Treatise on the Love of God
St. Francis de Sales's great mystical treatise (1616), addressed to Theotimus: the history, growth, decay and exercises of holy love, in twelve books. The French is the critical text of the Annecy edition (vols. IV-V) in period spelling; Mackey's English translation (1884) is paired chapter by chapter.
Contents
Source: Francis's text in the original 17th-century spelling, extracted from the PDF text layer (layout mode). Marginal references to Scripture and the Fathers, the critical apparatus (variants, footnotes), the editors' introduction and the appendices are not included. Chapter titles come from the edition's table of contents. · Mackey's translation with his footnotes (scripture references and translator's notes) kept as markdown footnotes. Mackey's long introduction, the contents and the indexes are not included; chapter titles are set in sentence case.