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Book of Pastoral Rule

St Gregory the Dialogist, NPNF II.12

1. Letter to John, Bishop of Ravenna
2. Part 1, That the Unskilful Venture Not to Approach an Office of Authority
3. Part 1, That None Should Enter on a Place of Government Who Practise Not in Life What…
4. Part 1, Of the Weight of Government; And that All Manner of Adversity is to Be Despised,…
5. Part 1, That For the Most Part the Occupation of Government Dissipates the Solidity of…
6. Part 1, Of Those Who are Able to Profit Others by Virtuous Example in Supreme Rule, But…
7. Part 1, That Those Who Fly from the Burden of Rule Through Humility are Then Truly Humble…
8. Part 1, That Sometimes Some Laudably Desire the Office of Preaching, While Others, as…
9. Part 1, Of Those Who Covet Pre-Eminence, and Seize on the Language of the Apostle to…
10. Part 1, That the Mind of Them Who Wish for Pre-Eminence For the Most Part Flatters Itself…
11. Part 1, 10. What Manner of Man Ought to Come to Rule
12. Part 1, 11. What Manner of Man Ought Not to Come to Rule
13. Part 2, How One Who Has in Due Order Arrived at a Place of Rule Ought to Demean Himself…
14. Part 2, 2. That the Ruler Should Be Pure in Thought
15. Part 2, 3. That the Ruler Should Be Always Chief in Action
16. Part 2, That the Ruler Should Be Discreet in Keeping Silence, Profitable in Speech
17. Part 2, That the Ruler Should Be a Near Neighbour to Every One in Compassion, and Exalted…
18. Part 2, That the Ruler Should Be, Through Humility, a Companion of Good Livers, But,…
19. Part 2, That the Ruler Relax Not His Care for the Things that are Within in His…
20. Part 2, That the Ruler Should Not Set His Heart on Pleasing Men, and Yet Should Give Heed…
21. Part 2, That the Ruler Ought to Be Careful to Understand How Commonly Vices Pass…
22. Part 2, What the Ruler’s Discrimination Should Be Between Correction and Connivance,…
23. Part 2, How Intent the Ruler Ought to Be on Meditations in the Sacred Law
24. Part 3, Prologue
25. Part 3, 1. What Diversity There Ought to Be in the Art of Preaching
26. Part 3, 2. How the Poor and the Rich Should Be Admonished
27. Part 3, 3. How the Joyful and the Sad are to Be Admonished
28. Part 3, 4. How Subjects and Prelates are to Be Admonished
29. Part 3, 5. How Servants and Masters are to Be Admonished
30. Part 3, 6. How the Wise and the Dull are to Be Admonished
31. Part 3, 7. How the Impudent and Bashful are to Be Admonished
32. Part 3, 8. How the Forward and the Faint-Hearted are to Be Admonished
33. Part 3, 9. How the Impatient and the Patient are to Be Admonished
34. Part 3, How the Kindly-Disposed and the Envious are to Be Admonished
35. Part 3, 11. How the Simple and the Crafty are to Be Admonished
36. Part 3, 12. How the Whole and the Sick are to Be Admonished
37. Part 3, How Those Who Fear Scourges and Those Who Contemn Them are to Be Admonished
38. Part 3, 14. How the Silent and the Talkative are to Be Admonished
39. Part 3, 15. How the Slothful and the Hasty are to Be Admonished
40. Part 3, 16. How the Meek and the Passionate are to Be Admonished
41. Part 3, 17. How the Humble and the Haughty are to Be Admonished
42. Part 3, 18. How the Obstinate and the Fickle are to Be Admonished
43. Part 3, How Those Who Use Food Intemperately and Those Who Use It Sparingly are to Be…
44. Part 3, How to Be Admonished are Those Who Give Away What is Their Own, and Those Who…
45. Part 3, How Those are to Be Admonished Who Desire Not the Things of Others, But Keep…
46. Part 3, How Those that are at Variance and Those that are at Peace are to Be Admonished
47. Part 3, 23. How Sowers of Strifes and Peacemakers are to Be Admonished
48. Part 3, How the Rude in Sacred Learning, and Those Who are Learned But Not Humble, are to…
49. Part 3, How Those are to Be Admonished Who Decline the Office of Preaching Out of Too…
50. Part 3, How Those are to Be Admonished with Whom Everything Succeeds According to Their…
51. Part 3, 27. How the Married and the Single are to Be Admonished
52. Part 3, How Those are to Be Admonished Who Have Had Experience of the Sins of the Flesh,…
53. Part 3, How They are to Be Admonished Who Lament Sins of Deed, and Those Who Lament Only…
54. Part 3, How Those are to Be Admonished Who Abstain Not from the Sins Which They Bewail,…
55. Part 3, How Those are to Be Admonished Who Praise the Unlawful Things of Which They are…
56. Part 3, How Those are to Be Admonished Who Sin from Sudden Impulse and Those Who Sin…
57. Part 3, How Those are to Be Admonished Who Commit Very Small But Frequent Faults, and…
58. Part 3, How Those are to Be Admonished Who Do Not Even Begin Good Things, and Those Who…
59. Part 3, How Those are to Be Admonished Who Do Bad Things Secretly and Good Things Openly,…
60. Part 3, Concerning the Exhortation to Be Addressed Many at Once, that It May So Aid the…
61. Part 3, Of the Exhortation to Be Applied to One Person, Who Labours Under Contrary…
62. Part 3, That Sometimes Lighter Vices are to Be Left Alone, that More Grievous Ones May Be…
63. Part 3, That Deep Things Ought Not to Be Preached at All to Weak Souls
64. Part 3, 40. Of the Work and the Voice of Preaching
65. Part 4: How the Preacher, When He Has Accomplished All Aright, Should Return to Himself