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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI:
The Works of John Cassian.: Book IX. Of the Spirit of Dejection.

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Book IX.

Of the Spirit of Dejection.

 

Chapter I. How our fifth combat is against the spirit of dejection, and of the harm which it inflicts upon the soul.
Chapter II. Of the care with which the malady of dejection must be healed.
Chapter III. To what the soul may be compared which is a prey to the attacks of dejection.
Chapter IV. Whence and in what way dejection arises.
Chapter V. That disturbances are caused in us not by the faults of other people, but by our own.
Chapter VI. That no one comes to grief by a sudden fall, but is destroyed by falling through a long course of carelessness.
Chapter VII. That we ought not to give up intercourse with our brethren in order to seek after perfection, but should rather constantly cultivate the virtue of patience.
Chapter VIII. That if we have improved our character it is possible for us to get on with everybody.
Chapter IX. Of another sort of dejection which produces despair of salvation.
Chapter X. Of the only thing in which dejection is useful to us.
Chapter XI. How we can decide what is useful and the sorrow according to God, and what is devilish and deadly.
Chapter XII. That except that wholesome sorrow, which springs up in three ways, all sorrow and dejection should be resisted as hurtful.
Chapter XIII. The means by which we can root out dejection from our hearts.

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