An abridgement of Christian perfection. Conteining many excellent precepts, & aduertisments, touching the holy, and sacred mysticall diuinity. Written in Italian, by Fa. Achilles Galliardi of the Society of Iesus, &translated into English, A.H. of the same society.

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An abridgement of Christian perfection. Conteining many excellent precepts, & aduertisments, touching the holy, and sacred mysticall diuinity. Written in Italian, by Fa. Achilles Galliardi of the Society of Iesus, &translated into English, A.H. of the same society.
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Galliardi, Achilles, 1537-1607.
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[Saint-Omer :: English College Press],
Anno M. DC. XXV. [1625]
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Perfection -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- Early works to 1800.
Asceticism -- Catholic Church -- Early works to 1800.
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"An abridgement of Christian perfection. Conteining many excellent precepts, & aduertisments, touching the holy, and sacred mysticall diuinity. Written in Italian, by Fa. Achilles Galliardi of the Society of Iesus, &translated into English, A.H. of the same society." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01420.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.

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REMEDIES.

FOR as much as ordinarily in the exercising of all these thinges, it is necessary that all the powers, & faculties of the soule concurre therunto, to put it duly in execution; she ought fully to resolue with herselfe to obserue all

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that she hath deliberated vpon, in such sort, that aswell in generall, as in particuler, she may perfectly accomplish, & put in execuiō all this that she hath already chosen, and resolued to doe in the present affliction, or in any other thing: and she ought to take heed dili∣gently to correct the faultes that may happē in the executiō, yther by reason of her imagination, and representation of afflictions, or of the vnderstanding, or of the will, or of all the other powers. And thus the soule that is perfect, shall become much more perfect: and all this is a disposition vnto the state, that rēdereth the soule who∣ly diuine.

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