Evangelical counsels
Here are entered works dealing with the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience which are recommended towards achieving perfection over and above the Ten commandments.
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Broader terms:Narrower term:Used for:- Counsels, Evangelical
- Counsels of perfection
- Perfection, Counsels of
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Challenging Children to Chastity: A Parental Guide (c1991), by Henry V. Sattler (HTML at EWTN)- An Address Delivered to Married Women, by a Squire's Wife (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, ca. 1872), by Victoria Welby
- On Exhortation to Chastity, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
- The Coiled Serpent: A Philosophy of Conservation and Transmutation of Reproductive Energy (Los Angeles: DeVorss and Co., c1939), by C. J. Van Vliet (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Address Delivered by the Hon. Mrs. Welby to the Married Women of Newton, on the First Thursday in Lent, 1872 (printed for private circulation only; London: Metchim and Son, 1872), by Victoria Welby (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Appeal to Mothers, by Ellen G. White (HTML with commentary at ellenwhiteexposed.com)
- Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare (multiple editions)
- Comus, A Mask, by John Milton (HTML at Renascence Editions)
- Milton's Comus (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891), by John Milton, ed. by William Bell (Gutenberg text)
- On Modesty, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
- Stories from the Faerie Queene, by Mary Macleod, contrib. by Edmund Spenser and John W. Hales, illust. by Arthur G. Walker (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Self-Conflict: or, The Powerful Motions Between the Flesh and Spirit, Represented in the Person and Upon the Occasion of Joseph When by Potiphar's Wife he was Enticed to Adultery (London: Printed for R. Sollers, 1680), by Jacob Cats, trans. by John Quarles (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Monastic and religious life -- Early works to 1800- The Conferences of John Cassian, by John Cassian, trans. by Edgar C. S. Gibson (HTML with commentary at osb.org)
- The Twelve Books of John Cassian on the Institutes of the Coenobia, and the Remedies for the Eight Principal Faults, by John Cassian (HTML at osb.org)
- The Wisdom of the Desert, by George A. Birmingham (HTML at Notre Dame)
- An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians (Boston: Occult Pub. Co., 1890), by Franz Hartmann (page images at HathiTrust)
- Seikkailu Rosenkreuziläisten Luona (An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians in Finnish; Vyborg: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Tietäjä, 1922), by Franz Hartmann, trans. by Kyllikki Ignatius (Gutenberg text)
- With the Adepts: An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians (new and revised edition; London: W. Rider and Sons, ca. 1910), by Franz Hartmann (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- With the Adepts: An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians (second edition, revised; New York: Theosophical Pub. Co., 1910), by Franz Hartmann
- Woman Under Monasticism: Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life Between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1896), by Lina Eckenstein (HTML at Wisconsin)
- Freaks of Fanaticism, and Other Strange Events (London: Methuen and Co., 1891), by S. Baring-Gould
- The Christian's Manual: A Treatise on Christian Perfection, With Directions for Obtaining That State (New York: Carlton and Porter, ca. 1824), by Timothy Merritt, contrib. by John Wesley (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Plain Account of Christian Perfection, by John Wesley (multiple formats at CCEL)
- Alfabeto Christiano (London: Bosworth and Harrison, 1861), by Juan de Valdés, ed. by Benjamin B. Wiffen (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Lectures to Professing Christians, by Charles G. Finney (text files at CCEL)
- Uniformity with God's Will, by Alfonso Maria de' Liguori, trans. by Thomas W. Tobin (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)