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 Meditations is 'Jesus Christ Crucified’ and His immediate teaching to man.

How Bossuet wished the book to be practically used he himself tells us in a short preface that he wrote for it, a verbatim translation of which here follows.

F. M. C.

The texts of Holy Scripture quoted in these meditations have been carefully compared throughout with the English Douay Version, in the words of which they are here given.

It is thought best to inform readers of this, as, should the book be used by non-Catholics, they may be here and there surprised at the wording of certain texts which have become familiar to the English-speaking world in the phraseology of the 'Authorized’ Version.