Miscellanea spiritualia: or, Devout essaies: composed by the Honourable Walter Montagu Esq.

Title

Miscellanea spiritualia: or, Devout essaies: composed by the Honourable Walter Montagu Esq.

Author

Montagu, Walter, 1603?-1677.

Publication

London :: Printed for William Lee, Daniel Pakeman, and Gabriel Bedell, and are to be sold at their shops in Fleetstreet,

MDCXLVIII. [1648]

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Subject terms

Christian life -- Early works to 1800.

Spiritual life -- Early works to 1800.

Devotional literature -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• engraved title page
• title page
• To the most Sacred MAJESTY OF Henrietta Maria, Daughter of France, and Queen of Great Britain.
• A PREFATORY ADDRES TO THE COURT.
• Miscellania, or Spiritual Essays: A TABLE Containing the several Treatises, as they stand divided into Sections.
• The first Treatise. A Map of HUMANE NATURE, divided into two Sections.
  • §. I.
  • §. II.
• The second Treatise. The reparation of Humane Nature, divided into two Sections.
  • §. I.
  • §. II.
• The Third Treatise. Of Religion.
  • §. I.
  • §. II.
• The Fourth Treatise. Of Devotion. In two Sect.
  • §. I.
  • §. II.
• The Fift Treatise. Discoursing whether sensible pleasure may consort with Devotion. In two Sections.
  • §. I.
  • §. II.
• The sixt Treatise. Of disabuse to the Rationalists, and the Sen∣sualists, concerning temporall happinesse, and Devotion proposed, for security of a happy life. In three Sect.
  • §. I.
  • §. II.
  • §. III.
• The seventh Treatise. How true Devotion induceth those no∣tions wherein consisteth the happinesse of this life.In three Sections.
  • §. I.
  • §. II.
  • §. III.
• The eighth Treatise. Touching the meanes of possessing that Truth wherein the happinesse of this life is stated. In two sections.
  • §. I.
  • §. II.
• The ninth Treatise. Of the Condition of Courts, Princes, and Courtiers. Divided into three Sect.
  • §. I.
  • §. II.
  • §. III.
• The tenth Treatise.How a good Conscience, and a good Courtier are consortable. In seven sections.
  • §. I.
  • §. II.
  • §. III.
  • §. IIII.
  • §. V.
  • §. VI.
  • §. VII.
• The eleventh Treatise. Of medisance or detraction.In two Sections.
  • §. I.
  • §. II.
• The twelfth Treatise. Concerning scurrility or uncleannesse of speech. In three Sect.
  • §. I.
  • §. II.
  • §. III.
• The thirteenth Treatise. Handling whether to be in love, and to be devout, are in consistent.In eight Sect.
  • §. I.
  • §. II.
  • §. III.
  • §. IV.
  • §. V.
  • §. VI.
  • §. VII.
  • § VIII.
• The fourteenth Treatise. The Test and Ballance of Filiall and Mer∣cenary Love. In five Sections.
  • §. I.
  • §. II.
  • §. III.
  • §. IV.
  • §. V.
• The fifeenth Treatise. The Duties of a Christian towards Enemies, Divided into five Sections.
  • §. I.
  • §. II.
  • §. III.
  • §. IV.
  • §. V.
• The sixteenth Treatise. Considerations upon the Unsuccessfulness of a good Cause; Divided into six Sections.
  • §. I.
  • §. II.
  • §. III.
  • §. IV.
  • §. V.
  • §. VI.
• The seventeenth Treatise. Of Solitude. Divided into two Sections.
  • §. I.
  • §. II.
• The eighteenth Treatise. Of a mixt sort, or of Neutral Solitude; Divided into three Sections.
  • §. I.
  • §. II.
  • §. III.
• The nineteenth Treatise. Of Violent Solitude, or Close Im∣prisonment; Divided into eight Sections.
  • §. I.
  • §. II.
  • §. III.
  • §. IV.
  • §. V.
  • §. VI.
  • §. VII.
  • §. VIII.
• The twentieth Treatise. Of the Contempt of the VVorld. Divided into two Sections.
  • §. I.
  • §. II.
• The one and twentieth Treatise. Of the Preheminences of a true contem∣plative life; Divided into five Sections.
  • §. I.
  • §. II.
  • §. III.
  • §. IV.
  • §. V.
• imprimatur
• An Alphabetical TABLE OF The most remarkable Points of Instru∣ction in these TREATISES.
• The Printer to the Reader.
• ERRATA.