Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1
Why we should love God and the measure of that love.
CHAPTER 2
On loving God. How much God deserves love from man in recognition of His gifts,
both material and spiritual: and how these gifts should be cherished without neglect of the Giver.
CHAPTER 3.
What greater incentives Christians have, more than the heathen, to love God.
CHAPTER 4
Of those who find comfort in their collection of God, or are fittest for His love.
CHAPTER 5
Of the Christian’s debt of love, how great it is.
CHAPTER 6
A brief summary.
CHAPTER 7
Of love toward God not without reward: and how the hunger of man’s heart cannot be satisfied with earthly things.
CHAPTER 8
Of the first degree of love: wherein man loves God for self’s sake.
CHAPTER 9
Of the second and third degrees of love.
CHAPTER 10
Of the fourth degree of love: wherein man does not even love self save for God’s sake.
CHAPTER 11
Of the attainment of this perfection of love only at the resurrection.
CHAPTER 12
Of love: out of a letter to the Carthusians.
CHAPTER 13
Of the law of self-will and desire, of slaves and hirelings.
CHAPTER 14
Of the law of the love of sons.
CHAPTER 15
Of the four degrees of love, and of the blessed state of the heavenly fatherland.
Index of Scriptual References
