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THE PREFACE.
First Advertisement. By two ways one may go to God; the first by Me∣ditation and Discourse or Reasoning; the se∣cond by pure Faith and Contemplation.
1. THere are two ways of going to God, the one by Consideration and Men∣tal Discourse, and the other by the Purity of Faith, an indistinct, general and con∣fused knowledge. The first is called Medita∣tion, the second Internal Recollection, or Ac∣quir'd Contemplation. The first is of begin∣ners, the second of Proficients. The first is sensible, and material, the second more naked, pure, and internal.
2. When the Soul is already accustomed to discourse of Mysteries, by the help of imagi∣tion, and the use of corporal Images; be∣ing carried from Creature to Cteature, and from Knowledge to Knowledge (though with very little of that which it wants) and from