Book, Chapter

 1      I, 1intro|         of the provision. For in things worldly we are active enough,
 2      I, 1intro| forethought for our posterity in things divine and heavenly, and
 3      I, 2     |  necessary to institute (certain things) which should afterward
 4      I, 3     |  inherent purity. There are some things which are not to be desired
 5      I, 3     |       sense forbidden when other things are preferred to them; for
 6      I, 3     |   preference given to the higher things is a dissuasion from the
 7      I, 3     |    unmarried woman thinks on the things of the Lord, that both in
 8      I, 4     |       itself, forsooth, heavenly things in return--to lord it, (
 9      I, 4     |           nay, that you have all things, if you have the Lord, whose
10      I, 4     |          the Lord, whose are all things. Think often on things heavenly,
11      I, 4     |       all things. Think often on things heavenly, and you will despise
12      I, 4     |   heavenly, and you will despise things earthly. To widowhood signed
13      I, 8concl|        that is crowned. For some things there are which are of the
14      I, 8concl|          by their own grace; the things which are objects of man'
15     II, 1intro|          in. For it is then when things are difficult that their
16     II, 3     |      PRECEDING CHAPTER.~If these things are so, it is certain that
17     II, 5     |  ignorant of the reason of these things, simply endure them, without
18     II, 6     |          divine benediction? All things are strange, all inimical,
19     II, 7     |      MUCH MORE HOPEFUL.~If these things may happen to those women
20     II, 7     |        is (quite) another thing. Things which are not pleasing to
21     II, 8     |        chant to their Lord. Such things when Christ sees and hears,
22     II, 8     |        One is not. These are the things which that utterance of
23     II, 8     |          understood by us. These things, if need shall be, suggest