Three Counsels of the Divine Master for the Conduct of the Spiritual Life, Vol. 2 of 2

Download or read book Three Counsels of the Divine Master for the Conduct of the Spiritual Life, Vol. 2 of 2 written by Edward Meyrick Goulburn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Three Counsels of the Divine Master for the Conduct of the Spiritual Life, Vol. 2 of 2 We are engaged now in expanding into particulars that counsel of the Divine Master's for the conduct of the spiritual life, which He wrapped up in the single word, "Watch." We saw in our last Chapter that this counsel opens itself out in the inspired precept of the Book of Proverbs, "Keep thy heart above all keeping," and its context, - that context teaching that each of the avenues is to be kept, by which the heart communicates with the outer world; the sally-port of the tongue ("Put away from thee a froward mouth"), the gate of the senses ("Let thine eyes look right on"), and the sally-port of moral action ("Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established"). We are now to take up each of these points more in detail. "Keep thy heart with all diligence." The heart is to be guarded against the sallying forth of evil thoughts, whether in the shape of word or action. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.