Mirror for Monks

About this book

A devotional guide for monks

Text from Christian Classics Ethereal Library; in the public domain.

Contents

1. A Mirror for Monks. · Chapter I.
2. Chapter II. How We Ought to Bestow Our Time from Our First Rising to Matins in the Morning.
3. Chapter III. God Hath Two Sorts of Servants, and the Description of Both.
4. Chapter IV. That for Every Hour of the Day We Ought to Cleave to Some Settled Exercise, Lest Our Mind Grow Sluggish.
5. Chapter V. How Powerful and Efficacious the Remembrance of Christ’s Life and Passion Is.
6. Chapter VI. We Must Daily Call to Mind the Manifold Sins Which We Have Committed.
7. Chapter VII. Every One Ought to Consider His Own Ability, and to Proceed Accordingly.
8. Chapter VIII. A Very Good Means to Obtain Humility.
9. A Mirror for Monks. · Chapter IX.
10. Chapter X. Martha May Serve as a Mirror for Imperfect Religious Men; Mary for Such as Are Grown to Perfection.
11. Chapter XI. Perfect Mortification Is the Certain and Only Short Way to Perfection.
12. Chapter XII. A Monk or Nun, by Virtue of Their Profession, Is Bound to Tend to Perfection.