Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th CenturiesJones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew)
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Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew)
Mysticism; Reformers
_The Vision of God_, whether Englished by Randall or {261} by Everard,
or by both working together, is translated into beautiful, often
poetical and rhythmical English, and contains many vivid passages, such
as the following: "Thou, O God, canst never forsake me so long as I am
_capable of Thee_."[75] "I love my life exceedingly because Thou art
the sweetness of my life."[76] "No man can turn to Thee except Thou be
present, for except Thou wert present and diddest solicit me I should
not know Thee at all."[77] "Restless is my heart, O Lord, because Thy
love hath enflamed it with such a desire that it cannot rest but in
Thee alone."[78] "In the Son of Man I see the Son of God, because Thou
art so the Son of Man that Thou art the Son of God and in the finite
attracted nature I see the Infinite Attracting Nature." "I see all
things in thy human nature which I see in thy divine nature."[79] "To
come to God is Paradise; to see God is to be in Paradise."[80] "The
Word of God illuminateth the understanding as the light of the sun doth
the world. I see the fountain of Light in the Word of God. . . .
Christ is the Word of God humanified and man deified."[81] "What is
more easie than to believe God, what is more sweet than to love
Him. . . . Thy Spirit, O God, comes into the intellectual spirit of
good men, and by the heat of divine love concocts the virtuall power
which may be perfected in us. . . . All Scriptures labour for nothing
but to show Thee, all intellectual spirits have no other exercise but
to seek Thee and to reveal Thee. Above all things Thou hast given me
Jesus for a Master, the Way of Life, and Truth, so that there might be
nothing at all wanting to me."[82]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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