The Practice of Perfection and Christian VirtuesPart Two On the virtue of humility Of the Excellence of the Virtue of Humility, and the Need We Have of It That Humility Is the Foundation of All Virtues In Which lt Is Shown More in Detail How Humility Is the j Foundation of All Virtues, by Going Through the Chief of Them Of the Particular Need in Which They Stand of This Virtue, Whose Profession It Is to Help On the Salvation of Their Neighbor Of the First Degree of Humility, Which Is to Make Little Account of Oneself and Always Think Poorly of Oneself Of Self-Knowledge as the Root, and the Sole and Necessary Means to Attain Humility Of Another Main Motive for a Man to Know Himself and Gain Humility, Which Is the Consideration of His Sins How We Should So Exercise Ourselves in Self-Knowledge as Not to Be Discouraged or Lose Confidence Of the Good Things and Great Advantages That There Are in the Exercise of Self-Knowledge That Self-Knowledge Does Not Bring Discouragement, but Rather Courage and Strength Of Other Great Goods and Advantages That There Are in Self-Knowledge How Much It Behooves Us to Exercise Ourselves in Self-Knowledge Of the Second Degree of Humility, Explaining in What It Consists Of Some Degrees and Steps Whereby to Mount to the Perfection of This Second Degree of Humility Of the Fourth Step, Which Is to Desire to Be Run Down, and Go for Little or Nothing, and to Rejoice Therein That the Perfection of Humility and Other Virtues Lies in Doing the Acts Thereof with Delight and Pleasure, and How Important This Is for Perseverance in Virtue A Further Explanation of the Perfection That Must Be Secured to Mount to This Second Degree of Humility Of Some Means to Gain This Second Degree of Humility, and Particularly the Example of Christ Our Lord Of Some Human Reasons and Considerations That We Have at Hand to Help Us to Be Humble Of Some Other Human Considerations to Help to Make Us Humble That a Sure Way to Be Regarded and Esteemed by Men Is to Give Oneself Up to the Virtue of Humility That Humility Is the Means to Attain True Peace of Soul, and We Shall Never Arrive at That without It Of Another Manner of Means More Effectual for Gaining the Virtue of Humility: By Practising It What Has Been Said Is Confirmed by Some Examples Of the Exercise of Humility That We Have in Religion That We Must Be on Our Guard against Uttering Words That May Redound to Our Praise How We Should Exercise Ourselves at Meditation in the Second Degree of Humility How We Are to Make the Particular Examen on the Virtue of Humility How Humility Is Compatible with Seeking to Be Regarded and Esteemed by Men Of the Third Degree of Humility Further Elucidation of the Third Degree of Humility Further Elucidation of the Same Further Elucidation of the Third Degree of Humility, and How It Comes Thereof that the Truly Humble Takes Himself for the Least of Ail How Good and Holy Men Can with Truth Hold Themselves to Be the Least of All and Say that They Are the Greatest Sinners in the World That This Third Degree of Humility Is the Means to Overcome All Temptations and Obtain the Perfection of All Virtues That Humility Is Not Contrary to Magnanimity, but Is the Foundation and Cause Thereof Of Other Good Things and Great Advantages There Are in This Third Degree of Humility Of the Great Favors and Benefits That God Does to the Humble, and What Is the Reason Why He Exalts Them So Much How Important It Is for Us to Betake Ourselves to Humility to Make Up Thereby for What Is Wanting to Us in Virtue and Perfection, and That God May Not Humble and Chastise Us In Which What Has Been Said Is Confirmed by Some Examples ULPICIUS SEVERUS relates, and Surius in the “Life of
