This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...has not risen yet upon the soul. These are the seven loves whereby the creature man can love His beneficent Creator. These are the seven liturgies, ancient, authentic, universal liturgies of the human heart. Truly it is little we can do for God, and yet how immeasurably more than we have done for Him as yet. A treatise ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...has not risen yet upon the soul. These are the seven loves whereby the creature man can love His beneficent Creator. These are the seven liturgies, ancient, authentic, universal liturgies of the human heart. Truly it is little we can do for God, and yet how immeasurably more than we have done for Him as yet. A treatise might be written to reduce these loves to practice, and to illustrate them copiously with the examples of the saints. But that is not our object now. Has earth any pleasure, of an intellectual, moral, or material sort, to compare with the fruition of a repentant life passed in the occupations of these various loves? The penitent seeks peace, and the end of all love is peace, peace and languishing desire, peace in the assured hope of the soul, and pining for the ever-coming, still delaying Face of Jesus in the eastern clouds: that east from which He will one day come. Before the dawn of day, a huge toppling mass of unwieldy cloud came up from the west horizon. With incredible swiftness and the loud roaring of sudden wind, it covered like a pall the brilliant moonlit heavens, and deluged the earth with slanting columns of whirling rain. It passed on. A star came out, and then another, and at last the moon; and then the storm drove onward to the east, towards the sea, murky and purple, and all at once a lunar rainbow spanned the black arch of heaven; and it seemed as if Jesus should have come, beneath that bow, and through that purple cloud that was barring the gates of the sunrise; but The reader must not confound these different kinds of love, with the different slates of love expounded in mystical theology. the wind was lulled, and all was still, by the time the moon had built that bow upon the cloud. And what is all this but a figure of our ...
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 600grams, ISBN:
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