May the Fountain of all goodness preserve your precious life, and continue your Royal Highness long to us, a bright example and a signal blessing to this and future ages! May he hear and grant the daily petitions of his church, endue you with his Holy Spirit, enrich you with his heavenly grace, prosper you with all happiness, and bring you to his everlasting kingdom! These, Madam, I beg leave, with all humility and most profound respect, to assure your Royal Highness, are the sincere, earnest, and constant prayers of, May it please your Royal Highness, Your Royal Highness's Most obedient, and Most devoted Servant, GEO. STANHOPE. April 12, 1701. II. An act of self-accusation, and imploring the Divine 11 mercy III. The sinner's lamentation for his prayers not being heard V. An address to the Father in the Son's name.... VIII. The soul's application of Christ's death and sufferings 17 19 XII. A confession of God's omnipotence and majesty... 32 XIII. Of the incarnation of the Divine Word. ... XIV. An act of trust in, and thanksgiving for, Christ and his sufferings.... XV. Of God the Father's love to mankind.. 73 XVI. Of the two natures in Christ.... 40 XVII. Of the thanks due to God for the redemption of the world... 42 XVIII. A devout prayer to Christ.... 45 XIX. The souls of the righteous are the house of God.• 48 XX. The pious soul's longing for heaven.... A 51 Chap. Page XXI. The miseries of the present life..... XXII. The happiness of that life prepared for them that love God..... XXIII. The happiness of holy souls at their departure out of this world.......... 53 55 57 XXIV. A prayer for succour in trouble and danger..... 58 XXV. The pious soul's desire of heaven.. XXVI. An act of praise.... XXVII. How God may be seen, and possessed of man.. XXIX. Of the plurality of persons in the unity of the Divine essence ・・・・・ 59 62 66 67 XXX. A prayer to the ever-blessed Trinity. XXXI. God the true life..... 73 74 75 XXXII. The praises of angels and men....... XXXIII. A prayer for zeal in the service and praise of God 80 XXXV. A devout prayer to Christ. • • • • . XL. Devout reflections upon the sufferings of Christ.... 114 St. Augustine of the Love of God; or, his Second Book of Meditations. Book II. Chap. Page I. Love, the way that leadeth to life..... 120 II. Upon what accounts, and in what manner, we ought VII. The mercy of being called to the true faith....... 137 Chap. VIII. Of the communications of Divine grace ........ Page 140 142 IX. The mercy of instruction and illumination.... ... 147 XII. God's long-suffering and mercy which preserved us XIII. The power of mastering temptations..... 158 161 XV. The many instances of God's bounty, notwithstanding III. The misery of unregenerate man IV. An act of praise for God's manifold mercies in man's Page 177 179 182 VII. A prayer for the Divine grace and protection...... 192 193 IX. Of God's seeing all the actions and intentions of men 196 ...... ment we should make of it..... 209 XII. The consideration of the Divine goodness, our hope and comfort in sufferings.... 218 Chap. XIII. The methods of God's grace in our sanctification and salvation...... Page 227 XIV. We are not to conceive God to be a sensible object 233 Chap. St. Augustine's Manual. Book IV. Page 255 I. The excellences of the Divine essence. 257 . 260 IV. The misery of them who do not seek and love God.. 259 prisons. VII. Of the comforts afforded good men under their pre- 261 X. Of loving God, and the advantages of doing SO..... 273 XI. The good effects of meditating on Christ's death and XIV. The exquisite goodness of God..... St. Anselm's Meditations concerning the Redemption of St. Anselm of the Misery of Man, in the Person of a sorrowful |