Hardcover reprint of the original 1900 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Blois, Louis D. A Book of Spiritual Instruction = Institutio Spiritualis. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Blois, Louis D. A Book of Spiritual Instruction = Institutio Spiritualis, ., 1900.

Excerpt from A Book of Spiritual Instruction: Institutio Spiritualis The following treatise on the spiritual life, written by the venerable Abbot Blosius, is called in the Latin original, "Institutio Spiritualis," which I have translated, "Book of Spiritual Instruction." It was published, as the author himself says in his letter to Florentius de Monte, in the year 1551, when Blosius was forty-five years old and had been abbot for twenty-one years. He was, therefore, in the prime of life, and full of ripe experience in the government of souls. The first appendix to the treatise is drawn from the works of John Tauler, of the Order of St Dominic, and is a striking testimony to the high estimation in which Blosius held "the illuminated doctor," as Tauler used to be called by his admirers. The third appendix I have not translated. It is a defence of Tauler against the attacks of John Echius, who had falsely attributed to him several errors that Blosius shows were never advocated by Tauler. But as the accusations of Echius are now forgotten, their refutation would not be interesting. 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.

Excerpt from A Book of Spiritual Instruction: Institutio Spiritualis This verse Of the twenty-fourth Psalm were the last dying words of St Antoninus, Archbishop of Florence, of the Order of St Dominic. 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.