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AMORIS\n\nTHAT IS  \n# THE GOAD OF DIVINE LOVE\n\nlihil ⑩bstat.  \nFR.CUTHBERTUS,O.S.F.C.,CENSOR DEPUTATUS.  \nmprimtur  \nGULIELMUS,  \nEPISCOPUS ARINDELENSIS,VICARIUS GENERALIS.  \nWESTMONASTERII,Die r3 Dec.,Igo6.  \n# Bo 3THE GOAD OF DIVINE LOVEBo 3THE GOAD OF DIVINE LOVEI901\n\nDery Iproper ano IDrofitable for all Depout personsto IReao  \nWRITTEN IN LATIN BY THE SERAPHICAL  \nDOCTOR S.BONAVENTURE  \nOF THE SERAPHICAL ORDER F-s.\"FRANCiS  \nENGLISHED BY  \nB.LEWIS A.  \nOF THE SAME ORDER  \nAT DOWAY BY  \nTHE WIDOW OF MARK WYON  \nDermissu1 Superiocum,1642  \nREVISED AND EDITED BY  \nW.A.PHILLIPSON  \nPRIEST OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WESTMINSTER  \nR.&T.WASHBOURNE,LTD.  \nI,2&4 PATERNOSTER ROW,LONDONAND 248 BUCHANAN STREET,GLASGOW  \nBENZIGER BROS.:NEW YORK,CINCINNATI,AND CHICAGO  \n# TheologyLibrary\n\nSCHOOL O   厂OLOGYAT CLARLIMONTCalifornia  \n# PREFACE\n\nA FEw years ago an old copy of\"The Goad ofDivine Love”came into my possession.Asit was imperfect(a number of leaves wanting)Imade repeated endeavours to find one that wascomplete.But so rare,apparently,had the bookbecome that only from the British Museum couldI obtain the text of the missing pages.Theedition now offered agrees almost entirely withthat published at Douai in I642.The quaintrendering is reproduced,but the spelling has beenmodernized,and a few unimportant and mostlyverbal changes have been made.The translationis in the English of the seventeenth century.At that epoch our language had words andexpressions in common use which nowadayswould hardly be permissible.Of these some fewI have eliminated altogether,and the rest I havetoned down that there might remain nothingoffensive to pious ears.The title of the bookseems to have been a favourite one with asceticalwriters,for several\"Stimuli Amoris\"werewritten or compiled between the declining yearsof the thirteenth and the middle of the sixteenth  \ncenturies.This is,however,by far the mostfamous of them all,and is found in manyMSS.of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.Although,as a compilation,it belongs to thefourteenth,it includes nearly the whole of a“Stimulus Amoris”written in the precedingcentury.It has frequently been published withthe works of St.Bonaventure,and (mainly,per-haps,on that account)came to be very generallyattributed to him.It appears,however,ratherto have been founded on and inspired by thesayings,the spirit,and the teaching of theSeraphic Doctor than to have come directly fromhis pen.The author of the incorporated treatisewas Brother James of Milan,who,in the prologueto a MS.of about A.D.I300,is expressly saidto have written it.But beyond the fact that hewas a devoted member of the Franciscan Order,and flourished in the second half of the thirteenthcentury,little or nothing is known of him.  \n\"The Goad of Divine Love\"has ever beenheld in high esteem by Saints and devout persons.There is a note,in an antique hand,on themargin of one of the MSS.,which says:\"In myopinion this book may be called the book of life,and a compendium of the compendiums of thewhole doctrine of beatitude.\"Louis of Granadacompared it to the Meditations of St.Augustine,and St.Francis de Sales called it\"most ex-cellent.”Some portions of the work—e.g.,the\"Meditation upon the Great Sorrow the Blessed","cbCaiqeyDjiH7sTs","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqeyDjiH7sTs","pdf",13366392,376,"English","# Preface","[{\"question\":\"What editions and sources does the preface compare?\",\"answer\":\"It states that the offered edition agrees almost entirely with the one published at Douai in 1642, and it describes earlier efforts to obtain a complete text from a very rare incomplete copy.\"},{\"question\":\"How is the translation handled linguistically?\",\"answer\":\"The translation is said to be in seventeenth-century English; spelling is modernized and some words or phrases are eliminated or toned down to avoid anything offensive to devout readers.\"},{\"question\":\"Who is associated with the work within the 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