The Consoler; Or, Pious Readings Addressed to the Sick and to All Who Are Afflicted, Tr. by Abbot Burder. Or, Pious Readings Addressed to the Sick and to All Who Are Afflicted, Tr. by Abbot Burder - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873. Excerpt: ... holy Religious, we labour earnestly for our salvation by a true and profound humility of heart, and by a spirit of mortification. Humility and mortification, by correcting our errors and destroying our vicious affections, will ensure to our souls an unchanging calm and repose, and will enable us to find the greatest delight in the midst of the greatest suffering. III. THE PEACE OF THE SOUL CONSISTS IN BEING PERFECTLY CONTENT WITH THE STATE IN WHICH WE ACTUALLY ARE. 1. If the peace of the soul is necessary for all mankind in general, it is doubly so for the afflicted, for they generally have numberless cares to torment them and cause them anxiety. Some arc anxious about the affairs of their family; others about their suspended undertakings. Some, again, are over-solicitous as to the remedies they should make use of, while others are troubled about their exercises of piety. They all, in general, wish for what they have not, and are never content with what they have. They recur to the past with useless regret, and they seek for motives of disquiet in the future, which are both imaginary and Uncertain; and they never content themselves with making the actual state of their soul the matter of their chief consideration. Yet this is one of the most essential means of preserving interior peace and true support in the time of affliction. Yes, all the happiness and perfection of man upon earth consists in continuing in the state in which he finds himself, provided that there is no sin in his doing so; that is to say, in being always content with everything that happens to him, whether it regards the body or the soul; in not wishing to be anything else than what he actually is; in not seeking for anything which he has not; in finding in himself and in God, who dwell...

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