The Eternal Happiness of the Saints

St Robert Bellarmine († 1621) · De aeterna felicitate sanctorum · 1616

English translation by John Dalton (1814–1874), London and Derby: Richardson and Son, [c. 1847].

The five books in which Bellarmine, “for my own spiritual benefit”, contemplates heaven under the names Scripture gives it: the Kingdom, the City, the House and the Paradise of God, and the Feast. The volume prints Bellarmine’s Latin preface before the English, shown here beside it.

  1. Preface of Bellarmine
  2. Book I. The Kingdom of God
  3. Book II. The City of God
  4. Book III. The House of God
  5. Book IV. The Paradise of God
  6. Book V. The treasure, the pearl, the penny, the talents, the supper, the wedding, the prize and the crown

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John Dalton (1814–1874), London and Derby: Richardson and Son, [c. 1847]. Digital text: Internet Archive scan theeternalhappin00belluoft (University of Toronto, Regis College), read with three OCR engines and corrected; a few misreadings may remain. Public domain in the US and Canada: published in the mid-nineteenth century; the translator died in 1874.

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