CHAPTER XII. Of Sadness and Sorrow. S. PAUL says that “godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of, but the sorrow of…
CHAPTER XI. Anxiety of Mind. ANXIETY of mind is not so much an abstract temptation, as the source whence various temptations arise. Sadness, when defined,…
CHAPTER IX. How remedy Minor Temptations. NOW as to all these trifling temptations of vanity, suspicion, vexation, jealousy, envy, and the like, which flit around…
CHAPTER VII. Remedies for Great Occasions. SO soon as you feel yourself anywise tempted, do as our little children when they see a wolf or…
CHAPTER IV. Two striking Illustrations of the same. THIS distinction, which is very important, is well illustrated by the description S. Jerome gives of a…
CHAPTER XXVII. Of Unseemly Words, and the Respect due to Others. SAINT JAMES says, “If any man offend not in word, the same is, a…
