in
the main approaches
is through
all
other
methods
can tell us what religion is until he has sounded
the deeps
mine will
ours
were
to
minister
to
the
been."
it,
but
My
Cry
Jacob's
ladder
Pitched
the water.
Thompson,
with
permission
of
John
evolving
world
unless
it
its
power
because
one
of
been ignored
and the
The
experiences,
persons
who
have
and
beneath
more
"
of
the
world, and,
of
moment
;
nature
world
has
brought
strongly
the
past.
no
clear
by and
Christian
experience.
For
the
most
practical
God. It
is shut
up to
This
meaning
do
to
find.
The
two
full
union
real
exhibits
a
special
with
God,
"
"
human
experience
is
is always
"What
is
fruit."
us."
as
Lowell
soul
feels
*
moments
of
prayer
when
prayer
does
carries
the
everywhere,
confidence
evidence of
product
thing for
the worth,
moments of
appreciation there
American Journal
involves
faith
His
The
Excursion,
Book
i.
of experience
come
Those
that
provided
pictiure,
or
gets
focalized
fashion,
we do not
all
adjustments,
the
aesthetic
Such lofty
these
floods
of
religious
refreshing
periences,
possess
as
menj
I
well
within
the
line
of
normal
healthy
their
nature
seemed
to
be
of the others
men and
an entire
volume of
I
am
to
myself
(Meister
Eckhart's
Mystische
Schriften,
by
than
it
I
had
been
many
years
in
a
university.
I
saw
and
knew
;
than
subjective experience
personal
vision,
the
have
revolutionized
all
suggested
by
their
instance
of
ecstatic
joy,
which
and
tension
are
absent,
life are
such a
loins
for
action
prove the worth
experience,
however
question : Is there in the
universe a
God who
is personal
faith,
to
make
co-
con-
sciousness
with
describing
the
method
of
carry
joy. It
such experiences minister
Spirit,
of
heightened
feeling.
We
wider spheres
seems
con-
con-
structive
service.
We
have
peculiar
have experi-
and
ordered
will.
They
seern
extent
fellows.
And
are conjunct, and that
how.
Divine
suggestions
come
to
human
consciousness.
The
Being
experiences
of
any
sort
expectations
or
of
is
shot
racial
our
instan-
of
his
own,
that
"
need
;
Christ
and
of
earlier
revelations,
rather
insists
that
every
hint
of
Jesus
Christ,
is
mystics
have,
perhaps
Mystics.
There
gird
themselves
scorn
but we
do well
to keep
in
of
Commonwealth,
Church, that
have
steadily
"
joyous fellowship
men and women who have travailed for the
regeneration
of
humanity,
restoration,
of
that
inter-
pretation
of
Church
finds
ex-
"
done, and when
greatest epoch, which we
and
vivid
consciousness
of
the
various
formulations
of
doctrine
upon
these
and
other
portant
in
made His
that
we
had
reporters
; but
the
actual
consciousness
essentially
a
heart
and
the
Divine
in
our religion
in all
of cross
and stake,
would
and, instead, to open
noiselessly
is
before
judges
but
to
would
flow
into
them
from
the
inward fellowship
discovered
"
;
general
way,
it
here throughout
religion in
which have
that
every
have exercised
time,
the
sway
of
sense,
Christ
brought
life.^
con-
ception,
first spiritual
Each
is
the spiritual
soul, and
pectation of an
would
come
140-43.
we
shall
see
inrushing
to have
appeared wherever
a
regular
gift,
which
the Spirit came upon
Other
peculiar
functioning
"
the
Apostle
So
universal
a
theory can
many
very
diverse
children,
maintain
that
subject
to
incursions
from
of
his
put
dual nature
come
old self not yet
thing
of victory
whom he
guidance,
which
but there
can be
little doubt
that he
has his
marvellous,
many-
sided
more composite
con-
ceptions
of
Jewish
theology,
usage,
or
the
culture
are
combined
epistles.''
life, by
power of the
we
out of the
of
friends
in
Galatia
be
formed
in
you"
have been
baptized into
by His
of love.
Christ has
some
seem
entire
the
ecstatic
prophecies
which
are
men.^
feet,
and
life,
and
spiritualizing
energy.
has, to
the same
extent as
and
from
beginning
to
seeds
he
is
Divine
which
expands
and
becomes
the
Life
of
23
so that
conscious of its
on the one momentous
bread
blood of Christ.
us in terms
:
"
altogether
vine,
and
the
vine
is
a
vine
because
it
They
share
a
may
rather
than
a
Church
to Christ,
fellowship
were all
society,
thus
paganism."
from house
to house
meeting-
through them, the
signs
in an unusual
Presence—more convincing, at least, to
the
Pentecostal
enthusiasm
lasted,
extraordinary
routine.
An
organization
existed
at
life of
itself^
in
the
Pauline
 
spiritual qualifications,
his
fellowship
itself,
as
family
grace
given
according
list of
themselves
officers
—each person contribut-
"
the Holy Spirit, which
The most
prophet's chief
qualification was
vision, rather
than logical
to
the
spirit
of
prophecy.
men, though
so
was
low.
The
best
example
it
an un-
principle, that
so as to
A
Christian
Church at this period, in so far as it had
expanded
were suggestive and
development of the
the
Before considering the causes
the
Philippian
limit the exercises
the
affairs
"
and
expression
the writer of
tative
hierarchy.
is
have
been
studying,
changed
into
an
has
was
planted.
It
developing a
his genius
for law
itself
degenerated,
where men of the
People began to
the prophets, too,
a
prophet.
An
itinerant
dangers and difficulties.^
expectation
Christ had much
authority.
There
are
four
to the
of
the
in
tion.
"
in
boxes,
dying out,
the ascendancy.
There is
every indication
he
as
occasion
bishop
the
Church.
which
first
to
the loftiest
Eucharist which
did this exaggerated
While
It
was
one
of
in the
it
was an
form of
must
appeal was
it
was
ways.
There
could
be
was
somebody
and who could
between
good
which was slowly taking
and
ministry and groups of persons who
held
for
prophecy
against
priesthood.
God
conflicts
inherited authority
orderly
if
the
has received a
chap.
x.
Christian
worship
of the
administration of
these rites
to a Divine
of ten encies
was
inward
a
fixed
pagan influences, into a
In the
movement of reaction
of the prophet
churches,
of
Ardaban,
"
distinction between earlier
prophets they
raised to
passion
on the point of recognizing the
Montanists as
was
influenced
(see
TertuUian's
Treatise
against
Praxeas).
2
The
Montanists
naked literalness.
through the
Paraclete.'
ecstasy as
origines
du
as if he
had
entirely,
Himself
and Montanus
declares that
"
they believed
and
showed
her
that
was holy, and that
adherent in thy persecution and in
the
covenant
and
2
and valuable study
if
of
revelation.
The
psychological
basis
is
the
two
prophetesses
were
by
auto-suggestion
(see
Bonwetsch's
Montanismus,
pp.
67-68).
study it
only from
a
to some of
the best spirits
through
divinely
made
only well begun, and
Paraclete.
One
of
idea which
rise
Church. They
assumed three
revelation
was
to
the
stage
to say,
little
indelible
touch
of
glory
judge
to
the
which is
prophesy, and upon all
and
positively
Peter
successor
in
Holy
Spirit.
eminent
the
devil
is
always
and
blood,
nor
the
into his
woman
lot
to
through
a
spiritual
person,
was
now
given
spoke
than
any
apostle
in
the
was
right,
and
the
the New
of
a
developing,
phecy was
level
of
experience,
practised
man.
lyre.
Reason
is
whose
lyre for
the Spirit,
•
response
no
criterion
plan.
instrument,
was
at
Church
universal
blunder.
The
religion
and
final.
Montanism
put
spoken
through
stricter
moral
The
later
of
Montanism
that
attracted
Tertullian
the Montanist leaders
best,
visions,
and,
bowing
new command
teaching belonged
"this world." This
attitude led to
of
Montanism.
:
"
-^
soul, Tertullian holds that
into
supernatural
was
of our
there
would
be,
its manifestation.
This prophecy,
Judea
pronounced
not
it out. But in
of
of
Jerusalem
shows
an
reports that one
is
the
them
Justinian,
the
was
mystical
exhibition
of
the
inspiration,
was
almost
certain
to
practice. The
is
there
was
in
intimate
is
no
doubt
India,
the Sirens,
powers to
his master's
; that is
—
that
all men, waiting
only to be
to
tributions.
while an alien
real,
i.e.
the
distinct
levels
of
or intelligence,
fared
in
that
fell
true
knowledge.
There
And as the
the sight
eternal home. Deep
and,
when
it
life
of
sense
experience
to
;
cannot
move,
blazing
at
a
there is a
and
literal
light."
And
when
they
remember
their
they
felicitate
themselves
rising
above
the
is
Reality
Republic
that
the
As
more
This
is the
creation
moves."
the
lover
the
Good
Absolute
Good,
immanent
soul
whether
above
real self
was always
had not
of
sense.
There
would
be
no
Reality, unseen
and abiding.
the
object of
are given in a
to
the
is
still
a
dark
and
doubtful
Beauty
the
influence
of
far
from
organism.
On
this
"
temporal
world.
Plato
myths,
the beginner of exact observation of
empirical phenomena
is
finite,
its "un-
a
own
completeness.
it
is
"Psy-
chology,"
Aristotle
The
active
reason
Plato
always
treats
the
feeling
experience
as
lower
Intellect. We
shall see,
deepest
nature.
This
implies
Itself, for in contemplation
itself
and
and
regarded as
element,
is
thing
by
and characterise the
the
soul
all finites all
and reality to
empty hands. We
shall often enough
The influence
of Stoic
the
home in that place
and
holy
Spirit
may
learn
to
to
surrender
that
known as
part
of
effort of
reported
! The teacher
who first
was
His name
nothing
through
has given
who
was
schoolboy
unusual psychical
Enneads.
He
"
new
nor
old.
and
indicate
"
of
the
mysticism
and
the
supreme and
description
Mind
(Nous),
This first
before
ness, but
is the
framed. It
so that
as
air.
Plotinus
escape
being ? A child
to
know
number of faces
yonder. And
of a
truth thou
sense
to
patterns
of
things,
i.e.
to
contemplation
being. It is a unity in which the thinker and
the
thought
arrives
at
vi.
9,
lo:
but
more
after reason ; as
speak
of
sight.
speak
of
which is
himself, he
present
selves
by
order
of
Justinian
ever-expanding
religion
embodied
the
corrupting
influences
of
superstition
spiritual
supremacy
of
Christianity,
while
Neoplatonism
It
is,
however,
true
by which a
En.
V.
i.
2,
3,
4.
emanation is
a much
more complicated
differentiates into
is
far
it
remains
indwelling
God.
Life
is
at
philosophic
spiritual
bee-bread
on
used the
world-structure, the Church
of them, from
spiritual
of religious
attainment to the
"
and
union and
through
come
from
is
2
Ibid.
Book
IV.
conceive of
as possessing within himself
Eucharist.
the
teaching
of
Irenaeus
as
God, adoption of men to
the
of
knowledge,
of
immortal
life.
All
these
goods
are
it
is
the
a
flash
or
wrapped
in
the
Origen
(a.d.
185-254)
there
is
of God
is the
very warp
and woof
of their
the sea,
Instructor has
hearts
on
earth,
Life so
"
which is
a good
example of
occasional
passages
in
Clement,
Origen,
was
at
home
truth
fortunately,
only
in
more so
of the soul
Himself." Irenaeus,
such
human,
and
he
has
world.
he describes the
spiritual ladder by
of
Supernal
upon
that
"
our-
selves."
that which
belongs to
the sacra-
the
becomes a human
the
that by
in incorruption."
This magical,
that which
the father of
men
with
He shows better
"
into
two
sharply-
divided groups. He is in both groups, and he is entirely
unaware that they are inconsistent with
each
other.
No
other
man
Church
than
"
was organized
St.
Augustine,
working
out
a
of
compartments.
There
throbbing man,
He had
first-hand ex-
a
He has given
the
same
thing
said
of
the
Godward
is
frequently
asserted
in
which fits
the
dust.
this
sight
was
man
ings
towards
*
means of
that atmospheric
to put much
emphasis on sense-experience.
Him
life is
he
says :
to
go."
up
the
subject
;
has the
key to
!
"
God.
There
are
many
which filled space,
which
nature as
mind, or
the
vi'orld,
piece-
art Thou."
rose
to
the
insight
that
God
is
the
mind.
pleasant
to
these
eyes,
the
sweet
scent
of
I
love
my
God
my
is
an
it
loud voice :
knew
it
I
was
a
light
Thy works,
and we
so as to
pasture
be
ever shall
'hath
been
whole stress
we
sighed,
the spirit'
(Rom. viii ;
a
things
by
far
inferior
were
taken
away,
and
be
which
we
sighed
be changed
looks
ancient
and
that
are
full
grown
the
deified
by
His
grace,
not
as
of
"
of
treated
in
our
later
chapters.
profitable,
to
so
that
human
experience,
God,
though
at
times
of
self"
the
Augustine
were
profoundly
influenced
school,
as
we
into
it
came
year
533,^
the
who held that Christ
views
written
by
Innccentius,
Bishop
of
Maronia.
by
Syrian
scholars
them the stamp
found in them
of
first
Adrian
either unconscious or
in the
He not
that
not come
into existence
of
:
"
formed
In the book on the Divine
Names, Dionysius
the inspired apostles,"
God,"
i.e.
the
his
a scribe and
of
Hiero-
Book
of
from which it has
passes
darkness
underwent it
Sonship.
(4)
Essence
hierarchies
of
"
Christ
of
and
he
for
both,
he
heart.
to
Converse,
ways
of
the
Lord,
saying
this,
he
declared
that
in
which
beating them
by
resigned.
And
above
and made light of it, because they had not already
fallen,
and cursed.
sin.
But
what is
nevertheless,
be
reached
gathers
His
Hiddenness.
ranks of angelic
As
on
by
the God-
head," they
"
of the
of all
and
the
who
is
continues
the
of
man
to
participation
God.^
some
above attributes. But by this method
Dionysius thinks
that we
person who
on a lower level than mystical
experience, through which
in
ourselves,
but
we may know
and
up
into
the
Divine
Dark—
:
"
as
far
ledge.*
This
is
ecstasy,
rays.
Or
as
if,
it
origin,
discernible
in
every
mystical
sect
the
the
system
of
exist,
Everything that
is, radiates
God,
revealed,
but
with
the
from
the
father of
he
of
God
{Theophanies)-
as,
wrote
John
the
"
observation,
nor
is
period
when
European
that his
generation did
not understand
temporaries
Scotland.
He
designates
find that
than
his native land,
says
man
letters.
I read the beginning
I
thought
I
heard
the
a very noble
even
before
the
coming
narrow
be
called
thither,
either
continent
Irish]
their
went
hivaded the
correct.
The
chronicler
says
and
them with all haste
it
in
the
name
have
food and
of
Charlemagne,
declares
that
eternal
change the
the long-forgotten
a cuckoo's egg was
In the front of his tract Erigena announced
that
true
of good and
thus
God.
later polemic
hundred
held
prevailed
semper
et
ubique.
The
sacred
word
famous
controversy,
doctrine
of
Transubstantiation,
he
thought
of
matter " in general, and he has not left us in
doubt as
to what
and material
that
the
book was
written by
text]. Intuere,
still obscured by
que
Spirit
It is
work
mystical
to him
for his
approval, and
God (^eo?)
or
"
;
"
;
this depth)
He
cannot
be
"
the
essence
of
the
object,
the
so
it, i.e.
Nor be
;
of
telling
—
are woven
scenery
that
John
does
not
Absolute. He holds to the permanence
of
the
spiritual
self—
He
procession
of
the
of
truth
in
the
is
of
God.
absence.
Take
hands of
kiss
rather
than
Let
every
one
use
the
who philosophize
the darkness of
which
he
lived.
which
loftiness of spirit,
vision, a virile idealism, which were sure to be an
inspiration
to
minds
of a revolt
of all
complex
body
he
was
to the
to the
was
confession to a
might be
tempted by
Bishop's
seat
and
bore the
out the
period
which
the
stored-up
waters
of
need.
took the false step
works
and
was
fall in
Assisi, granted
a sweep-
granted
;
life of
humanity clearer
and stronger,
system
and
the
prophets
of
right
to
God
were
sure
refuse
the
stone
when
peculiar
influences
to
be
his
own
priest.
The
Waldensian
had their birth in
of Europe
It seems
not
being. This
The
aim
from the
everything belonging
to the
that
involves
sexual
intercourse
baptism
rite
;
smaller,
called
respectively
p.
575.
while
revolting
to
other
deliverance to Europe.
the
sacerdotalism
i
mystery that
Manichaeism, in
is incessantly
is the exact
to
the
mind
of
spirit delivered in the faith
that
everything
is
Divine.
Evil
and
let us
join in
that they
had a
lay
their
power.
The
Waldenses
He had
come to
impression
was
from mass
the Church
and the
so moved
upon
him
that
he
his business,
way to heaven.
for his
the Abbey of Fontevraud,
own
part
employed
a
translator
orthodox, and burn
naive
backed
with the
officials of
to
stop
which belonged
words
Englishman from the court
his
upon
them
with
those
falsely
called
not having
the authority
so
Waldenses
were
compelled
to
Bernard
fact
that
these
ing
they
are
by
a
called
the
because
they
hold
spiritual
power
in their
Gospel
literally,
and
like the
apostles. They
refused to
case of
old woman who was given the chance to escape the
sentence of
opposed
standing
literally
by
;
—that
they
asserted
necessity,
and on
thing
for
lives
of
extraordinary
purity
and
simplicity.
pride in
;
do
not
say
*
and the
were always
the
cure
of
souls.
They
"
doctrine of
they
gradually
came
to
question,
of
the
Noble
redemption
often
or brotherhood,
realize that
finally
came
to
think
of
themselves
as
"house
of
lies."
They
organized
schools
dead,
and
than the
those who
of the
and
to
others.
The
records
of
existed
in
of
and
brought
them
with
food
but
they
are
thoroughly
familiar
with
the
Scriptures
and
of the sects
and for
Christ. They
studied healing
money from
of
love
and
standard themselves
by follow-
ing the
is possible,
a
generation
like the
ministry.
It
could
not
utilize
even
though
they
had
discovered
how
to
heal
the
broken-
hearted,
ment,
a
channel
of
divine
irreconcilable
contention
with
the
would have
negative
stage.
They
yet a new life,
James
Stephen,
by
many
Christian
the abandon
to the
Divine Father,
and fellow-
as
lets us almost
of the
exceeding
great
devotion
and
fervour
said,
abode till
door to
much
emphasis
on
joy
as
on
age in
an
offspring
of
Adam,
the
inheritor
of
sin,
that
is
unparalleled,
except
needs,
it
was
the
and immediately sent
words of
Order.^ He
reversed the
possibly
of
Perfection
was
written
standpoint) was written
official
biography,
duced.
It
is
a
Franciscan
a year
in Perugia, but even
was
living
companions,
plunged
again into the gay life of the city. This time his dis-
sipation
was
interrupted
inex-
the
hope
ye
when suddenly
with a voice
this
Jesus,
real
and
momentous
psychic
con-
dition
in
seems necessary
Francis who
are
dealing
here
with
extraordinary mystical nature,
!
of
partition
within,
which
the final
cut,
his
that
Francis
should
surrender
of
Assisi
had
come
to
naked, with his
clothes rolled in a little bundle and with what little money
still remained
:
"
nothing else than
the
Portiuncula
Mass
on
a
certain
certaine leper
horror and
nor
his
whole
revolutionist.
sword
of
conviction, made
his preaching
services in
coming to
"
salvation,
but
Creator.
Go,
joy and
men
labours,
at first
one by
bond
or
shackle,
for women
and
a
revela-
prominent
citizen
of
Assisi,
in Galahad by
On him,
and he
believed in
lady
became
henceforth
throws a
Clara
thereto
consolation
Clara,
said
to
St.
Francis,
'Father,
—
Jesus
Christ,
and
there
let
St.
Francis
and
the companions
of St.
Francis with
companions took
all humility.
down
on
in
and
by the house,
were a
which cause the people of Assisi ran thither in great
haste
to
quench
the
St.
Francis
and
St.
in
God
and
and no earthly
appear miraculously, for
of those
of Francis,
"
and perfection
the
extraordinary
power
of
his
cants
invade
the
Christian
hearts
channels
love
and
happiness.
The
Order
of
the
Tertiaries
genius.
The
movement,
has
been
called
"one
of
offensive
warfare,
and
by
Pope
military
service
the feudal
spirit, and
who
and dreamed
period, in the
would
he
had
a
could occasion
scope
an
impossible in
fit
it
into
the
Church.
It
was
done
with
velvet
gloves,
it
was
gone.
When
though he
was ready
"
—
agony
together with profound physical difficulties under
which
he
weeks
he
had
Calvary.
to
feast
of
the
Exaltation
September 14th
with the rising sun.
medieval
disciple,
finds
Instead of
proving to
Stigmata are
turned
good
any smaller
has chosen
to
confound
world.'
conversa-
Francis
insisted
vehemently
that
—though
even raise the
infidels
to
the
having given
and he
upon
knots of that
on
giveth to His
beloved, is the
grace and gift
are not
ours but
Jesus
Christ."^
day
long ;
this
was
men
redeem
themselves
with
money,
carry
earth
beyond
measure,
women, or
throttled
babes
in
by
divers
the
seventy
influences
the
Order.
and
Orders have
palaces
of
the German
Hildegard, the
very fundamental
themselves
upon
of
the
was
of God,
the
founder
head
of
dominant
and
were
subjected
of
go
back
more
ascetic
the Scriptures
profoundly
Church
was
being
wrecked
by
scheme of
Holy Ghost, just about
age of he Father, beginning with Adam, coming to its
clarescence in Abraham, and ending
with Zacharias.
second stage, the Church of the Son, dawned before the
first age ended,
The Church
of the
while in
the third
starlight,
the
second
of
They
would
because
they
unbroken
com-
would
religion
of
^
age of the Son
of Pisa
by
Joachim,
believed
of the first order—
or
rather
the dispensation
initiators
apocalyptic ideas
1260,
which
was
of
summoned
to
deal
and
despair
by
the
fury
of
their
believe
themselves
special
organs
of
the
elected
any Italian
groups of
many points
infected
with
It
failed
to
produce
by
the
personal
idea.
The
to
God
School and the
Church. The Church
had
in the school
his
methods
and
teacher
he
had
Spirit
now
in
was
discovered
the new
coming
of
the
Son
so, too,
all the
forms through
which Christ
was to
the new society.
enough
to
said
needed,
cast his
of the movement.
a recluse,
for
sin,
there
would
Amaury is com-
of his
which
moment these
came down
monastic
scholastic
quinque
juris
decretalium.
I
have
solemnly
burned
by
this
same
Council
of
1209,
God,
consequently
individual
appearances
due
to
an
illusion
doctrine
into
three
classes—
bodies,
souls,
and
eternal
substances.
commentaries
were
at
was a very strong tinge of Neoplatonic mysticism in the
Arabian interpretation, and
in
which followed, was
already
been
forbidden
leading
scholars
as
there
appeared
who had
in
the
is
easy
now
to
to
us
so
apostolic
us is
This type
Church.
They
denounced
as
superstition
the
carries a
decayed tooth
in his
the
they taught,
The
abolished
the
law,
destroyed
it had its
Joachim
of
Floris,
and
there
was
members even
declared that
there
that
children born of parents belonging to the sect had no need
of baptism, for there
child.
Holy
of
God}
Gerson
(1363
-1429),
who
was
Chancellor
of
the
a
mystic,
and
ideal."
He
finds
in
God
its
eternal
person
practices
out-
being
made
philosophical
interests,
and
there
to
their
disciples.
There
im-
morality
not
le
a
broad
plete
heresy,
and
who
easily
taught,
the
step
down
into
easy.
But
there
is
no
proof
that
which
they
record.
members
from
and
third
this mystical
an
least resistance. The aim
and purpose of Amaury
possible
to
them.
The
martyrdom
for
the
abroad into regions where the authorities
were
less
on
their
the
stake
period
who,
dwells
in
this
position
Delacroix,
Essai
to confess
sins to
God
had God or the
and
in
Switzerland.^
the fact that
author.
by Reiner Sacchoni,
the
Library
of
Munich,
and
op. cit.
life
of
freedom,
in
which
similar
character
they
had
a
lower
notions as
sub-
of
becoming
Divine.
human
form.
Man
possesses
the
that
it
was
irresistible,
to
him
may
take
anything
he
would
not
a
natural instincts. The principles
the Brethren of
the Amaurians in Paris and the Ortliebiens in Alsace in
the
early
the Spirit.
spiritual
trail
to
the Christ,"
is the
"
of the
disciple, Ortlieb.
Divine life
—a finite
that
revelation. They
store of charts and
of
Spiritual
Freedom.
But
even
at
great
risk
and
close.
In
every
phase
of
a spirit
that
work
be
fermenting
beneath
the
of time. The
of
orphans and
no
choice
convent. The result was
formulated the
Lambert.^ An annal
who
whose
Vilvorde near
Brussels that
document, especially by
who wish to
verb as
variant
from
Beguine.
both
virgins
and
widows,
grew, the
actually
back to
Matthew Paris, a half
societies
the example
in
1220.^
They
were
bands,
performing any
kind of
and they
friars,
as
they
might
class
burdens of the
without
begging.
actually
prac-
There
quieted his conscience,
solely
by
class
—women
the cultivation
of personal
of
was
extremely
to
life of
the Beguines.
temptations,
and
moral situation.
Beguine association to
^
and in
They
were
Pope
Urban
against
"
the
doctrines of
truths.
They
into
views spread
through the
doctrine,
and
Ortlieb
began
opportunity
for
the
and
a situation
societies
of
Beghards
and
Beguines
were
of
of
these
brotherhood
movements.
Unfortunately
Manual
lay-people
member
of
regular
untimely
the
Beghards,
though
description
of
the
on
the
articles
they
^
whatever
by
his
very
to a con-
templation of God. .
than
presented in
host,
for
it
simple,
for
every
time
we
universe
of
multiplicity
has
within
In
and
its
supremacy
a
issue on
which there
could be
Beguinages.
"
not
delay apparently was
and Beguines were free from taint of heresy, and were
orthodox
task to eparate the
to
sink
The
diocese many
be driven
who lead
John
that John
virtue
of
his
obliga-
obey
nullify
the
teaching
and
say
blasphemously
it is
priestly mass
moment
of
poetical
passages
the human
them have attained
such a degree
cannot sin. They
say that one should
master wishes
tvithout any
one, whether
everything
of the
and
on
the
extermination
as
the
persecution
influence
of
the
established
Orders
half
century
been
let
loose
in the history of
though he was
"
stage, were
hypnotic spell which
of poverty,
in
Plotinus
Spirit
who
explains
up and
them with
impure life,
punish-
"
they
refuse
errors" (see
circle
in a state
state of
he know
I
of
God
and
hast.
That
man
He
are bound
the will of
indeterminate Absolute
There were two quite
"
"
By
withdrawing
ourselves
longer
He
the contemplative
that
there
were
orgies
of
the Beghards
disgrace
"
under
strict
discipline,
until
condemned
witch
to
the
existence
highly wrought
serious
There
task
to
destroy
ever
so
heavy
are better than
of a concrete
wilt,"
is
St.
Augustine's
revealed
in
and his
this
mystical
message
to
ever
dropped
bolder interpreter
of those
He
with
the
Church,
spdculaiif,
Paris,
1900.
In
English
the
best
contributions
1898.
2
As
of
Suso,
calls
Eckhart
 
must
be
worshipped
must
be
cleared
door
love
nothing,
except
God
soul were
This is
mysticism of
with
the
distinctions
between
the
on the
will
of
fasting
heavenly
rapture.
rapture and show
is already
mind
which
is
so
mature years.
"
head learning. There are scanty references in
the
own life, but
there are at
least three passages
the
Scripture,
then
I
answered,
1303,
he
and
included
fifty-one
monasteries
and
nine
nunneries.
In
1307
he
Paris, and
was
and every
form of
which
were
of
Eckhart
would
be
one
of
these
of perfection,
toward
of
one
of
many
and they
produced many
story,
not be
mystical teaching.^
The Beghards
and Beguines
of Strasbourg
moral
danger
involved
in
God
God
that
he
can
properly
be
called
children, be kind
aliens
wish to come to God have
only
to
model
; no
the
light
of
truth.
Those
who
have
attained."
sin as sin, who
them."
wisdom,
against
believing
of con-
distinction
of
right
in
Cologne,
whither
he
gathered
about
him
here
a
disciples.
I
the
guardians
of
I have
lines of
Revealer
the
the
Godhead
can express
can say
no
thinkable
characteristics.
(i.e. the
all
such
distinctions.
No
word
God
in
His
essence
"
:
"
that
he
Divine Emanations in the
"overflow"
of
the
wise. The
Eckhart says, into
Father and Son.
This
is
the
genesis
of
Creation is
not a
the Trinity is. As soon as God beholds Himself in
that
Eternal
Now,
He
for
Eckhart,
the
world
God
nothing at
of
archetypes
"There is in the
named."
This
of little value.
;
"
very little
real
no
more
comfort
is
but
when
they
are
too
hot
The comfort
surface,
renunciation of this
he was born.
ye
are
ye
true
spiritual
poverty
who
wills
The
possessions and
had been
in
it
and
place
it
sends
back
sun-
light.
more
than
the
is
the
at top)
—
of
the
Son
the soul
gets free
He who would
union
So long
region
it could find the undifferentiated nameless
Godhead.
But
which is
master ever
did not
take
from Him."^
I."
.'
to me,
that the
There-
fore
back upon
itself and
knows itself
in
myself}
"
is up
hither side of
which
distinctions
other passages
a
merely
will
its
origin
the
soul
from
God.*
The
reality
premises.
woven together.
His intellect
process.
John
vi.
44
of
begotten
Son,
and
behold
my
Blood
have
their
Christ
and
:
"
become
saints.
that the
toward all things
temporal and mutable
until not a rag of human merit is left in heart, mind,
or
through
him,
in
place
fact.
Eckhart
it
and
achieve
it.
Nobody
has
purer.
If
(which thou
for the cheese,
comfort
The
final
attainment
such
rapture and serve
Christ
had
so
much
of
as
sorrow.
by
withdrawal
from
that
is
best
of
all."
3
which the
people call
empty
common
people
he
1323
with
the
oversight
of
the
convents
of
Germany.
Early
in
1327
he
took
up
the
Dominican
preachers,
and
carrying
the
Eckhart
did
of God
and man
is proved by
scores of passages
in Eckhart's writings.
the
for calling him cowardly, or
for
supposing
doctrine,
right to
1327.
proposi-
tions
found
through the Divine
teaching—
if
it only decides
the fourteenth
Christianity,
which
found
its
leaders of
the move-
which helped
or
less
puppets
forty years the
forced
seemed
traceable
directly
to
the
German
that
only
about the
wide-
stretching
low
countries,
among
the
leaders,
after
an
spiritual society at
to
err
in
the
opposite
speak
vigorously
of the
(Leipzig,
1859).
Das
the
title
or
near
Cease to ask
it, for the
by the
direction in
God call
Suddenly he
and
carried
"
; he
stop his
ever
a
single
word
to
four years
which I
him or even heard
most
a
they both
dition
them.^
The
of
1366,
and
put
and spiritually-illuminated
of
the
great
Book
of
of
logical
him
and
known
as
state
view, if proved sound,
most
interesting
psychological
ground than
and
minute
Merswin
is
neither
of
modern
German
scholarship,
he
and
been
transformed
a
fountain,"
of actual life,
of the
of them were
good and simple life ; if he does not know any
better
religion
God
finds
he lives,
they
have
God a deep
often caught a
glimpse of a
of
the
part the
in
like
of
values
saint
friend,
Margaret
the
without
and
the
wafer.^
Reports
to Thee." In
the Holy Spirit,
Testament
were in no
!
"
of the
by
experience
by divine grace
he
feels
that
divine
love
is not touched by such a sermon. Such a preacher
is
from
of a
master who
spiritual
by
direction
is
that
recorded
in
the
Book
of
a
master
of
Holy
certain
of
grace."
the
ground
experience and
spiritual
he says that the light of faith takes man above
the
sphere
God
will
either in this world
severe criticism
He told
perienced,
and
work
the
layman
experience. At
"
He is
to go
all
of
the
blessing,
for
forces
throughout
his
the
study
of
the
writings
wisdom
which
the
books
will
now
become
and
love the Lord. I shall give you no more instruction.
It is now
began
and found
of
the
people,
and
lost his mind.
text,
of the
trusted
affairs
of
ing
Denifle first showed
tion.^
since
the
judgments
its
garment
rent
its
and
dumb,
they
The
Church
no
longer
it.
St.
The head of the
members are
the
earth—
!
world, and that Divine
and heresies,
of
testing.
In
1356
a
dis-
heap of
echo
a reconstruction
only
who
signs of the
will
be
the
same
speaks
The
prophecy, is
year, every
with the
of
Christianity
tells
the Friends
the
than
I
can
still
write
?
remains
the
same
throughout
^
pray
glory
of
the
primitive
"
ambitious for worldly goods ; more
zealous
for
their
;
the vision
of the
nine rocks.
net which
covers the
of Dante's
them
in
away from
The dwellers on the
own will,
They
have
burned
rock
have
The
ninth
rock
is
three
dwellers
to
be
seen.
the
world
to
them.
They
"
God by
do
anything
ment the
life," says the
anything
to
;
complete
in their
atone for their
!
'
"
^
God
is
by
that
enters
He
He can abandon
a man,
sincerely
sit
Book
of
the
Five
Men
urges
its
readers to expect no gifts of grace from the Holy Spirit
if they are living
God
took
Friend
light
of
eternal
wisdom
those
who
with
them
to
Him."
If
it
were
—
bring
together
his teaching,
one
of
the
best
his century.
joy. Tauler
whole
truth
as
Basle."
It
interdict. These
as
priest,
my
right
to
holy
received these
no right
uns
nieman
genemmen),
although
'
tried
to
turn
them
to
in
of
scholarship.
I
have
conclusion
takes
who did
as
his
century
the
of
insists
on
the
from the inward
None
that this
class
of
men,
recesses
of
structure
stupidity
of
block of
unseen
depths
of
Divine
Abyss
in
which
he
dwelt
;
turned
towards
descends
into
becomes
one
with
Him."
of
speculation,
Divine
Dark."
There
are
by
of negation, he takes us up to the same empty
abstraction
which
we
have
so
as
much
from
all
our
senses.
every
thought,
spoken,
where
fancy.
This
is
the
the presence
one's own will
nothing
on
his
own
must rid
Divine
Voice.
temple
is
not
wholly
an
us
in
are
gifts
of
the
Hoty
Ghost.
I
you,
if
I
should
"
—
Spirit
than to
that
the
latter
deep
veneration,
and,
the other well-
visions
The influences
caused
a woman
school in Cologne, his
she
temperament.
At
eighteen
in
calm
and
silence.
This
to himself
as
light
experience, in order
the choir.
himself
in
complete
of
all
its
cunning
and
watchfulness."
he had
strips of
closer
he was very tired
thus in bonds, and
wished to sleep, or
:
spiritual
so hot,
to fit them
all over with
gnawings
body. And
so it
sharp tacks
fresh
wounds.
He
was now chilled
he
discontinued
it,
cloak, too,
sigh
the floor and
blood
tremulous from
and
days
our Lord
or upon
about eight
years,
provided
he
never to
bath
vividly, and with
of
himself,
midst of his heart the Eternal
Wisdom
in
gave
of
its
body
towards
its
tender
body,
turning
towards
the
presence
with
tenderness."
Once
the
Virgin
granted
imagination
when
he
body,
soul,
and all
drops of
sounding
one
would
he came
upon the
deep
inward
might
he found him-
her
in
his
lost God and
love,
with Eckhart,
ordinary
duties
of
life.
and his end."
on
the
earth
the spirit
the
inner
that
indescribable
intoxication,
the
[human]
spirit
of
a
of what
very
reason
that
he
strictly
practised
who
The
is the
that the
before
the
soul
can
come
of
anything
which
is
life
his own
of Goodness, and
but the love
gloriously
and quietism.
ripe for the truer
desire—it
aim
his own will
of
his
time,
report.
And
therefore
he
standeth
scale and partakes of
the
fact
that
God
grief
unutterable
anguish
is so
He would
He
is
so far
tasted, and
gives
sense of sin
made
"
The
second
stage
of
was
weakened
by
There
vailing
intellectual
people,
of inward
"
social
with
into
evils."
There
was
no
hope
who
was
most
keenly
diagnosing
to
living
early
was
weakening,
Christianity,
in
widely-
sundered
centres.
France
had
Walter
Hilton
at the
times
oppressed
her
upon her-
which
were
feet and heart of
colour
my body can
to a full sense
"When I told you that you should
toil
labours you
should assume
can
to
Christ
won
is
Gregory
XI.
With
the
yourself,
nor
God;
but
the
Sweet
Name
of
Jesus.
I
so
true
and
good
a
shepherd
that
you
would
be
ready
to
give
them
to friends
remains [for
vicar
"
when men
took note
,
blind,
to
lose
ardent
charity.
Such
a
shepherd
. . . and
follow that
possible
for
you
compassion,
the
it nor
the
concerns.
Her
Holy Spirit
Christendom,
but
as
he
saw
the
proofs
of
the
layman's
divine
mission,
greater
service
he
rendered
to
the
people
by
teaching
in
person
the
children
of
the
the
children
Divine
of
series
subtilty than originality
above the reasoning
It
and
wine
of
the
cannot
be
teaching
little
children.
The
in
his
years
of
exile
at
Life
ripest fruit
new
education,
and
here
as
a
now his
we
know.
to be that
of a man
became
vicar
band of companions
recipient
convinced that
of
are but
His reputation for saintli-
many visitors
to his
not.
Some
that
in
the
patterns of
all
to
reach
this
to
The
first
from
of
legalism,
passage
fire of love,
more
toward
the
source
from
our
spirits
are
stripped
of
all
are
called
no
longer
Servants,
but
the
soul
of the
that it is
life would
of Gronendal, like many others of the mystic order, was
too
after
a
to which he
beatific
vision.
He
says,
brethren
the
affairs of
high moment.^
—
the chief
city of
Overyssel, about
who planned a great
received
well-equipped
inward
occurred
Cologne. A
stranger, with
a devout
face, an
came
and
who
to the
refused
to
be
ordained.^
In
1379,
to
the
people
and
to
showed
his
nearness
of
in
"
that
for the
marks
for his
Gerard had
as they
turned
straight
and
conditions
day, and he asked
were
brought
to
up such a preacher
the light
shine upon
this uncertain
I,
who
desire
the
career
as
service
hardly
less
new
brother-
hood.
he
had
laboured.
movement
which
would
give
them
was
his
dear
friend
manent
purposes
of
service,
and
simple
manner
movement
tures
and other holy books for the people, but what was
still more
people, teaching them to read and
write, and creating
had
come
less in
of
logic
and
tion.
He
personal
experience,
on
the
spiritual
truth
to some
^
in
these
sayings
that
studies
themselves
wholly
and
irrevocably
the
Deventer.
at
once
was
unable
to
save
his
friend,
realization
of
intimate
disciple,
of
scholars :
Holy Ghost rests
1
—their first
immortal
of the life
have
the
satisfaction
of
S.
up
from
his
near him in the choir, and
he turned to the book we had and
sang with us.
shoulders
the
in
1471.
De
Montmorency
nothing
away
from
their
Community. The
as
they
were
; it
is
trust, and
strivings, the same
failures, the same
heart
pants
myriad moral issues.
the very stuff
to
(finite things), and perfectly
God
he is seeking for
to
go
dated
with
; but
of
the
celestial
kingdom
earth
it
no burden,
and in Thee
intends
and
desires
only
the
soul
anywhere.
The
soul
must
—
last
resort
salvation,
deliverance,
victory,
depend
on
the
act
of
the
soul.
Divine
in
man,
because
the
direct,
inward
teaches
us.
"Some,"
but some
he insists on
blessed
right
a
a
deep
inward,
mystical
spring
of
all
pure
true
(Book I.
chap. v.).
And he
scholars
of
his
"lies
like
the art
 
prophet
and
this
eye
is
Love
herding of
the flock.^
an
intellectual
and
spiritual
movement
fourteenth cen-
The first of
order that
preach r of the
stood
up
in
the
Norman
Conquest,
to
the Expositor
made
by
a-
monk
named
Bonne Fontaine
Himself;
When thou
dost next
in which
it
is
possible in this life to do—it behoveth thee always to
abide in
should
come
popular writers
He
was,
as
was
death being
busily
his soul to fulfil the truth of
good
did write is the
not
problem is to
tell man how
that belong
"
head
with
the
of reason
True
the
of
the
people,
speaking
of all—
and had
reign saw
the military
was
born
at
man,
except
Shakespeare,
has
his
that was to
con-
"
though
the
leaders
of
the
intervening
years
were themselves
yet with much humour,
The
purged, but it
into a fine.
The friars, once
by this
in the
of his own
to
face
people
and
a
disgrace
to
1
1,
bisho without
bishoprics,
while
the
King
allowed
his foreign cardinals to other places in the English Church.^
The bishops of
rule,
trouble with them as officials of the Church was their
worldliness. They had become the leading
administrators
and
politicians
that out
offices
were
used
a
ready
means
of
Where the
flock,
absenteeism had
grown up
but
slight.
Preaching
very
infrequent,
and
a
of Christ,
the successor
eternity, and, what was of still more
practical importance,
him. He
had, however,
climax
in
England
under
to
pay
as
was very
appointments
the
kingdom.^
England's
compromising
the
the
before a civil tribunal,
of
pay
into,
nor
House
germ
them
from
Him
In case
God, and
is held
the
peasant
uprising.
But
the
early in his
intellectual life, become
traditions
fundamental
doctrines
of
the
fine satire became intolerable to
Wyclif 's
finer moral
at Oxford he
There is but
Church until
the day
conclusion
that
there
is
no
This
tract
was
in the
needful
for
:
"
when
He
giveth
to
faith
certain
religious and philosophical views
time
sins,
;
to
be
bought
and
sold
idolatry,
actual body and
bent of
realize that the
Bulls
against
Wyclif,
reciting
his
errors
extent
An
for
Then,
by
the
murder
of
Archbishop
Wyclif himself
was, however,
wholly unmoved
without
a
sigh
into
teaching
Oxford
than
men."
There
subjective
and
dependent
man."
other
Christians
translated it
John
Wyclif,
translated it out of Latin into English, and thus laid
it
to
In this
clergy and laity
common
jest
the
Church
clergy and
preachers
ashes
years.
has been
shown. The
most probable
applied
to
Beghards.^
It
at
date. It seems
years
of
out
1
the
burial of the dead, and it has been suggested that
the name
funeral
Cellites, from
the fact
to cover the
opprobrium.
were
we
know
the
dom
has
time a
race of
Lollards whose
faith rose
way
of
dealing
the
notes
"
early stages of the movement the House of Commons was
plainly in
sympathy with
in
shire.^ The people in all these sections of England were
growing familiar
the
ordered to
burning," which
daughter, herself a
1 It
is a
the
flock.
All
three
and maken their
a great
dead stones and robben thy quick churches (living men) of
their
singer
herieth
{worshippeth)
thee
tailor to
The
flames
were
lit
a
second
the
protector
of
Lollard
"the spiritual
Tower, and his Lollard
meeting-place
in
London
was
surrounded
were
seized
to the
saying that to God only would
he confess his
crackling flames
drowned his
words of
the knights
VII.
there
came,
themselves
preaching of
the Gospel,
was not
"
which he expressed
brought
the
p.
29)
theses
England,
at
Billerica,
at
Chelmsford,
at
Stratford
Langthorne,
company
of
well-disposed
persons,
being
of
the
same
especially
Christ,
began
to
Lollard
views.
than
that.
uncon-
sciously,
Head of the
ments
regard
reached
its
full
height
the importance
formulating
after
the Second,
Lollards
passed
over
to
John
Jerome,
about
the
and
in
a
his
peace
in
power,
the Anabaptist
movement was
history of
and
of
earlier
movements,
chaotic,
Testament
Christianity.
These
these studies,
a
peculiar
of
truth,
largely
as
a
of Scripture,
the groups
know
existed
resolved
to
make
the
world
fit
levelling
story well worth
his
open
Bible,
the
in
a
measure
of the
Church wholly
pitiably
the
powerful
prophecies and its luminous ideals of a pure and spot-
less
Church
a
great
surging
of
had
opened.
The
new
courage
in
the
hearts
of
of Luther voiced
woke many more to
Reform,
and
was
carrying
with
him
at
work
in
to
the
be
publicly
married
in
Switzerland
German
Anabaptist,
Hans
Denck,
between the Swiss reformers,
old
Church.
As
Philip
Schaff
well
puts
it,
of
as
practices
had
now
who
were
ready
their
"
with the question
believed,
power in baptismal
The
child
himself
being
wholly
no
faith,
child
in the class of
on his own
the fulcrum
for all his power, and it opened the door for bringing
the
world
into
the
use
nor
the
non-use
vital
matters.
They
the root
on
the
to it.
insight.
The
ideal
of
a
of
a
Church
of
the stubborn
falsehoods,
they
with
simple
pious
people.
For
ought
land."
1
from
the
moderate
reformers.
At
one
of
their
"brother-
meetings
will,
to
baptize
his
there-
and
seal
of
Church
of
Christ,
pro-
for they held
that their first
but only
leader,
slumbering
and went seriously
of
a
personal
He
apostolic
vigorous
writer
unmatched
the
German
"
Master
Ulrich
to
forsake
was
true
of
all
the
his
observance, and it
in
his
Regensburg
days
has
with Mary (the
man
and in the
emphatically
insisted
as
well
on
inward work.
who
been
Twelve
Articles
of
Faith
he
says
saints
throws
much
early Pro-
Apology
us.
of
our
Baal
cries."
turn
the
pitiless
hate
and
persecution
"
;
the
University
of
Basle,
find it in
I
should
accuse
of
that
shape
by
Dr.
battle,
struggle
{Seelenkampf)
"
my
of Faith, and
primary
find
God,
for
the depravity
"
to obey
and foundation
since it is God
Himself, Spirit and not
Scripture
to
make
better
with
under
driven
into
exile.
attack,
hunted
like
a
and
organizing
the
scattered
world to
proclaim consistently
the plain,
simple Gospel
of the
baptists,
midst
of
wolves,
sheep
be
as
thyself.'
In
to say
not
to
Christ."
a Christian
in order
that the
hungry, thirsty,
nearer would
happen, at that
stage of history
and
1
Chronica,
p.
164.
 
into
student
of
by
of his
gaining
the
even
the
peasant
revolt,
and
he
did
baptists,
he
group
of
disciples
naturalism
of
a
passion
went, under his
had the key
friends
and
servants
for
the
whole
the mouth
over
all
creatures
deliver
surely, and that He will keep
them
with
Him
excesses
the
extirpation
of
Ana-
baptism
at
whatever
cost.
It
was in its infancy.
sent out four hundred, and later eight hundred, and then
a thousand
armed troopers
Sebastian
English
Pall
of
the
of
own
home, and one of whom was his own brother, which
finally
allying
himself
Anabaptism, and
of
naked
truth."
in
Whitmarsum,
in
by
village
of
time,
but
living a
the
subject,
that
what
he
held
and
wine,
not
Christ's
first that
the impression
would not
with
had
practice
years
his
own
account of
up
a
nor
upon
the
this
period
frequent
of Lollards had
leader who was able to organize it into a national
move-
it
persistent
man,
origin
promise of
iS3ai~l
Cristen
I
Bishop
Wareham,
in
1530,
a
statement
is
says
that
sown
abroad
and
the
perilous
by
only
; sixthly,
that
he
who
The
chronicler
further
says
spirit of
 
the Anabaptists
of
kingdom of
regarded
the
tenet
of
adult
baptism
as
maintained that
the
v.
p.
151.
Froude
sympathy
were, and that is
all. Scarcely the fact
ing paragraph. For them no Europe was agitated, no courts
were ordered into
death the world
out of
believe.
History
giving their
blood in
of most
,
Miinster
party.
Anabaptists was
or
even-song,
is
common
river
of
would
philosophical
i
5
49,
and Arians
town of Eythorne.* Strype
"
Booking,
that
in
Kent
at
Feversham,
com-
mands
'
holy but
have
given
little
of
condemnation of
must
Of
this
kind
are
every
pulpit
may
be
oath,
them
in
i
one
of
their
company
which
assembled
a large
band of
maintained by
their own
as
a
form
minded,
and
principle
a
partial
toleration
by
mindedness
to
Greek,
and
out
"
to
be
baptized,
adopt the
fore
arose,
It
born in
and
this
in his innocency,
not
pre-
was the custom of the Mennonites
of the
by
what
infants and wicked
eye
of
Word
teacheth
only, and is a mystical figure of the true, spiritual,
invisible
reserved
for
those
godliness. There is no succession in the outward Church, but
all succession is from
to
civil
giver of
the Church
and conscience."
called
The
Differences
of
out
spiritual worship.
principles will suffice
they
supplement to a
were
perishing
five
1625,
a
Baptist
society at Stony Stratford, which met for some time as a
congregation
without
church
book
belonging
to
the
pen
explicit
is simple and rather
passages. Thus :
to
understand
that
by
fire
and
church
 
Set
him
believe
not,
you
command
faith ;
man
temporal
?
persecuted
suffering,
accumulated
by
the
Church,
to
to
which
he
him
to
adopt
the
6,
as
of
Helwys,
and
organize
a
"Jacob
conditions
the hard
colony.
either with
;
among
the
Baptist
societies
England,
leges and
that
the
movement
The
famous
and
the
are
in
days of the Church
of
those parts \i.e.
reported
But
give the
reader an
it
from
a
godly
minister
there
present,
or
table
by
the upper
their
parleys
and
excuses,
each
trying
to
this
purpose,
that
spoken
of
in
to object against any
The gossipy account runs
on and on until
Edwards,
and
has
say
wert now
Edwards
reports
that
preach)
after
him."
opinions in such
enough
through
for
us
is
upon
is
Christ
dying
for
all,
for
Judas
Drag-net^
:
charge
but
tythes
or
Word."
Fox
began
his
ministry.^
"but especially
in
the
the opposers and
Henry Denne
I should
on
men
the rude
"
in his favour, or he
"
peculiar to the
true that
who
are
as
world
planting
new
churches,
government was
were
care
of
that in order to
sufficient cause,
a remonstrance
Independents
Reformation, none
none
isolated out-
hardened
crust
of
tradition
and
exponent
extraordinary
character,
persons
of
such
tender
years,
father one
point that he
imitation of
taken
place
way
than
is
by
no
means
a
child.
confessor
for
He
too small
died,
everybody
fell
living in sin and very
far
died for them. The helpless confessor had no illumination
for the strange
better purpose. In
of
saints
of
had redeemed
and
took his studies
righteousness and the
sought
after
that
God
would
to him
out
upon
revealer
of
the
Word."
to
home).
He
as well
of the
love.^ From now on he
{gathered adherents about
him, and organized
towns of Friesland,
France. He
and his
supporters were
old name Henry Nicholas.
of
Righteous-
nessf
of
Righteousness,
The
First
Exhortation
of
H.
N.
to
his
Terra
Nicholas's writings
is his
the true
on
ungodly being.
name,
sin
through
the
death
on
Christians."
often
Christ-revelation
faithful
that without
'
'
seed of David according
to the flesh, delivered
himself
C.
Spirit
will inhabit
assuredly
be
illuminated,
neither
loveth
doeth
the
will.
No
tion, in
of
spiritual
experience
and
body,
and
nature, and
riches, and
is not the Word
procreateth the life.
word, a ser-
word
in
be
nature and being of
figures,
which
departeth
from
and
meek
spirit
the
you
i-free.
He
urges
his
Family
to
break
spiritual
believed that
no religious
who
performs
it
is
illuminated
by
his
knowledge
of
the
Scripture
can
rightlie
death,
become
renewed
with
in whom the
which is
a
shape
but are to
perfect
use
one look well
not forth
nor
riseth
the
requiring
of Love cometh
^
newly sprung
our
in a
one place with
lives, justify-
read
a
that
holy con-
!
grosse
up the
Nicholas
with
Joris
forth the
utterly
unlearned,
have
been
entangled
by
great
which Paul
taught
that
service to all
righteousness," and he
tries, though un-
brought
I
no
\
revealing of the
Christ
or
the
anointing
the
Garden of
which Adam
and
gives
us
water of
water). They condemn all
is
hath set abroach
the
claim
that
men
understand
him
not
Christian
service
let
it
Sunday,
February
11,
1627.
"
by say-
ing that
of
God
may
be
that when God dwells in a soul He fills the
soul
so
that
there
is
no
that
they
have
"by
from
they were
a hundred
a
Divine
Light
and
Life
j
in
of
outward
forms
spiritualizing
this
insight
and
with
with a
must have
of
the
eighteenth
great
contention
of
no true
a new
to-day.
1
William
between these
mewing
timorous and
in
The
opportunity
for
a
vigour
and
suns
produce
health
and
growth
stories
of
excesses
and
Him (as their
William
persons
souls.
As
soon
'i
as
faith
equally
defiled,
now are
we should
not
acknowledge
^
the
seventeenth
century.
Ubbo
Philipps,
burned
at
God
frame of the Church
without
for
establishing
preaching
nor
read
A truer
under-
stood
reporter
of
who
administered
in
any
God.
But
any
outward
or
teach
bare
imposition
of
hands
infallible interpreta-
demonstration
or
preach
at
appointed
;
they
thought
i
they
what they are to
it shall
be given
the Spirit
infallible
Spirit,
135).
at
set
to
the Apostles
speak
.
. .
Seeker and is now an anti-Scripturalist,
a
atheist. This Wrighter
not the
tongues,
so
as
Gospel, no
ministry, nor
no faith,
nor can
a
call
miracles
called
Seekers.
These
ministry
Ordinances
being
lost ;
for
which
they
are
and found
themselves unable
and water of life. But they
preferred to wait for God
I
to a
dispensations more
hath
I cannot
{The
Breaking
of
the
Day
of
God,
1648),
bears
witness
to
the
That is God's
Light must lie
here
wisdom,
meekness,
and
love
the
most
and
terrible
who combines
inspiration apparently
derived—in
com-
up the grace
of God in
and
worship.
They
behave
and as soldiers
of gathering.
They acknowledge
community of
his
article
on
had
spread
form
of
time as there were
Taylor
(Yealand)
and
Kellet
in
the
The
said
to preach Christ
which were
;
like a dove
in
the
morning,
and
inclination
might
be
humility
and
tenderness."
"
of
the
truth
and
my
are
much
come
. . .
 
.
I was
not
example
amongst
spake unto
beautiful garments
us
as
a
a meeting and we
are, night and day,
together
religious
conferences,
and
often
together
and
speak
their
own
words
as
Lord without
;
to
Preach
Truth,
and
was
Moved of the Lord to visit a people who Sometimes met
att the
the said
nor pray
together
Boulton
to
after ye
Lord, Geo:
tions.
It
attracted
men
"
Preface.
our Quaker,
him
only
;
to
none.
It
that
there is nothing sin but what a man thinks to
be so.
them,
our
Worship
and
Ordinances,
licked Lazarus's sores
Friends
in
white beard), in
of Man
putting no
for
the
but discoursing with
the point, he
evasive
Slight,
saying,
Wisdom
God. Masson
quotes the
which landed
revelation, and outward
the
Seekers
to
their
all
outward
systems,
had
no
longer
of
bread.
The
Church
childish
things,
they
into
bread
are.
babes
were, but
and not
are
elements and beggarly
a
substance,
that
was
set
forth
by
those
Shadows,
what
is
and
in
only,
a
shined,
to
which
men
stood in,
accordingly,
taking of all that
we
are
at
least
unless
we
of
the
Lord
we
again."
The
The
Journal
of
name,
and
gives
some
In Swannington,
God."
"
and whistled and danced
; but the Lord's power
tobacco,
"
extremely pantheistical
book with
the sensational
Sides
of
speaking
of
ranters, and such like, whom I was made to judge,
and
speak
to
them before : for the Lord gave
(me)
to
tobacco
obligation
to
in themselves"
They said
sermons,
because
all
of God unless it was revealed
in
"
but
because
why may not I
the
see
what
of it
"
"
eye is
the
I was
of my
was God,
as
have
been
baptized into
full
and
I
set
at
libertie
from
these
deep
and
one
inspired
with
a
supernaturall
life)
sprang
the
embraces
of
I
were
opened
upon
corruscant
beauty)
turned
infatuating pleasures my soul was
here
possest
with.
I
could
love presented
me
into
a
sweet
astonishment.
In
a
word,
I
my soul
much
weight
but of the
are Pure
ing to
whither
the
and
this
contagion
did
then
prevail,
full
thoroughly
unreliable,
is
of
unsoundness
afloat.
to
be
God or the
deny the
holiness of
Messianic
language
which
was
greatly
in
vogue
in
these
times.
There
were
undoubtedly
those
who
called
themselves,
seasonably
churches."
sectaries, and
in
in and
among mankind.
(the hand
ultimately saved
began
his
travels
over
His
message
was
his
life
was
Ranters. In many
 
Quakers come, the
but
there
too
and
concerns of humanity, is no exception to the rule. It,
too,
has
ground-swell
of
religious
earnestness,
voiced this primary
religious
sect
Great
Ilford,
human
colour
mixed
with
the
of the
I
ought,"
but
he
nevertheless
says
that
He
ceding.
But
the fleshly
Spirit."
Finally,
God
higher
ministry
through
Divine
gifts
and
people,
to
one
tribe,
but
body of Christ,
is Christ
reigning in
the saints
as
preach
or
prophesy.
but passing
dispensation. Baptism
becoming thereby
By it He
Every other Baptism is
are
of
and
has
light
"
the life of
flesh,
a
"
truth
which
formed
loyal Churchman,
Commons
;£^200
Dell was slowly
following
the Light as fast and as fa