FROM

The Middle Ages.

CONSISTING OF

A SELECTION OF ABSTRACTS FROM THE
WRITINGS OF THE FATHERS.

ADAPTED

FOR THE HOUR OF MEDITATION,

AND CONCLUDING WITH A

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF THEIR LIVES.

LONDON:

JOSEPH MASTERS, ALDERSGATE STREET,

AND NEW BOND STREET.

1865.

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TO THE MEMORY

OF

The Holy Bead in all Ages,

AND

TO THOSE AMONG THE LIVING

WHOM THE TEACHING OF THEIR LIVES WOULD PROFIT,

THESE PAGES ARE DEDICATED.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

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3

PART I.

Of God's Being, Attributes, and Works.

I. OF THE GREATNESS OF GOD.

1. Alcuin, De Pfalmorum ufu liber

2. Anfelm, Proslogium, c. 15, 16
3. Bernard, De confideratione, v. 13
4. Bernard, De confideratione, v.

II. THE OMNISCIENCE AND JUSTICE OF GOD.

5. Raymund, Theologia naturalis, c. 30.

6. Richard, De arca myftica, ii. 21

7. Soliloquia, c. 14

9. Thomas, Soliloquium animæ, c. 25 .

10. Arnold, De perfecta Dei et proximi dilectione, c. II.

11. Richard, De arca mystica, iii. 21

IV. THE GOODNESS AND LOVE OF GOD.

12. Soliloquia, c. 7

13. Soliloquia, c. 20

14. Sufo, Befchreibung feines Lebens, c. 54