Transcriber's Note: Corrections suggested in theCorrigenda, p. [viii] of the original text, have been made.Section number added for L 3.9, since both the translator'spreface and the index refer to it. Footnotes gathered at the endsof chapters. Typographical errors in two Scriptural quotationshave been corrected: In L 21 note 10, I have changed "Quæpræparavit Deus iis qui" to "Quæ præparavit Deus hisqui;" and in L 29 note 12, I have changed "As thelonging of the heart" to "As the longing ofthe hart."
The Life
of
St. Teresa of Jesus
Re-imprimatur.
+ Franciscus
Archiepiscopus Westmonast.
Die 27 Sept., 1904.
Written by Herself.
Translated from the Spanish by
David Lewis.
Third Edition Enlarged.
With additional Notes and an Introduction by
Rev. Fr. Benedict Zimmerman, O.C.D.
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MCMIV.
Chap.
Introduction to the Third Edition, byRev. B. Zimmerman
St. Teresa'sArguments of the Chapters
Preface by David Lewis
I. Childhood and early Impressions--TheBlessing of pious Parents--Desire of Martyrdom--Death of the Saint'sMother
II. Early Impressions--Dangerous Books andCompanions--The Saint is placed in a Monastery
III. The Blessing of being with goodpeople--How certain Illusions were removed
IV. Our Lord helps her to become aNun--Her many Infirmities
V. Illness and Patience of the Saint--TheStory of a Priest whom she rescued from a Life of Sin
VI. The great Debt she owed to our Lordfor His Mercy to her--She takes St. Josephfor her Patron
VII. Lukewarmness--The Loss ofGrace--Inconvenience of Laxity in Religious Houses
VIII. The Saint ceases not to pray--Prayerthe way to recover what is lost--All exhorted to pray--The greatAdvantage of Prayer, even to those who may have ceased from it
IX. The means whereby our Lord quickenedher Soul, gave her Light in her Darkness, and made her strongin Goodness
X. The Graces she received inPrayer--What we can do ourselves--The great Importance ofunderstanding what our Lord is doing for us--She desires herConfessors to keep her Writings secret, because of the special Gracesof our Lord to her, which they had commanded her to describe
XI. Why men do not attain quickly to theperfect Love of God--Of Four Degrees of Prayer--Of the FirstDegree--The Doctrine profitable for Beginners,