Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Part 37

Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Part 37

While that doth fade This therefore ever shall endure Within the soul as more divine and pure.[52]


[1] See my _Studies in Mystical Religion_, chap. xix.


[2] Book III. lines 51-55.


[3] Book III. lines 194-197.


[4] Book I. line 18. Since this chapter was written, Alden Sampsons _Studies in Milton_ (New York, 1913) has been published. His valuable chapter on "Miltons Confession of Faith" reveals in Milton a very wide acquaintance with the ideas which I have been tracing, and shows by a vast number of quotations how frequently the poet used these ideas sympathetically.


[5] Francis Quarles "My Beloved is Mine."


[6] George Herberts poem "Man."


[7] Francis Quarles "Light."


[8] _Centuries of Meditations_ (London, 1908), iii. 16. For details of his life and for the story of the discovery of his writings, see the Introduction to _The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne_ (1903) by Bertram Dobell.


[9] Trahernes pom "Wonder," iii.


[10] _Centuries of Meditations_, iii. 1, 2 and 3.


[11] "Wonder," i.


[12] "The Salutation"


[13] Vaughans "The Retreat."


[14] Trahernes "The Approach."


[15] _Ibid._


[16] _Centuries of Meditations_, iii. 8.


[17] _Ibid._


[18] "Dumbness."


[19] "The Preparative."


[20] _Centuries of Meditations_, iii. 46.


[21] _Ibid._ ii. 81. See also ii. 70 and 83.


[22] _Centuries of Meditations_, ii. 92.


[23] _Ibid._ iv. 70.


[24] _Ibid._ i. 19, and iv. 81.


[25] _Ibid._ ii. 23.


[26] "My Spirit."


[27] "Fullness."


[28] "The Choice."


[29] _Centuries of Meditations_, ii. 17.


[30] _Ibid._ ii. 1 and 17.


[31] _Ibid._ ii. 6.


[32] _Ibid._ i. 26.


[33] _Ibid._ i. 25 and 27.


[34] _Centuries of Meditations_, i. 28-31.


[35] _Centuries of Meditations_, iii. 7 and 3.


[36] _Ibid._ iii. 11-13.


[37] _Centuries of Meditations_, i. 59.


[38] _Ibid._ i. 67 and 62.


[39] _Ibid._ i. 60.


[40] _Ibid._ iv. 59.


[41] _Ibid._ iv. 28. See also iv. 31.


[42] _Ibid._ i. 86.


[43] _Centuries of Meditations_, iv. 2.


[44] _Ibid._ iv. 95.


[45] _Christian Ethics_, chapter on "Charity."


[46] _Centuries of Meditations_, iv. 9.


[47] _Centuries of Meditations_, iv. 37.


[48] _Ibid._ iv. 38.