Abandonment to Divine Providence

Name: Abandonment to Divine Providence
Author: Jean-Pierre de Caussade (attributed)

Jean-Pierre de Caussade (attributed)

The treatise on abandonment: the duty of each moment as the veil of the divine action, then the virtue and the state of abandonment, its trials and God's fatherly assistance, followed by the Spiritual Counsels and a prayer. Published in 1861 by Fr. Henri Ramière, who arranged it from copies of letters and instructions kept by the Visitation nuns of Nancy, and attributed to Jean-Pierre de Caussade, S.J. (1675-1751); the attribution is now disputed (the work may be partly by one of those nuns), hence "attributed". The text of the 7th edition of 1874 in French, and E. J. Strickland's 1921 English, which follows Ramière's arrangement section for section; the Second Part (Letters) is not included. Ramière's preface is in the French only.

Avant-propos
Book I, Chapter I. Sanctity consists in fidelity to the order established by God, and in submission to all His operations 9 chapters
Book I, Chapter II. The divine action works unceasingly for the sanctification of souls 12 chapters
- § I
- § II
- § III
- § IV
- § V
- § VI
- § VII
- § VIII
- § IX
- § X
- § XI
- § XII
Book II, Chapter I. On the nature and excellence of the state of abandonment 8 chapters
Book II, Chapter II. The duties of those souls called by God to the state of abandonment 8 chapters
Book II, Chapter III. The trials connected with the state of abandonment 5 chapters
Book II, Chapter IV. The assistance rendered by the fatherly providence of God to those souls who have abandoned themselves to Him 12 chapters
- § I
- § II
- § III
- § IV
- § V
- § VI
- § VII
- § VIII
- § IX
- § X
- § XI
- § XII
Spiritual Counsels 5 chapters
Prayer

Source: Ramière's Avant-propos with its four footnotes, the Première partie (Traité de l’abandon: Livre I chapters I-II, Livre II chapters I-IV, each split by its numbered sections), the Avis spirituels I-V and the Prière. The approbation, title pages, table of contents and the Seconde partie (Lettres) are not imported. Running heads, page numbers and line-end hyphens were stripped, and the OCR was corrected against a French spelling dictionary plus hand-made fixes for about 400 recurrent misreadings; some residual OCR slips may remain (e.g. words fused by lost spaces, a few garbled words in the Avis). · Book I, Book II and the Spiritual Counsels with the prayers, in the same sections as the French. Dom Arnold's preface, the translator's front matter and the Second Part (Letters) are not imported. Strickland translates freely, 'more regard paid to the meaning than to the literal exactness'.