CONTENTS

Approbation of the Latin Text

Preface

General Note

Prayer of Father Diertins

Annotations

Presupposition

First Week

Principle and Foundation

Particular and Daily Examen

General Examen

General Confession with Communion

Meditation on the First, the Second, and the Third Sin

Meditation on Sins

First Repetition

Second Repetition

Meditation on Hell

Note

Additions

Second Week

The Call of the Temporal King

Notes

First Day

The Incarnation

The Nativity

Notes

Second Day

Note

Third Day

Preamble to Consider States

Fourth Day

Two Standards

Note

Three Pairs of Men

Note

Fifth Day

Sixth—Tenth Day

Eleventh—Twelfth Day

Notes

Three Manners of Humility

Note

Prelude for Making Election

Matter of Election

Note

Times for Making Election

First Time6

Second Time

Third Time

First Way

Second Way

Note

To Amend and Reform one’s own Life and State

Third Week

First Contemplation

Note

Second Contemplation

Notes

Second—Fourth Day

Fifth—Seventh Day

Note

Eating

Fourth Week

First Contemplation

Notes

Contemplation to Gain Love

Three Methods of Prayer

First Method

Second Method

Third Method

Mysteries of the Life of Christ our Lord

Rules

Rules for Perceiving the Movements Caused in the Soul

First Week

Second Week

Rules for Distributing Alms

Notes on Scruples and Persuasions of the Enemy

Rules to have the True Sentiment in the Church

General Index