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Meditations on the Gospel

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

This book is in French.

Day-by-day meditation on the discourses of the Lord: the Sermon on the Mount, the preparation for the Saviour’s last week, his last days in Jerusalem and the discourse after the Supper. Written for the Visitation nuns of Meaux (1695) and published in 1731. Lachat edition (1863).

Contents

Source: Typed transcription of volume VI, pages 002-010. The transcription loses the œ ligature; it is restored by a dictionary pass (ambiguous forms such as sœur/sur, mœurs/murs, vœu/vu decided from the Lachat OCR). Page-bottom notes of the Lachat edition are kept as footnotes.