Spirituality and Religion

Treatise Written to a Devout Man

Religious DiscourseBy Walter Hilton

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Treatise Written to a Devout Man is a religious treatise written by Walter Hilton, English mystic from fourteenth century. This treatise deals with the relationship between two kinds of life inside the holy Church, corporal and spiritual, by which Christians serve God, realizing that corporal working was ordained for spiritual, and not spiritual working for corporal. Treatise also deals with the subjects such as the virtue of the saints and the Christ's humanity.

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GenreSpirituality and Religion

Length1 hr 15 mins

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Publish dateAug 18, 2023

LanguageEnglish

1Chapter I That he who intends to become a Spiritual Man must first use much Bodily Exercise in Penance, and in Destroying of sin

9Chapter IX How thou shalt Dispose thee to Devotion

2Chapter II To what kind of Men the Active Life pertaineth

10Chapter X How a Man is to Think on the Humanity of Christ

3Chapter III To whom the Contemplative Life appertaineth

11Chapter XI How a Man shall think on Virtues and upon the Saints

4Chapter IV To whom appertained the Mixed Life

12Chapter XII How a Man shall think of the Holiness of our Lord Jesus and of our Blessed Lady

5Chapter V How holy Bishops held and used the said Mixed Life

13Chapter XIII Of seeing and beholding the Power (by some consideration or thinking), the Wisdom, the Goodness and the Mercy of God in His Creatures

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6Chapter VI That kind of Life was most fitting for him for whom this Treatise was made

14Chapter XIV How the Consideration and thinking on the Miseries and Perils of this Life is apt to breed in a soul the Desire of Heaven

7Chapter VII That a Man&#x27;s Devotion sometimes will be the greater by reason of the outward Work which before out of Charity he had been in hand with

15Chapter XV How a Man shall do when he feeleth no taste nor comfort in his Mental Exercises

8Chapter VIII What the Desire of God for Himself is and how that in Cleanness of Conscience is found true Comfort and Sweetness

16Chapter XVI What a Man is to take heed of in his Prayers and Meditations