Lorenzo Scupoli: The Spiritual Combat

LORENZO SCUPOLI: THE SPIRITUAL COMBAT Lorenzo Scupoli

Translated by W. H. Hutchings (editor). Date: 1589; edition 1876. Public domain. Source: https://archive.org/details/TheSpiritualCombat1876

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Of the Imitation of CkrisL Thomas a Kempjs.

The Christian Year, John Keble. *

Scupoli,

The Devout Life, S. Francis db Sales, ;

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Of the Imitation of Christ,

T?ie Spiritual Combat,

The Devout Life,

The Hidden Life of the Soul, [

Spiritual Letters of S, Fronds de Sales, TTie Christian Year

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IT is hoped that the Library of Spiritual Works for English CathoKcs," whidi will compHse translations, compilations, and other worl, will meet a need which has long been felt. As the devotional life of the Church of England has increased, so the 'demand' for spiritual treatises has l:^ome more and m6rurgent, and has arisen from all classes of society. This series of books, some well-known, some already oftentimes translated, and others, it may be, yet to be presented for the first time in an, English dress, is intended to meet this w^t.

.The aim of the translators is twofold. First; to provide the reader with a fair rendering of the original as far as possible unmutilated. ' It) has been a common complaint of late, that translations have been marred by the absence of partff of the original, the exclusion of which a more' intelligent view of Catholic devotion in the present day has rendered unnecessary. In these editions these omissions have been to a great extent supplied; yet at the same time any term or expression which may come under the impu-^ tation of being ** un-English “ has been reduced, as far as may be without. destroying the thought,' to its equi^^ent in Anglican phraseology and belief. Secondly, to translate the origii, into ordinary English, and thus to avoid tl, antiquated and stilted style of writing, which often makes books of this kind distast^ul, or even sometimes unintelligible

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Contents

fffte Combat

chap ' I.

' II.-

in,

VIII

' IX

' XL-

In what Christian Perfection consists: and the ; attainment of it involves a struggle, and of four things necessary for this…