Chapter I. What Abbot Joseph asked us in the first instance.
Chapter II. Discourse of the same elder on the untrustworthy sort of friendship.
Chapter III. How friendship is indissoluble.
Chapter IV. A question whether anything that is really useful should be performed even against a brother's wish.
Chapter V. The answer, how a lasting friendship can only exist among those who are perfect.
Chapter VI. By what means union can be preserved unbroken.
Chapter VII. How nothing should be put before love, or after anger.
Chapter VIII. On what grounds a dispute can arise among spiritual persons.
Chapter IX. How to get rid even of spiritual grounds of discord.
Chapter X. On the best tests of truth.
Chapter XI. How it is impossible for one who trusts to his own judgment to escape being deceived by the devil's illusions.
Chapter XII. Why inferiors should not be despised in Conference.
Chapter XIII. How love does not only belong to God but is God.
Chapter XIV. On the different grades of love.
Chapter XV. Of those who only increase their own or their brother's grievances by hiding them.
Chapter XVI. How it is that, if our brother has any grudge against us, the gifts of our prayers are rejected by the Lord.
Chapter XVII. Of those who hold that patience should be shown to worldly people rather than to the brethren.
Chapter XVIII. Of those who pretend to patience but excite their brethren to anger by their silence.
Chapter XIX. Of those who fast out of rage.
Chapter XX. Of the feigned patience of some who offer the other cheek to be smitten.
Chapter XXI. A question how if we obey the commands of Christ we can fail of evangelical perfection.
Chapter XXII. The answer that Christ looks not only at the action but also at the will.
Chapter XXIII. How he is the strong and vigorous man, who yields to the will of another.
Chapter XXIV. How the weak are harmful and cannot bear wrongs.
Chapter XXV. A question how he can be strong who does not always support the weak.
Chapter XXVI. The answer that the weak does not always allow himself to be borne.
Chapter XXVII. How anger should be repressed.
Chapter XXVIII. How friendships entered upon by conspiracy cannot be lasting ones.
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