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The Preacher of the Love of God

Jean-Joseph Surin

This book is in French.

A posthumous work attributed to Fr. Jean-Joseph Surin, S.J. (1600-1665): the Questions on the Love of God, two books of questions and answers on pure love (each followed by a “glance at the dispositions of one’s heart”, affections added by the editor), then a month of steps to rise to great love of God, salutary counsels and thirty colloquies of the Christian at prayer with Jesus Christ, drawn from Surin’s other writings and mixed with pages of Francis de Sales and John of the Cross. The editor retouched the style. The new edition of 1824, which restores the chapter suppressed by the imperial censors.

Contents

Source: The Grand motif and the address To those who wish to love God, the two books of Questions and answers (10 and 13 chapters, each with its Coup-d’œil), Book III (31 days), the Avis salutaires et sentiments affectueux (three groups) and the thirty Entretiens of the Chrétien en oraison. The table of contents and the printer’s matter are left out. Running heads stripped; chapter titles tidied by hand; the dropped initials of some chapters restored. Entretiens XXI and XXVI lost their headings in the OCR and their starts are inferred from the usual length of an entretien (a few lines may be misplaced); OCR slips remain (about 2% of words).