Introduction to the Devout Life
St. Francis de Sales's guide (1609; definitive text 1619) to living a devout life in the midst of the world: five parts of counsels and exercises written for Philothea, who wishes to love God in her ordinary state of life. The original French is Boulenger's edition of the 1619 text; the English is an anonymous nineteenth-century translation.
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Source: Francis's text with Boulenger's footnotes, kept as markdown footnotes. Boulenger's front matter (Mgr Baunard's letter, the introduction "La Philothée de Saint François de Sales"), the lexicon and the table of contents are not included. · Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org)