CONTENTS
PART I. MEDITATIONS
1. Eternal salvation 15
2. The patience of God in waiting for sinners 18
3. The certainty of death 20
4. The loss of all things in death 21
5. The great thought of eternity 23
6. The abuse of God's mercy 26
7. The emptiness and shortness of human life 28
8. The pain of loss 31
9. The particular judgment 33
10. Preparation for the particular judgment 35
11. The suffering of souls in hell in their mental faculties 37
12. Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary 38
13. The one thing necessary 42
14. The patience of God with sinners 47
15. Death, the passage to eternity 49
16. The reformation of our lives before death 50
17. The value of time 53
18. The terrors of the dying man at the thought of approaching death 55
19. The fire of hell 57
20. The vanity of worldly things 58
21. The number of sins 60
22. The folly of living as enemies of God 62
23. The great affair of salvation 65
24. The frequent thought of death 66
25. The turning away from God by sin 68
26. The mercy of God in calling sinners to repentance 69
27. The soul's appearance at the tribunal of God 71
28. The unhappy life of the sinner 73
29. The near approach of death 77
30. God abandons the sinner in his sins 79
31. The examination at the particular judgment 80
32. The journey to eternity 82
33. The folly of neglecting salvation 85
34. The moment of death 87
35. The sentence of particular judgment 89
36. An unprovided death 91
37. The eternity of hell 93
38. The uncertainty of grace 94
39. The death of Jesus for the love of men 96
40. The certainty of being either saved or lost 97
41. The certainty of death 99
42. The last judgment 104
43. The intensity of the pains of hell 105
44. The love of Christ crucified 107
45. The irretrievable loss of the soul 109
46. We must die 110
47. The resurrection of the body 115
48. The appearance of the body immediately after death 120
49. The state of the body in the grave 121
50. Man is soon forgotten after death 123
51. The appearance of all mankind in the valley of Josaphat 124
52. The blindness of those who say, if we be lost we shall not be lost
alone 126
53. The care of our salvation 130
54. The leaving of all at death 132
55. The moment of death 133
56. The examination of our sins at the last day 135
57. The great love of God for our souls 137
58. The remorse of the reprobate 138
59. The miserable death of the sinner 141
60. The happy death of the just 143
61. At the point of death 144
62. The rashness of the sinner in committing mortal sin 146
63. The trouble and confusion of the hour of death 153
64. The sentence of the wicked at the last judgment 158
65. The sentence of the elect 160
PART II. PIOUS REFLECTIONS
ON DIFFERENT POINTS OF SPIRITUALITY
1. The thought of eternity 171
2. We are pilgrims on earth 174
3. One day I must die 196
4. Preparation for death 199
5. He that loves God must love and not abhor death 201
6. The words of a dying man to Jesus crucified 241
7. Acts of devotion for the time of death 243
8. The house of eternity 246
9. Souls who love God desire to see him in heaven 249
10. The affair of eternal salvation 253
11. What will be the joy of the blessed 255
12. The pain of having lost God will be that which constitutes hell 257
13. The sight and love of God in the next life will constitute the joy
of the blessed 270
14. Precious is the death of the saints 294
15. Aspirations after the Country of the Blessed 303
RULE OF LIFE 502
Prayer to Jesus Christ, to obtain his Holy Love 510
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