It is indeed heart
breaking to see how sin is running freely in the world! From the homosexual
revolution to the free sex ideas not to talk of the incessant killings and
abortions going on in the world!
We see that we are in
the reign of sin!
This book, Sinner’s
Guide is a great book that everyone must read urgently to discover again the
sense that sin offends God and put us all at risk of hell fire!
“Say to the just man,
that it is well”; Isaias 3.10. This is a message from God, delivered by the
prophet Isaias, to all the just; it is the shortest in words, and the most
copious in bounty, that could have been sent.... This is the main subject I
design, by the help of God, to treat of in this book, adding such rules and
instructions as are proper to make a man virtuous. Accordingly, it shall be
divided into two principal parts.
The first will show how
much it is our duty to follow virtue, and the inestimable benefits and
advantages we reap by so doing; the second shall treat of a virtuous life, and
prescribe a method and directions for attaining it. For there are two things
requisite towards making a man virtuous; the one is, that he really DESIRE to be
such; the other, that he know HOW to compass it.
The first book shall
answer the end of the former of these two points; the second, the latter;
since, as Plutarch very well observes, 'those who excite us to virtue, and
teach us not the way to it, are like those that light a lamp, but put in no oil
to feed the flame'."
Venerable Louis of Granada was a Dominican of great sanctity and immense
classical scholarship. This book is his tour de force analysis of the different
categories of virtue, the means to obtain them, and the resulting fruits
confidently to be expected. His writing style is plain, his meaning easily
grasped, chapters are brief and well focused; thus this book successfully
manages to be fun to read and edifying. Venerable Louis of Granada presents a
clear map of man's inner moral terrain, and thus the book resembles a mandala -
it helps you grasp the disparate parts of yourself and pull them together and
coordinate them into a well-functioning organic whole.
“The motive I had to
treat this subject was, that I saw most men extol virtue and follow vice, and
conceived that, among many other causes which produced this evil, one was that
such persons did not understand the nature and properties of virtue, looking
upon it as harsh, barren, and dull; and, therefore, believing vice to be more
delightful, they give themselves wholly up to it, utterly casting off virtue,
which they suppose to be distasteful. Being, therefore, concerned to see
mankind thus deluded, I resolved to take the pains here to describe the
inestimable worth, amiableness, dignity, and beauty of this heavenly spouse,
and to make appear how little she is known, that this might undeceive and
induce them to fall in love with what so well deserves it. For if it be true,
that virtue is one of the most excellent things in heaven or on earth, and
which best merits love and esteem, it is a great misfortune that man should so
little know, and keep at such a distance from this great good; and therefore he
does the public signal service who endeavors to restore this lady to her honor,
and seat her on her royal throne, since she is sovereign queen and mistress of
all things.”
Buy this book urgently here and read
Buy this book urgently here and read
Presented
by Malachy Mary Igwilo, on the feast Day of St. Anthony of Padua 13th
June 2013
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