Excerpt from The Spiritual Man: Or, the Spiritual Life Reduced to Its First Principles TO place SO useful a work within the reach Of a greater number, I have reduced its size about one-fourth, by omitting the Latin text of quotations and Scripture references, avoid ing the frequent repetitions common with the writers Of Father saint-jure's time, and, in general, adopting a concise style in rendering into English the quaint, verbose French of the original, written in the earlier half of the seventeenth century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.