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Imitation of Christ; trans. from the Latin by the Rev. William Benham.

  
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Illustrations
  
Readings from 'Imitaion of Christ': Arranged for each Sunday of the Christian Year
  
CONTENTS

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BOOK I: ADMONITIONS PROFITABLE FOR THE SPIRITUAL LIFE
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BOOK II: ADMONITIONS CONCERNING THE INNER LIFE
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BOOK III: ON INWARD CONSOLATION
 1. 
CHAPTER I
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CHAPTER II
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CHAPTER III
 4. 
CHAPTER IV
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CHAPTER V
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CHAPTER VI
 7. 
CHAPTER VII
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CHAPTER VIII
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CHAPTER IX
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CHAPTER X
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CHAPTER XI
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CHAPTER XII
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CHAPTER XIII
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CHAPTER XIV
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CHAPTER XV
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CHAPTER XVI
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CHAPTER XVII
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CHAPTER XVIII
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CHAPTER XIX
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CHAPTER XX
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CHAPTER XXI
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CHAPTER XXII
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CHAPTER XXIII
 24. 
CHAPTER XXIV
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CHAPTER XXV
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CHAPTER XXVI
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CHAPTER XXVII
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CHAPTER XXVIII
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CHAPTER XXIX
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CHAPTER XXX
 31. 
CHAPTER XXXI
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CHAPTER XXXII
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CHAPTER XXXIII
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CHAPTER XXXIV
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CHAPTER XXXV
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CHAPTER XXXVI
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CHAPTER XXXVII
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CHAPTER XXXVIII
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CHAPTER XXXIX
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CHAPTER XL
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CHAPTER XLI
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CHAPTER XLII
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CHAPTER XLIII
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CHAPTER XLIV
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CHAPTER XLV
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CHAPTER XLVI
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CHAPTER XLVII
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CHAPTER XLVIII
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CHAPTER XLIX
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CHAPTER L
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CHAPTER LI
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CHAPTER LII
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CHAPTER LIII
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CHAPTER LIV
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CHAPTER LV
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CHAPTER LVI
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CHAPTER LVII
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CHAPTER LVIII
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CHAPTER LIX
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BOOK IV: OF THE SACRAMENT OF THE ALTAR

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41. CHAPTER XLI

Of contempt of all temporal honour

"My Son, make it no matter of thine, if thou see others honoured and exalted, and thyself despised and humbled. Lift up thine heart to Me in heaven, and then the contempt of men upon earth will not make thee sad."

2. O Lord, we are in blindness, and are quickly seduced by vanity. If I look rightly within myself, never was injury done unto me by any creature, and therefore I have nought whereof to complain before Thee. But because I have many times and grievously sinned against Thee, all creatures do justly take arms against me. Therefore to me confusion and contempt are justly due, but to Thee praise and honour and glory. And except I dispose myself for this, namely, to be willing that every creature should despise and


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desert me, and that I should be esteemed altogether as nothing, I cannot be inwardly filled with peace and strength, nor spiritually enlightened, nor fully united to Thee.

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