A treatise of adhering to God; written by Albert the Great, Bishop of Ratisbon. Put into English by Sir Kenelme Digby, Kt. Also a conference with a lady about choyce of religion.

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Author:	Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.
Title:	A treatise of adhering to God; written by Albert the Great, Bishop of Ratisbon. Put into English by Sir Kenelme Digby, Kt. Also a conference with a lady about choyce of religion.
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Alternate titles:	De adhærendo Deo. English
Subject terms:	Catholic Church -- Apologetic works -- Early works to 1800. Christian life -- Early works to 1800. Faith -- Early works to 1800.
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To the Lady DIGBY.

To my Lady Winter, the wife of Sr. John Winter, late of Liddne in the County of Glocester.

A TREATISE OF Adhering to God.

CHAP. I. Of the utmost and highest perfection that it is possiblefor a man to arrive unto in this life.

CHAP. II. How one may cleave and intend wholy to Christ, despising all other things.

CHAP. III. In what the perfect conformity of man with God consisteth in this life.

CHAP. IV. How our operations ought to be in the In∣tellectuall part of our Soule onely, and not in our Senses.

CHAP. V. Of the purity of heart, which above all things is to be aymed at.

CHAP. VI. That true devotion consisteth in adhering to God by the Vnderstanding, and Will, depured from all commerce with materiall Objects.

CHAP. VII. In what manner ones heart is to be recol∣lected within ones selfe.

CHAP. VIII. How, in all chances, a spirituall man ought to resigne himselfe to God.

CHAP. IX. That the contemplation of God is to be pre∣ferred before all other exercises.

CHAP. X. That actuall and sensible devotion is not so much to be regarded, as to adhere to God with ones will.

CHAP. XI. In what manner we are to resist temptati∣ons, and to beare tribulations.

CHAP. XII. Of the love of God, and of the great power it hath.

CHAP. XIII. Of the quality and utility of prayer: and how ones heart is to be recollected within it selfe.

CHAP. XIIII. That in all judgments, we ought to resort to the witnesse of our conscience.

CHAP. XV. How the contempt of ones selfe may be caused in a man, and how profitable that is.

CHAP. XVI. How the Providence of God extendeth it felfe to all things.

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