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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... end. So, nothing ought to move me to take such means or to deprive myself of them, except only the service and praise of God our Lord and the eternal salvation of my soul. TO GET KNOWLEDGE AS TO WHAT MATTERS AN ELECTION OUGHT TO BE MADE ABOUT, AND IT CONTAINS FOUR POINTS AND ONE NOTE First Point. The first Point: It is necessary that everything about which we want to make an election should be indifierent, or good, in itself, and should be allowed within our Holy Mother the hierarchical Church, and not bad nor opposed to her. v Second Point. Second: There are some things which fall under unchangeable election, such as are the priesthood, marriage, etc. There are others which fall under an election that can be changed, such as are t'0 take benefices or leave them, to take temporal goods or rid oneself of them. Third Point. Third: In the unchangeable Election which has already been once made---such as marriage, the priesthood, etc.--there is nothing more to choose, because one cannot release himself; only it is to be seen to that if one have not made his election duly and ordinately and without disordered tendencies, repenting let him see to living a good life in his election. It does not appear that this election is a Divine vocation, ' as being an election out of order and awry. Many err in this, setting up a perverse or bad election as a Divine? vocation; for every Divine vocation is always pure and clear, without mixture of flesh, or of any otherinordinate tendency. Fourth Point. Fourth: If some one has duly and ordinately made election of things which are under election that can be changed, and has not yielded to flesh 1 It does not appear that this election is a Divine vocation is in the Saint's hand, correcting we..