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

An Alphabetical TABLE OF The most remarkable Points of Instru∣ction in these TREATISES.

A

• AFfections planted in our sen∣sitive nature, for good use, page 37. section 4.
• Advantages of conformity to vertue in our sensitive part of the minde, p. 38. sect. 2.
• Ambition consistent with Devotion, p. 42. s. 4.
• Ambitions ordinary acceptation, p. 43.
• Advantages to be made of love to enemies, p. 284. s. 3.
• Advices for the best method of read∣ing, p. 355.
• Advantages which true contempla∣tors have above other sorts of pious lives, p. 387.

B

• BEauty may be honored without of∣fence to Piety, p. 39. sect. 2.
• Beauty's prerogatives allowed, p. 39. s. 3.
• Beauty perverted to be reproached, p. 40. s. 2.
• Beauty abusing us with apparences, as fishes are cousened in the water, p. 173. s. 2.
• Beauty how innocently it may be ho∣nored, p. 175. s. 2, 3.

C

• COnfort to humane frailties, p. 10. sect. 2, 5.
• Contemplation honored, for what reason, p. 66. s. 3.
• Courtiers common error in point of felicity, p. 73. s. 2.
• Courts considerable as figures of hea∣ven, p. 86. s. 1.
• Courts of Heathen Princes not to be urged against the piety of Christian ones, p. ••0. s. 1, 2.
• Courtiers of all ranks bound to pro∣portionable exemplarity, p. 92. s. 1.
• Companions of Princes to b〈…〉〈…〉∣fully chosen, p. 94. s. 2.
• ...

• Courtiers advantaged for humility by their vocation, p. 102. s. 2. p. 104. s. 2.
• Civilities and complements how al∣lowable in Courts, p. 109. s. 4.
• Contempt to enemies not allowed for our neglect of revenge, p. 280. s. 2.
• Charity to enemies, what proportion it must hold with that of Christ, p. 281. s. 1▪ 2.
• Counterfeit forgiveness of enemies censured, p. 284. s. 2.
• Charities prerogatives in a sincere love to enemies, p. 285. s. 1.
• Causes wrongfully judged by events, p. 292. s. 1, 2.
• Constancy in our undertakings pre∣ferred before irresoluteness, p. 294. s. 2.
• Curiosity of the causes of advers e∣vents, disswaded, p. 298. s. 3.
• Conformity of our Wills to Gods Order in all events, determined, in what degree it is required, p. 299. s. 2.
• Constancy enjoyned in good causes upon all events, p. 310. s. 1, 2.
• Courts advantaged, by examples of benefits procured to Christianity, p. 115. s. 2. 3.
• Contemplation a kinde of Heaven, p. 321. s. 2.
• Confort for Prisoners, p. 362: s. 3.
• Contemplation described, p. 385. s. 1.
• Contemplation defined out of St. Augustine, p. 387. s. 2.
• Conversation ought to be kept pure, p. 130. s. 3.
• Circumstances aggravating the faulti∣ness of loose speech, p. 146. s. 1.

D

• DEath readeth to man, p. 7. sect. 1.
• Dispair of cure is worse then our infirmity, p. 14. s. 2.
• Divinity discernable by grace, p. 22. s. 1
• Devotion described, p. 23. s. 2.
• Devotion defined, p. 28. s. 2.
• Devotion is onely sincere, when it is conformable to the order of Superiors, p. 29. s. 1.
• Devotion may be prejudiced by too much austerity, p. 46. s. 4.
• Devil disswadeth prayer▪ p. 80. s. 1.
• Dissimulation may be rendred ver∣tuous in some case, p. 96. s. 2.
• Dissimulation in humility decryed, p. 102. s. 1.
• Duties precisely in all cases belong∣ing to enemies, p. 275, 276. s. 1, 2.
• Death and the love of enemies have like aspects at the first sight, p. 276. s. 3.
• Dissimulation in point of love to ene∣mies, very absurd, p. 278. s. 2.
• Different deceits in humors, towards judging of reasons of causes, p. 312. s. 2.
• Detraction or Medisance defined, p. 126.
• Detraction commonly connived at, p. 127.
• Delusions in Spiritual vocations, p. 335. s. 2.
• Detraction how handsomly disguised, p. 129. s. 3.
• Detraction imposed as it were by Princes acting in it, o•• encouraging it, p. 134.
• Description of what 'tis to be in love, p. 150. s. 2.

E

• EXamples of mans frailty, p. 9. sect. 3.
• Example is meritorious in Devo∣tion, p. 29. s. 2.
• Examples of Saints rejoycing rightly in temporal goods, p. 69. s. 2.
• Errors of those who wonder they are not happy, p. 73. s. 1.
• Errors of our judgement in discern∣ing Truth, illustrated by a Simile of Zeuxes the great Painter, p. 76. s. 1.
• ...

• Examples of Princes why more dan∣gerous then others, p. 92. s. 1.
• Enemies a difficult object for love, p. 265. s. 1.
• Example of Christ requisite to ena∣ble us for the love of enemies, p. 267. s. 2
• Enemies in some respect more use∣ful then friends, p. 269. s. 2.
• Experience of suffering is the onely security of our capacity, of discharging the duty of loving enemies, p. 286. s. 1.
• Examples of Gods unconceiveable Providence in the defeats of good Prin∣ces in good causes, p. 307. s. 4. p. 308. 1, 2.
• Examples of eminent sanctity in Courtiers, p. 115. s. 1.
• Excuses of Courtiers for irreligious complaceneies, refuted, p. 124 s. 1.
• Errors discovered in the election of solitary vocation, p. 322. s. 2.
• Errors of Philosophers in point of single reason, being sufficient for con∣solation, p. 343. s. 2.

F

• FAith rested on giveth an ease above Reason, p. 23▪ s. 2.
• Felicity determined to consist in a rejoycing in Truth, p. 65. s. 3.
• Fortunes falacies more discernable at Court, p. 105. s. 3.
• Flattery described, and impeached of falshood, p. 107. s. 1, 2.
• Flattery is the issue of pride, p. 108. s. 1, 2
• Forgiveness of enemies an excellent sacrifice, p. 279. s. 3.
• Friendship is allowed another kinde of love then that we owe enemies, p. 283. s. 1.
• Forgiveness of enemies doth not ob∣struct the course of Iustice, p. 288. s. 3.
• Faith follow de〈…〉〈…〉tures as confident∣ly as victories, p. 312. s. 2.
• Foulness of speech a greater crime then many imagine, p. 14••. s. 1, 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• Flatteries to women are upon the De∣vils Commission, p. 161. s. 2.
• Flattery raiseth self-love in women, p. 162. s. 2.
• Friendship with women, how ••ar al∣lowable, p. 176.
• Filial love defined, p. 187.
• Friendship sincere is a safegard against passion, p. 177. s. 1.
• Filial love urged upon us, p. 193.
• Fraternal love a mark of our being in the way to filial love to God, p. 196. s. 3.

G

• GRace was superadded to Reason in all the first perseverers in the be∣lief of one God, p. 23. sect. 2.
• Greatness inclineth naturally to be flattered, p. 112. s. 3.
• Grace of Christ enabling us to love enemies, and the gift greater then the exaction, p. 267.
• God is single, yet not solitary, p. 317. s. 3.
• Grace proportioned to several cal∣lings, p. 121. s. 3.
• God worketh upon different tempers by divers applications, p. 330. s. 2.
• Grace, not single Reason, fortifieth our minde in great distresses, p. 341. s. 2.
• Gods mercy is universal, in com∣manding that all should despise this world, p. 378. s. 3.
• Great persons delighting in it, pro∣moteth Medisance with great self-guil∣tiness, p. 132. s. 3.

H

• HOly Ghosts impression on our na∣ture, p. 18. s. 3.
• Hypocrisie displaid, p. 33. s. 3.
• ...

• Honor goes under the title of Vertue, p. 44. s. 1.
• Humility doth not prohibite the pur∣suit of honor, p. 45. s. 4.
• Happiness temporal defined, p. 51. s. 1.
• Happiness wherein it is truly to be found, p. 63. s. 1.
• Honors temporal may excite us to the pursuit of eternal, p. 89. s. 1.
• Humility truly described, p. 104. s. 1.
• Humility a security against all tem∣ptations of Courts, p. 101. s. 2. p. 106. s. 2, 3.
• Hatred to enemies imitateth those we hate, more then him we pretend to love, p. 268. s. 2, 3.
• Hatred to one another, from whence derived originally, p. 270. s. 2.
• Humility like the Marrine••s need, p. 113. s. 2.
• Hope often abused, p. 159. s. 1.

I

• INfirmity of Man evidenced by Solo∣mon, p. 8. sect. 3. p. 9. s. 2.
• Incarnations mercy, p. 12. s. 2.
• Infirmities of man may be turned to the torture of the Devil, p. 17. s. 2.
• Inconstancy of vain affections, p. 41. s. 2.
• Incredulity in prayer a mental stam∣mering, p. 83. s. 1.
• Imitation of Princes is very familiar for the reasons of gain, p. 91. s. 2.
• Iustice for our first fault requireth the love of enemies, p. 272. s. 2.
• Injustice prospering, not to be won∣dred at, p. 307. s. 2.
• Imperfection of Mans Will in ma∣ny election consisting with his liberty, p. 325, 326.
• Iealousies nature treated, and the good use of it in Gods love, p. 155. sect. 1, 2.
• Instincts of expressing our passion, sheweth our loves to be due to God, p. 161. s. 2.

L

• LOve justifieth the Incarnation of God, p. 13. s. 3.
• Love from man enjoyned by the Incarnation of God, p. 13. s. 2.
• Love rendring it self to Devotion is not ill treated, p. 38. s. 4.
• Love to enemies forgot in the Law, and revived in the Gospel, like the fire of the Altar after the Captivity, p. 266. s. 2.
• Liberty rather given to our Souls, then restraint made by the Precept of loving enemies, p. 267. s. 1.
• Love of enemies proveth a counter∣poison to the forbidden fruit, p. 269. s. 3.
• Love to enemies misinterpreted in a figurative sense by many, p. 273. s. 2.
• Love to enemies not ordains as they are simply enemies, p. 275. s. 2.
• Love irregular, causeth our aversion to the love of enemies, p. 282. s. 1.
• Liberty dear to Humane Nature, p. 339. s. 2.
• Learning how it becometh most use∣ful towards consolation, p. 348. s. 1, 2.
• Liberty of minde gained, overpays the captivity of the body, p. 354. s. 1, 2.
• Love of the world recovereth often after our having wounded it by Grace or Reason, p. 376. s. 1.
• Lecture proved necessary for the pas∣sage to Contemplation, p. 394.
• Liberties of jesting, how they are al∣lowable, p. 131. s. 1.
• Liberties indecent, though little, disfi∣gure the reputation of women, p. 147. s. 3▪
• Liberties of scurrility excused by the presumers in them, p. 137. s. 2.
• Love, though mercinary, how to be accepted, p. 182.

M

• MAns nobility by creation, p. 2. s. 3. p. 3.
• Mans excuse of his fall, p. 3. s. 2.
• Mans self-deceit, p. 6. s. 1.
• Meditation conducent to peace of Spirit, p. 58. s. 2.
• Meditation on the changeableness of all the pleasures we enjoy, serveth towards the securing our happiness, p. 61. s. 3.
• Moral Philosophy answereth not to the promises of Speculation in our ne∣cessities, p. 62. s. 1.
• Mans reason for his forgiving the first injury of women, p. 275. s. 1.
• Morality more studied at Court then Religion, p. 117. s. 1, 2.
• Moral civility useful to improve the zeal of religious duties, p. 118. s. 1.
• Mirth a great disguise of Medisance, p. 128. s. 2.
• Morality single is insufficient for our support in great pressures, p. 342. s. 3.
• Moral Philosophy set in a due order for consolation in distresses, p. 345.
• Meditations on the vain figure of this world, p. 361. s. 1.
• Meditation on eternity a relief a∣gainst all temporary pressures, p. 367. s. 1.
• Mortification of the flesh requisite for all acts of pure Speculation, p. 392. s. 2.
• Medisance most entertained by the encouragement of great persons, p. 129. s. 1.
• Mercy of God miscon••••ived, p. 156. s. 2. more 158. s. 1.
• Mercy rightly understood, p. 158. s. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• Mercinary love, how far allowed, p. 185.
• Mercinary love of the nature of dwarfs, p. 185. s. 1.

N

• NVns eminent purity, p. 18. s. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• Nature gives some light towards the sight of God, p. 1••. s. 2.
• Nature discredited single for happi∣ness▪ p. 57. s. 2.
• Naturalists shall rise up in judge∣ment against ill Christians, p. 277. s. 3.

O

• OPinion of Temporalities confuted, p. 7. s. 2.
• Order given by God for direction in Religion, p. 28. s. 1.
• Opinion why it prevaileth often a∣bove Truth, p. 68. s. 2.
• Obligation in point of love to ene∣mies, p. 283. s. 2.
• Orders of Providence not discerned, occasioneth all our wonder, p. 305. s. 1, 2.
• Order described, p. 327.
• Order for disposing our time plea∣santly and usefully in Imprisonment, p. 351. s. 1.
• Order of the three Persons of the Trinity residing in a Contemplative Soul, p. 389.
• Order of rising up to Contempla∣tion, p. 391. s. 1.

P

• PRide first introduced, and how con∣tinued, p. 3. s. 3.
• Philosophers deceived in the Di∣vinity, p. 21. s. 2.
• ...

• Piety advised in all religions, p. 24. s. 2.
• Passion it self maketh use of Religion to express it self, p. 32. s 2.
• Passion transferred may honor God in a double respect, p. 33. s. 1, 2.
• Piety doth the office of a Law-giver, not of an Insulter, p. 35. s. 3.
• Piety not incompatible with pleasure, p. 37. s. 2.
• Pleasures allowed by Devotion, p. 41. s. 1, 2.
• Propriety in temporal goods abateth the value, and Piety repairs it, p. 42. s. 2.
• Philosophers variances concerning hap∣piness, p. 51. s. 2.
• Prayer assigned for the way to finde truth, and consequently happiness, p. 79. s. 2.
• Prayer must be sincere and fervent to become officious, p. 82. s. 2.
• Prayer is often accepted, when the suit is not accorded, p. 84. s. 1.
• Princes vertues may make Courts schools o•• Piety, p. 91. s. 1.
• Princes especially obliged to piety, p. 91. s. 2.
• Prudence for Courtiers, p. 97. s. 1.
• Praises allowable in many cases, and how they are to be applied, p. 110. s. 2, 3.
• Princes obliged to forgive personal injuries, p. 280. s. 1, 2.
• Providence not to be judged of by pieces, p. 295. s. 2.
• Prayer against Gods menaces allowed the Prophets, p. 301. s. 1.
• Providence seemeth as it were disgui∣sed upon earth, p. 359. s. 2.
• Presumption on our power to resist the temptations of Beauty, is dange∣rous, p. 166. s. 2.

Q

• THe quality of peace expectable in this life, p. 84. sect. 2.
• The quality of private conditions towards the discernment of the worlds instability, p. 105. s. 1.
• Quarrels with the world do sometime occasion good vocations to sanctity, p. 328. s. 3.
• The qualities of prophane passion, p. 152. s. 2.
• The quality of temptations slighted at first, as easily masterable, p. 171. s. 2.

R

• REason much degenerated in our faln Nature, p. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. sect. 2.
• Reason injured by opinion, p. 7. sect. 2.
• Repaired Nature by Christ exalted above the original innocence, p. 15. s. 1. p. 16. s. 2.
• Revenge contrived unto piety, p. 17. s. 2.
• Reasons course up to Divinity, p. 21. s. 1.
• Repentance may convert even our sins into good fruit, p. 30. s. 2, 3.
• Remedies extractable out of the me∣ditation of our frailty, p. 60. s. 1.
• Riches possessed and improved towards piety, p. 70. s. 2.
• Religion lightly considered may per∣plex us in the judgement of events, but more profoundly looked into, setleth on us, p. 292. s. 3.
• Religion the onely refuge in the per∣plexity of advers events to a good cause, p. 302. s. 2, 3.
• Reason of distracting events not to be hoped for in this world, p. 304. s. 2.
• Retreats out of the world turned in∣to delusions by the Devil, p. 332. s. 2.
• Reason single vainly overvalued by the Philosophers, p. 340. s. 2, 3.
• Remedies drawn out of the evils themselves of our life, p. 362.
• Remedies for the correcting indecent liberties in jesting, p. 132. s. 2.
• ...

• Remedies against foulness of speech, p. 142. s. 1.

S

• SIn vainly excused, p. 4. sect. 2.
• Solomons glories are ascribed to a special reason, p. 8. s. 2.
• Sin removeth man more from God then his own first nullity, p. 12. s. 2.
• Sensual men excluded from happi∣ness, p. 55. s. 1.
• Success ought not to assure us of the goodness of a Cause, p. 294. s. 1.
• Sorrow allowed in ill successes, p. 298. s. 2.
• Solitude described, and treated truly, p. 316.
• Sanctity in great persons affords more communicative influences then in o∣ther, p. 120. s. 1.
• Sociableness of Mans Nature, in or∣der to common good, p. 327.
• Spiritual joys suppresseth the love of the world, p. 376. s. 2.
• Speculation distinguished from Con∣templation, p. 397. s. 1. s. 2.
• Sensible delight afforded by Contem∣plation, p. 401. s. 1.
• Self-love keeps us in darkness, p. 163. sect. 1.
• Self-love a kinde of punishment of women, p. 163.
• Self-loves motion, p. 185. s. 1.

T

• TRuth defined, and duly valued, p. 66. s. 2.
• Truth to be sought in all tempo∣ral fruitions, and to be found as the ground of our happiness, p. 68. s. 4.
• Truth impugned by the Devil to se∣duce our happiness, p. 74. s. 2.
• Temptations most frequent in Courts, p. 100.
• Temptations of Courts resistable by Prudence, p. 100. s. 2.
• Temptations against the love of ene∣mies, p. 272. s. 1.
• Toleration of injuries easeth more then revenge, p. 277. s. 2.
• Temptations in Courts, how to be overcome, p. 122. s. 2.
• Time to be weighed in Solitude, p. 352 s. 3.
• Time weigheth heaviest upon, when it is least applied to particular designs, p. ••5••.
• Time neglected brings us in debt even of our eternity, p. 369. s. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• Temptations to be resisted at the first approach, p. 160. s. 2.
• Temptations of the Flesh dangerous, though they appear little at first, p. 169. s. 1.

V

• VAnity in our fancy argued, p. 5. sect. 1. s. 2.
• Vanity of riches, beauty, p. 7. s. 1.
• Voluptuous persons exceptions a∣gainst Devotion, p. 34. s. 3.
• Vanity of Philosophers concerning the power of Reason, p. 52. s. 3.
• Vses to be made of the Stoicks Opi∣nions, p. 54. s. 1.
• Verities intended, do not dull the joys of our sensitive appetite, p. 75. s. 2.
• Vnhappiness mans own fault always, p. 80. s. 2.
• Vulgar errors in judging of Causes, p. 297. s. 1.
• Vocations supernatural to Solitude, solaced by God, p. 319. s. 3. p. 320. s. 1.
• Vanities do truly captivate those they pretend to give liberties, p. 353. s. 1.
• ...

• Vniversal changes may confort all private calamities, p. 358.
• Vanities of this world sacrificed to God, afford a sweet savor, p. 380. s. 1.
• Vocations respectively allowed more or less application to the world, p. 383.

VV

• THis world was never meant as an object of mans love, p. 377. s. 2.
• The worlds contempt is ordained by God, by his subjecting all things in it to Man, p. 379. s. 2.
• The world easily contemnable by the consideration of Christs demeanor in it, p. 381. s. 1.
• Women obliged especially to much purity in conversation, p. 146. s. 2.
• Words equivocal wrested to an un∣clean sence, very blameable, p. 143. s. 3.
• Women prejudiced by flatteries, p. 164. s. 2.
• Women more commiserated then men, in faults occasioned by mans temptations, p. 164.

Z

• ZEal and Charity make the best temper of a Religion, page 26. sect. 2.

FINIS.