The book lacks the robustness and depth that are so clearly in evidence in most of the writings that have been dealt with in this volume, but there is a beauty, a simplicity, a sweetness, a sincerity born of experience, which give this book an unusual flavour and perfume. The writer says that there is "an endless battle between the Seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent," but one feels that he has fought the battle through and won. He says that "a man should be unto God what a house is to a man," _i.e._ a man should be a habitation of the living God, and the reader feels that this man has made himself a habitation for the divine presence within. He says if you want spiritual help you must go to a "man who has skill in God," and one lays down his slender book feeling assured that, out of the experience of Christ in his own soul, he did have "skill in God," so that he could speak to the condition of others. There was at least one man in England in 1646 who knew that the true source and basis of religion was to be found in the experience of Christ within and not in theological notions of Him. [1] The Italian titles of these two books are _Alfabeto Christiana_ (1546) and _Le Cento et dieci divine Considerationi_ (1550). [2] _A Survey of the Spiritual Antichrist_ (1648), p. 164. [3] _Ibid._ p. 319. [4] Epistle Dedicatory to _Some Gospel Treasures Opened_ (London, 1653). [5] _Gospel Treas._, "To the Reader." [6] _Ibid._ [7] Sometimes "Divers Earls and Lords and other great ones" were in his audience. [8] _Gospel Treas._, "To the Reader." [9] _Sig. Dd._ xii. p. 68. [10] Fourth series, i. p. 597. [11] Denck's name is used in its Latin form John Denqui, and he is called _magnus theologus_. [12] _Hermes Trismegistus_ was published in Everard's lifetime. Large extracts from his manuscript translations are given in the _Gospel Treasures Opened_ (1653). _The Vision of God_ was edited and published in full by Giles Randall in 1646, and it is very probable that Everard and Randall did this work together. [13] _Gospel Treasures Opened_, p. 393. [14] Sermon on "The Starre in the East," _Gospel Treas._ pp. 52-54. See also pp. 586-587. Compare the famous lines of Angelus Silesius: "Had Christ a thousand times Been born in Bethlehem But not in thee, thy sin Would still thy soul condemn." _Angelus Silesius_, edited by Paul Carus (Chicago, 1909), p. 103. [15] _Gospel Treas._ pp. 59, 72, and 98. [16] _Ibid._ pp. 270-271. [17] _Ibid._ p. 282. [18] _Ibid._ p. 92. [19] _Ibid._ p. 280 [20] _Gospel Treas._ pp. 310-311. [21] _Ibid._ p. 286. [22] _Ibid._ p. 468. [23] _Ibid._ p. 343. [24] _Ibid._ p. 344. [25] _Ibid._ p. 341. [27] _Ibid._ p. 344. [27] _Gospel Treas._ p. 81. [28] _Ibid._ p. 630. [29] _Ibid._ pp. 637 and 658. [30] _Gospel Treas._ p. 411. [31] _Ibid._ 2nd ed. ii. p. 345. [32] _Gospel Treas._ p. 753. [33] _Ibid._ p. 418. [34] _Ibid._ pp. 423-425. [35] _Ibid._ p. 230. [36] _Ibid._ p. 600.