Part II
PART II
I. (i) Of Prayer, and the several Sorts thereof
(ii) How they should do that are troubled with vain Thoughts in their
Prayers
II. (i) Of Meditation
(ii) Of divers Temptations of the Enemy, and the Remedies against them
III. That a Man should know the measure of his Gift, that he may desire and take a better when God giveth it
PART III
I. Of the Knowledge of a Man's Soul, and the Powers thereof necessary to Contemplation
II. Of the Worthiness and Excellency of the Soul and how it was lost
III. (i) That a Man should be industrious to recover again his ancient Dignity, and reform within him the Image of the Trinity, and how it may be done
(ii) That this Dignity and Image is restored by Jesus, and how He is to be desired, sought and found
IV. (i) Of the Ground and Image of sin in us, which is first to be found out and laboured against, and how it is to be done
(ii) What the said Image of sin is, properly, and what cometh out of it
V. (i) Of the Seven Deadly sins, and first of Pride, what it is, and when it is a deadly sin and when but venial
(ii) How Pride in Heretics and in Hypocrites is deadly sin
(iii) A short Exhortation to Humility and Charity, with a Conclusion how a Man may know how much Pride he hath in him
VI. (i) Of Envy and Wrath and their Branches, and how, instead of sin, the Person is often hated
(ii) That it is a Mastery and noble Skill to love Men's Persons, and yet wisely to hate their sins, and how
(iii) How a Man shall know how much Wrath and Envy is hid in the ground of his Heart, and how he may know whether he loves his Enemies, and the Examples we have thereof in our Saviour
VII. Of Covetousness, and how a Man may know how much of it is hid in his Heart
VIII. (i) Of Gluttony, and how a Man shall know when he sinneth not in Eating and Drinking, and when he sinneth venially, and when deadly
(ii) That a Man should be busy to put away and hinder all Motions of Sin, but more busy about those of Spiritual sins than those of Bodily
(iii) What Remedy a Man should use against the Faults in Eating and Drinking
IX. Of the Five Windows of this dark Image, and what cometh in by them, and how they are to be ordered
X. Of another Hole or Window that is to be stopped as well as the Windows of the Senses, viz., the Imagination
XI. A Brief Rehearsal of what hath been said in the former Chapters, with a Portraiture of this dark Image of sin
XII. A comparing of this Image with the Image of Jesus, and how it is to be dealt with
XIII. How a Man shall be shapen to the Image of Jesus, and Jesus shapen in him
XIV. The Conclusion of this Book, and of the Cause why it was made, and how she for whom it was made was to make use of it
THE SECOND BOOK