The Foundations of the Spiritual Life, Drawn from the Book of the Imitation of Jesus Christ (adapted)

Name: The Foundations of the Spiritual Life, Drawn from the Book of the Imitation of Jesus Christ (adapted)
Author: Jean-Joseph Surin

Jean-Joseph Surin

Surin’s commentary on the maxims of the Imitation of Christ, in five books of questions and answers (first published in 1667 under the name Jean de Sainte-Foy), with a spiritual letter to a lady of rank. This is E. B. Pusey’s English of 1844, “adapted to the use of the English Church”: Pusey altered or left out Catholic matter, so it is a witness to his adaptation, not to Surin’s French. It has Pusey’s long Preface. The French original is not available as text in the corpus yet.

Source: Pusey’s Preface, the five Books (9, 9, 9, 9 and 14 chapters) and the spiritual letter. The contents table and page furniture are left out; chapter titles are the Imitation passages from the printed contents. OCR corrected only by script, with stray margin marks removed; some page-foot scripture notes and running heads may remain inside paragraphs. The French original (Luxembourg: Barbier 1697, a Marburg digitised facsimile) has no text layer.