Contributors: Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte

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A Short Method of Prayer · Project Gutenberg EPUB edition

Contents for A Short Method of Prayer, Project Gutenberg EPUB edition

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28 sections in this edition

  1. Front matter Title and edition information OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#element-2
  2. Front matter Preface to the English Protestant Edition OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#node-8
  3. Other [p v] A SHORT METHOD OF PRAYER. OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00003
  4. Other CONTENTS. OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00004
  5. Other [p vii] SPIRITUAL TORRENTS. OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00005
  6. Other CONTENTS. OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00006
  7. Other [p ix] A SHORT METHOD OF PRAYER. “Walk before me, and be thou perfect.”—Gen. xvii. 1.
  8. Front matter Author's Preface OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00010
  9. Other [p1] A SHORT METHOD OF PRAYER. OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#node-34
  10. Chapter 1. ALL ARE COMMANDED TO PRAY—PRAYER THE GREAT MEANS OF SALVATION, AND POSSIBLE AT ALL TIMES BY THE MOST SIMPLE. OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00013
  11. Chapter 2. FIRST DEGREE OF PRAYER—MEDITATION AND MEDITATIVE READING—THE LORD’S PRAYER—PASSAGE FROM THE FIRST DEGREE TO THE SECOND. OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00015
  12. Chapter 3. SECOND DEGREE OF PRAYER, CALLED HERE “THE PRAYER OF SIMPLICITY.” OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00017
  13. Chapter 4. ON SPIRITUAL DRYNESS. OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00019
  14. Chapter 5. ABANDONMENT TO GOD—ITS FRUIT AND ITS IRREVOCABILITY—IN WHAT IT CONSISTS—GOD EXHORTS US TO IT. OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00021
  15. Chapter 6. OF SUFFERING WHICH MUST BE ACCEPTED AS FROM GOD—ITS FRUITS. OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00023
  16. Chapter 7. ON MYSTERIES—GOD GIVES THEM HERE IN REALITY. OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00025
  17. Chapter 8. ON VIRTUE—ALL VIRTUES GIVEN WITH GOD IN THIS DEGREE OF THE PRAYER OF THE HEART. OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00027
  18. Chapter 9. OF PERFECT CONVERSION, WHICH IS AN EFFECT OF THIS METHOD OF PRAYER—TWO OF ITS AIDS, THE ATTRACTION OF GOD, AND THE CENTRAL INCLINATION OF THE SOUL. OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00029
  19. Chapter 10. HIGHER DEGREE OF PRAYER, WHICH IS THAT OF THE SIMPLE PRESENCE OF GOD, OR ACTIVE CONTEMPLATION. OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00031
  20. Chapter 11. OF REST IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD—ITS FRUITS—INWARD SILENCE—GOD COMMANDS IT—OUTWARD SILENCE. OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00033
  21. Chapter 12. SELF-EXAMINATION AND CONFESSION. OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00035
  22. Chapter 13. ON READING—VOCAL PRAYER—REQUESTS. OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00037
  23. Chapter 14. THE FAULTS COMMITTED IN THIS DEGREE—DISTRACTIONS, TEMPTATIONS—THE COURSE TO BE PURSUED RESPECTING THEM. OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00039
  24. Chapter 15. PRAYER AND SACRIFICE EXPLAINED BY THE SIMILITUDE OF A PERFUME—OUR ANNIHILATION IN THIS SACRIFICE—SOLIDITY AND FRUITFULNESS OF THIS PRAYER AS SET FORTH IN THE GOSPEL. OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00041
  25. Chapter 16. THIS STATE OF PRAYER NOT ONE OF IDLENESS, BUT OF NOBLE ACTION, WROUGHT BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD, AND IN DEPENDENCE UPON HIM—THE COMMUNICATION OF HIS LIFE AND UNION. OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00043
  26. Chapter 17. Interior and Exterior Actions OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00045
  27. Chapter 18. THE DRYNESS OF PREACHERS, AND THE VARIOUS EVILS WHICH ARISE FROM THEIR FAILING TO TEACH HEART-PRAYER—EXHORTATION TO PASTORS TO LEAD PEOPLE TOWARDS THIS FORM OF PRAYER, WITHOUT AMUSING THEM WITH STUDIED AND METHODICAL DEVOTION. OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00047
  28. Chapter 19. AFTER THE PRECEDING WAYS, THERE REMAINS AN AFTER WAY, PREPARATORY TO DIVINE UNION, IN WHICH WISDOM AND JUSTICE MAKE THE PASSIVE PURIFICATION OF THE SOUL, ALL WHICH IS TREATED IN DETAIL IN THE FOLLOWING TREATISE, ENTITLED “SPIRITUAL TORRENTS.” OEBPS/7733235076536912016_24989-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00049

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