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. 1883 Excerpt: ...describe a peculiar phase of his mental and spiritual experience, which has been termed Guyonism. He seemed at one time to be inclined to embrace the mystical tenets of Thomas a Kempis, Ffenelon, and Madame Guyon, and it was feared that he was leaning toward those monkish austerities which belong peculiarly to the ...
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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. 1883 Excerpt: ...describe a peculiar phase of his mental and spiritual experience, which has been termed Guyonism. He seemed at one time to be inclined to embrace the mystical tenets of Thomas a Kempis, Ffenelon, and Madame Guyon, and it was feared that he was leaning toward those monkish austerities which belong peculiarly to the spirit of the Roman Church. Certainly there are passages here and there in his writings which point in this direction. And yet, often in these extracts it can be discerned with what cautious and stealthy steps he trod the perilous pathway leading toward monastic asceticism. On the occasion of sending a gift of money to his sister in America, he writes: "But I give it on the express condition that you appropriate part of it to purchase for yourself the life of Lady Guyon... and I hope you will read it diligently, and endeavor to emulate that most excellent saint so far as she was right." Again, he wrote to a fellow-missionary: "As to the other matter, the land of Beulah lies beyond the valley of the shadow of death. Many Christians spend all their days in a continual bustle, doing good. They are too busy to find either the valley or Beulah. 'Virtues they have, but are full of the life and attractions of nature, and (303) unacquainted with the paths of mortification and death. Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God." Again, to the missionaries at Maulmain he wrote: "Particularly I would exhort brother Bennett to remeni' ber, among other things, the example of the Abbe' de Paris, who, after having tried various modes of self-denial, in order to subdue his spirit, and gain the victory over the world, at le...
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Very Good. No Dust Jacket. New York: Institute in Basic Life Principles, 1996. Reprint Edition of the work first published in 1883. Square and unmarked. 601pp. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo-8"-9" Tall.
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Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Green boards with gilt lettering on spinecover, rubbed edges. Pages have some foxing, text has no markings, binding is sound.
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