MANUAL OF THE BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF THE Third Order of Penance of St. Dominic. BODL LONDON: BURNS AND LAMBERT, 17 PORTMAN STREET, PORTMAN SQUARE. 1852. 138. d. 238. Notice. THE following work has been translated, with a few unimportant abridgments and alterations, from the reprint of the treatise of the Rev. Père Feuillet on the Rule of the Third Order of St. Dominic, lately published at Ghent by the Rev. Father Moulaert in his work called Nouveau Manuel du Tiers Ordre, together with many of that editor's explanatory notes. The Rule of the Third Order has been translated from the original Latin, as it stands in the book of the Constitutions of the Order; and the notes upon it are chiefly extracted from the observations on the Rule by the Most Rev. F. B. Hyacinth Cipolletti, then General of the Order, published in 1837. Of the Rule OF THE THIRD ORDER OF ST. DOMINIC, CALLED THE ORDER OF PENANCE. FIRST PART. CHAPTER I. OF THE EXCELLENCE OF THE RULE. As the Saints are more enlightened than worldlings in the great matter of salvation, so has their charity been more ingenious in bringing out the means of raising souls to the state of Christian perfection. Certain it is that holy Baptism makes all those who are thereby regenerated unto grace, the religious of Jesus Christ; and that, without any habit to distinguish them from worldlings, without other convent than the Church, without other solitude than that of their own heart, other superior than their pastor, or other rule than the B |