First edition. Contemporary full brown mottled sheep binding. Spine with raised bands and ornate decoration. Brown morocco title-label. One wormhole to lower joint at head. Foxing. First leaves frayed at outer margin. Quietism is a mystical doctrine that considers the most perfect communion with God occurs only when the soul is in a state of quietude. The quarrel that opposed the Quietists to Bossuet takes shape in this work where Bossuet refutes one by one the arguments of the Quietists led by Fénelon and Mme Guyon.