A contemplation of heaven with an exercise of love, and a descant on the prayer in the garden. By a Catholick gent.
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- A contemplation of heaven with an exercise of love, and a descant on the prayer in the garden. By a Catholick gent.
- Author
- White, Thomas, 1543-1676.
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- At Paris :: [s.n.],
- printed in the yeare 1654.
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To the Vertuous and Ho∣nourable LADY, The LADY KATH: VVHITE.
MADAM,
NO wonder if a complaint falling from your mouth, that you found the conside∣ration of Heaven dry, and knew not how to frame a content some thought of it, was able to set a dull wit on work, and make an insipid pen distill milk and honey: for it is you that do it. Accept therefore these nine drops of oyl, which the fervour of your desire has extracted from a hard Flint. But I must advertise you, they still retein their stony nature; and unlesse you apply the same fire, according to the Rules
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of Alchimy, beginning with a soft and gentle heat, and proceeding with a constant encrease; they will neither render their sweetnesse to your sense, nor their balsamick vertue to your sub∣stance. For (Madam) in the peru∣sall of these Discourses, you will easi∣ly find the best method to be, first qui∣etly to read them, seeking no farther then onely to understand, and after∣wards by more serious thoughts to im∣print and sink them deep into your af∣fections. By serious thoughts, I mean not forc'd impetuosities of your will, upon a conceit that you are rapt to su∣pernaturall and unintelligible heights; but onely such reflections as the care of friends, of children, or houshold af∣faires (where your help is required) use to stirre in you: for these are natu∣rall and free, and (apply'd to what ought to be our greatest care) work those solid vertues which make a true Christian life the principall aim
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of all our desires and endeavours, and the principall wish to your Lady∣ship of,
MADAM,
Your most affectionate Brother and humble Servant, THO: WHITE.
From Paris this 1. of Sept. 1653.