ's Words when He bade forsake all Things; and wherein the Union with the Divine Will standeth. source.xml#v.XXVII