Certaine select prayers gathered out of S. Augustine's meditations which he calleth his selfe talke with God.
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- Certaine select prayers gathered out of S. Augustine's meditations which he calleth his selfe talke with God.
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- At London :: Printed by Iohn Daye, dwelling ouer Aldersgate,
- 1574.
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- Christian life -- Catholic authors.
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Contents
- title page
- ¶Of the vnspeake∣able swéetnesse of God.
- ¶Of the wretchednesse and frailtie of man.
- ¶Of Gods Won∣derfull light.
- ¶Of the mortali∣tie of mans nature.
- ¶Of the fall of the Soule into sinne.
- ¶ Of Gods mani∣fold benefites.
- ¶Of mans dignitie in time to come.
- ¶Of Gods al∣mightinesse.
- ¶Of the incompre∣hensible prayse of God.
- ¶Of liftyng a mās hope vp vnto God.
- ¶Of the snares of concupiscence.
- ¶ Of mans miserie and Gods benefites.
- ¶ That God doth continually behold and marke mens doynges & intentes.
- ¶That man can do nothing of him selfe with∣out Gods grace.
- ¶Of the deuill and of his manifold temptations.
- ¶That God is the light of the righteous.
- Of Gods benefites.
- Of the feruentnesse of loue or Charitie.
- That God hath put all thinges vnder the seruice of man.
- That the greatnesse of the heauenly wisedome is coniectured by the con∣sideration of the tem∣porall benefites.
- That the sweetnesse of God taketh away all the present bitternesse of the world.
- That all our trust, and all the longing of our hart ought to be to Godward.
- That our welfare commeth of God.
- ¶That mās will is vnable to doe good workes, without the grace of God.
- ¶Of Gods olde benefites.
- Of Gods predesti∣nation and foreknowledge.
- Of such as first are righteous, and afterward become wicked, and contrariwyse.
- That the faythfull mās soule is Gods sanctuarie.
- That God cānot be founde neither by the out∣ward senses nor by the inward wittes.
- Of the acknowled∣ging of a mās owne vylenes.
- ¶A consideryng of Gods maiestie.
- ¶ Of the longyng and thirsting of the soule af∣ter God.
- Of the glorie of the heauenly countrey.
- ¶A prayer to the holie Trinitie.
- title page
- The Preface.
- ¶Of Gods Won∣derfull being.
- ¶Of the vnspeaka∣ble knowledge of God.
- ¶Of the longing of the soule that féeleth God.
- ¶Of the wretched∣nesse of that soule whiche lo∣ueth not, ne séeketh not our Lord Iesus Christ.
- ¶Of the longing of the soule.
- ¶Of the happines of the soule that is let loose from the prison of the body.
- ¶Of the ioyes of Paradise.
- ¶Of the kingdome of heauen.
- In what wise God cōforteth the sorrowfull soule after the lōg mornyng therof.
- ¶Of the sweetnesse of the loue of God.
- ¶Of ioy.
- ¶That the word is become fleshe for our hopes sake.
- ¶That the more a man museth vpon God, the swéeter it is vnto him.
- ¶ That tribulatiōs for Christes sake are to be de∣sired in this life.
- How the kyngdome of heauen may be gotten.
- ¶What Paradise is, and what it hath.
- What thing God re∣quireth like vnto him self in vs.
- ¶ Of the boldnesse of the soule that loueth God.
- ¶ What God hath done for man.
- ¶The remembring of the woundes of our Lorde Iesu Christ.
- ¶That the remem∣braunce of Christes woundes is an effectual remedy against all aduersities.
- The musing of the Soule vpon the loue of God.
- ¶What the know∣ledge of the truth is.
- ¶What the sending of the holie Ghost worketh in vs.
- ¶ Of the workyng of him that loueth God.
- ¶Of the true rest of the hart.
- ¶What soeuer with¦draweth the sight of the mind from God, must in any wise be eschewed and abhorred.
- ¶That the seyng of God is lost through sinne, & miserie founde in stede of it.
- Of Gods goodnes.
- ¶Of the delectable fruition of God.
- The souereine good is to be sought.
- ¶ Of the mutuall loue betwéene the Saintes in heauens.
- ¶Of the full ioy of the eternall lyfe.
- ¶A TABLE OF the Prayers contai∣ned in S. Austens bookes in∣titled his selfe talke with God, and his Manuell.
- The table of pray∣ers in his Manuell.
- colophon