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Abandonment;
OR,
Absolute Surrender to Divine Providence.
Posthumous Work
OF
Rev. J. P. de CAUSSADE, S.J.
REVISED AND CORRECTED BY
Rev. H. RAMIÈRE, S.J.
Translated from the Eighth French Edition
BY
Miss ELLA McMAHON.
New York, Cincinnati, and St. Louis:
BENZIGER BROTHERS,
Printers to the Holy Apostolic See.
R. WASHBOURNE,M. H. GILL & SON,
18 Paternoster Row, London.50 Upper O’Connell St., Dublin.
1887.
Arms and Imprimatur of Archbishop of New York.
New York, Feb. 15, 1887.
Copyright, 1887, by Benziger Brothers.
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A PREFACE
ON THE
FOUNDATION AND TRUE NATURE OF THEVIRTUE OF ABANDONMENT,
TO EXPLAIN AND DEFEND
Father Caussade’s Doctrine.
There is no truth however clearwhich does not become error the momentit is lessened or exaggerated;and there is no food however salutaryfor the soul which may not, when ill-applied,become a fatal poison.
The virtue of abandonment does notescape this danger; the more holy andprofitable it is in itself the more seriousare the dangers we risk by misunderstandingits just limits.
These dangers, unfortunately, arenot mere possibilities. The seventeenthcentury witnessed the birth of aheresy,—that of the Quietists,—which,4while claiming to teach its followersperfect abandonment to God, led theminto the most terrible disorders. Fora time this sect wrought its ravages inthe very capital of Catholicism, and putforth such specious sophistries that thepious Fénelon himself, while abhorringthe practical consequences drawn fromthis teaching, was for a time misled byits false appearance of perfection.
To preserve Father Caussade’s readersfrom these dangers, we think it wellto add to these writings a succinct expositionof the rules which should guideus in a matter so delicate. By thelight of the principles jointly furnishedus by reason and faith, we shall haveno difficulty in determining the justlimits which should mark our abandonmentto divine Providence; and it willbe easy for us afterwards to elucidatethe points in our author’s doctrinewhich might be wrongly interpreted.
I.
Father Caussade explains very clearlyin his “Letters” the two principleswhich form the unalterable basis of thevirtue of abandonment.
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First principle: Nothing                        
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