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The Spiritual Combat, Together With the Supplement and the Path of Paradise, Tr. and Ed. by the Rev. W.h. Hutchings
The Spiritual Combat Together With the Supplement and the Path of Paradise Tr and Ed by the Rev Wh Hutchings Author:Lorenzo Scupoli General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1882 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: By Redemption -- sending, not an angel, but His Only-begotten Son, to redeem you, not with the corruptible price of silver and gold, but with His own Precious Blood, and His most painful and ignominious Death. Consider, too, that every hour and every moment, He defends you from your enemies,'fights for you by His grace, offers you continually in the Sacrament of the Altar His Dear Son to be your spiritual strength and nourishment; is not this a token of the inestimable love and regard which the infinite God has for you ? We cannot, on the one hand, conceive how much value so great a Lord sets on us poor creatures, in our baseness and misery ; and, on the other, hov much we are indebted to His High Majesty, Who has done so many and so great things for us. For if earthly masters, when they are honoured even by men of poor and lowly condition, feel bound to honour them in return, how should our vileness behave itself towards the Sovereign Ruler of the Universe, by Whom we are so dearly prized and loved ! And, in addition to what has been already mentioned, keep ever in lively remembrance, that the Divine Majesty is infinitely worthy to be honoured and served simply for Himself, and for His own good pleasure. CHAPTER XII. İf tlje mang JHRiUa faljirlj are in fHan, anU of tlje SSarfare bettoeen tljem. A LTHOUGH in this spiritual combat man -'. has two wills, -- the will of the mind, which we call the reasonable and superior will; andthe will of the senses, which we call the sensual and inferior will, and which sometimes bears the names of 'appetite,' 'flesh,' 'sense,'and 'passion ': yet, as it is throu...« less