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xvi Contents. PART II. HAP. I. The Necessity of Prayer II. Short Method of Meditation; and, first, of the Presence of God, which is the first point of the Preparation TAOK 48 49 III. Invocation, the second point of the Preparation. 52 1y. The third point of Preparation, consisting in the proposti n of the Mystery V. On Considerations: the second part of the Medi- tation VI. Affections and Resolutions:” the third part of the Meditation. VII. The conclusion, and the Spiritual Nosegay VIII. Profitable advice on the practice of Meditation IX. The dryness which we sometimes experience in Meditation On Morning Exercise " 52 54 64 55 56 59 60 1. The Evening Exercise and Examination of Con- science 61 63 XIII. Aspirations, ejaculatory prayers, and good thoughts XII. Spiritual Recollection XIV. The most Holy Mass, and how we ought to hear it " XV. Other public and common exercises of Devotion XVI. We must honour and invoke the Bainta

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11 74 75 XVII. How we ought to hear and read the Word of God XVIII. How we ought to receive Inspirations 77 78 84 XXI. How we ought to communicate 87 XIX. On Holy Confession XX. Of frequent Communion PART III. 1. The cholos we ought to make as to the practice of the Virtues II. Continuation of the former discourse on the choice of Virtues III. On Patience IV. Exterior Humility 90 • 85 • - 108 106 111 - 115 V. Internal Humility VI. Humility makes us like our own abjection VII. How we are to preserve our good name in the practice of humilit