Meditations on the Mysteries of Our Holy Faith, Volume 3
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B.— THE INTRODUCTION AND FUNDAMENTAL MEDITATION. ON THE TWO LTVES, ACTIVE AND CONTEMPLATIVE, FIGURED BY THE TWO SISTERS MARTHA AND MARY;— AND ON THE LIFE CALLED MIXED, OR COMPOSED OF BOTH, PRACTISED BY CHRIST OUR LORD IN THE TIME OF HIS PREACHING.
ON THE TWO LTVES, ACTIVE AND CONTEMPLATIVE, FIGURED BY THE TWO SISTERS MARTHA AND MARY;— AND ON THE LIFE CALLED MIXED, OR COMPOSED OF BOTH, PRACTISED BY CHRIST OUR LORD IN THE TIME OF HIS PREACHING.
1. It is the common opinion of the holy Fathers and spiritual masters, that the spiritual life comprehends two sorts of works and exercises, which they call the active and contemplative life.
i. The active is a manner of life dedicated principally to exterior works for our own spiritual profit, or for the profit of our neighbours, exercising towards them the works of charity, and of mercy, either the corporal, with which beginners are to commence, or the spiritual, to teach and to preach, which are more proper to the perfect.
ii. The contemplative life is a manner of life dedicated principally to the interior ivories of the knowledge and love of Almighty God, ascending by the degrees and exercises of reading, meditation, prayer, and contemplation, of which we have treated at the beginning of this book, in the abridgment of mental prayer; which brief abridgment comprehends them all.
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- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
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