The Practice of Perfection and Christian VirtuesPart One On union and fraternal charity Of the Merit and Excellence of Charity and Fraternal Union Of the Need We Have of This Charity and Union, and of Some Means to Preserve Us in the Same Of Some Reasons from Holy Scripture Binding Us to Keep Charity and Union with Our Brethren Of the Manner and Character of the Union Which We Ought to Have with Our Brethren Here We Begin to Declare in Particular What It Is That Union and Fraternal Charity Requires of Us, and What Will Help Us to Keep It Of Two Other Conditions of Charity and Union Of Another Thing That Charity Requires, and Which Will Help Much to Preserve It, Which Is to Have and Show a Great Esteem for Our Brothers and Always Speak Well of Them That We Ought Much to Beware of Telling Another, “Soand-So Has Said This and That of You,’ Where It May Give Him Any Offense That Good and Fair Words Help Very Much to Preserve Charity, While Their Contraries Have a Contrary Effect That We Ought to Be Much on Our Guard Against Biting Words That May Offend Our Brother or Give Him Any Displeasure That We Ought to Beware of Wrangling, Contradicting, and Reprehending Of the Good Grace and Good Words with Which an Office of Charity Should Be Exercised Of What We Are to Do When We Have Had Any Passage of Arms or Disagreement with Our Brother Of Three Directions to Be Observed When Another Has Given Us Some Occasion of Annoyance Of Rash Judgments, Explaining in What Their Malice and Gravity Consists Of the Causes and Roots Whence Rash Judgments Proceed, and Their Remedies In Which the Above Is Confirmed by Sundry Examples Of Other Manners of Union and Friendships Not Good Of the Second Manner of Friendships and Associations That Are Not Good Of a Third Sort of Union and Association Very Harmful to Religion
