Treatise on Concupiscence

Name: Treatise on Concupiscence
Author: Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

This book is in French.

An exposition of the words of Saint John, “Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world”: the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, traced into the recesses of the soul. A treatise of Christian morals written around 1693 and published in 1731. Lachat edition (1863).

Source: Typed transcription of volume VII, page 029. 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.