The Book of Pastoral Rule
xxxib The Book of Pastoral Rule. ———————————— Preface. The title, Liber Regulæ Pastoralis , is the one adopted by the Benedictine Edition from several ancient mss ., being Gregory’s own designation of his work when he…
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Chapter I. That the unskilful venture not to approach an office of authority. No one presumes to teach an art till he has first, with intent meditation, learnt it.
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Chapter III. Of the weight of government; and that all manner of adversity is to be despised, and prosperity feared. So much, then, have we briefly said, to shew how great is the weight of government, lest whosoever is…
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Chapter V. Of those who are able to profit others by virtuous example in supreme rule, but fly from it in pursuit of their own ease. For there are some who are eminently endowed with virtues, and for the training of…
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Chapter VII. That sometimes some laudably desire the office of preaching, while others, as laudably, are drawn to it by compulsion. Although sometimes some laudably desire the office of preaching, yet others are as…
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Chapter IX. That the mind of those who wish for pre-eminence for the most part flatters itself with a feigned promise of good works. But for the most part those who covet pastoral authority mentally propose to…
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Chapter XI. What manner of man ought not to come to rule. Wherefore let every one measure himself wisely, lest he venture to assume a place of rule, while in himself vice still reigns unto condemnation; lest one whom…
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Chapter II. That the ruler should be pure in thought. The ruler should always be pure in thought, inasmuch as no impurity ought to pollute him who has undertaken the office of wiping away the stains of pollution in the…
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Chapter IV. That the ruler should be discreet in keeping silence, profitable in speech. The ruler should be discreet in keeping silence, profitable in speech; lest he either utter what ought to be suppressed or suppress…
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Chapter VI. That the ruler should be, through humility, a companion of good livers, but, through the zeal of righteousness, rigid against the vices of evildoers.
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Chapter VIII. That the ruler should not set his heart on pleasing men, and yet should give heed to what ought to please them. Meanwhile it is also necessary for the ruler to keep wary watch, lest the lust of pleasing…
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Chapter X. What the ruler’s discrimination should be between correction and connivance, between fervour and gentleness. It should be known too that the vices of subjects ought sometimes to be prudently connived at, but…
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Part III. How the Ruler, While Living Well, Ought to Teach and Admonish Those that are Put Under Him. Prologue. Since, then, we have shewn what manner of man the pastor ought to be, let us now set forth after what…
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Chapter II. How the poor and the rich should be admonished. ( Admonition 3.) Differently to be admonished are the poor and the rich: for to the former we ought to offer the solace of comfort against tribulation, but in…
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Chapter IV. How subjects and prelates are to be admonished. ( Admonition 5.) Differently to be admonished are subjects and prelates: the former that subjection crush them not, the latter that superior place elate them…
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Chapter VI. How the wise and the dull are to be admonished. ( Admonition 7). Differently to be admonished are the wise of this world and the dull.
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Chapter VIII. How the forward and the faint-hearted are to be admonished. ( Admonition 9.) Differently to be admonished are the forward and the faint-hearted.
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32b Chapter X. How the kindly-disposed and the envious are to be admonished. ( Admonition 11.) Differently to be admonished are the kindly-disposed and the envious.
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Chapter XII. How the whole and the sick are to be admonished. ( Admonition 13.) Differently to be admonished are the whole and the sick.
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Chapter XIV. How the silent and the talkative are to be admonished. ( Admonition 15.) Differently to be admonished are the over-silent, and those who spend time in much speaking.
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Chapter XVI. How the meek and the passionate are to be admonished. ( Admonition 17.) Differently to be admonished are the meek and the passionate.
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Chapter XVIII. How the obstinate and the fickle are to be admonished. ( Admonition 19.) Differently to be admonished are the obstinate and the fickle.
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Chapter XX. How to be admonished are those who give away what is their own, and those who seize what belongs to others. ( Admonition 21.) Differently to be admonished are those who already give compassionately of their…
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Chapter XXII. How those that are at variance and those that are at peace are to be admonished. ( Admonition 23.) Differently to be admonished are those that are at variance and those that are at peace.
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Chapter XXIV. How the rude in sacred learning, and those who are learned but not humble, are to be admonished. ( Admonition 25.) Differently to be admonished are those who do not understand aright the words of the…
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Chapter XXVI. How those are to be admonished with whom everything succeeds according to their wish, and those with whom nothing does. ( Admonition 27.) Differently to be admonished are those who prosper in what they…
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Chapter XXVIII. How those are to be admonished who have had experience of the sins of the flesh, and those who have not. ( Admonition 29.) Differently to be admonished are those who are conscious of sins of the flesh,…
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Chapter XXX. How those are to be admonished who abstain not from the sins which they bewail, and those who, abstaining from them, bewail them not.
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Chapter XXXII. How those are to be admonished who sin from sudden impulse and those who sin deliberately. ( Admonition 33.). Differently to be admonished are those who are overcome by sudden passion and those who are…
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Chapter XXXIV. How those are to be admonished who do not even begin good things, and those who do not finish them when begun. ( Admonition 35.) Differently to be admonished are they who do not even begin good things,…
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Chapter XXXVI. Concerning the exhortation to be addressed many at once, that It may so aid the virtues of each among them that vices contrary to such virtues may not grow up through it.
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Chapter XXXVIII. That sometimes lighter vices are to be left alone, that more grievous ones may be removed. But since, when the sickness of two vices attacks a man, one presses upon him more lightly, and the other…
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Chapter XL. Of the work and the voice of preaching. But in the midst of these things we are brought back by the earnest desire of charity to what we have already said above; that every preacher should give forth a sound…
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