CONCLVSION.
LEt us conclude this meditation with this truth, that if we will dye the death of the just, we must live the lives of the just; since the way to obtain a good death, is to live a good life; & as there is nothing more pre¦cious,
The daily exercises of a Christian life or the interiour spirit with which we ought to animate our actions throughout the whole day: With an easy instruction for mentall prayer, translated out of French by I.W. of the Soc. of Jesus.
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- The daily exercises of a Christian life or the interiour spirit with which we ought to animate our actions throughout the whole day: With an easy instruction for mentall prayer, translated out of French by I.W. of the Soc. of Jesus.
- Author
- Gonnelieu, Jérôme de, 1640-1715.
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- Printed at S. Omers [i.e. Saint Omers] :: by Ludovicus Carlier,
- in the year 1689.
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- Conduct of life
- Christian life
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"The daily exercises of a Christian life or the interiour spirit with which we ought to animate our actions throughout the whole day: With an easy instruction for mentall prayer, translated out of French by I.W. of the Soc. of Jesus." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A89897.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.
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nor more to be desired then a good death, so there is nothing more unhappy, nor that we ought more to fear, then an ill death; & the best means of securing our selves, in an affair of so great an importance as this, is daily to live, as if it were to be the last day of our lives; keeping our affections as perfectly weaned from the things of the world, as if we were ready to leave it, where, all things that be not of God, will appear as smoak, that either is scat∣tered it self, or at best covers but a fleeting shadow.