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Excerpt from The Divine Cloud: With Notes and Preface
To vocal prayers, in these days, is added set meditation, or prayer of discourse, which is effected by sensible representa tions of good and holy things brought before the mind, with acts of the will arising from them. Sometimes these sensible images come by our own raising and voluntary procurement; sometimes as it were of themselves; out of the fund of our own acquired good habits of thought; sometimes immediately from God or His holy Angels. In the discourse of meditation there is a combat or contestation of images good and bad, the one seeking to prevail against the other. It is by means of the good images that the bad are resisted, and, as it were, cast out of doors. Temptations come by means of bad and hurtful images. By good images the understanding is moved to rest on God or divine things, and by the understanding the williis moved to love these things. By meditation the soul ''1x.
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To vocal prayers, in these days, is added set meditation, or prayer of discourse, which is effected by sensible representa tions of good and holy things brought before the mind, with acts of the will arising from them. Sometimes these sensible images come by our own raising and voluntary procurement; sometimes as it were of themselves; out of the fund of our own acquired good habits of thought; sometimes immediately from God or His holy Angels. In the discourse of meditation there is a combat or contestation of images good and bad, the one seeking to prevail against the other. It is by means of the good images that the bad are resisted, and, as it were, cast out of doors. Temptations come by means of bad and hurtful images. By good images the understanding is moved to rest on God or divine things, and by the understanding the williis moved to love these things. By meditation the soul ''1x.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Author(s) - Ather Augustin Baker
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