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• Perfection -- Catholic Church
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• Perfection -- Early works to 1800
• Catholic Church -- Early works to 1800

• Perfection -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- Early works to 1800

• Of our conformity with the will of God. ([Saint-Omer : Printed by the widow of C. Boscard], Permissu superiorum 1630), by Alfonso Rodrâiguez and fl. 1630 I. C. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Ladder of Perfection, by Walter Hilton (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Scale of Perfection, by Walter Hilton, ed. by Thomas H. Bestul (HTML at metseditions.org)
• Oeuvres de Saint François de Sales ... (Impr. J. Niérat, 1892), by Saint Francis de Sales and Benedict Mackey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le livre des élus (chez Charles-Pierre Berton, rue S. Victor, vis-à-vis le séminaire de Saint Nicolas-du-Chardonnet, au soleil levant, 1771), by Jean-Baptiste Saint-Jure, Pierre Nicolas de Saint-Pard, and Irish Benedictine Nuns of Ieper (Belgium) (page images at HathiTrust)
• La vie parfaite (V. Palmé, 1875), by Saint Francis de Sales (page images at HathiTrust)
• The religious state, the episcopate and the priestly office (B. Herder, 1902), by Saint Thomas Aquinas and John Procter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epistola de perfectione vitae. English ([Printed at London : By Thomas Godfray, [ca. 1535]]), by of Clairvaux Bernard, of Sweden Bridget, and Walter Hilton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Golden pystle. ([[London] : Imprynted by me Robert wyre, dwellynge at the sygne of seynt Iohan eua[n]gelyst, in seynt Martyns parysshe in the felde besyde Charynge crosse in the bysshop of Norwytche rentys], Imprynted in the yere of our lorde god. M.CCCCC.xxxi. [1531]), by of Clairvaux Bernard and Richard Whitford (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Breve compendio intorno alla perfezione cristiana. ([Saint-Omer : English College Press], Anno M. DC. XXV. [1625]), by Achilles Galliardi, Mary Percy, Anthony Hoskins, and Isabella Cristina Berinzaga (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Combattimento spirituale. English (At Paris : [s.n.], 1652), by Lorenzo Scupoli, Juan de Castañiza, T. V. (Thomas Vincent), and A. C. (Arthur Crowther) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• The Way of Perfection, by Saint Teresa of Avila, trans. by E. Allison Peers (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Way of Perfection, and Conceptions of Divine Love (London: C. Dolman, 1852), by Saint Teresa of Avila, trans. by John Dalton (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Greater Perfection: Conferences of Sister Miriam Teresa, Litt.B., of the Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth, Convent Station, New Jersey (fourth printing, 1953), by Sister Miriam Teresa, ed. by Charles C. Demjanovich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The scale (or ladder) of perfection (Art and Book Company, 1908), by Walter Hilton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Camino de perfección; reproducción fidelísima del autógrafo de el Escorial con las variantes del autógrafo vallisoletano, precedido de una introducción (Ediciones de "La Lectura,", 1929), by Saint Teresa of Avila and José María Aguado (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La parfaite religieuse, ouvrage également utile à toutes les personnes qui asprient à la perfection. (A. Ciroud, 1753), by Michel-Ange Marin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spiritual combat: to which is added, The peace of the soul, and the happiness of the heart, which dies to itself, in order to live to God. (Printed for Bernard Dornin, at the Catholic Bookstore, corner of Third and Walnut Streets, 1817), by Lorenzo Scupoli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catéchisme spirituel contenant les principaux moyens d'arriver à la perfection (Imprimerie-Librairie de l'Œuvre de Saint Paul, 1882), by Jean-Joseph Surin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The perfection of man by charity : a spiritual treatise (Burns & Oates ;, 1889), by H. Reginald Buckler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The groundwork of Christian perfection (Benziger, 1910), by Patrick Ryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principes de la justice chrétienne. (Chez Jean Villette ... Desaint & Saillant ... P.G. Simon ..., 1762), by Jérôme Besoigne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introducción a la vida devota (Juan Francisco Piferrer, 1823), by Saint Francis de Sales, Francisco Cubillas Donyague, and Pedro de Silva (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opuscula aurea, vereque lucidissima (Apud Iuntas., 1576), by Thomas à Kempis, Bernardo Giunta, Pietro Deuchino, and Saint Vincent Ferrer (page images at HathiTrust)
• La vie parfaite (V. Palmé, 1868), by Saint Francis de Sales (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spiritual combat (James Parker & Co., 1868), by Lorenzo Scupoli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tractatus asceticus de felicitate religiosi : suae obligationis et salutis studiosi, primum Parisiis anno 1726, gallico idiomate dein Ratisbonae anno 1734 latino modo sumptibus Abbatiae Zirciensis S. Ordinis Cisterciensium cum facultate re-impressus. (Typ. Michaelis Szammer Viduae, 1806), by Cistercians (page images at HathiTrust)
• The practice of Christian and religious perfection. (E. Cummiskey, 1831), by Alfonso Rodríguez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catéchisme spirituel : contenant les principaux moyens d'arriver à la perfection (Impr.-Librairie de l'Œuvre de Saint-Paul, 1984), by Jean-Joseph Surin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A few first principles of religious life : a spiritual instruction to religious men and women (Burns & Oates ;, 1902), by H. Reginald Buckler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The scale (or ladder) of perfection (Art and Book Company, 1901), by Walter Hilton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Unterweisungen über die christliche Vollkommenheit (Herder'sche Verlagshandlung, 1895), by P. Bürger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le combat spirituel (Librairie Notre-Dame, 1912), by Lorenzo Scrupoli and Jean Brignon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spiritual combat together with the supplement and the path of paradise. (Rivingtons, 1875), by Lorenzo Scupoli (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spiritual ascent : a devotional treatise (Burns & Oates ;, 1908), by Gerard Zerbolt and Thomas à Kempis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le pur et parfait Christianisme : ou, l'imitation de nostre-seigneur Jesus-Christ (Chez Michel le Petit, ruë Saint Jacques, a la Toison d'or, 1675), by Louis Camaret (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pastoral office (Printed for private use only, 1883), by Henry Edward Manning (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le combat spirituel (A. Mame, 1883), by Lorenzo Scupoli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theologia mystica et Espitola Christi ad hominem (Herder, 1912), by Padre Juan de Jesús María and Lorenzo Scupoli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mystik und christliche Vollendung (Augsburg : Hass & Grabherr, 1927., 1927), by Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange (page images at HathiTrust)
• Combattimento spirituale. English (Printed at Antvverp : [s.n.], 1598), by Lorenzo Scupoli and John Gerard (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Sancta Sophia (Doway : by Iohn Patte and Thomas Fievet, 1657), by Augustine Baker (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage; The Sparkling Stone; The Book of Supreme Truth, by Jan van Ruusbroec and Evelyn Underhill, trans. by C. A. Wynschenck
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  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
• The Living Flame of Love, by Saint John of the Cross, trans. by Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez (HTML in Austria)
• A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ (London: T. Baker, 1919), by Saint John of the Cross, ed. by Benedict Zimmerman, trans. by David Lewis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ (with English modernized), by Saint John of the Cross, ed. by Benedict Zimmerman and W. Harry Plantinga, trans. by David Lewis (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• Ascent of Mount Carmel, by Saint John of the Cross, trans. by E. Allison Peers (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Dark Night of the Soul (London: John M. Watkins, 1905), by Saint John of the Cross, trans. by Gabriela Cunninghame Graham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dark Night of the Soul, by Saint John of the Cross, trans. by E. Allison Peers (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Dark Night of the Soul (London: T. Baker, 1908), by Saint John of the Cross, ed. by Benedict Zimmerman, trans. by David Lewis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Dark Night of the Soul (4th edition, revised; London: T. Baker, 1916), by Saint John of the Cross, ed. by Benedict Zimmerman, contrib. by P. Gerardo de San Juan de la Cruz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pasion de Cristo (J.T. Lucas, 1757), by Juana de la Encarnacion, Joseph Molero, and Luis Ignacio Ceballos (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vida de la venerable madre sor Beatriz Ana Ruiz, mantelata professa de la orden de N.G.P.S. Augustin : y doctrinas, o mistica simbolico-practica, que le revelò el Señor, como farol preciso en estos tiempos ... (Oficina de P. Garcia, 1744), by Tomás Pérez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obras del venerable padre fray Juan de la Cruz (Por B. de Villa-Diego :, 1672), by Saint John of the Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete works of Saint John of the Cross, of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864), by Saint John of the Cross and David Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete works of Saint John of the Cross of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864), by Saint John of the Cross and David Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vie et Oeuvres spirituelles [de l'admirable docteur mystique le bienheureux père Saint Jean de la Croix.] (H. Oudin, 1892), by Saint John of the Cross and William James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Breve resumo da mystica theologia para instrucção dos directores (Officina de Simao Thaddeo Ferreira, 1789), by Francisco da Conceiçào (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le cantique spirituel (Soc. St-Augustin, Desclée, De Brouwer & Cie, 1923), by Saint John of the Cross (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jacob's ladder (London : Printed [by Elizabeth Purslowe] for Henry Seile and are to be sould at the Tigres-head against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet, [1638], 1638), by Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino, Charles Longuet Higgins, Elizabeth Purslowe, William Marshall, Henry Isaacson, and Henry Seile (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mirabilis vitae venerabilis virginis Marinae de Escobar Vallisoletanae (Pragae : Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae, in Collegio Societatis Jesu ad Sanctum Clementem, anno M.DC.LXXXVIII [1688], 1688), by Andreas Pinto Ramírez, I. G. Damnerviel, Melchior Hanel, Kenelm Henry Digby, Akademische Druckerei (Prague), Jesuit Residence of Jersey (Channel Islands), Bibliothèque des Fontaines, and Wilhelmsgymnasium München (page images at HathiTrust)
• On Union with God, contrib. by Magnus Albertus (Gutenberg ebook)

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