Of the joy of a complete surrender to God, it is not necessary to speak here: thousands of God's children are realising its blessedness for themselves, and proving that it is no hardship, but a joy unspeakable, to present themselves a living sacrifice to God, to live no longer to themselves, but to Him that died for them, and rose again. A simple trust in a living, personal Saviour; a putting away by His grace of all that is known to be in opposition to His will; and an entire self-abandonment to Him, that His designs may be worked out in and through us; such is the simple key to the hidden sanctuary of communion. _A SHORT METHOD OF PRAYER._ CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGE I. PRAYER POSSIBLE AT ALL TIMES, BY THE MOST SIMPLE 1 II. FIRST DEGREE OF PRAYER 6 III. SECOND DEGREE OF PRAYER, CALLED HERE THE PRAYER OF SIMPLICITY 13 IV. SPIRITUAL DRYNESS 16 V. ABANDONMENT TO GOD 18 VI. SUFFERING 21 VII. MYSTERIES 23 VIII. VIRTUE 25 IX. PERFECT CONVERSION 27 X. HIGHER DEGREE OF PRAYER, THAT OF THE SIMPLE PRESENCE OF GOD 30 XI. REST IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD--INWARD AND OUTWARD SILENCE 35 XII. SELF-EXAMINATION AND CONFESSION 39 XIII. READING AND VOCAL PRAYER 42 XIV. THE FAULTS AND TEMPTATIONS OF THIS DEGREE 44 XV. PRAYER AND SACRIFICE EXPLAINED BY THE SIMILITUDE OF A PERFUME 47 XVI. THIS STATE NOT ONE OF IDLENESS, BUT OF ACTION 51 XVII. DISTINCTION BETWEEN EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR ACTIONS 63 XVIII. EXHORTATIONS TO PREACHERS 71 XIX. PREPARATION FOR DIVINE UNION 77 _SPIRITUAL TORRENTS._ CONTENTS. _PART I._ CHAP. PAGE I. THE DIFFERENT WAYS IN WHICH SOULS ARE LED TO SEEK AFTER GOD 91 II. OF THE FIRST WAY, WHICH IS ACTIVE AND MEDITATIVE 94 III. OF THE SECOND WAY, WHICH IS THE PASSIVE WAY OF LIGHT 103 IV. OF THE THIRD WAY, WHICH IS THE PASSIVE WAY OF FAITH, AND OF ITS FIRST DEGREE 111 V. IMPERFECTIONS OF THIS FIRST DEGREE 125 VI. SECOND DEGREE OF THE PASSIVE WAY OF FAITH 139 VII. SECT. I.--COMMENCEMENT OF THE THIRD DEGREE OF THE PASSIVE WAY OF FAITH--FIRST DEGREE OF THE SPOLIATION OF THE SOUL 151