The Practice of Perfection and Christian VirtuesPart One On conformity with the will of God In Which Two Fundamental Principles Are Laid Down Further Explanation of the Second Fundamental Principle Of the Great Benefits and Advantages Contained in This Conformity to the Will of God That This Perfect Conformity to the Will of God Is Happiness and Bliss on Earth That in God Alone Satisfaction Is to Be Found, and He Who Shall Set Up His Rest in Anything Else Shall Never Find True Satisfaction Another Way of Showing How Conforming Ourselves to the Will of God Is the Way to Find Contentment Of Other Benefits and Advantages That There Are in This Conformity to the Will of God In Which It Is Confirmed by Examples How Pleasing to God Is This Exercise of Conformity to His Will, and the Great Perfection There Is in It Of Some Facts That Will Render This Exercise of Conformity with the Will of God Easy and Pleasant Of the Paternal and Particular Providence That God Has over Us, and of the Filial Confidence That We Should Have in Him Of Some Passages and Examples of Holy Scripture to Aid Us in Gaining This Familiar and Filial Confidence in God How Profitable and Perfect a Thing It Would Be to Apply Meditation to This Exercise of Conformity to the Will of God; and How We Should Descend to Particulars Until We Reach the Third Degree of Conformity Of the Indifference and Conformity Which a Religious Should Have for Being in Any Part of the World Whither Obedience May Send Him Of the Indifference and Conformity to the Will of God Which a Religious Should Have for Any Office and Occupation in Which Obedience May Place Him Of the Conformity That We Should Have to the Will of God in the Distribution of Natural Gifts and Talents Of the Conformity That We Should Have to the Will of God in Times of Sickness That We Ought Not to Put Our Trust in Doctors or Drugs, but in God; and Conform Ourselves to His Will Not Only in the Sickness Itself, but in All the Incidents of the Same In Which What Has Been Said Is Confirmed by Some Examples Of the Conformity We Should Have to the Will of God in Death as in Life Of Sundry Reasens and Motives for Which We May Lawfully and Holily Desire Death What Has Been Said in the Preceding Chapter, Confirmed by Examples Of the Conformity Which We Should Have to the Will of God in the General Afflictions and Calamities Which He Sends Us Of a Means That Will Help Us Much to Bear Well and with Conformity the Afflictions That the Lord Sends Us, As Well Particular As General, Which Is the Knowledge and Inward Consciousness of Our Own Sins Of the Conformity That We Ought to Have with the Will of God in Dryness and Desolation in Prayer Satisfying the Complaint of Those Who Are Dry and Disconsolate at Meditation How to Turn Aridity and Desolation into a Good and Profitable Prayer Other Reasons to Comfort and Conform Us to the Will of God in Dryness and Desolation at Meditation That lt Is a Great Mistake and Grave Temptation to Give Over Meditation for Finding Ourselves in the Condition Aforesaid What Has Been Said Is Confirmed by Some Examples Of Conformity to the Will of God in the Distribution of Virtues and Supernatural Gifts Of the Conformity That We Should Have to the Will of God As Regards the Good Things of Heavenly Glory Of Conformity and Union and Perfect Love for God, and How We Should Practise This Exercise How Much This Exercise Is Recommended and Repeated in Holy Scripture How We May Further Extend This Exercise
