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Conference XVI. The First Conference of Abbot Joseph. On Friendship.
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Chapter I. What Abbot Joseph asked us in the first instance.
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Chapter II. Discourse of the same elder on the untrustworthy sort of friendship.iv.v.vii.ii
Chapter III. How friendship is indissoluble.iv.v.vii.iii
Chapter IV. A question whether anything that is really useful should be performed even against a brother's wish.iv.v.vii.iv
Chapter V. The answer, how a lasting friendship can only exist among those who are perfect.iv.v.vii.v
Chapter VI. By what means union can be preserved unbroken.iv.v.vii.vi
Chapter VII. How nothing should be put before love, or after anger.iv.v.vii.vii
Chapter VIII. On what grounds a dispute can arise among spiritual persons.iv.v.vii.viii
Chapter IX. How to get rid even of spiritual grounds of discord.iv.v.vii.ix
Chapter X. On the best tests of truth.iv.v.vii.x
Chapter XI. How it is impossible for one who trusts to his own judgment to escape being deceived by the devil's illusions.iv.v.vii.xi
Chapter XII. Why inferiors should not be despised in Conference.iv.v.vii.xii
Chapter XIII. How love does not only belong to God but is God.iv.v.vii.xiii
Chapter XIV. On the different grades of love.iv.v.vii.xiv
Chapter XV. Of those who only increase their own or their brother's grievances by hiding them.iv.v.vii.xv
Chapter XVI. How it is that, if our brother has any grudge against us, the gifts of our prayers are rejected by the Lord.iv.v.vii.xvi
Chapter XVII. Of those who hold that patience should be shown to worldly people rather than to the brethren.iv.v.vii.xvii
Chapter XVIII. Of those who pretend to patience but excite their brethren to anger by their silence.iv.v.vii.xviii
Chapter XIX. Of those who fast out of rage.iv.v.vii.xix
Chapter XX. Of the feigned patience of some who offer the other cheek to be smitten.iv.v.vii.xx
Chapter XXI. A question how if we obey the commands of Christ we can fail of evangelical perfection.iv.v.vii.xxi
Chapter XXII. The answer that Christ looks not only at the action but also at the will.iv.v.vii.xxii
Chapter XXIII. How he is the strong and vigorous man, who yields to the will of another.iv.v.vii.xxiii
Chapter XXIV. How the weak are harmful and cannot bear wrongs.iv.v.vii.xxiv
Chapter XXV. A question how he can be strong who does not always support the weak.iv.v.vii.xxv
Chapter XXVI. The answer that the weak does not always allow himself to be borne.iv.v.vii.xxvi
Chapter XXVII. How anger should be repressed.iv.v.vii.xxvii
Chapter XXVIII. How friendships entered upon by conspiracy cannot be lasting ones.iv.v.vii.xxviii