The Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues Part Three Al lector On the end and institute of the Society of Jesus, and some means that will help us to attain it 18 chapters On the essential vows of religion and the great goods in it 9 chapters That the Perfection of a Religious Consists in the Perfect Observance of the Three Vows That He Makes of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience Why These Things Are Done and Confirmed Under Vow Of Other Great Benefits and Advantages That the Obligation of the Vows Carries with It Why the Surrender That One Makes of Oneself to Religion by These Three Vows Is Called by the Saints a Second Baptism and a Martyrdom That Liberty Is Not Given Up or Diminished by Vows, but Rather Is Perfected Of the Great Blessings That There Are in Religion, and the Gratitude That We Owe to God for Having Called Us to It Continuation of the Subject of the Previous Chapter Of the Renovation of Vows Practised in the Society, and of the Fruit Meant to Be Gained Thereby Continuation of the Subject of the Previous Chapter On the vow of poverty 16 chapters On the virtue of chastity 11 chapters Of the Excellence of the Virtue of Chastity, and the Degrees Whereby We Are to Mount to the Perfection Thereof That to Preserve Chastity, Mortification of All the Senses, and Especially of the Eyes, Is Necessary That, Particularly in This Virtue of Chastity, It Is Necessary to Make Much Account of Small Things That in Confession We Should Take Particular Account of Anything Contrary to Chastity How Violent and Dangerous Is the Passion of Love, and How Much We Ought to Fear It Of Some Remedies against Impure Temptations That Penance and Mortification of the Flesh Is a Very Good Remedy against Temptations to Impurity Of Other Remedies against Impure Temptations Of the Fear of God Of the Great Advantages That There Are in This Fear of God In Which What Has Been Said Is Confirmed by Some Examples On the virtue of obedience 18 chapters On the observance of the rules 9 chapters Of the Great Favor and Benefit God Has Done Us in Encompassing Us with Rules That Our Perfection Consists in the Observance of the Rules That though Our Rules Do Not Bind under Sin, We Should Not Make That an Excuse for Neglecting to Observe Them That although the Matter about Which a Rule Deals Is Trifling, This Is No Excuse, but Tells Rather against Him Who Does Not Keep It Of the Great Mischief That Comes of Making Light of the Rules, Even though It Be in Small Things Of the Great Blessings That Follow Upon Observance of Rules, and Setting Much Store by Them, Even in Small Things What Has Been Said Is Confirmed by Some Examples Of Some Other Things Which Cause Us to Fail in the Observance of the Rules, and of the Remedy for Them Of Other Means to Help Us in Keeping the Rules On openness with superiors and spiritual fathers, giving them full account of conscience 11 chapters How Important and Necessary It Is to Deal Openly with Our Superiors What a Great Relief and Consolation It Is for a Man to Be Open with His Superior and Spiritual: Father, and the Blessings and Benefits That Ensue Therefrom That to Discover Temptations to the Superior or Spiritual Father Is a Very Efficacious Means to Take against Them That No One Ought to Omit Telling His Temptations to His Spiritual Father on the Plea That He Already Knows the Means to Be Taken to Meet Them That None Should Omit Manifesting Things because They Look Trifling Some First Answers to the Difficulties That Usually Hinder This Openness in Manifestation Meeting the Main Difficulty That Is Apt to Stand in the Way of Openness in Manifestation Another Way of Meeting the Aforesaid Difficulty That We Owe Much Gratitude to God for Making the Account of Conscience in the Society so Easy and Pleasant, and How It Comes to Be So Of the Method to Be Observed in Giving an Account of Conscience Answers to Certain Doubts Arising from the Above On fraternal correction 7 chapters That Correction Is a Mark of Love, and the Great Good There Is in It That Pride Is the Cause of Our Not Taking Correction Well Of the Inconveniences and Losses That Follow from Not Taking Correction Well How Important It Is to Take Correction and Admonition Well What Has Been Said in the Foregoing Chapter Confirmed by Examples Of the Rule and Constitution That We Have in the Society, of Discovering the Faults of Our Brethren Immediately to the Superior Sundry Important Warnings in This Matter
