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\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 Morning, and noon, and evening, lip and heart }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 Had groaned : " Have pity upon me, Lord ! }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 Thou seest, while teaching others, I am blind. }{
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\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 Slowly his calm blue eyes.    " I thank thee, son; }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 But }{\i\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 all }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 my days are good, and none are ill."}
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\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 Surely man's days are evil, and his life }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 Sad as the grave it leads to."    " Nay, my son, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 Our times are in God's hands, and all our days 
}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 Are as our needs:   for shadow as for sun, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 For cold as heat, for want as wealth, alike }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 Our thanks are due, since that is best which is; 
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Strange terrors, drags it, shrieking, into light: }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 " What if God's will consign thee hence to Hell ? "}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li5\ri0\sb197\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 " Then," said the stranger cheerily, " be it so. }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 What Hell may be I know not;   this I know\emdash  
}{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 I cannot lose the presence of the Lord: }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 One arm, Humility, takes hold upon His dear Humanity;   the other, Love, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 Clasps His Divinity.  
 So where I go, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 He goes; and better fire-walled Hell with Him }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 Than golden-gated Paradise without."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li1992\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx4738\faauto\rin0\lin1992\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 
TAULER}{\b\fs22\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 9}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li29\ri0\sb125\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin29\itap0 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 Tears sprang in Tauler's eyes; a sudden light, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
Like the first ray which fell on chaos, clove Apart the shadow wherein he had walked }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 Darkly at noon.   And, as the strange old man }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 Went his slow way, until his silver hair }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 Set like the white moon where the hills of vine }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 Slope to the Rhine, he bowed his head and said\emdash  " My prayer is answered.     God hath sent the man }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 Long sought, to teach me, by his simple trust, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 Wisdom the weary schoolmen never knew."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sb240\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 So, entering with a changed and cheerful step }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 The city gates, he saw, far down the street, }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 A mighty shadow break the light of noon, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 Which tracing backward till its airy lines }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 Hardened to stony plinths, he raised his eyes }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 O'er broad facade and lofty pediment, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 O'er architrave, and frieze, and sainted niche, Up the stone lace-work chiselled by the wise }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
Erwin of Steinbach, dizzily up to where }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 In the noon-brightness the great Minster's tower, Jewelled with sunbeams on its mural crown, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
Rose like a visible prayer.    " Behold ! " he said, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 " The stranger's faith made plain before mine eyes. }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 
As yonder tower outstretches to the earth The dark triangle of its shade alone }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 When the clear day is shining on its top, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 So darkness in the pathway of Man's life }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 Is but the shadow of God's providence, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 By the great Sun of Wisdom cast thereon ; }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 And what is dark below is light in Heaven."}{
\insrsid8331928 
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\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sb240\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\insrsid8331928 \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li1152\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin1152\itap0 
\fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\fs34\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 Table of Contents}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qc \li58\ri0\sb178\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin58\itap0 {\expnd-1\expndtw-6\charscalex123\insrsid8331928 PART   I}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qr \li0\ri0\sb67\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\b\fs10\insrsid8331928 FAGK}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li34\ri0\sl-288\slmult0\nowidctlpar\tx3019\tx3581\tx4138\tx4690\faauto\rin0\lin34\itap0 {\scaps\fs18\expnd1\expndtw5\charscalex102\insrsid8331928 Translator's Preface         }{\fs18\expnd1\expndtw5\charscalex102\insrsid8331928 .}{
\fs18\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs18\charscalex102\insrsid8331928 .}{\fs18\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs18\charscalex102\insrsid8331928 .}{\fs18\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs18\charscalex102\insrsid8331928 .}{\fs18\insrsid8331928 \tab }{
\fs18\expnd-3\expndtw-15\charscalex102\insrsid8331928 15}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li24\ri0\sl-288\slmult0\nowidctlpar\tx4670\faauto\rin0\lin24\itap0 {\scaps\fs18\expnd1\expndtw9\charscalex102\insrsid8331928 Preface by the Rev. Charles Kingsley         }{\fs18\expnd1\expndtw9\charscalex102\insrsid8331928 .}{
\fs18\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs18\expnd-1\expndtw-8\charscalex102\insrsid8331928 23}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li19\ri0\sb5\sl-288\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin19\itap0 {\scaps\fs18\expnd2\expndtw10\charscalex102\insrsid8331928 The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li365\ri0\sb5\nowidctlpar\tx4656\faauto\rin0\lin365\itap0 {\scaps\fs18\expnd-2\expndtw-14\charscalex102\insrsid8331928 John Tauler       }{\fs18\expnd56\expndtw478\charscalex102\insrsid8331928 .....}{\fs18\insrsid8331928 \tab }{
\fs18\expnd0\expndtw4\charscalex102\insrsid8331928 40}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li19\ri0\sb77\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin19\itap0 {\scaps\fs18\expnd2\expndtw10\charscalex102\insrsid8331928 Introductory Notice respecting Tauler's Life}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li365\ri0\sb19\nowidctlpar\tx4118\faauto\rin0\lin365\itap0 {\scaps\fs18\expnd1\expndtw7\charscalex102\insrsid8331928 and Times, by the Translator        }{\fs18\expnd1\expndtw7\charscalex102\insrsid8331928 .}{\fs18\insrsid8331928 \tab }{
\fs18\expnd0\expndtw3\charscalex102\insrsid8331928 .        100}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qc \li0\ri19\sb163\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin19\lin0\itap0 {\fs18\expnd5\expndtw28\charscalex102\insrsid8331928 PART  II}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\b\fs12\expnd-1\expndtw-9\insrsid8331928 SSKMON}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li307\ri0\sb14\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin307\itap0 {\fs18\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 I. }{\scaps\fs18\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 Sermon for the First Sunday in Advent      }{\fs18\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 199}{
\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-158\li806\ri667\sb43\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin667\lin806\itap0 {\i\fs18\expnd-1\expndtw-6\insrsid8331928 How that we are called upon to arise from our sins, }{\i\fs18\expnd-1\expndtw-7\insrsid8331928 
and to conquer our foes, looking for the glorious }{\i\fs18\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 coming of our Lord in our souls,}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li221\ri0\sb72\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin221\itap0 {\fs18\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 II. }{\scaps\fs18\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 Sermon for the Second Sunday in Advent    }{\fs18\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 207}{\insrsid8331928 

\par }\pard \qj \fi-158\li782\ri672\sb43\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin672\lin782\itap0 {\i\fs18\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 How that God is very near to us, and how we must }{\i\fs18\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 
seek and find the Kingdom of God within us, }{\i\fs18\expnd-1\expndtw-8\insrsid8331928 \bullet without respect to time and place.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li134\ri0\sb67\nowidctlpar\tx480\faauto\rin0\lin134\itap0 {\f2\expnd-4\expndtw-22\charscalex76\insrsid8331928 III.}{\f2\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\scaps\f2\expnd-2\expndtw-10\charscalex108\insrsid8331928 Sermon for the Third Sunday in Advent }{
\f2\expnd-2\expndtw-10\charscalex108\insrsid8331928 213}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-168\li797\ri672\sb48\sl-154\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin672\lin797\itap0 {\i\fs18\expnd-1\expndtw-6\insrsid8331928 How that we must wholly come out from ourselves, }{\i\fs18\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 that we may go into the 
wilderness and behold }{\i\fs18\expnd-3\expndtw-19\insrsid8331928 God.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li134\ri0\sb86\nowidctlpar\tx480\tx3528\tx4085\faauto\rin0\lin134\itap0 {\fs18\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 IV.}{\fs18\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\scaps\fs18\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 Sermon for Christmas Day }{
\fs18\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 .}{\fs18\insrsid8331928 \tab .\tab }{\fs18\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 .        223}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li629\ri0\sb10\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin629\itap0 {\i\fs18\expnd-1\expndtw-7\insrsid8331928 Of the things by which we become children of God.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li230\ri0\sb77\nowidctlpar\tx2962\tx3518\tx4080\faauto\rin0\lin230\itap0 {\fs18\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 V.'}{\scaps\fs18\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 Sermon for Epiphany}{\scaps\fs18\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs18\insrsid8331928 .\tab 
.\tab }{\fs18\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 .        230}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-139\li773\ri701\sb48\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin701\lin773\itap0 {\i\fs18\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 This Sermon on the Gospel for the day, from St. }{\i\fs18\expnd-1\expndtw-6\insrsid8331928 
Matthew, showeth how God, of His great faithful}{\i\fs18\expnd-1\expndtw-7\insrsid8331928 ness, hath foreseen and ordained all sufferings for }{\i\fs18\expnd-1\expndtw-9\insrsid8331928 the eternal good of each man, in whatever wise they }{
\i\fs18\expnd-1\expndtw-6\insrsid8331928 befall us, and whether they be great or small.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx1085\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs24\expnd-5\expndtw-27\insrsid8331928 12}{
\b\fs24\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\b\fs24\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 TABLE OF CONTENTS}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li173\ri0\sb269\nowidctlpar\tx4104\faauto\rin0\lin173\itap0 {\fs18\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 VI. }{\scaps\fs18\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 Second Sermon for Epiphany      }{\fs18\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 .}{
\fs18\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs18\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 .        237}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-154\li778\ri629\sb48\sl-154\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin629\lin778\itap0 {\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Showeth on what wise a man shall arise from himselj }{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
and from all creatures, to the end that God may }{\i\fs16\insrsid8331928 find the ground of his soul prepared, and may begin }{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 and perfect His work therein.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li91\ri0\sb77\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin91\itap0 {\fs18\expnd3\expndtw16\insrsid8331928 VII. }{\scaps\fs18\expnd3\expndtw16\insrsid8331928 Sermon for the Fourth Sunday after}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li864\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx2438\tx2995\tx3547\tx4565\faauto\rin0\lin864\itap0 {\scaps\fs18\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 Epiphany    }{\fs18\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 .}{\fs18\insrsid8331928 \tab .\tab .\tab .\tab }{
\fs18\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 243}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-134\li773\ri619\sb43\sl-154\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin619\lin773\itap0 {\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Of the gre
at wonders which God has wrought, and still*works for us Christian men ; wherefore it is just and reasonable that we should turn unto Him }{\i\fs16\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 and follow Him, and whereby we may discern }{
\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 between true and false conversion,}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li24\ri0\sb91\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin24\itap0 {\fs16\expnd4\expndtw23\charscalex90\insrsid8331928 VIII. }{\scaps\fs16\expnd4\expndtw23\charscalex90\insrsid8331928 Sermon   for   the   Sixth   Sunday   after}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li869\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin869\itap0 {\scaps\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\charscalex90\insrsid8331928 Epiphany   }{\fs16\expnd56\expndtw485\charscalex90\insrsid8331928 .....}{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\charscalex90\insrsid8331928         255}{
\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \fi475\li192\ri0\sl-283\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin192\itap0 {\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Of the proper marks of true humility. }{\fs18\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 IX. }{\scaps\fs18\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
Sermon for Septuagesima Sunday         }{\fs18\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 .        259}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-139\li782\ri624\sb34\sl-154\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin624\lin782\itap0 {\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 In this Sermon following we are taught how we must }{\i\fs16\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
perpetually press forward towards our highest }{\i\fs16\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 good, without pause or rest; and how we must }{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 labour in the spiritual vineyard that it may bring forth good fruit.}{
\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li278\ri0\sb72\nowidctlpar\tx4104\faauto\rin0\lin278\itap0 {\fs18\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 X. }{\scaps\fs18\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 Sermon for Ash Wednesday        }{\fs18\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 .}{\fs18\insrsid8331928 
\tab }{\fs18\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 .        272}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-163\li806\ri638\sb53\sl-154\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin638\lin806\itap0 {\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 An Exposition of the three crosses, that of Christ, }{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
that of the malefactor on His left, and that of the }{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 malefactor on His right hand, how they are a type }{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 of the sufferings of three classes of men who are, }{
\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 in a spiritual sense, nailed to thtse three crosses.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li197\ri0\sb77\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin197\itap0 {\fs18\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 XI. }{\scaps\fs18\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 Sermon for the Second Sunday in Lent }{\fs18\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 .        282}{
\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-139\li816\ri629\sb48\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin629\lin816\itap0 {\i\fs16\insrsid8331928 Tells us how God drives forward some of His children }{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 by tht struggle between the inward and outward 
}{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 man.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li120\ri0\sb48\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin120\itap0 {\f2\fs22\expnd-3\expndtw-18\insrsid8331928 XII. }{\scaps\f2\fs22\expnd-3\expndtw-18\insrsid8331928 Sermon for the Fourth Sunday in Lent   }{\f2\fs22\expnd-3\expndtw-18\insrsid8331928 294}{
\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-144\li816\ri624\sb38\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin624\lin816\itap0 {\i\fs16\insrsid8331928 Of the power of the Word of God, of fiery desires, and }{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 tht essence of self-renunciation.}{
\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li29\ri0\sb77\nowidctlpar\tx3533\tx4094\faauto\rin0\lin29\itap0 {\fs18\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 XIII. }{\scaps\fs18\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 Sermon for Palm Sunday }{\fs18\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 .}{\fs18\insrsid8331928 
\tab .\tab }{\fs18\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 .        299}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-149\li797\ri634\sb53\sl-154\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin634\lin797\itap0\pararsid8331928 {\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
How a man ought in all His works to regard God alone, and purely to make Him his end without anything of his own, and shall freely and simply }{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 perform all these works for the glory of God only, }{
\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 and not seek his own, nor desire nor expect any }{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 reward. Wherewith he may do such works with}{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
out any self-appropriation or reference to time and}{\insrsid8331928  }{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 number, before or after, and without modes. How }{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 the Divine W*rd sp
eaks and reveals itself in the soul, all in a lofty and subtile sense.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li187\ri0\sb101\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin187\itap0 {\b\fs18\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 XIV. }{\b\scaps\fs18\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Sermon for Thursday in Easter Week.        }{\b\fs18\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 308}{
\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-158\li816\ri634\sb53\sl-154\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin634\lin816\itap0 {\i\fs16\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 How we ought to love God, and how Christ is a }{\i\fs16\insrsid8331928 Master of the Eternal Good, wherefore we ought to }{
\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 love Him above all things; a Master of the Highest }{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 Truth, wherefore we ought to contemplate Him ; }{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
anda Master of the Highest Perfectness, wherefore }{\i\fs16\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 we ought to follow after Him without lit or }{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 hindrance.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li293\ri0\sb77\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin293\itap0 {\b\fs18\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 XV. }{\b\scaps\fs18\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Sermon for the First Sunday after Easter   }{\b\fs18\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 315}{
\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-163\li811\ri634\sb48\sl-154\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin634\lin811\itap0 {\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 How we are to ascend by three stages to true peace }{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 and purity of heart.}{
\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li192\ri0\sb110\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin192\itap0 {\b\fs14\expnd6\expndtw32\charscalex101\insrsid8331928 XVI. }{\b\scaps\fs14\expnd6\expndtw32\charscalex101\insrsid8331928 Sermon for the Fourth Sunday after}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li864\ri0\sb10\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin864\itap0 {\b\scaps\fs14\expnd0\expndtw-1\charscalex101\insrsid8331928 Easter        }{\b\fs14\expnd56\expndtw497\charscalex101\insrsid8331928 .....}{
\b\fs14\expnd0\expndtw-1\charscalex101\insrsid8331928         320}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-154\li806\ri629\sb53\sl-154\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin629\lin806\itap0 {\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 How the Holy Ghost rebukes the World in man for }{\i\fs16\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
sin, righteousness, and judgment; how hurtful it }{\i\fs16\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 is to judge one's neighbour; after what fashion }{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
a pious man may rebuke his neighbour; further, what the Holy Ghost teacheth when he cometh to }{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 us.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li115\ri0\sb115\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin115\itap0 {\b\fs14\expnd5\expndtw29\insrsid8331928 XVII. }{\b\scaps\fs14\expnd5\expndtw29\insrsid8331928 Second Sermon for the Fourth Sunday}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li864\ri0\sb5\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin864\itap0 {\b\scaps\fs14\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 after Easter       }{\b\fs14\expnd56\expndtw493\insrsid8331928 ....}{\b\fs14\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928         328}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-144\li797\ri614\sb48\sl-154\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin614\lin797\itap0 {\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 Of three hindrances -which resist the coming of the Holy Ghost in three classes of men.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li24\ri0\sb72\nowidctlpar\tx4104\faauto\rin0\lin24\itap0 {\b\fs18\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 XVIII. }{\b\scaps\fs18\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 Sermon for Ascension Day        }{\b\fs18\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 .}{
\b\fs18\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\b\fs18\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 .        334}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-134\li787\ri619\sb53\sl-154\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin619\lin787\itap0 {\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 This third sermon on the Ascension tells us how man ought continually to follow after Christ, as He has }{
\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 walked before us for three and thirty years, passing }{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 through manifold and great sufferings, before He }{\i\fs16\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 returned unto His Father.}{
\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li163\ri0\sb82\nowidctlpar\tx3533\tx4090\faauto\rin0\lin163\itap0 {\b\fs18\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 XIX. }{\b\scaps\fs18\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 Sermon for Whit Sunday}{\b\scaps\fs18\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\b\fs18\insrsid8331928 .
\tab }{\b\fs18\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 .        342}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-163\li792\ri638\sb53\sl-154\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin638\lin792\itap0 {\i\fs16\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 How God drew the Apostles unto Christ by six degrees until they attained unto union with }{
\i\fs16\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 Himself and so likewise draweth His friends }{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 unto Himself now.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li221\ri0\sb82\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin221\itap0 {\b\fs18\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 XX. }{\b\scaps\fs18\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 Sermon for the Fourth Sunday after}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li864\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx2429\tx2986\tx3538\tx4546\faauto\rin0\lin864\itap0 {\b\scaps\fs18\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 Trinity       }{\b\fs18\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 .}{\b\fs18\insrsid8331928 \tab .\tab .\tab .\tab }{
\b\fs18\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 355}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-139\li802\ri643\sb43\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin643\lin802\itap0 {\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 This sermon telleth us of four measures that shall be }{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
rendered unto man, and of two grades of a godly }{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 life, and how we ought to love our neighbour.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li235\ri0\sb48\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin235\itap0 {\b\fs16\expnd6\expndtw33\charscalex90\insrsid8331928 XXI. }{\b\scaps\fs16\expnd6\expndtw33\charscalex90\insrsid8331928 Sermon for the Tenth  Sunday after}{\insrsid8331928 

\par }\pard \ql \fi77\li725\ri0\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin725\itap0 {\b\scaps\fs16\expnd0\expndtw-1\charscalex90\insrsid8331928 Trinity       }{\b\fs16\expnd56\expndtw496\charscalex90\insrsid8331928 .....}{
\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw-1\charscalex90\insrsid8331928         367 }{\b\i\fs16\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 Admonishing each man to mark what is the office }{\b\i\fs16\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
to which he is called of God, and teaching us to practise works of love and virtue, and to refrain }{\b\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 from self-will.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li178\ri0\sb91\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin178\itap0 {\b\fs16\expnd5\expndtw28\charscalex90\insrsid8331928 XXII. }{\b\scaps\fs16\expnd5\expndtw28\charscalex90\insrsid8331928 Sermon for the Twelfth Sunday after}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li917\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin917\itap0 {\b\scaps\fs16\charscalex90\insrsid8331928 Trinity       }{\b\fs16\expnd56\expndtw495\charscalex90\insrsid8331928 .....}{\b\fs16\charscalex90\insrsid8331928         374}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-130\li840\ri658\sb43\sl-154\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin658\lin840\itap0 {\b\i\fs16\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 Teaching us that we ought to receive Cod, in all }{\b\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
His gifts, and in all His burdens, with true long-}{\b\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 suffering.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li72\ri0\sb82\nowidctlpar\tx749\faauto\rin0\lin72\itap0 {\b\fs18\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 XXIII.}{\b\fs18\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\b\scaps\fs18\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Second Sermon for the Twelfth Sunday}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li912\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx3048\tx3605\tx4166\faauto\rin0\lin912\itap0 {\b\scaps\fs18\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 after Trinity      }{\b\fs18\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 .}{\b\fs18\insrsid8331928 \tab .\tab .\tab }{
\b\fs18\expnd20\expndtw102\insrsid8331928 .380}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-130\li821\ri677\sb48\sl-154\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin677\lin821\itap0 {\b\i\fs16\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 This sermon tells us how a titan who truly laves }{\b\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 
God, whose ears have been opened to receive the }{\b\i\fs16\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 seven-fold gifts of the itoly Spirit, is neither lifted up in joy nor cast down in sorrow.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li72\ri0\sb96\nowidctlpar\tx749\faauto\rin0\lin72\itap0 {\b\fs16\expnd5\expndtw29\charscalex90\insrsid8331928 XXIV.}{\b\fs16\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\b\scaps\fs16\expnd4\expndtw23\charscalex90\insrsid8331928 Sermon for the Fifteenth Sunday after
}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li888\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin888\itap0 {\b\scaps\fs16\expnd0\expndtw-2\charscalex90\insrsid8331928 Trinity       }{\b\fs16\expnd56\expndtw506\charscalex90\insrsid8331928 .....}{\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw-2\charscalex90\insrsid8331928 
        386}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-130\li802\ri701\sb48\sl-154\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin701\lin802\itap0 {\b\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 This sermon forbiddeth all carefulness, and telleth in what righteousness consisteth, and rebukes }{
\b\i\fs16\insrsid8331928 sundry religious people and their works, likening }{\b\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 their ways to simony.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li163\ri0\sb82\nowidctlpar\tx4133\faauto\rin0\lin163\itap0 {\b\fs18\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 XXV. }{\b\scaps\fs18\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 Sermon for St. Stephen's Day }{\b\fs18\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 .}{
\b\fs18\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\b\fs18\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 .        395}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-144\li773\ri710\sb53\sl-154\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin710\lin773\itap0 {\b\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 Of three grades of those who learn to die unto them}{\b\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
selves, like a corn of wheat, that they may bring }{\b\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 forth fruit; or of those who are beginners, those }{\b\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 who are advancing, and those who art perfect in a }{
\b\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Divine life.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li62\ri0\sb86\nowidctlpar\tx4114\faauto\rin0\lin62\itap0 {\b\fs18\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 XXVI. }{\b\scaps\fs18\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 Sermon for St. Peter's Day     }{\b\fs18\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 .}{
\b\fs18\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\b\fs18\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 .        410}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-149\li773\ri730\sb38\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin730\lin773\itap0 {\b\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Of brotherly rebuke and admonition, how far it is }{\b\i\fs16\insrsid8331928 
advisable and seemly or not, and especially how }{\b\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 prelates and governors ought to demean them}{\b\i\fs16\insrsid8331928 selves towards their subjects.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sb82\nowidctlpar\tx4094\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\b\fs18\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 XXVII. }{\b\scaps\fs18\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 Sermon on a Martyr's Day      }{\b\fs18\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 .}{
\b\fs18\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\b\fs18\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 .        416}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-149\li778\ri744\sb38\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin744\lin778\itap0 {\b\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Of three sorts of spiritual temptation by which holy }{\b\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
men are secretly assailed; to wit: spiritual tin-}{\b\i\fs16\insrsid8331928 chastity, covetousness, and pride.
\par }{\insrsid8331928 
\par <div1 title=\'94Translator\rquote s Preface>}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li974\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin974\itap0 {\fs34\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 Translator's Preface}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li10\ri0\sb269\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin10\itap0 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 I}{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 N publishing a selection from the writings of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
a divine who nourished in an age and under }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 social conditions so remote from our own as }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 those of a German Dominican monk of the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
fourteenth century, it seems right to state at the }{\fs22\expnd4\expndtw20\insrsid8331928 outset whether the aim which has governed }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 the selection is chiefly historical or devotional. }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 The present work was undertaken, in the first }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 instance, with a simply practical object. My }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 earliest acquaintance with Tauler's Sermons was 
}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 made while hearing them read in a family service; }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 and believing, from further study, that they con}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
tained elements of truth not often brought into sufficient prominence in these days, yet possess}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 ing a most direct and valuable influence on Chris}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 tian life, I 
wished to compile a volume of sermons }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 for the Sundays and Holydays of the year, such as }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 any head of a family might read to his household, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
or any district visitor among the poor.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li0\ri10\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 To have carried out this idea completely would, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 however, have involved the omission, in many of }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 the sermons, of passages either too abstruse \\for }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 easy comprehension, or too much imbued with }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
references to the Romish ritual and discipline, to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 be   suitable  for  the   Protestant  common  people.}{\insrsid8331928 
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\par }\pard \qj \li67\ri0\sb130\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin67\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 But such a mutilation seemed to me scarcely honest }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
in the case of a writer now to be presented for the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 first time in a foreign language, and it appeared }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 better therefore to reconcile historical truthfulness }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 with practical usefulness, by restricting the selec}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 tion, but giving all the sermons included in it in }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
their complete form. Had it been my object merely }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 to present an interesting picture of a remarkable }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 man, the selection would possibly have been some}{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 what different,\emdash certainly much wider. As it is, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 I have chosen the practical rather than the more }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
metaphysical sermons, and have included none }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 which seemed to me, in my conscientious judgment, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 open to objections as to their moral tendency.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li0\ri48\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin48\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 Among such I should reckon some tinctured with }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 an asceticism throwing contempt on the affections }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 of ordinary life. Of the }{\i\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 duties }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 of ordinary life }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
Tauler never speaks disparagingly. When he says that the inward work in the soul is more than all }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 outward good works, it is always the outward }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
practices of religion of which he is speaking\emdash  }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 attendance in church, fasting, the repeating of prayers, &c.; never of the exercise of active }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
benevolence, or even the performance of minor }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 household duties. It is one good feature of the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 school to which he belonged, that these things are }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 restored to their due honour, so far as that is }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 compatible with the whole system of conventual }{\fs22\expnd4\expndtw23\insrsid8331928 life. But Tauler does teach that repression 
}{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 of the natural }{\i\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 affections }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 which is inevitable so }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 long as the vital idea of monasticism,
\emdash viz., the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 severance of the religious from the secular in life,\emdash  }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 is retained. That this severance is false and mis}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
chievous, Tauler no more perceived than did the}{\insrsid8331928 
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TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE}{\b\fs22\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\b\fs22\expnd-3\expndtw-15\insrsid8331928 17}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qr \li0\ri10\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 whole body of his co
ntemporaries; but while we have no right to censure him for errors which he shared with all the men of his age (and which he }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 often divested for his own hearers of much of their }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
baneful influence), it is equally unnecessary to place }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 such doctrine before people at the present time. }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
So, too, the sermons on the Mass and on the Virgin Mary,  while  containing many  excellent  practical }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 remarks, are of course based on beliefs that would }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
render them unprofitable to the great multitude of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 English Protestants nowadays, and I did not deem }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 it needful to insert them merely for the sake of }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 presenting a full view of all that Tauler believed or }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 taught.   But neither did it seem essential to prac}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
tical usefulness  to eliminate from sermons whose }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 general scope is rich in Christian instruction, all such passages as might contain passing allusions }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
to purgatory, transubstantiation, the invocation of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 saints, &c.;   mystical   and   figurative   interpreta}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 tions  of  Scripture,   or questionable  philosophical }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 speculations, in order that nothing might be left }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 but what Protestant Christians at the present day }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
actually believe.    For private reading it is the less }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 necessary, as it is often curious and instructive to }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 observe how Tauler, in many cases, supplies the }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 practical antidote to the hurtful effects of a Romish }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 doctrine without in the least seeing through the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
doctrine itself ; while, should these sermons be used, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 as I earnestly wish they may be, for family reading, it will be very easy to omit anything which it might }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 be undesirabl
e to read to uneducated persons.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi202\li0\ri91\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin91\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 With regard to those not included, the greater }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 nUmber have been rejected simply because many of }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 their ideas occurred in the sermons which I have}{\insrsid8331928 
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\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb134\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 chosen, and I was anxious to avoid repetition; and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 among these many were so good as to render the }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 task of selection very difficult. A very small pro}{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 portion have been omitted on account of their }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
Romish doctrine ; more because of their obscure }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 mysticism, and a few because they contained }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 figures that would sound coarse, or at least gro}{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 tesque and unsuitable for the pulpit, to our modern }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 ears. I believe that those I have given may be }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
regarded, from the absence of omissions, and the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 variety of their scope, as furnishing, on the whole, a correct picture of the mind and faith of their author. }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
The edition of Tauler's Sermons which I have }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 used for my Translation is that published at Franks }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 fort in 1826. Among the numerous ancient and modern editions of these Sermons, 
that published }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 at Leipsic, in 1498, holds the highest rank as an }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 authority ; but of this, now very rare work, it has }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
not been in my power to consult a copy ; and of the }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 later editions that of Frankfort is the best. It is }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 based upon an edition published at Cologne in 1543, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 and contains one hundred and fifty-three sermons ; }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 only eighty-four of these, however, are to be found }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
in the MSS. now extant. Many of the MSS. have, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 indeed, only portions of these eighty-four ; but the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 best and oldest are also the most complete. They }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 are two which are in the Strasburg Library, and }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 are most probably contemporary with Tauler }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 himself,\emdash 
certainly not of much later origin. The }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 oldest printed edition, too, that of Leipsic, in 1498, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 has only these eighty-four sermons. These are, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 therefore, all of whose genuineness we have distinct }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 certainty from external evidence. In an edition, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
however, which Johann Rynmann published at Basle}{\insrsid8331928 
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\par }\pard \qj \li53\ri10\sb134\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin53\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 in 1521 (probably induced to do so by Luther's }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 republication of the }{
\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Theologia Germanica, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 in 1517, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 and his recommendation of Tauler's writings to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
his friends*), forty-two more sermons are added }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 with the preface: " Here followeth the second }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
part of the sermons of the said John Tauler, which have been more recently discovered, and collected }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 with great care and diligence. Although there }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
may be a doubt about some of them, let not that }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 offend thee; for it is certain that they have been }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 written by a right learned man of his age, and are }{
\b\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 all }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 based on one foundation, namely, true self-sur}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 render and the preparation of the spirit for God."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li38\ri29\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin29\lin38\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 There can be no doubt that several of these are }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
not productions of Tauler ; and Surius, in his Latin }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Edition of 1548, appends the names of the authors }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 Eckart, Suso, Ruysbroek, in several instances }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 where he had ascertained them,\emdash in which the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 Frankfort Editor follows his example.f The styles }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
of Eckart and Suso are, indeed, very distinguishable }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 from Tauler's. That of Ruysbroek seems to me }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
less so. Finally, the Cologne Edition of 1543, which has been the basis of all the later editions of Tauler's }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Sermons, adds twenty-five more, and among these, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
too, some by the authors akeady named have crept}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi163\li10\ri43\sb274\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin43\lin10\itap0 {\b\fs16\insrsid8331928 * Thus he writes to Spalatin in Dec. 1516: " Si te delectat puram, }{\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 
solidam, antiquae " simillimam theologiam legere, in Germanica lingua }{\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 effusam ; Sermones Johannis Tauleri, prsedictoriae professionis, tibi com-}{\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
parare potes, cujus totius velut epitomen ecce hie tibi mitto. Neque }{\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 enim vel in Latina, .vel in nostra lingua theologiam vidi salubriorenj et cum Evangelio consonantiorem. Gusta ergo et vide, quam suavis est }{
\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 Dominus, ubi prius gustaris, et videbis quam amarum est, quicquid nos }{\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 sumus."\emdash De Wette, }{\b\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Martin Luther's Briefe, &>c, }{
\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Band i. Berlin, }{\b\fs16\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 1825.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi158\li0\ri58\sb134\sl-163\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin58\lin0\itap0 {\b\fs16\insrsid8331928 t It is to the Preface of the Frankfort Editor that I am indebted for }{\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 
these particulars respecting the different editions of Tauler's Sermons.}{\insrsid8331928 
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\b\fs22\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\b\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li48\ri0\sb130\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin48\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 in. Still, I cannot see any reason to question the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
statement of the Editor, Petrus Noviomagus, who says :\emdash " Having made research in all directions, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 that I might obtain the most correctly-copied MSS., I have at last, in 1542, found in the library of St. }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 Gertrude's, at Cologne (where the said Doctor had }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 his abode, and was wont to preach God's word), and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
also in some other places, old written books, in }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 which many excellent, nay, some of the best of }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Tauler's Sermons stand clearly written, which have }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 not yet been printed or made public."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li0\ri34\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin34\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Tauler did not himself write down his discourses, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 but they were compiled from notes taken by his }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 hearers, which accounts at once for the frag}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 mentary character of the style, and for the great }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
number of various readings to be found in the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 different editions. It is important to bear this }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 circumstance in mind in judging of the style of the }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 following sermons. It seems highly probable that }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 the eighty-four sermons contained in the Strasburg }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
MSS. were published during his life and received }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 his own corrections; but there appear no ade}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 quate grounds for supposing that these eighty-four }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 are the only genuine ones we possess; for in the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 numerous places where Tauler preached, many of }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 
his sermons would probably be taken down by }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 single hearers, which in those times of rare and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 difficult communication, were never brought under }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 the notice of the Strasburg Collector, but, as his }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 fame spread in after years, came to be gradu}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
ally put into the hands of later collectors by their }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 possessors, as seems to have been the case with those of which Petrus Noviomagus speaks.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li206\ri0\sb5\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin206\itap0 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 The Frankfort Edition has not, however, been}{\insrsid8331928 
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TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE}{\b\fs22\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs22\expnd-4\expndtw-20\insrsid8331928 21}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sb134\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 the sole source of the following translation; for }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
with great generosity, for which I beg to tender him }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 my warmest thanks, Professor Schmidt   of Stras-burg, has placed at my disposal a transcript made }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
by himself from the most ancient manuscript extant, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 by which I have corrected those of the following }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 collection, which belong to  the first eighty - four. }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 In a very few passages only have I retained the }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 version of the Frankfort Edition, where the sense }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
was^ so evidently clearer and fuller as to indicate a high probability that the later collector had had the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 opportunity of consulting fuller notes than his more ancient predecessor.    This, however, is very rarely }
{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 the case ;   in general the oldest version is so much }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 the best as to give great force to the supposition }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 
generally entertained that it had been corrected }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 by the author himself.   Of the following collection }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 Nos. 5, 6, 9, ii, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, may be }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 thus said to be, in effect, translated from the Stras-}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 burg MS.   The Frankfort Editor gives the sources }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 
from which he has taken his version of the ser}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 mons, and upon this authority I may mention that }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Nos. 3, 4, 7, 8, 10,13,14,17, 25, 26, 27, are from the }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 Appendix to the Basle Edition of 1521; and Nos. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 1, 2, 12, 15, 19, from that of the Cologne Edition of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
1543.   The sermon No. 2, is marked  as Eckart's in }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 the Frankfort Edition, and No. 4 as most probably }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 the production of a disciple of his, commonly called }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 Eckart, junior.    It is, however, somewhat doubtful }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 whether the two Eckarts were not in truth one and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
the same.   The Cologne Editor expresses the wish }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 that " God would anoint some man enlightened by }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 the Holy Ghost to render this precious treasure }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 into Latin for the comfort of many who desire it; "}{\insrsid8331928 
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\b\fs22\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\b\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li34\ri5\sb134\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin5\lin34\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 and this wish was fulfilled in 1543, by the Car}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 thusian, Laurentius Surius, the translator also of }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 the works of Suso and Ruysbroek.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li14\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin14\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 The principal sources from which my sketch of Tauter and the " Friends of God " has been derived, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
are furnished by Professor Schmidt of Strasburg, }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 in his }{\i\fs22\insrsid8331928 Johannes Tauler von Strasburg; }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 his essay on }{\i\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 Eckart }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 in the }{\i\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 Theologische Studien und Kritiken, }{\i\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 i%39> }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 P- 684; and his work, }{
\i\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 Die Gottesfreunde }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 im Vierzehnten Jahrhundert, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 Jena, 1855. I have, however, also to acknowledge my obligations to }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Wackernagel's essay on the }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Gottesfreunde }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 in the }{\i\fs22\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 Beitraege zur Vaterlaendischen Geschichte }{
\fs22\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 (Basle, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 1843, B. ii. s. in); to Neander's }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Kirchengeschichie ; }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Hase's }{
\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Kirchengeschichte; }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Milman's }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Latin Chris}{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 tianity, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 &c.}{
\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li0\ri14\sb5\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin14\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 Any one acquainted with the admirable Essays }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 of Professor Schmidt, above-named, will perceive }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 how largely I am indebted to him for the facts of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 Tauler's life, and the account of Eckart; but will }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
also observe that my theory of them is, in some }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 points, very different from that of M. Schmidt. }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 For my notices of the }{\i\fs22\insrsid8331928 Gottesfreunde, }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 
his recent work }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 has furnished the whole of the facts ; but, again, it }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 is only fair to state that for the light in which I }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
regard these facts, I am alone responsible.}{\insrsid8331928 
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\fs34\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 Preface }{\fs34\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 to original edition}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \fi1070\li1190\ri1190\sl-538\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin1190\lin1190\itap0 {\fs34\expnd-2\expndtw-12\insrsid8331928 by }{\fs34\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 Charles Kingsley}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sb288\sl-511\slmult0\keepn\nowidctlpar\pvpara\dropcapli2\dropcapt1\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs71\dn9\charscalex77\insrsid8331928 I
\par }\pard \qj \li29\ri0\sb288\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin29\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 T is with great diffidence that I have under}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 taken to furnish a preface to these Sermons. }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 It must always be an invidious task to stand toward a far wiser and better man than one's self in }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
a relation which is likely, at every moment, to be mistaken either for that of a critic or that of a }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 commentator.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi221\li19\ri34\sb10\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin34\lin19\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 The critic of Tauler, no man has a right }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 become, 
}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 who has not first ascertained that he is a better man }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 than Tauler.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li5\ri38\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin38\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 The commentator of Tauler, no man has a right to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 become, who has a strong belief (as I have) that }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 Tauler's Sermons need no comment whatsoever : }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 but that all which is good and eternal in them will }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 recommend itself at once }{
\i\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 those hearts, let their }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 form of doctrine be what it may, who have hold of, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
or are seeking after, Eternal Goodness.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li0\ri48\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin48\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 The historical and biographical information which }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 may be necessary for a right understanding of the 
}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 man and his times, will be found in the Life and }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 the Introductory Notice which are appended to }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw16\insrsid8331928 
the Sermons; while any notions of mine as to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 the genesis of Tauler's views, as to how much of}{\insrsid8331928 
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24    CHARLES  KINGSLEY'S PREFACE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb120\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 them he owed to divines, how much to his own }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 vital experiences, are likely to be equally unsafe }{
\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 and uninteresting. The English churchman of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 the present day, enjoying a form of doctrine far more correct than that of any other communion, }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 and resting on the sound dogma that nothing is to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 be believed as necessary to salvation but what can }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
be proved by Scripture, has (whether rightly or }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 wrongly, I do not here ask) become so satisfied with }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 the good fruit, as to think little of the tree which }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 bore}{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928  }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 it. The Church controversies, and the meta}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 physical inquiries, by which, after many mistakes, }
{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 and long struggles, that form of doctrine was elicited }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 from Scripture, are to him shadows of the past, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
and " Schoolmen's questions." The element in the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 ancient worthies of the Church which is most in}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 teresting to him is their human sorrows, tempta}{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 tions, triumphs, with which, as having happened in }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 men of like passions with ourselves, we still can }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 
sympathise. We cannot, however, now undei-}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 stand how strong and generally just an influence }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 those private and personal experiences had, in }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
forming the opinions of the old worthies upon }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 Scriptural doctrines, which we have been taught }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 from childhood to find in Scripture, and are there}{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 fore astonished, if not indignant^ that every one }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw17\insrsid8331928 in every age did not find them there at first }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 sight.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi202\li0\ri48\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin48\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Thus, standing upon the accumulated labours of ages, we are apt to be ungrateful to those who built }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
up with weary labour, and often working through }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 dark and dreary nights, the platform which now }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 supports us. We complain impatiently of the }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 blindness of many?a man, without whom we should}{\insrsid8331928 
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CHARLES KINGSLEVS PREFACE    25}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li19\ri0\sb120\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin19\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 not have seen; and of the incompleteness of many }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 a man whose doctrine was only incomplete because }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 he was still engaged in searching for some truth, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 which, when found, he handed on as a precious }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 heirloom to us who know him not.}{
\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li0\ri10\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 For the many, therefore, it will be altogether }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 uninteresting for me to enter into any specula}{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 tion as to the spiritual pedigree of Tauler's views. }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 How far Philo-Judaeus and the Brahmins may }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
have influenced the Pseudo - Dionysius; how far }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 the Pseudo - Dionysius may have influenced John }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 Erigena; how far that wondrous Irishman may }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 have influenced Master Eckart; how far that vast }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 and subtle thinker, claimed by some as the founder }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
of German philosophy, may have influenced Tauler himself, are questions for which the many will care }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 little; which would require to be discussed in a large volume, ere the question could not merely }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 be exhausted, but made intelligible. Such nlatters }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 may well be left for learned and large-minded men, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
to whom the development of Christian doctrine }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 (both in the true and the false sense of that word) }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 is a scientific study.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li5\ri29\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin29\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 But let me express a hope, that such men will turn }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 their attention more and more, not merely to the 
}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 works of Tauler, but to those of his companions, and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 to that whole movement of the fourteenth century, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
of which Tauler is the most popular and easily }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 accessible type, as to a most interesting and instruc}{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 tive page in the book of Christian, and indeed }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 of human, thought. I say human; for it will be }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 impossible for them to examine the works of such }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
men as Erigena, Tauler, Eckart, and Ruysbroek, any more than those of the later mystics, whether}{\insrsid8331928 
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26    CHARLES  KINGSLEY'S  PREFACE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sb125\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 Romish or Protestant, without finding that their }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 speculations, whether right or wrong in any given }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 detail,   go down to  the very deepest  and  most }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 universal grounds of theology and of metaphysics ; }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 and howsoever distinc
tly Christian they may be, are }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 connected with thoughts which have exercised men }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 of every race which has left behind it more than }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
mere  mounds   of   earth.   They  will  find  in  the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 Greek, the Persian, and the Hindoo ; in the Budd}{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 hist and in Mohammedan Sufi, the same craving }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 after the Absolute and the Eternal, the same attempt }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 to express in words that union between man and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
God, which transcends all words.    On making that }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 discovery, if they have not already made it, two }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 courses  will be open to them.    They can either }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 reject the  whole  of  such  thoughts  as worthless, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 assuming that anything which Christianity has in }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
common with heathendom must be an adulteration }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 and   an   interpolation; or,   when   they   see   such }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 thoughts bubbling up,  as it were spontaneously, }{
\fs22\expnd3\expndtw16\insrsid8331928 among men divided utterly from each other by }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 race, age, and creed, they can conclude that those }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 
thoughts must be a normal product of the human }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 spirit, and that they indicate a healthy craving after }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw17\insrsid8331928 some real object; they can rise to a tender and }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 deeper sympathy with the aspirations and mistakes }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 of men who sought in great darkness for a ray of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
light, and did not seek in vain; and can give fresh }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 glory to the doctrines of the Catholic Church when }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 they   see   them   fulfilling   those   aspirations, and }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 correcting those mistakes; and in this case, as in }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 -others, satisfying the desire of all nations, by pro}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
claiming Him by whom all things were made, and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 in whom all things consist, who is The Light and The}{\insrsid8331928 
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CHARLES KINGSLEVS PREFACE    }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 27}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li67\ri0\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin67\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 Life of men, shining for ever in the darkness, un-}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 comprehended, yet unquenched.}{\insrsid8331928 

\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li0\ri24\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin24\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 There is another class of readers worthy of all }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
respect, who may be dissatisfied, if not startled, by }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 many passages in these sermons. Men well skilled }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 in the terminology of 
the popular religion, and from long experience, well acquainted with its value, are apt to be jealous when they find a preacher handling }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 the highest matters, and yet omitting to use con}{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 cerning them the formulae in which they are now }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 commonly expressed. Such men I would entreat }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
to have patience with, and charity for, a man whose }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 character they must so heartily admire. Let them }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 remember that many of our own formulae are not }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 to be found verbatim in Holy Writ, but have been }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 gradually extracted from it by processes of in}{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 
duction or of deduction; and let them allow to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 Tauler, as far as is consistent with orthodoxy, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Christian liberty to find likewise what he can in that }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 Scripture, which he reveres as deeply as they do. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Let them consider also, that most of those expres}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
sions of his which are most strange to our modern }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 pulpits, are strictly Scriptural, and to be found in }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 the Sacred Text; and that no man can be blamed }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 at first sight for understanding such expressions literally, and for shrinking from reducing them to }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 metaphors. God has ordained that the Pauline }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 aspect of Christianity, and the Pauline nomen}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 clature, should for the last three hundred years at }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 
least, mould almost exclusively the thoughts of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 His church : but we must not forget, that St. John's }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 thoughts, and St. John's words, are equally in}{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 spired with those of St. Paul; and that not we, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 but Tauler, are the fit judges as to whether St. Paul's}{\insrsid8331928 
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28    CHARLES KINGSLEVS PREFACE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li67\ri0\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin67\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 language, or St. John's, was most fit to touch the German heart in the dark and hideous times of the }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 Fourteenth Century. The important question is\emdash  }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Did Tauler, under whatsoever language, really hold }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 
in spirit and in truth the vital doctrines of the }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 Gospel ? That can only be ascertained by a fair }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 and charitable induction, and of the result of such }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 an induction I have little fear.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li14\ri10\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin14\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 Some again, whose opinions will be entitled to the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
very highest respect, will be pained at the fantastic and arbitrary method (if method it can be called) in }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 which Tauler uses Scripture to illustrate his opinions. }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
Let them remember, that this was not a peculiarity }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 of the man, but of his age ; that for various reasons, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 a simple, literal, and historic method of interpreta}{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 tion (which doubtless is at the same time the most }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 spiritual) was then in its infancy; that it is by no }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 
means perfect yet; and that it is quite possible }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 that our great grandchildren may be as much }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 surprised at our use of many a text, as we are at }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Tauler's.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li0\ri34\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin34\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 But there are those\emdash and thanks to Almighty }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 God they are to be numbered by tens of thousands
\emdash  who will not perplex themselves with any such }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 questionings; simple and genial hearts, who try to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 do what good they can in the world, and meddle }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 not with matters too high for them; persons whose }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 religion is not abstruse, but deep; not noisy, but }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
intense; not aggressive, but laboriously useful; }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 people who have the same habit of mind as the early }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Christians seem to have worn, ere yet Catholic truth }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 had been defined in formulae; when the Apostles' }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 creed was symbol enough for the Church, and men }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
were orthodox in heart, rather than exact in head.}{\insrsid8331928 
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CHARLES KINGSLEVS PREFACE   }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 29}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li43\ri19\sb120\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin19\lin43\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 For such it is enough if a fellow-creature loves Him }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
whom they love, and serves Him whom they serve. Personal affection and loyalty to the same unseen }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 Being is to them a communion of saints both }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 
real and actual, in the genial warmth of which }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 all minor differences of opinion vanish, and a truly }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 divine liberality enables them to believe with St. }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 John, that " Thereby know ye the spirit of God; }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 come in the flesh is born of God."}{\insrsid8331928 

\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li29\ri34\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin34\lin29\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 To such these sermons, should be, and I doubt not }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 will be, welcome. If they find words 
in them which }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 they do not understand, even words from which at }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 first sight they differ, they will let them pass them by }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
for awhile, in charity and patience. Seeing (as they }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 will see at the first glance) that John Tauler was }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 one of themselves, they will judge of what.they do }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 not understand by what they do, and give him }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 credit for sense and righteousness, where their own intellects fail to follow him.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li0\ri43\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin43\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 Especially too, if they be distracted and dis}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 heartened (as such are wont to be) by the sin and }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 confusion of the world; by the amount of God's }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 work which still remains undone, and by their own }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
seeming incapacity to do it, they will take heart from }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 the history of John Tauler and his fellows, who, in }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 far darker and more confused time than the present, }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 found a work to do, and strength to do it; who, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 the more they retired into the recesses of their own inner life, found there that fully to know themselves }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 was to know all men, and to have a message for all }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 men; and who, by their unceasing labours of love, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 proved that th
e highest spiritual attainments, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 instead of shutting a man up in lazy and Pharisaic}{\insrsid8331928 
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\f2\fs26\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 o CHARLES KINGSLEY'S PREFACE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li67\ri0\sb115\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin67\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 self-contemplation, drive him forth to work as his Master worked before him, among the poor, the suffering, and the fallen.}{
\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li0\ri10\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 Let such take heart, arid toil on in faith at the }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 duty which lies nearest to them. Five hundred }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 years have passed since Tauler and his fellows did }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 their simple work, and looked for no fruit from it, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
but the saving of one here and there from the nether }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 pit. That was enough for which to labour: but }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 without knowing it, they did more than that. Their }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 work lives, and will live for ever, though in forms }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 from which they would have perhaps shrunk had }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 
they foreseen them. Let all such therefore take }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 heart. They may know their own weakness : but }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 they know not the power of God in them. They }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 may think sadly that they are only palliating the }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 outward symptoms of social and moral disease: }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
but God may be striking, by some unconscious }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 chance blow of theirs, at a root of evil which they }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 never suspected. They may mourn over the failure }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 of some seemingly useful plan of their own: but }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 God may be, by their influence, sowing the seed of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
some plan of His own, of which they little dream. }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 For every good deed comes from God. His is the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 idea, His the inspiration, and His its fulfilment in }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 time; and therefore no good deed but lives and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 grows with the everlasting life of God Himself. And }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
as the acorn, because God has given it " a forming }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 form," and life after its kind, bears within it, not }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 only the builder oak, but shade for many a herd, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 food for countless animals, and. at last, the gallant }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 ship itself, and the materials of every use to which }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 
nature or art can put it and its descendants after }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 it throughout all time;  so does every good deed}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li461\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin461\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
CHARLES KINGSLEY'S PREFACE    31}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li24\ri5\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin5\lin24\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 contain within itself endless and unexpected possi}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
bilities of other good, which may and will grow and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 multiply for ever, in the genial Light of Him whose }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 eternal Mind conceived it, and whose eternal Spirit }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 will for ever quicken it, with that Life of which He is }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 the Giver and the Lord.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li0\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 There is another class of readers, to whom I expect }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
these sermons to be at once very attractive and very }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 valuable ; a class of whom I speak with extreme diffidence, having never had their experiences ; and of whom I should not have spoken at all, were they }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 not just now as much depreciated, as they were in }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 past centuries rated too highly ; I mean those who }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
are commonly called " Mystics." Doubtless, they }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 are paying a penalty for that extravagant adoration }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 which was bestowed of old upon the " Saint." }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 Mankind has discovered that much of what once, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 in such persons, seemed most divine, was most }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 painfully human; that much of what seemed most 
}{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 supernatural, was but too degradingly natural, }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 the consequences of diseased brain, deranged nervous }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 system, or weakness brought on by voluntary }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 asceticism; and so mankind, angry with its idols for having a flaw anywhere, has dashed them }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 peevishly to the ground. Would it not have been }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 better to give up making idols of such persons, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 and to have examined patiently, charitably, and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
philosophically what they really were, and what }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 they were not ? By so doing, I believe, men would }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 have found that in these mystics and saints, after }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 all bodily illusions, all nervous fantasies, all pardon}{\fs22\insrsid8331928 able " confusions between the object and the subject," }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
had been eliminated, there still remained, in each }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 and every one of them, and not to be explained}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li43\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin43\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs24\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
32    CHARLES KINGSLEVS PREFACE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li19\ri0\sb115\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin19\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 away by any theory of diseased body or mind, one of the very loveliest and noblest human characters ; and }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 on that discovery the question must have followed, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 \emdash Was that, too, the product of disease ? And to }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 
that there can be, I trust, but one answer from }{\fs22\expnd4\expndtw20\insrsid8331928 the many. If here and there a man shall be }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 found daring enough to assert that the most ex}{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 quisite developments of humanity are grounded }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 on a lie; that its seemingly loveliest flowers are }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 
but fungi bred of corruption; then the general }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw16\insrsid8331928 heart of mankind will give their cynicism the }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 lie, and answer, " Not so! this is too beautiful }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 and too righteous to have been born of aught but }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 God."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li0\ri19\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin19\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 And when they found these persons, whatsoever might be their " denomination," all inclined to claim }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
some illumination, intuition, or direct vision of }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Eternal truth, Eternal good, Eternal beauty, even of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 that Eternal Father in whom all live and move and }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 have their being; yet making that claim in deepest }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 humility, amid confessions of their own weakness, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 sinfulness, nothingness, which to 
the self-satisfied }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 many seem exaggerated and all but insincere ; they }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 would have been, perhaps, more philosophical, as }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
well as more charitable; more in accordance with }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 Baconian induction, as well as with Saint Paul's direct assertions in his Epistles }{\i\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 to the }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 Corinthians, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 if they had said: " The testimony of so many }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 isolated persons to this fact is on the whole a fair }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 probability for its truth; and we are inclined to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 believe it, though it transcends our experience, on the same ground that we believe the united testi}{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 mony of travellers to a hundred natural wonders, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 which differ as utterly from anything which we ever}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li446\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin446\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\fs22\expnd3\expndtw16\insrsid8331928 
CHARLES KINGSLEY'S PREFACE    33}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li5\ri10\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 saw, as do these spiritual wonders from anything }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 which we have ever felt."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li0\ri10\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 And, if men are willing (as they may be hereafter) }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
patiently to examine the facts still further, they }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 may possibly find, in the very circumstances which }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 now make them scornfully incredulous of " mystic }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 raptures," a moral justification of their reality.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li0\ri10\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 It will be found that these " mystics " are, in }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 almost every case, persons who are suffering; }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 perhaps disappointed, perhaps lonely, perhaps un}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 healthy, perhaps all three at once, bereaved of all }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
social comfort, and tortured with disease.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li0\ri14\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin14\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 It is easy enough to say that such persons are }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
especially liable to melancholic delusions, liable to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 mistake the action of their diseased nerves for }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 external apparitions and voices ; liable, from weak}{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 ness of brain, and the too intense self-introspec}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 tion which disease often brings with it, to invest }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
trifling accidents with an undue importance, arid to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 regard them as supernatural monitions. Be it so. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Mystics in all ages have not been unaware of their }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 own dangers, their own liability to mistakes ; and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 have tried to distinguish, by such canons as their }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
age afforded them, the false from the true, the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 fleshly from the spiritual. But meanwhile, has this }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 hypothesis no moral justice, and therefore moral }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 probability (which must always depend on the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 amount of moral justice involved in any given hypothesis),\emdash namely, the hypothesis that to these }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 lonely sufferers more was granted than to the many, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 because they needed more ? that some direct and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
inward " beatific vision " of God was allowed to them, because they had no opportunity of gaining }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 any indirect and outward one from a smiling world,}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li110\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin110\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs24\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
34    CHARLES KINGSLEVS PREFACE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sb110\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 seen in the light of a joyful heart ?   There are those }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 
who have health and strength, health and beauty, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 wife and child ; a past which it is pleasant to re}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 member, and a future which it is pleasant to work }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 out.    Such find no difficulty in saying that God is }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 Love; that God cares for them, and His mercy is }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
over all his works.    But if they had lain, and lain }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 perhaps from childhood, in the lowest deep, in the }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 place of darkness, and of storm, while lover and }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 friend were hid away from them, and they sat upon }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 the parching rock, like Rizpah, the daughter of }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 
Aiah, beside the corpses of their dead sons, dead hopes,  dead health, dead love,  as  on a   ghastly }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 battlefield,   stript   among   the   dead,    like   those }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
who are wounded, and cut away from God's hand; }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 if they had struggled in the horrible mire of per}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 plexity, and felt all God's billows and waves go over }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 them, till they were weary of crying, and their throats }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 were dry, and their sight failed them with watching }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
so long for their God, and all the faith and prayer }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 which was left them was : " Thou wilt not leave my }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 soul  in hell, neither suffer Thy holy one to see }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 corruption "\emdash If all this\emdash or less than this had come }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 upon them; then they might have felt it not alto}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
gether so easy to say that God is Love.    They, too, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 might have longed for some inward proof, some }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 token which transcends all argument, that though }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 they go down to hell, God is there; that in their }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 most utter doubt and darkness, and desolation, all }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 
is well; for they dwell in God, and God in them. }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 They might have longed for it:  and  God might }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 have been just and merciful in giving it to them; }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 as He may have been in giving it already to thou}{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 sands, who by no other means could have been}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li418\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin418\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs24\insrsid8331928 
CHARLES KINGSLEVS PREFACE    }{\fs24\insrsid8331928 35}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri48\sb120\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin48\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 able to face the fearful storm of circumstances, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 which seemed to proclaim the Devil, and not God, }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 the master of the world. Why not let the mystics }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 tell their own story ? It is more philosophical, after }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
all, perhaps, as well as more Scriptural, to believe that " wisdom is justified of all her children."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li0\ri10\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 As for the impossibility of such a direct assurance, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
it is an assertion too silly to be seriously answered in }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 the nineteenth century, which is revealing weekly }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 wonders in the natural world, which would have }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 seemed impossible to our fathers. Shall the natural }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 world, at every great step, transcend our boldest dreams: and shall the spiritual world be limited by }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 us to the merest commonplaces of everyday ex}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 perience, especially when those very commonplaces }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
are yet utterly unexplained and miraculous ? When will men open their eyes to the plain axiom, that }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 nothing is impossible with God, save that He should }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 transgress His own nat
ure by being unjust and }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 unloving ?}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li38\ri0\sb5\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin38\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 But whether or not the popular religion shall }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
justify and satisfy the aspirations of the mystics, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 Tauler's sermons will do so. They will find there }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 the same spiritual food which they have found already in St. Bernard, a K
empis, and Madame }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 Guyon; and find there also, perhaps more clearly }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 than in any mystic writer, a safeguard against the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
dangers which specially beset them; against the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 danger of mistaking their passing emotions for real }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 and abiding love of good; against exalting any }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 peculiar intuition which they may think they have }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 attained, into a source of self-glorification, and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
fancying that they become something, by the act }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 of confessing themselves nothing.   For with Tauler,}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li62\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin62\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
36    CHARLES  KINGSLEY'S  PREFACE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li53\ri0\sb115\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin53\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 whether he be right or wrong in any given detail, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
practical righteousness, of the divinest and loftiest }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 kind, is at once the object, and the means, and the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
test, of all upward steps. God is the Supreme Good which man is intended to behold : but only by being }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 inspired by Him, owing all to Him, and copying }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
Him, can he behold Him, and in that sight find his }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 highest reward, and heaven itself.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li19\ri14\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin14\lin19\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 But there are those oppressed by doubts, and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 
fears, and sorrows, very different from those of which }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 I have just spoken, who may find in Tauler's genial }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 and funny pages a light which will stand them in }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 good stead in many an hour of darkness. There are }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 those, heaped beyond desert with every earthly }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
bliss, who have had to ask themselves, in awful }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 earnest, the question which all would so gladly put }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 away: Were I stripped to-morrow of all these things, }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 to stand alone and helpless, as I see thousands stand, what should I then have left ? They may }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 have been tempted to answer, with Medea in the }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 tragedy:\emdash }{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qc \li0\ri34\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin34\lin0\itap0 {\fs18\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 "Cheresta? . . . Io!"}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li0\ri48\sb77\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin48\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 But they have shrunk from that desperate self-}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
assertion, as they felt that, in the very act, they }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 should become, not a philosopher, but, as Medea did, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 a fiend. Tremblingly they have turned to religion }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 for comfort, under the glaring eye of that dark }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 spectre of bereavement, but have felt about all }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 
commonplaces, however true, as Job felt of old; }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 " Miserable comforters are ye all! }{\fs22\expnd13\expndtw67\insrsid8331928 ....}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928  Oh, that I }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 knew where I might find HIM. I would order my }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 cause before Him, and fill my mouth with arguments. }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 I should know the words which He would answer }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 me, and understand what He would say to me ! "}{\insrsid8331928 
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CHARLES KINGSLEY'S PREFACE    }{\i\fs22\expnd3\expndtw16\insrsid8331928 37}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi202\li24\ri10\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin24\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 To such, Tauler can tell something, though but a }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
little, of that still waste, where a man, losing all }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 things else, shall find himself face to face with God, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 and hear from Him that which no man can utter }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 again in words, even to the wife of his bosom. A }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 little, too, though but a little, can Tauler tell him }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 
how he may die to those whom he loves best on earth, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 that he may live to them, and love them better }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 still, in the ever-present heavens; of how he may }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 lose his life, and all persons and things which make }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 his life worth having, that he may find again all of }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
them which God has indeed created, in that God to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 whom all live eternally.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li10\ri24\sb5\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin24\lin10\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 There are those, too, who have endured a struggle }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
darker still; more rare, perhaps, but just as real as }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 the last; men on whom the " nothingness " of all }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 created things has flashed, not as a mere sentimental }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 and exaggerative metaphor, but as a stern, inevitable, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 logical fact; who have felt, if for a moment, that perhaps they and all they see and know,\emdash }{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \fi466\li1301\ri1229\sb226\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\tlhyph\tx3317\faauto\rin1229\lin1301\itap0 {\fs16\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 "Are but such stuff\line }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 As dreams are made of}{\fs16\insrsid8331928 
\tab "}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri34\sb182\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin34\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 who have hung, if but for one moment, self-poised }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 over the abyss of boundless doubt; who have }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 shuddered as they saw, if but for a moment, sun, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 and hills, and trees, and the faces which they loved, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
and the seeming-solid earth beneath their feet,\emdash  }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 yea, their own body, flesh and blood,\emdash reel, melt, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 and vanish, till nothing was left of the whole uni}{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 verse but solitary self with its eternal malady of }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 thought; who have cried out of the lowest deep: }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 " What is all which I love\emdash 
all which I hate ? I }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 gaze on it; but I see not it, but a picture on my}{\insrsid8331928 
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38    CHARLES KINGSLEY'S PREFACE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li14\ri53\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin53\lin14\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 own eyeball. I clutch it in despair: but I feel not it, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
but the nerves of my own finger-tip: if, indeed, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 eyeball and finger-tip be not, like the rest, phantoms }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 of a homeless mind, and the only certain existence }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 in the universe is I\emdash and that I at war with myself, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 self-discontented, self-despising, and self-damned."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li19\ri14\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin14\lin19\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 That problem Tauler will solve for no man; for }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
he will say that each man must solve it for himself, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 face to face with God alone : but he can tell how he }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 solved it for himself; how he came to find an }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 eternal light shining in for ever in that utter darkness, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 which the darkness could not comprehend; an }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
eternal ground in the midst of that abyss, which be}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 longed not to the abyss, nor to the outward world }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 which had vanished for the moment, nor to space, nor }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
time, nor any category of human thought, or mortal }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 existence; and that its substance was the Ever}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 lasting Personal Good, whose Love is Righteousness. }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 Tauler can point out the path by which he and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 others came to see that Light, to find that Rock of }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 Ages;\emdash the simple path of honest self-knowledge, }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 self-renunciation, self-restraint, in which every }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 upward step towards right exposes some fresh }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
depth of inward sinfulness, till the once proud man, crushed down, like Job and Paul, by the sense of his }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 own infinite meanness,- becomes, like them, a little child once more, and casts himself simply upon the }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 generosity of Him who made him :\emdash }{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-130\li1454\ri1166\sb144\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin1166\lin1454\itap0 {\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 " An infant crying in the night; An infant crying for the light, }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
And with no language but a cry."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li72\ri0\sb72\sl-245\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin72\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 And then, so Tauler will tell him, there may come }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
to him the vision, dim, perhaps, and fitting ill into clumsy words, but clearer, surer, nearer to him than}{\insrsid8331928 
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CHARLES KINGSLEY'S PREFACE    }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 39}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li19\ri19\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin19\lin19\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 the ground on which he treads, or than the foot }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 which treads it\emdash the vision of an Everlasting Spiritual }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Substance, Most Human and yet Most Divine, who }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 can endure ; and who, standing beneath all things, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
can make their spiritual substance endure likewise, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 though all worlds and aeons, birth, and growth, and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 death, matter, and space, and time, should melt in }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 very deed,\emdash }{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \fi-187\li1229\ri922\sb163\sl-154\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin922\lin1229\itap0 {\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 "And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, }{\fs16\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 Leave not a rack behind."}{
\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li0\ri19\sb154\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin19\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 If there be any to whom these sentences shall seem merely an enigmatic verbiage, darkening }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
counsel by words without knowledge, I can only }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 beg them not to look at Tauler's wisdom through my }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 folly; his }{\i\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 siccwm lumen }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 through my glare and smoke. As I said at first, he needs no Preface. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 There are those who will comprehend him without }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
comment. There are those, also, who will rise up }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 and follow him, and his Master.}{\insrsid8331928 
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\fs34\expnd4\expndtw20\insrsid8331928 The History and Life}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qc \li14\ri0\sl-374\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin14\itap0 {\fs26\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 of the}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li134\ri0\sl-374\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin134\itap0 {\fs34\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 Reverend Doctor John Tauler.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li1397\ri0\sb254\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin1397\itap0 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 FIRST CHAPTER}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sb178\sl-506\slmult0\keepn\nowidctlpar\pvpara\dropcapli2\dropcapt1\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs70\dn9\charscalex73\insrsid8331928 I
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb178\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 N the year of Our Lord 1340, it came to pass, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 that a Master in Holy Scripture preached oft-}{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 times in a certain city, and the people loved to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 hear him, and his teachings were the talk of the }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 
country for many leagues round. Now this came }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 to the ears of a layman who was rich in God's grace, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 and he was warned three times in his sleep that he }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 should go to the city where the Master dwelt, and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 hear him preach. Now that city was in another }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 
country, more than thirty leagues distant. Then }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 the man thought within himself, " I will go thither }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 and wait to see what God is purposed to do or }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 bring to pass there." So he came to that city and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 heard the Master preach five times. Then God gave }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
this man to perceive that the Master was a very }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 loving, gentle, good-hearted man by nature, and had }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 a good understanding of the Holy Scripture, but was }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 dark as to the light of grace ; and the man's heart }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 did yearn over him, and he went to the Master and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
said, " Dear and honoured Sir, I have travelled a }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 good thirty leagues on your account, to hear your teaching.   Now I have heard you preach five times,}{\insrsid8331928 
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TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE      }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 41}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li5\ri0\sb125\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 and }{\b\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 I }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 pray you in God's name to let me make my }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 confession to you/' The Master answered, " With }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 all my heart." Then the man confessed to the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
Master in all simplicity, and when he desired to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 receive the Lord's Body, the Master gave it him. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 When this had lasted twelve weeks, the man said to }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 the Master, " Dear Sir, I beg you for God's sake }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 to preach us a sermon, showing us how a man may }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 
attain to the highest and utmost point it is given }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 to us to reach in this present time." The Master }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 answered, " Ah ! dear son, what dost thou ask for ? }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 how shall I tell thee of such high things ? for I ween }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 thou wouldst understand but little thereof." But }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
the man said, " Ah! dear Master, even though I }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 should understand little or nothing thereof, yet I }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 cannot but thirst after it. Multitud
es flock to hear you; if there were only one among them all who }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 could understand you, your labour were well be}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
stowed." Then said the Master, " Dear son, if I am to do as thou sayest.T must needs give some study }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 and labour to the matter before I can put such a }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
sermon together." But the man would not cease }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 from his prayers and entreaties till the Master }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 promised him that he should have his desire.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li0\ri24\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin24\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 So, when the Master had finished his sermon, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 he announced to the people that in three days they }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 should come together again, ffor he had been re}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 quested to teach how a man could attain to the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
Highest and Best and nearest to God that might be }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 reached in this present time. And when the day }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 was come, much people came to the church, and the }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 man sat down in a place where he could hear well; and the Master came, and thus began his discourse, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 and said;}{\insrsid8331928 
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SECOND CHAPTER}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-211\li211\ri5\sb235\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin5\lin211\itap0 {\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 In the following gracious Sermon, twenty-four articles }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 
are rehearsed, whereby a man may perceive who are }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 the proper, true, reasonable, enlightened, contem}{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 plative men ; and what sort of man it is to whom }{
\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 Christ may well speak these words : }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 Ecce vere }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Israelita in quo dolus non est\emdash }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
Lo ! see a true }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 beholder of God in whom is no guile }{\scaps\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 (John }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 i. 47).}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sb235\sl-516\slmult0\keepn\nowidctlpar\pvpara\dropcapli2\dropcapt1\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs71\dn9\charscalex90\insrsid8331928 D
\par }\pard \qj \li5\ri0\sb235\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 EAR children, I have much to say to you in }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 this sermon concerning those things of which }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 I have promised to speak ; wherefore I cannot for }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 this time expound the gospel of the day to you as }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
is my wont, neither shall I speak much Latin in this }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 sermon; for what I have to say, I will prove with }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 Holy Scripture [and he said]: " Dear children, I }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 would have you to know that there be many men, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 who indeed attain to a clear understanding and }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 
reasonable judgment, but who do this by means of images and forms through the help of other }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 men, and without the Scriptures. Further, there be }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
found many who, when they mark that something is known to them through the Scriptures, are not there}{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 with content. Such a man is still far from his }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
highest and greatest good. Dear children, if a man had broken through these things, and was become }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 dead to them, and had got above forty stages of}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li499\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin499\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs24\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE       }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 43}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri10\sb120\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 contemplation, and above the conceptions of our }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 reason, whether they come to us through images }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 or forms of speech \emdash  if there were a man who }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 had come to this, he would be dearer and more }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
precious in God's sight than a hundred thousand }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 men who never get out of their own self, and live }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 after the way of their own choosing ; for to such }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 God cannot find entrance, nor work in their souls. This all comes of their own will, and their self-}{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 glorifying folly, which takes delight in the }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 dexterity of their own reason, in framing and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 handling conceptions. But those men who while on }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
earth have broken through those things, and have }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 given themselves to God in such sort that they }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 have died unto themselves, and have both made }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 themselves free from all outward forms, and the use }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 of sensible images in their exercises of contemplation, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
and humbly toiled and pressed onwards above the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 images of mere reason, as Dionysius says, " the light }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 of faith requires that a man should be raised above }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 
the apprehensions of reason; "\emdash know, dear children, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 that in such souls God doth find rest, and a place }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 wherein to dwell and to work when He chooseth. }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Now when God findeth thus no hindrance in such a man, He works His own works in him, and draweth }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 him truly to Himself in Himself. Now know that }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 such a man is rare, for his life and ways are hidden }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 from others, and unknown to them, except to such }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 as have a like life, 
of whom, alas ! I fear there be but }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 few. To this state, and this noble perfectness, none }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
can come except through boundless humility, an unclouded understanding, and a clear reason ; for it }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 has happened ere now that some great doctors }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 and priests have falle
n ; and a multitude of rational}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li14\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin14\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 
44      TAULER'S  HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li10\ri0\sb120\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin10\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 spirits belonging to the angelic hosts, who per}{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 ceived nothing else in their nature and essence }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 but mere reason, have erred hence, and fallen ever}{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 lastingly away from eternal truth. And this is }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
what happens still to all those who look to their own reason, and want to be and do as God by the light of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 their self-willed understanding. For which reason }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
it is profitable and needful to know who are the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 proper, truly reasonable, enlightened, contemplative }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 men. Now as far as I can find from Scripture, there }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 are four and twenty tokens which such a man must }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 possess.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li0\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 The First is given us by the highest Master of all doctors, arts and wisdom, namely, our Lord Jesus }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
Christ, when he says: " Hereby shall ye know }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 whether ye be my disciples, if ye have love one to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 another even as I have loved you." As much as to }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 say, 'Though ye should possess arts and wisdom, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 and high understanding, it is all in vain if ye have }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 not witha
l fidelity and love.' We believe that Balaam was so replete with understanding, that }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 he perceived what things God purposed to do or }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
reveal hundreds of years after his day ; but it availed }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 him nothing, forasmuch as he did not cleave with }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 love and loyalty to the things which he under}{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 stood.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li5\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 The Second mark appertaining to a truly reason}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 able, enlightened man is that he must become empty }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 of self; and this must not make him proud, but he }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 shall consider how he may ever more attain to this }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 freedom, and sit loose by
 all creatures.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li0\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 The Third Article : He shall resign Himself utterly }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 to God, that God may work His own works in him, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 and he shall not glory in the works as being his own,}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li677\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin677\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 
TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE     }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 45}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li91\ri0\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin91\itap0 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 but always think himself too mean to have done }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 them.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li82\ri5\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin5\lin82\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 The Fourth Article : He shall go out from himself }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
in all the things in which he is wont to seek and find }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 himself, whether belonging to time or to eternity, }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 and by so doing he shall win a true increase.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi202\li72\ri24\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin24\lin72\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Fifth Article : He shall not seek his own ends in }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 any creature, whether temporal or eternal, and }
{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 hereby he shall attain to perfect satisfaction and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 content.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li62\ri24\sb5\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin24\lin62\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
The Sixth Article: He shall always wait on that which God will have him to do, and shall try, with the help of God, to fulfil that to the uttermost, and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 shall take no glory to himself therefor.}{\insrsid8331928 

\par }\pard \qj \fi202\li53\ri43\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin43\lin53\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 The Seventh Article: He shall daily, without }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 ceasing, give up his will to the will of God, and en}
{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 deavour to will nothing but what God willeth.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li38\ri53\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin53\lin38\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 The Eighth Article : He shall bend all his powers }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 into submission.to God, and exercise them so con
}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 stantly and so strenuously in God, and with such }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 power and love, that God may work nothing in him }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
without his active concurrence, and he may do }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 nothing without God.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li24\ri77\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin77\lin24\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 The Ninth Article : He shall have the sense of the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
presence of God in all His works, at all times, and in }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 all places, whatever it please God }{\i\fs22\insrsid8331928 to }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 appoint, whether }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 it be sweet or bitter.}{
\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li14\ri91\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin91\lin14\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 The Tenth Article: All his pleasure and pain he }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 shall receive, not as from the creature, but from God ; }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 howbeit God ofttimes works through the creature, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 yet he shall receive all things as from God alone.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li0\ri110\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin110\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Eleventh Article : He shall not be led captive by }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
any lusting or desire after the creatures without due }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 necessity.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd3\expndtw17\insrsid8331928 
46    TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi197\li24\ri34\sb120\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin34\lin24\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 The Twelfth Article : No contradiction or mishap shall have power to move or constrain him so that it }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 separate him from the truth; therefore hold fast }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 always and entirely by the same.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li34\ri19\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin19\lin34\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 Thirteenth Article: He shall not be deceived by }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
the glory of the creature, nor yet by any false light, but in a spirit of kindness and love he shall confess }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 all things to be what they are, and from all things }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
draw out what is best, and use it to his own improve}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 ment, and in no wise to his own detriment; for such }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 at course is a certain sign of the presence of the Holy }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Spirit.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li38\ri14\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin14\lin38\itap0 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 Fourteenth Article: He shall at all times be }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 equipped and armed with all virtue, and ready to }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 fight against all vice and sin, and with his good }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 weapons he shall obtain the victory and the prize in }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 all conflicts.}{\insrsid8331928 

\par }\pard \qj \fi202\li53\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin53\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 Fifteenth Article: He shall confess the truth in }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 simplicity, and he shall mark what it is
 in itself, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 what God requireth of us, and what is possible to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 man, and then order his life accordingly, and act up }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 to what he confesses!}{
\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li58\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin58\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 The Sixteenth Article : He shall be a man of few }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 words and much inward life.}{\insrsid8331928 

\par }\pard \qj \fi197\li53\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin53\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 The Seventeenth Article: He shall be blameless }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 and righteous, but in no wise be puffed up by reason 
}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 of the samej}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li58\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin58\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 The Eighteenth Article: His conversation shall }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
be in all uprightness and sincerity; thus he shall let }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 his light shine before men, and he shall preach more }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 with his life than with his lips.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi202\li72\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin72\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 The Nineteenth Article : He shall seek the glory of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 God before all things, and have no other aim in 
}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 view.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li614\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin614\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs24\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE     47}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li34\ri10\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin34\itap0 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 The Twentieth Article: He shall be willing to }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 
take reproof; and when he striveth with any he }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 shall give way if the matter concern himself alone, and not God.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi197\li38\ri14\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin14\lin38\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 The Twenty-first Article: He shall not desire or }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
seek his own advantage, but think himself unworthy }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 of the least thing that falls to his lot.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi202\li29\ri19\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin19\lin29\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 The Twenty-second Article : He shall look upon }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 himself 
as the least wise and worthy man upon earth, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 yet find in himself great faith; and above all he }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
shall take no account of his own wisdom and the works of his own reason, but humble himself beneath all men. For the Author of all truth will not }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 work a supernatural work in the soul, unless He find }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 a thorough humility in a man, and go before his }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 doings with his perfect grace, as he did with St. Paul. But I fear, alas ! that little heed is taken to }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 this in these our days.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi197\li24\ri38\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin38\lin24\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 The Twenty-third Article : He shall set the life }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
and precepts of our Lord Jesus Christ before him for }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 a pattern to his life, words, and works, and without }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 ceasing look at himself therein as in a mirror, that, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 in so far as he is able, he may put off everything unbecoming the honoured image of our Lord.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi202\li5\ri48\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin48\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 The Twenty-fourth and last Article is: He shall comport himself as a man of small account,\emdash as }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 nothing more than a beginner in a good life; and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 though he should therefore be despised by many, it }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 shall be more w
elcome to him than all the favour of the world.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li0\ri67\sb245\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin67\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Now, dear children, these are the signs that the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
ground of a man's soul is truly reasonable, so that }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 the image of all truth shineth and teacheth therein:}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li14\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin14\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 
48     TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 and he who does not bear in himself these signs, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 may not and must not set any store by his own }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 reason, either in his own eyes or those of others. }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 That we all may become such a true image, in thorough sincerity and perfect humility, may He }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 help us who is the Eternal Truth, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.   Amen !}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li1574\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin1574\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 
THIRD CHAPTER}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-211\li211\ri5\sb240\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin5\lin211\itap0 {\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 How this pious man -privately reveals to the doctor }{\i\fs22\insrsid8331928 in part his own hidden holiness, and convicts the }
{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 Master that he is still walking in the night of ignorance, and has an unclean vessel, and therefore is yet }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 a Pharisee.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sb240\sl-520\slmult0\keepn\nowidctlpar\pvpara\dropcapli2\dropcapt1\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs70\dn8\insrsid8331928 W
\par }\pard \qj \li5\ri0\sb240\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 HEN this sermon was ended, the man went }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
home to his lodging, and wrote it down word for word as the Master had spoken it. And when he had finished he went to the Master, and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 said, " I have written out your sermon, and if it be }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 not troublesome I should like to read it to you." }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 The Master replied, " I shall be glad to hear it." }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
Thereupon the man read the sermon over, and then }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 said to the Master, " Dear sir, pray tell me if there }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 be a word wanting, that if so I may set it down." }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 The Master said, " Dear son, thou hast written every }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 word and phrase just as it came out of my mouth. I }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
tell thee, if any one would give me much money for it, I could not write down every word so exactly as }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 thou hast done it here, unless I set to afresh to draw }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
it from the Scripture. I confess that I am greatly astonished at thee to think that thou hast been con}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 cealed from me so long, and I should never have }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
perceived how full of wit thou aft, and so often as thou hast confessed to me, thou shouldst so have }{\b\fs18\charscalex123\insrsid8331928 p}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li48\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin48\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 
50       TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb134\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 hidden thy talent that I have never perceived it in }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 thee." Then the man made as though he would }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 depart, and said, " Dear Master, if God will I am }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 purposed to go home again." But the Master said, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
" Dear son, what shouldst thou do at home ? Thou }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 hast neither wife nor child to provide for; thou }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 .must eat there as well as here : for if God will, I am }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 minded to preach again of a perfect life." Then }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 said the man, " Dear Master, .you must know that }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
I have not come hither for the sake of your preaching, but because I thought, with God's help, to give }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 you some good counsel." Quoth the Master, " How }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
shouldst thou give counsel, who art but a layman, and understandest not the Scriptures ; and it is, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 moreover, not thy place to preach if thou wouldst. }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
Stay here a little longer; perchance God will give }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 me to preach such a sermon as thou wouldst care }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 to hear." Then the man said, " Dear Master, I }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 would fain say somewhat to you, but I fear that you }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 would be displeased to hear it." But the Master }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
answered, " Dear son, say what thou wilt; I can answer for it that I shall take it in good part." }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 Hereupon, the man said, " You are a great clerk, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 and have taught us a good less
on in this sermon, but }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 you yourself do not live according to it; yet you }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 try to persuade me to stay here that you may }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
preach me yet another sermon. Sir, I give you to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 know that neither your sermons, nor any outward }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 words that man can speak, have power to work }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 any good in me, for man's words have in many ways }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 hindered me much more than they have helped me. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
And this is the reason : it often happened that when }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 I came away from the sermon, I brought certain }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 false notions away with me, which I hardly got rid}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li475\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin475\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs24\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE       }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 51}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb120\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 of in a long while with great toil; but if the highest }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
Teacher of all truth shall come to a man, he must }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw18\insrsid8331928 be empty and quit of all the things of time. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Know ye that when this same Master cometh to me, }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 He teaches me more in an hour than you or all }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 the doctors from Adam to the Judgment Day will }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
ever do." Then said the Master, " Dear son, stay here, I pray thee, and celebrate the Lord's Death }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 with me." Whereon the man answered, " Seeing }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 that you adjure me so solem
nly, it may be that, in }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 obedience to God, I ought to stay with you; but }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 I will not do it unless you promise to receive all that }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
I have said to you, and all I may yet say to you, as }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 under the seal of confession, so that none may know }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw17\insrsid8331928 of it." Quoth the Master: "Dear son, that I }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 willingly promise, if only that thou wilt stay here." }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Then said the man, " Sir, ye must know, that though }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
you have taught us many good things in this sermon, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 the image came into my mind while you were preaching, that it was as if one should take good }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
wine and mix it with lees, so that it grew muddy." }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 Quoth the Master: " Dear son, what dost thou }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw17\insrsid8331928 mean by this ?" The man said, " I mean that }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 your vessel is unclean, and much lees are cleaving }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 to it, and the cause is, that you have suffered }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
yourself to be killed by the letter, and are killing }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 yourself still every day and hour, albeit you your}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 self know full well that the Scripture saith, ' The }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.' Know, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 that same letter which now killeth you will make }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
you alive again, if so be you are willing ; but in the }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 life you are now living, know that you have no }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 light, but you are in the night, in which you are }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 indeed able to understand the letter, but have not}{\insrsid8331928 
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52     TAULER'S  HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb125\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 yet tasted the sweetness of the Holy Ghost; and, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 withal, you are yet a Pharisee." Then said the }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Master, " Dear son, I would have thee to know that, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 old as I am, I have never been spoken to in such }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 
fashion all my life." The man said, " Where is }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 your preaching now ? Do you see now what you }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 are when you are brought to the proof ? And }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
although you think that I have spoken too hardly }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 to you, you are in truth guilty of all I have said, and }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 I will prove to you from your own self that it is true." }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 Then said the Master, " I ask for no more, for I have }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 ever been an enemy to all Pharisees." Quoth the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
man, " I will first tell you how it is that the letter is }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 killing you. Dear sir, as you know yourself, when }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 you were arrived at the age to understand good and }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 evil, you began to learn the letter, and in so doing }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 you sought your own welfare, and to this day you }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
are in the same mind ; that is to say, you are trusting }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 to your learning and parts, and you do not love and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 intend God alone, but you are in the letter, and }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 intend and seek yourself, and not the glory of God, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 as the Scripture teacheth us to do. You have a }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
leaning towards the creatures, and specially towards }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 one creature, and love that creature with your whole }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 heart above measure, and that is, moreover, the }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 cause why the letter killeth you. And whereas I }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 said that your vessel is unclean; that is also true, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
inasmuch as you have not in all things a single eye }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 to God. If you look into yourself, you will, for one }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 thing, find it out by the vanity and love of carnal }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 ease whereby your vessel is spoiled and filled with }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 lees ; wherefore, when the pure unmixed wine of }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
godly doctrine has gone through this unclean vessel, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 it comes to pass that your  teaching  is without}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li605\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin605\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 
TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE     }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 53}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li38\ri10\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin38\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 favour, and brings no grace to pure, loving hearts. And whereas I further said that you were still in }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 darkness, and had not the true light; this is also }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 true, and it may be seen hereby that so few receive }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
the grace of the Holy Spirit through your teaching. }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 And whereas I said that you were a Pharisee, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 that is -also true; but you are not one of the }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 hypocritical Pharisees. Was it not a mark of the Pharisees that they loved and sought themselves in }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 all things, and not the glory of God ? Now examine }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 yourself, dear sir, and see if you are not a proper }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 Pharisee in the eyes of God. Know, dear Master, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 
that there are many people in the world who are }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 all called Pharisees in God's sight, be they great or }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 small, according to what their hearts or lives are }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 bent upon."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li0\ri38\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin38\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 As the man spoke these words the Master fell on }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 his neck and kissed him, and said: "A likewise }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 has come into my mind. It has happened to me as it }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 did to the heathen woman at the well. For know, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
dear son, that thou hast laid bare all my faults before }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 my eyes ; thou hast told me what I had hidden up }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 within me, and specially that I have an affection for }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 one creature ; but I tell thee of a truth that I know }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 it not myself, nor do I believe that any human being }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
in the world can know of it. I wonder greatly who can have told thee this of me ? But doubt not that }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 thou hast it from God. Now, therefore, I pray thee, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
dear son, that thou celebrate our Lord's Death, and be thou my ghostly father, and let me be thy poor sinful son." Then said the man, " Dear sir, if you }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 speak
 so contrary to ordinances, I will not stay with you, but ride home again ; that I assure you." Here}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 upon said the Master, " Ah, no! I pray thee, for God's}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs24\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
54     TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb120\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs24\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 sake, do not so; stay awhile with me; I promise }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 thee readily not to speak thus any more. I am }{
\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 minded, with God's help, to begin a better course, }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 and I will gladly follow thy counsel, whatsoever }{\fs24\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 
thou deemest best, if I may but amend my }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 life." Then said the man, " I tell you of a truth, }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 that the letter and learning lead many great doctors }{
\fs24\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 astray, and bring some into purgatory and some }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 into hell, according as their life here hath been,\emdash I }{\fs24\insrsid8331928 
tell you of a truth, it is no light matter that God }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 should give a man such great understanding and skill, and mastery in the Scripture, and he should }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 
not put it in practice in his life."}{\insrsid8331928 
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FOURTH CHAPTER}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-206\li226\ri0\sb235\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin226\itap0 {\i\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 How God had wrought a great miracle through this }{\i\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 pious man, and how this had come t
o pass because }{\i\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 God found in him a good and thorough humility.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sb230\sl-516\slmult0\keepn\nowidctlpar\pvpara\dropcapli2\dropcapt1\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs71\dn9\charscalex101\insrsid8331928 T
\par }\pard \qj \li5\ri0\sb230\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 HEN said the Master, " I pray thee, for God's }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 sake }{\i\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 to }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 tell me how it is that thou hast }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 attained to such a life, and how thou didst begin }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 thy spiritual life, and what have been thy exercises }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 and thy history." The man said, " That is, indeed, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 a simple request: for I tell you truly, if I should }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
recount, or write, all the wondrous dealings of God }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 with me, a poor sinner, for the last twelve years, I }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 verily believe that you have not a book large enough }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 to contain it if it were all written; however, I will }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 tell you somewhat thereof for this time.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi230\li0\ri0\sb5\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 " The first thing that helped me was, that God }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
found in me a sincere and utterly self-surrendering }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 humility. Now I do not think there is any need to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 tell you the bodily exercises by which I brought my }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 flesh into subjection : for men's natures and dis}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 positions are very unlike ; but whenever a man has }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
given himself up to God with utter hurhility, God }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 will not fail to give him such exercises, by tempta}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 tions and other trials, as He perceives to be profitable }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 to the man, and such as he is well able to bear and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 endure if he be only willing.    But this you ought to}{\insrsid8331928 
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56     TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li14\ri0\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin14\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 know : he who asks counsel of many people will be apt }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
to go often astray ; for each one will point him to his own experience. But ofttimes a man may exercise }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 himself in a certain practice which is good and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
profitable to himself ; while, if another did the same, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 it might very likely be useless, or even hurtful to }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 him. The Devil often stirs up a man to practise }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 great austerities, with the intent that the man may }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 grow sick and infirm thereby, or weak in his brain, or }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 do himself some other injury.}{
\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi221\li0\ri10\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 " I will tell you how it befell me in the beginning. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 I was reading 
the German books about the lives of the Saints, when I thought to myself, ' These were }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 men who lived on this earth as well as I, and perhaps, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
too, had not sinned as I have.' And when these }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 thoughts came into my head, I began to exercise }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 myself in the life of the Saints with some severities, }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 but grew so sick thereby that I was brought to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 death's door. And it came to pass one morning at }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
break of day, that I had exercised myself so that }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 my eyelids closed from very weakness, and I fell }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 asleep. And in my sleep it was as though a voice }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 spoke to me and said, ' Thou foolish man, if thou art }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 bent upon killing thyself before thy time, thou }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
wilt have to bear a heavy punishment; but if thou }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 didst suffer God to exercise thee, He could exercise }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 thee better than thou by thyself, or with the Devil's }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 counsel.' When I heard speak of the Devil I awoke }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 in a great fright, rose up, and walked out into a wood }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 
nigh to the town. Then I thought within myself, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 I had begun these exercises without counsel: I will }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 go and tell the old hermit all that has happened to }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 me. And I did so, and told him the words that I }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 had heard in my sleep, and besought him in God's}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li360\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin360\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 
TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE        }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 57}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri5\sb130\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin5\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 name to give me the best counsel he could. So the hermit said,' Thou must know that if I am to advise, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 thou must first tell me all about thy exercises.' So I }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 did, and he said, ' By whose counsel hast thou done }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
these things ?' and I answered, ' Of my own will.' }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 Then the hermit said, ' Then know that it has been }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 the Devil's counsel, and thou must not obey him any }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 more as long as thou livest, but thou must utterly }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 give thyself up to God ; He can exercise thee much }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 
better than thou thyself, or the Devil.' Behold, }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 dear Master, thereupon I ceased from these exercises, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 and yielded myself and my doings altogether up to }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 
God. For the rest, dear sir, you must know that }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 by nature I was a very ingenious, clever, good-}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 hearted man; but I had not the Scriptures in my }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 hand, like you, but could only learn to know myself by my natural intelligence ; and with this sometimes }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 I got so far that I was surprised at myself. And }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 once upon a time, I thought in my reason, ' Thou }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 hast such good parts, may be, if thou shouldst }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
give thy mind to it with all earnestness, thou couldst }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 attain to comprehend somewhat of divine things.' }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 But as this thought came into my head I marked }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 straightway that it was the Devil's counsel, and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 saw that it was all false. So I said, ' O thou Evil }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
Spirit, what' an impure false counsel hast thou put }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 in my heart, thou bad, false counsellor ! If we had }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 such a God I would not give a berry for him.' After }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 that, another night, when I was saying my matins,* an ardent longing came over me, so that I said, ' O }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 eternal and merciful God, that it were thy will to }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 give me to discover something that should be above }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 all our sensual reason !'   As soon as I had said it}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li1301\ri0\sb82\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin1301\itap0 {\fs18\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 * Three o'clock in the morning.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 
58         TAULER'S  HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\b\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 I }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 was sorely affrighted at this great longing, and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
said with great fervour, ' Ah, my God and my Lord, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 forgive me of Thy boundless mercy for having done }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
this, and that it should have entered into the heart of a poor worm like me to desire such a great gift }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 of such rich grace, and I confess indeed that I have }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
not always lived as I ought of right to do. I confess, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 moreover, dear Lord, that I have been unthankful }{\i\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
Thee in all things, so that methinks I am not }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 worthy that the earth should bear me, still less that }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 such an ardent, gracious desire should spring up in }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 me ; wherefore my body must be punished for my }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 sin.' With that I threw off my garments and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 
scourged myself till the blood ran down my shoulders. }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 And as these words remained in my heart and on }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 my lips till the day broke, and the blood was flowing }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 down, in that same hour God showed His mercy on }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 me, so that my mind was filled with a clear under}{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 
standing. And in that same hour I was deprived }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 of all my natural reason; but the time seemed all }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 too short to me. And when I was left to myself }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 again I saw a supernatural mighty wonder and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 sign, insomuch that I could have cried with St. }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
Peter, ' Lord, it is good for me to be here !' Now }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 know, dear sir, that in that self-same short hour }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 I received more truth and more illumination in }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 my understanding than all the teachers could ever teach me from now till the Judgment Day by word }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 of mouth, and with all their natural learning and }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 science. Now, dear Master, I have said enough for }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 this time, as to how it stands with you."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li1613\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin1613\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 
FIFTH CHAPTER}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-211\li211\ri10\sb235\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin211\itap0 {\i\fs22\expnd-1\expndtw-6\insrsid8331928 How God converted a heathen in a foreign land through }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 
this pious layman, and how that the Holy Ghost still to this day displays His grace with the same power }{\i\fs22\expnd-1\expndtw-7\insrsid8331928 that He showed on the day of Pentecost, when He finds }{\i\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
fitting hearts to receive Him. Further, how this }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 pious man gives still better instruction to the Doctor }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 in these matters, and shows him that he is a true }{
\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 Pharisee, and brings him to submit to be converted }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 and amend his ways.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi984\li5\ri0\sb235\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd3\expndtw17\insrsid8331928  said the Master, "If God give thee }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 J[ grace to say still more, I should heartily }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 rejoice in it, for I tell thee in all sincerity that I have }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 listened to thee gladly, dear son: now I beg thee }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
for God's sake do not leave me, but stay here, and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 if thou lack money I will not let thee want for any}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 thing, if I have to pledge a book for it." Then said }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 the man, " God reward you, dear sir: know that I }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 need not your kindness, for God hath rtiade me a }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
steward of His goods, so that I have of earthly wealth five thousand florins, which are God's, and if I knew }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 where there was need of them, or where God would }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
have them bestowed, I would give them away." }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 Then said the Master, " Then, dear son, thou art }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 indeed the steward of a rich man and a great Lord ! }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 I am in great wonderment about that thou saidst,}{\insrsid8331928 
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6o     TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qr \li0\ri0\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd3\expndtw16\insrsid8331928 that I and all teachers could not teach thee as }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 much by the Day of Judgment as thou hast been }{
\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 taught in an hour.   Now tell me, for I wish to }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 hear, has the Scripture proceeded from the Holy }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 
Ghost ? "   Then said the man, " Sir, methinks it }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 seems impossible that after I have said so much to }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 you, you should talk in such a childish fashion! }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Look here, dear Master !   I will ask you a question, and if with all your reason you can explain it to me, either by the Scriptures, or without the Scriptures, I }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 will gi
ve you ten thousand florins."   Then said the }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 Master, " What is that ? "   The man said, " Can }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 you instruct me how I should write a letter to a }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 heathen far away in a heathen land, in such fashion }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 and language that the heathen should be able to }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 
read and understand it; and make the letter such }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 that the heathen should come to the Christian faith ?" }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 Then said the Master, " Dear son, these are the }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 works of the Holy Ghost; tell me where has this }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 happened ?   If thou know anything of the matter, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 tell m
e in what way this came to pass, and whether }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 it happened  to  thyself ?"    Then said the man, }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw17\insrsid8331928 " Albeit I am unworthy of it, yet did the Holy }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 Spirit work through me, a poor sinner; and how }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 it came to pass would take long to tell, and make }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 such a long story
 that one might write a large book }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 about it: The heathen was a very good-hearted }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 man, and often cried to Heaven, and called upon }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
Him who had made him and all the world, and said : }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 ' O Creator of all creatures, I have been born in this }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 lend: now the Jews have another faith, the Chris}{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 tians another.   O Lord, who art over all, and hast }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 made all creatures, if there be now any faith better }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
than that in which I have been born, or if there be}{\insrsid8331928 
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TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE     }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 61}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb130\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 any other better still, show it to me in what wise }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
Thou wilt, so that I may believe it, and I will gladly }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 obey Thee and believe: but if it should be that Thou }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
dost not show it me, and I should die in my faith, since I knew no better, if there were a better faith, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 but Thou hadst not shown it nor revealed it to me, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
Thou wouldst have done me a grievous injustice.' }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 Now, behold, dear sir, a letter was sent to that }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 heathen, written by me, a poor sinner, in such sort }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 
that he came to the Christian faith; and he wrote me a }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 letter back again, telling what had befallen him, the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 which stood written in a good German tongue, that }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 I could read it quite well. Dear sir, there were }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 much to be said on this matter, but for this time it }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
is enough; you are well able to mark the meaning }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 thereof." Then said the Master, " God is wonderful }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 in all His works and gifts ! Dear son, thou hast }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 told me very strange things."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li5\ri10\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 The man said, "Dear sir, I fear that I have said }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 some things to you which have vexed you greatly in 
}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 your mind; it is because I am a layman, and you }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 are a great doctor of Holy Scripture, and yet I have said so much to you after the manner of a teacher. }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 But that I have meant it well and kindly, and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 sought your soul's salvation in it, and simply the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
glory of God, and nothing else, of that God is my }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 witness." Then said the Master, " Dear son, if }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 it will not make thee angry, I will tell thee what }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 vexes me." Then said the man, "Yea, dear sir, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 speak without fear ; I promise not to take it amiss." }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
The Master said, " It amazes me greatly, and is }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 very hard to receive, that thou being a layman, and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 I a priest, I am to take instruction from thee; and }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 it also troubles me much that thou calledst me a}{\insrsid8331928 
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6a      TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb134\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 Pharisee." Then said the man, " Is there nothing }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw16\insrsid8331928 else that you cannot take in ?" The Master }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 answered, " No, I know of nothing else." Then }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 said the man, " Shall I also explain }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 you these }{
\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 two }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 things ? " He answered," Yes, dear son, I pray thee }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 in all kindness to do so, for God's sake." Then said the man, " Now
 tell me, dear Master, how it was, or }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 whose work it was, that the blessed Saint Katharine, }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 who was but a young virgin barely fourteen years old, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
overcame some fifty of the great masters, and moreover so prevailed over them that they willingly went }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 to martyrdom ? Who wrought this ?" Then said }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 
the Master, "The Holy Ghost did this." Quoth }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 the man, " Do you not believe that the Holy Ghost has still the same power ? " The Master, " Yes, I }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
believe it fully." The man, " Wherefore then do you }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 not believe that the Holy Ghost is speaking to you }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 at this moment through me, a poor sinner and un}{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 worthy man, and is minded to speak to you ? He }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 spoke the truth through Caiaphas, who was also a }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw16\insrsid8331928 
sinner; and know, that since you take what I }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 have said to you so much amiss, I will refrain }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 from saying anything to you for the future." Then }{
\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 said the Master, " Dear son, do not do that: I }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 hope, if God will, to be the better for thy words." }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
The man said, " Ah, dear si*, it vexes you also that I }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 should have called you a Pharisee, and yet I gave you }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
such full proof of it that you could not deny it. This should have been enough to content you, but since it }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 is not, I must say still more, and prove to you once }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 
again, that I am right, and that you are what I }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 said. Dear Master, you know very well that our }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 Lord Jesus Christ said himself, ' Beware of the }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 Pharisees, for they bind heavy burdens, and griev-}{\insrsid8331928 
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TAULER'S HISTORY   AND LIFE     }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 63}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri10\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 ous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw16\insrsid8331928 but they themselves will not move them with }{
\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 one of their fingers.' Now, dear sir, look at }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 yourself; in this sermon of yours you have bound }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
and laid upon us twenty-four articles, and you keep }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 few enough of them yourself. Again : Our Lord said, ' Beware of the Pharisees: whatsoever they }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 bid you observ
e, that observe and do, but do not ye after their works, for they say and do not.' " Quoth }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 the Master, " Our Blessed Lord spoke these words }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
to the men of his own day." The man said, " He }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 speaks them still, now and evermore, to all men. }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 Dear Master, look at yourself; whether you touch }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 these burdens and bear them in your life is known to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 God and also to yourself; but I confess that as far as }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
I can judge of your present condition, I would rather }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 follow your words than your life. Only look at }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 yourself, and see if you are not a Pharisee in the }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 eyes of God; though not one of those false hypo}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 critical Pharisees whose portion is in hell-fire." The }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
Master said, " I know not what I shall say; this I }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 see plainly, that I am a sinner, and am resolved to }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 better my life, if I die for it. Dear son, I cannot }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 wait longer; I pray thee, simply for God's sake, to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 counsel me how I shall set about this work, and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
show me and teach me how I may attain to the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 highest perfection that a man may reach on earth." }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Then said the man, " Dear sir, do not be wroth with }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 me; but I tell you of a truth that such counsel is }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 scarcely to be given you; for if you are to be con}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
verted, all your wonted habits must be broken }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 through with great pain; because you must altogether }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 change your old way of life: and besides I take you }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 to be near fifty years old."   Then said the Master,}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li29\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin29\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs24\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
64     TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb125\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 " }{\b\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 It }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 may be so; but O dear son, to him who came }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 into the vineyard at the eleventh hour was given }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 his penny the same as to him who came in at the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
first. I tell thee, dear son, I have well considered }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 the matter, and my heart is so firmly set that if I }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 knew this moment that I must die for it, I would }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 yet, with the help of God, cease from my carnal life, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 and my earthly reasonings, and live according to thy counsel. I beseech thee for God's sake not to }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 keep me longer waiting, but to tell me this moment }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 how I must begin." Then said the man, " Dear }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
sir, because you have received grace from God, and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 are willing to humble yourself and submit, and to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 bow down before a poor, mean, unworthy creature ; }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 for all this let us give the glory to God, to whom it }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 is due, for this grace proceeds from him, and flows }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
back to Him. Since then, dear sir, I am to instruct }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 you, and counsel you in God's name, I will look to }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 Him for help, and do so in love to Him, and set }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 you a task such as they give children to begin }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 with at school,\emdash namely, the four-and-twenty letters }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
of the alphabet, beginning with A :}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \qc \li62\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin62\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\fs24\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 SIXTH CHAPTER}{
\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-192\li192\ri5\sb226\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin5\lin192\itap0 {\i\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 This is the golden }{\i\expnd18\expndtw92\insrsid8331928 ABC}{\i\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928  which this pious man set the }{
\i\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 Doctor to learn, for the amending of his life, and }{\i\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 which, doubtless, it were very profitable and needful }{\i\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
for us all to repeat many times and oft, and amend }{\i\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 our lives thereafter.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sb235\sl-511\slmult0\keepn\nowidctlpar\pvpara\dropcapli2\dropcapt1\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs69\dn9\charscalex90\insrsid8331928 A
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sb235\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 FTER  a manly  and not a childish sort, ye }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 shall, with  thorough  earnestness, begin  a }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 good life.     \\}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \fi-360\li394\ri0\sb245\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin394\itap0 {\scaps\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 Dad }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 ways ye shall eschew, and practice all good}{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 ness with diligence and full purpose of mind.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li14\ri0\sb230\nowidctlpar\tx1306\faauto\rin0\lin14\itap0 {\scaps\fs22\insrsid8331928 C\tab }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 endeavour to keep the middle path in}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li398\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin398\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 all things, with seemliness and moderation.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \fi-403\li442\ri0\sb245\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin442\itap0 {\scaps\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 "T)emean }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 yourself humbly in word and work, from }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 the inward holiness of your heart.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \fi-398\li442\ri0\sb240\sl-245\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin442\itap0 {\fs22\insrsid8331928 "C* }{\scaps\fs22\insrsid8331928 ntirely }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 give up your own will; evermore cleave }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
earnestly to God, and forsake Him not.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li10\ri0\sb235\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin10\itap0 {\scaps\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 T^orward }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 and ready shall ye be to all good works, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
without murmuring, whatever be commanded }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 you.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li192\ri0\sb29\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin192\itap0 {\b\fs16\charscalex136\insrsid8331928 \'a3}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li34\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin34\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 66      }{
\b\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \fi-408\li466\ri0\sb125\sl-245\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin466\itap0 {\b\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 f~~* }{\scaps\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 ive }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 
heed to exercise yourself in all godly works of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 mercy toward the body or the spirit.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \fi-461\li542\ri0\sb230\sl-245\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin542\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 TJT }{\scaps\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 ave }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
no backward glances after the world, or the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 creatures, or their doings.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li62\ri0\sb230\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin62\itap0 {\scaps\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 Tnwardly }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 in your heart ponder over your past }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
life   with   honesty}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\sub\insrsid8331928 s}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928    sincere   repentance  in the }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 bitterness of your heart, and tears in your eyes.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \fi-96\li494\ri0\sb235\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin494\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928  }{\scaps\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 nightly }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 and resolutely withstand the assaults 
}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928  of the Devil, the Flesh, and the World.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li38\ri0\sb240\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin38\itap0 {\fs22\insrsid8331928 T  }{\scaps\fs22\insrsid8331928 earn }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 to conquer long-cherished sloth with vigour, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
together with all effeminacy of the body, and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 subservience to the Devil.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li29\ri0\sb235\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin29\itap0 {\scaps\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 A/Take }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 your abode in God, with fervent love, in }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
certain hope, with strong faith, and be towards }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 your neighbour as towards yourself.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \fi-418\li480\ri0\sb240\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin480\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 TVTo other man's good things shall ye desire, be }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
they what they may, corporeal or spiritual.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \fi-422\li461\ri0\sb235\sl-245\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin461\itap0 {\scaps\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 /"\\rder }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 all things so that you make the best and }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 not the worst of them.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li5\ri0\sb235\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin5\itap0 {\scaps\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 Penance, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 that is, suffering for your sin, you shall }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
take willingly, whether it come from God or the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 creatures.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \fi782\li0\ri0\sb240\sl-245\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 , remission, and absolution, you shall }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928  give to all who have ever done you wrong in }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 thought, word, or deed.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li605\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin605\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs24\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE     67}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \fi-408\li518\ri0\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin518\itap0 {\b\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 13 }{\scaps\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 eceive }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 
all things that befall you with meekness, }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 and draw improvement from them.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \fi-336\li432\ri0\sb235\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin432\itap0 {\scaps\fs24\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Coul }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 and body, estate and reputation, keep un-}{
\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-6\insrsid8331928 denied with all care and diligence.*}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \fi-389\li456\ri0\sb240\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin456\itap0 {\scaps\fs24\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 \bullet "Truthful }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 and upright shall ye be towards all, }{
\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 without guile or cunning.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li43\ri0\sb235\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin43\itap0 {\scaps\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-6\insrsid8331928 "VXTantonness }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-6\insrsid8331928 and excess, of whatsoever kind it }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
may be, ye shall learn to lay aside, and turn }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 from it with all your heart.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li34\ri0\sb235\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin34\itap0 {\fs24\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 Vi., our Blessed Lord's life and death, shall ye }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 follow, and wholly conform yourself thereunto }{
\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 with all your might.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li24\ri0\sb245\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin24\itap0 {\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 Y/"}{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-2\super\insrsid8331928 E}{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928  shall evermore, without ceasing, beseech our }{
\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 blessed Lady that she help you to learn this our }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-8\insrsid8331928 lesson well.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li24\ri0\sb235\sl-245\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin24\itap0 {\scaps\fs24\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 Vealously }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 keep a rein over your will and your senses, that they may be at peace with all that 
}{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-7\insrsid8331928 God doth, and also with all His creatures.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \fi211\li10\ri0\sb475\sl-245\slmult0\nowidctlpar\tx3648\faauto\rin0\lin10\itap0 {\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 All this lesson must be learnt of a fr^e heart and\line }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-6\insrsid8331928 will, without cavilling.}{
\fs24\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\i\fs24\insrsid8331928 !}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi163\li0\ri53\sb365\sl-154\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin53\lin0\itap0 {\fs18\insrsid8331928 * The letters R and S have been transposed; the rest follow the }{\fs18\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 
order of the original, in which, as in the translation, the important word }{\fs18\expnd-1\expndtw-7\insrsid8331928 of the sentence is by no means always the one with which it commences. }{\fs18\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 The letters V }{
\b\fs18\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 and }{\fs18\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 W are wanting in the original.\emdash T*.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li1387\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin1387\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
SEVENTH CHAPTER}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-211\li259\ri0\sb235\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin259\itap0 {\i\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 How the Doctor learns this task very quickly (though }{\i\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 
with trouble), and how this layman further in-}{\i\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 structeth him in the shortest way to the highest }{\i\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 contemplation ; also how he was obliged to begin a }{\i\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 
dying life, and exercise himself therein till at last he prevailed over himself. And in this following }{\i\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 lesson lies the true ground of almost all the sermons that stand in this book, from which lesson also this }{
\i\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 Doctor obtained his understanding of Holy Scrip}{\i\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 ture, and the perfecting of his life, as shall be here}{\i\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 after set forth.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sb235\sl-506\slmult0\keepn\nowidctlpar\pvpara\dropcapli2\dropcapt1\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs69\dn8\charscalex91\insrsid8331928 N
\par }\pard \ql \li48\ri0\sb235\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin48\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 OW,  dear  sir,  take   kindly   as from  God, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 without cavilling, this child's task, which }{
\fs22\expnd3\expndtw17\insrsid8331928 He  sets  you by the mouth of me, a poor and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 unworthy human being."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li0\ri5\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin5\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Then said the Master, " However thou mayst call }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
this a child's task, methinks it needs a man's strength }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 to attack it. Now tell me, dear son, how long a }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 time wilt thou give me to learn this lesson ? " The }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 man answered, " We will take five weeks, in honour }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 of the five wounds of Christ, that you may learn it }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 well. You shall be your own schoolmaster ; and when }
{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 you are not perfect in any one of these letters, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 and think yourself hardly able to learn it, then cast }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 aside your garment and chas
tise your body, that it}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li586\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin586\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 
TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE      69}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li29\ri0\sb139\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin29\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 may be brought into subjection to your soul and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 reason." Then said the Master, " I will gladly be }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 obedient."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li24\ri5\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin5\lin24\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 Now when this discipline had lasted three weeks, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 the man said to the Master
, " Dear sir, how goes it }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 with you ? " The Master said, " Dear son, thou }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 must know that I have received more stripes in these }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
three weeks about your lesson than I ever did in all }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 my days before." Then said the man, " Sir, you }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 well know that no man giveth h
is pupil a new task before he have learnt the first lines." Then said the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 Master, " If I said that I knew them, I should say }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 what is not true." Then said the man, " Dear sir, }
{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 go on as you are doing till you know your lesson }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 right well."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li0\ri10\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 But at the end of another three weeks the Master }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
sent for the man, and said to him, " Dear son, rejoice with me, for I think, with God's help, I could say the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 first line; and if thou art willing, I will repeat over }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
the whole lesson to thee." " No, dear sir," said the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 man, " I will gladly rejoice with you, and take your }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 word for it that you know it." Then said the }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Master, " I tell thee of a truth it has gone hard with }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 me. And now, dear son, I pray thee give me }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 
further instruction." Then said the man, " I can }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 for myself teach you nothing further; bujt if so be }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 that God willeth to teach you through me, I will }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 gladly do my part, and be an instrument in the }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 Lord's hand by which He may work out His }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 purposes.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi221\li5\ri29\sb5\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin29\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 " Hearken, dear Master: I will counsel you in }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
godly love and brotherly faithfulness. If it should happen to you as to the young man in the Gospel, to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 whom our Lord said, ' Go and sell all that thou hast}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li53\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin53\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd3\expndtw16\insrsid8331928 
70     TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb134\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 and give to the poor, and come and follow me,' I }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 will not be answerable." Then said the Master, }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 " Dear son, have no fears on that score, for I have }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 already left all that I have, and, with God's help, am }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
resolved to go forward, and be obedient unto God }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 and to thee." Then said the man, " Since your }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 heart is steadfastly fixed to commit yourself wholly }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 unto God, I counsel you in all faithfulness that ye }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 be obedient to your order and your superiors; as it }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
may be that you may be brought into great per}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 plexity if you be minded to go the straight and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 narrow way, and that you will be hard pressed and }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 assailed, and most of all by your brethren. And if }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 this should come to pass, your earthly feelings will }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
seek everywhere for help, and make you call to mind the words in which you pledged yourself to God, and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 also other things, with the intent that, if possible, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
they might break away from the cross; and that }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 must not be, but you must yield a willing obedience }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 to suffer all that is appointed you, from whatsoever }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 it may proceed. For know that you must needs }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 walk in that same path of which our Lord spoke to }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 that young man;\emdash 
you must take up your cross }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 and follow our Lord Jesus Christ and His example, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 in utter sincerity, humility, and patience, and must }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
let go all your proud, ingenious reason, which you }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 have through your learning in the Scripture. You }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
shall also for a time neither study nor preach, and you shall demean yourself with great simplicity }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 towards your penitents ; for when they have ended }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
their confession, you shall give them no further }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 counsel than to say to them, ' I will learn how to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 counsel myself, and when I can do that I will also }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 counsel you.'   And if you are asked when you }{\b\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 will}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li562\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin562\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 
TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE     }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 71}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li34\ri0\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin34\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 preach, say, as you can with truth, that you have }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
not time at present, and so you will get rid of the people." Then said the Master, " Dear son, I will }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 willingly do so; but how then shall I occupy }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
myself ? " The man replied, " You shall enter into }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 your cell, and read your Hours, and also chant in the choir if you feel inclined, and shall say mass every }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
day. And what time is left, you shall set before you }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 the sufferings of our Lord, and contemplate your }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 own life in the mirror of His, and meditate on your }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 wasted time in which you have been living for }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 yourself, and how small has been your love com}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
pared to His love. In all lowliness ye shall study }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 these things, whereby in some measure ye may be }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
brought to true humility, and also wean yourself from your old habits, and cease from them. And }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 then, when our Lord sees that the time is come, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
He will make of you a new man, so that you shall }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 be born again of God.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi259\li0\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 " Nevertheless, you must know that before this }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 can come to pass, you must sell all that you have, }{
\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 and humbly yield it up to God, that you may }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 truly make Him your end, and give up to Him all }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 that you possess in your carnal pride, whether 
}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 through the Scriptures or without; or whatever it }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 be, whereby you might reap honour in this world, or }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
in the which you may aforetime have taken pleasure }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 or delight, you must let it all go, and, with Mary }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Magdalene, fall down at Christ's feet, and earnestly }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 strive to enter on a new course. And so doing, without doubt, the Eternal Heavenly Prince will }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 look down on you with the eye of His good pleasure, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 and He will not leave His work undone in you, but }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 will urge you still further, that you may be tried and}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li29\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin29\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 
72     TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li24\ri0\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin24\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 purified as gold in the fire ; and it may even come to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
pass, that He shall give you to drink of the bitter }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 cup that He gave to His only-begotten Son. For }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 it is my belief that one bitter drop which God }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 will pour out for you will be that your good works }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 and all your refraining from evil, yea your whole }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
life will be despised and turned to nought in the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 eyes of the people; and all your spiritual children }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
will forsake you and think you are gone out of your mind, and all your good friends and your brothers in }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 the convent will be offended at your life, and say }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
that you have taken to strange ways.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi226\li0\ri19\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin19\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 " But when these things come upon you, be not in any wise dismayed, but rejoice, for then your salva}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
tion draweth nigh; howbeit, no doubt, your human }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 weakness will shrink back in terror, and give way. }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
Therefore, dear Master, you must not be fainthearted, but trust firmly in God, for He forsakes }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 none of His servants, as you know well from the }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 
examples of the blessed saints. Now, dear sir, if }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 so be that you are minded to take these things in }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 hand, know that there is nothing better or more }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 profitable for you at this present than an entire, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 hearty, humble self-surrender in all things, whether sweet or bitter, painful or pleasant, so that you may }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 be able to say with truth, ' Ah, my Lord and my }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 God, if it were thy will that I should remain till the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
Day of Judgment in this suffering and tribulation, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 yet would I not fall away from thee, but would desire }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 ever to be constant in thy service.' Dear sir, I see }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 well, by God's grace, how you are thinking in your }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 heart, that I have said very hard things to you, and this is why I begged you beforehand to let me go, }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 and told you that if you went back like that young}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li547\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin547\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs24\insrsid8331928 
TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE      }{\fs24\insrsid8331928 73}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri10\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 man, }{\b\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 I }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 would not have it laid to my charge." Then }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 said the Master, " Thou sayest truly; I confess it }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 does seem to me a hard thing to follow your counsel." The man answered, " Yet you begged me to show you }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 the shortest way to the highest perfectness. Now I know no shorter nor surer way than to follow in the }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 footsteps of our Lord Jesus Christ. But, dear sir, }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 I counsel you in all faithfulness, to take a certain }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 space of time to consider these matters, and then }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
in God's name do as God gives you grace to do." }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 Then said the Master, " That will I do, and wait and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 see whether, with the help of God, I may prevail."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li1392\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin1392\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 
EIGHTH CHAPTER}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-202\li202\ri5\sb245\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin5\lin202\itap0 {\i\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 How it fared with the Doctor after this, and how he fell }{\i\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
into great tribulation and contempt, till he fell ill }{\i\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 thereby; and how the layman counselled him, and }{\i\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 allowed him to help nature with some good food and }{
\i\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 spices, and afterwards departed from him.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sb230\sl-511\slmult0\keepn\nowidctlpar\pvpara\dropcapli2\dropcapt1\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs67\dn8\charscalex96\insrsid8331928 O
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb230\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 N the eleventh day after this, the Master }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 sent for the man, and said to him, " Ah, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 dear son, what agony and struggle and fighting have }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 I not had within me day and night, before I was }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
able to overcome the Devil and my own flesh. But }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 now by God's grace I have gathered myself together }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 with all my powers inward and outward, and set my }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 hand to this work with good courage, and am pur}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 posed to remain steadfast therein, come weal come }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
woe." Then said the man, " Dear sir, do you remember still all I said to you when you asked me }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 how you should begin ? " The Master answered, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
" Yes, the moment thou didst depart I wrote down }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 all thou hadst said to me, word for word." Then }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 said the man, " Dear sir, that through God you }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 have found this bold heart, rejoices me from the }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 bottom of my soul, and I am as well pleased as }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 
if it had happened to myself, so God be my }{\fs22\expnd4\expndtw21\insrsid8331928 witness. And now in the name of our Lord }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 Jesus Christ, set forward."   Then the man took}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li566\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin566\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 
TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE      }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 75}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li19\ri5\sb134\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin5\lin19\itap0 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 his leave, and the Master did as he had been }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 bidden.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li5\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 Now it came to pass that before a year was out the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
Master grew to be despised of all his familiar friends }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 in the convent, and his spiritual children all forsook }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 him as entirely as if they had never seen him. And }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 this he found very hard to bear, and it caused him }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 such grief that his head was like to turn. Then he }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 
sent for the man and told him how it fared with }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 him; how he was ill in his whole body, and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 especially in his head. Then said the man, " Sir, }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 you must not be dismayed, but you must humbly }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 cleave to God, and put your firm trust in Him. }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
Know that this account of yours pleases me well, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 and it stands well with your life, and will grow better }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 every day.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li0\ri14\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin14\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 " Dear sir, you know well that he who will walk in }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
the right way, and tread this path, must be made a }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 partaker of the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ; }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 therefore be not afraid, but commit yourself wholly }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 to God. For know that the same thing happened to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 me also. Meanwhile you must take some remedies }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
while you are in this state, and treat your body well }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 with good food which may strengthen it. A box of }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 spices was made for me, and I will have such an one }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 prepared for you to strengthen your head. But you must know that I always gave myself up body and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 soul to (?od, that He might do with them what he }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 pleased."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li0\ri38\sb5\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin38\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 Then said the Master, " But thou didst tell me }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
before that I must shun good eating and drinking." }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 The man answered, " Yes, sir, that was in the first }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 beginning, when the flesh was yet wanton, but now }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 that it is tamed and obedient to the spirit, we may}{\insrsid8331928 
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76      TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 come to its help with remedies, else we should tempt }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
God. So long as you are in this sickness, you will be }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 serving God to cherish your body by allowable means, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 but not to live disorderly; that must not be. Dear }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 sir, make God your help, and go forward with cheer}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 ful mind, and commit yourself to God with true and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
thorough resignation, and put your trust in His }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 boundless mercy, and wait for His grace to show you }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 what He will have you to do, and then with His help }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 strive to fulfil that to the uttermost, whether it be }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 bitter or sweet. Further, I beseech you for God's }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
sake not to take it amiss of me, but I must go home }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 on account of a very important matter, which I }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 assure you in all earnestness I have much at heart; }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 but if so be that you could not or would not do }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 without me, send into the town for me, and I will }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 glad
ly come; but if you can bear up without the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 aid of any creature, that would be best of all for }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 you." Then said the Master, " Dear son, say not so, }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 for I cannot and would not do without thee for any }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 length of time; it would be hard indeed if thou didst }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 fors
ake me, for then I should have no consolation left }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 in the world." The man said, " Dear sir, I will show you a better Comforter, that is the Holy Ghost, who }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
has called and invited and brought you to this point, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 by means of me His poor creature, but it is His }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 work which has been wrought in you, and not }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 mine; I have been merely His instrument, and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 served Him therein, and have done so right willingly, for the glory of God and the salvation of your soul." }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Then said the Master, " Dear son, may God be thine }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 eternal reward! Since it is so weighty a matter, I }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
will commit myself to God, and bear this suffering }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 as best I may."   The man said, " Dear sir, since you}{\insrsid8331928 
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TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE     }{\i\fs22\expnd3\expndtw19\insrsid8331928 77}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb130\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 are now under the yoke, and have entered on a }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 spiritual life and obedience to God, and have volun}{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 tarily devoted yourself thereto, you should know }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 how to live discreetly and wisely, and to govern }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
yourself aright; and do not let it repent you because }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 you are forsaken of the creatures, but if it should }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 happen that you lack money, or have need of some, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 put a part of your books in pawn, and do not suffer yourself to want for anything, but by no means sell }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 the books, for a time will come when good books will }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 be very useful, and you will have need of them." }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Then the man took his leave and departed from that }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
place, but the Master's eyes filled with tears, and he }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 began to weep.}{\insrsid8331928 
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NINTH CHAPTER}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-202\li240\ri0\sb235\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin240\itap0 {\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 How Doctor Tauler was visited, touched, and illumin}{\i\fs22\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 
ated after a wonderful manner by God, and how the }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 layman came to him again, and admonished him }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 tenderly to begin to preach afresh, and to exercise }{
\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 himself in the Holy Scriptures. Also concerning a }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 strange event that befell him afterwards, whereby he }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
was still more tried and humbled, yet not without fruit.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sb235\sl-516\slmult0\keepn\nowidctlpar\pvpara\dropcapli2\dropcapt1\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs70\dn8\charscalex88\insrsid8331928 N
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri24\sb235\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin24\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 OW when the Master had suffered thus for two }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 years, from sore assaults and temptations of }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 the Devil, and great contempt from all his friends, and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 also great poverty, so that he was obliged to pledge }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
a part of his books, and withal fell into great weak}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 ness of the body, and he had demeaned himself with }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 great humility throughout;\emdash behold, it came to pass }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 on the Feast of St. Paul's Conversion, that in the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 night he was overtaken by the most grievous assault }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
that may be imagined, whereby all his natural powers }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 were so overcome with weakness that when the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 time for matins came he could not go in to chapel, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 but remained in his cell, and commended himself to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 God in great humility, without help or consolation }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
from any creature. And as he lay in this state of }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 weakness, he thought of the sufferings of our Lord }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 Jesus Christ, and His great love that He had for us,}{\insrsid8331928 

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TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE      }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 79}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri10\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 and considered his own life, how poor his life had }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 been compared to the love of God. Whereupon he }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 was overwhelmed with contrition for all his sins and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 all his wasted time, and exclaimed with tongue and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
heart: " O merciful God ! have mercy upon me a }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 poor sinner, for thy boundless mercy's sake, for I am }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 not worthy that the earth should bear me." And }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 as he was lying in this weakness and great sad}{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 ness, but fully awake, he heard with his bodily }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 
ears a voice saying: " Stand fast in thy peace, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 and trust God, and know that when He was on }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 earth in human nature, He made the sick whom He }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 healed in body sound also in soul." Straightway }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 when these words were uttered, he lost his senses }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
and reason, and knew not how or where he was. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 But when he came to himself again, he felt within }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 himself that he was possessed of a new strength and }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 might in all powers outward and inward, and had }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 also a clear understanding in those things which }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
aforetime were dark to him, and he wondered greatly }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 whence this came, and thought to himself, " I cannot }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 come to the bottom of this matter. I will send for }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 my friend and tell him all that has happened." So }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 he sent for the man; and when he was come, the }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 
Master told him all that had befallen him. Then }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 the man said, " It rejoices me from the bottom of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 my heart to hear all that you have told me. Dear }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 sir, you must know that you have now. for the first }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 time received the true and mighty gift of God's grace; }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
and I tell you of a truth that now, for the first time, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 your soul has been touched by the Most High; and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 know that, as the letter hath in some measure slain }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 you, so it shall likewise make you alive again, }{\b\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 for }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 your doctrine will come now from the Holy Ghost,}{\insrsid8331928 
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80      TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li14\ri0\sb134\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin14\itap0 {\fs22\insrsid8331928 which before came from the flesh; for you have now }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 received the light of the Holy Spirit by the grace of }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 God, and you already know the Holy Scriptures. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 Therefore you have now a great advantage, and you }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
will henceforward have a much clearer insight into }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 the Scripture than you had before. For, as you }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 know, the Scripture sounds in many places as if it contradict
ed itself, but since that you have now, by }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 the grace of God, received the Holy Scriptures into your own heart through the illumination of the Holy }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
Spirit, you will perceive that all Scripture has the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 same intent, and does not contradict itself, and you }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 will also be able rightly to follow the pattern left us }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 by the Lord Jesus Christ. You ought also to begin }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 to preach again, and to teach your fellow-Christians, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
and show them the right path to eternal life. The }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 time is come now when good books will be profitable }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 to you; for know that one of your sermons will be }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 more profitable now, and the people will receive }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 more fruit therefrom, than from a hundred aforetime, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
for the words that you say now, coming from a pure }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 soul, will have a pure and simple favour. Wherefore, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 just as much as you have been despised by the people, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 so shall you now be esteemed and beloved by them. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 But it will be most especially needful that you keep }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
yourself humble, for you know well that he who }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 carries a great treasure exposed to view must ever be }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 on his guard against thieves. I tell you truly the }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Devil is in great terror when he perceives that God }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 has bestowed on any man such a noble and precious }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
treasure, and the devils will set all their arts and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 wisdom, and their lusts too, to work, to rob and }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 bereave you of this costly treasure; wherefore }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 look wisely to your goings, for nothing will so greatly}{\insrsid8331928 
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TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE      }{\fs24\insrsid8331928 81}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri24\sb120\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin24\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 help you to preserve it as utter humility. Now, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 dear sir
, it is no longer needful for me to speak to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 you as a teacher, as I have done hitherto, for you }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 have now the right and true Master}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\super\insrsid8331928 1}
{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 , whose instru}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 ment I have been : to Him give' ear, and obey His }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 commands; this is my most faithful counsel. And }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 now, in all godly love, I desire to receive instruction from you, for I have, with God's help, accomplished the good work for which I was sent and came hither. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
I would fain, if God will, sojourn here a good while }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 and hear you preach. If God give you to do so, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 methinks it were well that you should now begin to }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 preach again." Then said the Master, " Dear son, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 what had I better do; I have pledged a great many }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
good books, as many as come to thirty florins ? " }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 The man answered, " Look ! I will give you that }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 sum, for God's sake, and if you have any of it left }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 over, give it back to God, for all that we have is }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 His, whether temporal or spiritual." So the Master }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
redeemed his books, and ordered notice to be given }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 that he would preach three days after. The people }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 wondered much thereat, because it was so long since }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 he had preached, and a great crowd gathered }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 together to hear him. And when the Master came and saw that there was such a multitude, he went }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 up into a pulpit in a high place that they might hear him all the better. Then he held his hood before his eyes, and said, "O merciful, Eternal }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 
God, if it be Thy will, give me so to speak that it may }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 be to the praise and glory of Thy name and the good }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
of this people." As he said these words, his eyes overflowed with tears of tenderness, so that he could not speak a word for weeping, and this lasted so long }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 that the people grew angry.   At last a man spoke}{
\insrsid8331928 
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82      TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 out of the crowd, " Sir, how long are we to stand }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 here ? It is getting late; if you do not mean to }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 preach, let us go home." But the Master remained }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 in earnest prayer, and said again to God, " Oh, my }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 
Lord and my God, if it be Thy divine will, take }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 this weeping from my eyes, and give me to deliver }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw17\insrsid8331928 this sermon to Thy praise and glory. But, if }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 Thou dost not do it, I take it as a sign that Thou judgest I have not yet been enough put to shame. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Now fulfil, dear Lord, Thy divine will on me Thy }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 poor creature, to Thy praise and my necessities." }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 This all availed nothing; he wept yet more and more. }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
Then he saw that God would have it so, and said, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 with weeping eyes, " Dear children, I am sorry from }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 my heart that I have kept you here so long, for I }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 cannot speak a word to-day for weeping; pray God for me, that He may help me, and then I will make }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
amends to you, if God give me grace, another time, as soon as ever I am able." So the people departed, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 and this tale was spread abroad and resounded }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
through the whole city, so that he became a public }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 laughing-stock, despised by all; and the people }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 said, " Now we all see that he has become a down}{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 right fool." And his own brethren strictly forbade }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 him to preach any more, because he did the convent }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
great injury thereby, and disgraced the order with the senseless practices that he had taken up, and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 which had disordered his brain.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li5\ri29\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin29\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 Then the Master sent for the man, and told him all }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
that had happened. The man said, " Dear Master, be of good cheer, and be not dismayed at these }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 things. The Bridegroom is wont to behave so to all }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 His b
est and dearest friends, and it is a certain sign}{\insrsid8331928 
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TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE      }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 83}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri14\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin14\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 that God is your good friend, for, without a doubt, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
He has seen some speck of pride concealed within }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 you that you have not perceived, nor been conscious }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 of yo
urself, and therefore it is that you have been put to shame. You may have received some great }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 gifts of God, which you yourself do not know or perceive, that have been given you by means of the }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 patience with which you have endured this assault; }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 therefore be of good cheer, and be joyful and humble. }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
Neither should you think this a strange thing, for I }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 have seen many such instances in other people. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 You shall not despise this pressure of the cross which }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 God has sent you, but count it a great blessing and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 favour from God. I counsel you that you remain }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
alone for the next five days, and endure without }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 speaking to any, to the praise and glory of the five }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 wounds of our Lord Jesus Christ. And when the }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 five days are ended, beg your Prior to give you per}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 mission to deliver a sermon in Latin. If he refuse, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
beg him to let you try in the school and read a lecture }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 to the brethren." And he did so; and read to his }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
brethren such an excellent lecture as they had never heard in their lives before, so grand and deep and }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 godly was his doctrine. Then they gave him }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
permission to preach a sermon; and after one of }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 their brethren had preached in the church where }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 the Master was wont to preach, he gave notice to }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 the people, and said, " I am ordered to announce }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 that to-morrow the Master intends to preach in this }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
place; but if it should befall him as it did lately, I }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 will not be answerable for it. So much I can say }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 with truth, that in our school he has read us a lecture }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 containing  such great and profound  instruction,}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li5\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin5\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\fs22\expnd3\expndtw19\insrsid8331928 
84      TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb139\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 with high and divine wisdom, as we have not heard }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 for a long time. But what he will do this time I }{
\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 know not; God only knoweth." The next day }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 after, the Master came to the convent (it was a }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
convent of ladies), and began to preach, and said :}{\insrsid8331928 
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TENTH CHAPTER}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-211\li250\ri0\sb230\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin250\itap0 {\b\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 An }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 excellent sermon which this Doctor delivered in a }{
\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 convent after his illumination, concerning Christ }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 the true Bridegroom of the soul, in the which he }{\i\fs22\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 showed how she is to fol
low Him in true, shamefaced, }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 humble, and patient resignation, and how Christ tries her beforehand in divers ways, and at last }{\i\fs22\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 accepts her lovingly. Taken from these words}
{\fs22\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 \emdash  }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 " Ecce sponsus venit, exite obviam ei" }{\scaps\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 (Matt. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 xxv. 6).}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sb240\sl-516\slmult0\keepn\nowidctlpar\pvpara\dropcapli2\dropcapt1\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs71\dn9\charscalex90\insrsid8331928 D
\par }\pard \qj \li29\ri24\sb240\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin24\lin29\itap0 {\fs22\expnd3\expndtw18\insrsid8331928 EAR children, it may be now two years or more since I last preached. I spoke }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
to you then of four-and-twenty Articles, and it was }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 then my custom to speak much Latin, and to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 make many quotations; but I intend to do so no }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 more, but if I wish to talk Latin, I will do so when }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 the learned are present, who can understand it. For }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
this time repeat only an Ave Maria to begin with, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 and pray for God's grace.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li0\ri38\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin38\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd3\expndtw17\insrsid8331928 Dear children, I have taken a text on which }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 I mean to preach this sermon, and not to go }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 beyond it: in the vulgar tongue it runs thus,\emdash  }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 " }{\i\fs22\insrsid8331928 Behold the Bridegroom cometh, go ye out to }{\b\i\fs22\insrsid8331928 meet }{
\i\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 him."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi197\li10\ri53\sb5\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin53\lin10\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 The Bridegroom is our Lord Jesus Christ, ~nd the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
Bride is the Holy Church and Christendom.   Now}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li24\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin24\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 
86      TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li14\ri0\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin14\itap0 {\fs22\insrsid8331928 we are all called brides of Christ, wherefore we ought }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 to be willing to go forth and meet our Bridegroom ; }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 but, alas ! we are not so. The true paths and straight }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 highways by which to go out to meet the Bridegroom }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
are, alas ! nowadays quite deserted and falling into }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 decay, till we have come hardly to perceive where }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 they are ; nay, this highway is to many quite strange }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 and unknown, so that they do not go out to meet }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 the Bridegroom, as they are in duty bound to do, of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
which I will speak another time, with God's help; }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 but now, since we hear that we are all called brides, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 I will tell you somewhat concerning what the Bride }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 must do in order to go and meet the Bridegroom.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li5\ri19\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin19\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 It is seemly that a faithful Bride should avoid }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 everything that is displeasing to the Bridegroom, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 such as vain-glory, pride, envy, and all the other sins of this world, and all the delights of the body and the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
flesh, whether it be the ease and indulgence of the body, or other things which are beyond the necessaries of life. Further, it beseems a faithful Bride to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 be shamefaced. When this comes to pass, and the }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Bride, for her Bridegroom's sake, has despised and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 given up all these things, then she begins to be }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
somewhat well-pleasing to the Bridegroom.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li0\ri34\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin34\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 But, if she desires to be yet more well-pleasing in }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 His sight, she must humbly bow down before Him, 
}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 and say with heart and lips, " Ah! my dear Lord }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 and Bridegroom, Thou knowest all hearts. I have said to Thee, with my whole heart, that I desire to }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 do all that I can and may, and to do it willingly, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 as far as Thou givest me to perceive through my con}{\fs22\insrsid8331928 scienc
e what is agreeable and well-pleasing to Thee." }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 When the Bride makes this vow to the Bridegroom, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 He turneth himself and begins to look upon her.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li542\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin542\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 
TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE      }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 87}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri19\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin19\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 Then she beseeches Him to bestow upon her some gift }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 as a token 
of love. What is the gift ? It is that she }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 is inwardly and outwardly beset with divers assaults, with which He is wont to endow his special friends.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li0\ri29\sb5\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin29\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 But if the Bride be as yet unaccustomed to suffer, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
she will say, " Ah ! dear Lord and Bridegroom, this }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 is very hard upon me; I greatly fear that I shall }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
scarcely be able to endure it. Therefore, dear Lord and Bridegroom, I pray Thee to make my burden }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 somewhat more tolerable, or else to take a part of it }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
away." Then the Bridegroom answers, " Tell me }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 then, dear Bride, should the Bride fare better than }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 the Bridegroom has fared ? If thou desirest to meet }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 the Bridegroom, thou must imitate Him in some sort, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 and it is, moreover, reasonable that a faithful Bride }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
should suffer somewhat with Him for her Bride}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 groom's sake." Now when the Bride heareth what }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 is the will of her Bridegroom, and how grave a matter }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
it is, she is sore affrighted, and says, " Dear Lord and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 Bridegroom, be not wroth with me, for I will gladly }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 hearken unto Thee: appoint unto me what Thou }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 wilt; I am willing to suffer all things with Thy help }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 and in thy love." When the Bridegroom heareth }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
this, He loveth the Bride yet better than He did }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 before, and giveth her to drink of a still better cup. This cup is that she is to cease from all her own }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 thoughts, an
d all her works and retrainings will give }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 her no content, for she can take pleasure in nothing }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 that is her own. However good the actions may be }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 in themselves, she is always thinking how she shall }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 anger her Bridegroom therewith, and feareth much }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 that she wi
ll, perhaps, have to suffer a great punish}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 ment for them hereafter. Moreover, she is derided }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 by all, and these things are accounted her folly.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 
88      TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li19\ri0\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin19\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Now, children, by reason of all these things, her natural powers become wearied out and grow feeble, }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 
insomuch that she is constantly in fear lest she should }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 not hold out to the end, but must die at last; and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 hereupon she is greatly terrified, for she is yet some}{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 what timorous and faint-hearted. Then she cries }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 earnestly unto the Bridegroom, and says, " Ah! dear }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
Lord and Bridegroom, how great are Thy terrors; }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 know that I cannot endure them long : I must die." }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 But the Bridegroom answers, " If thou wilt in truth }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 go out to meet thy Bridegroom, it is fitting that thou }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 should first tread some portion of the path that He has travelled. Now whereas the Bridegroom has }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 suffered shame, hunger, cold, thirst, heat, and bitter }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 pains, for three and thirty years, and at last a bitter }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
death, for the Bride's sake, out of pure love, is it not }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 just and right that the Bride should venture even }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 her life for the Bridegroom's sake, out of love, }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 and with all her heart ? Verily, if thou hadst the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 right sort of love and true faithfulness unto thy }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Bridegroom, all thy fear would vanish."
}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li14\ri5\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin5\lin14\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Then when she hears these words of the Bridegroom her whole heart is moved with fear, and she }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
says, " Ah ! dear Lord, I acknowledge in all sincerity }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 that I have done wrong, and I am out of all measure }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 terrified at it; I grieve from the bottom of my heart }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 that I have not with a faithful heart yielded myself up unto Thee, even unto death. Dear Lord and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Bridegroom, I here vow and promise to Thee surely }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 that all which Thou wiliest I also will. Come sickness, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 come health, come pleasure or pain, sweet or bitter, cold or heat, wet or dry, whatever Thou wiliest, that }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 do I also will; and desire altogether to come out from my own will, and to yield a whole and willing obedi-}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li634\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin634\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs24\insrsid8331928 
TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE      }{\fs24\insrsid8331928 89}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li72\ri34\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin34\lin72\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 ence unto Thee, and never to desire aught else either }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
in will or thought: only let Thy will be accomplished }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 in me, Thy poor unworthy creature, in time and in }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 eternity. For, dear Lord, when I-look at what I am, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 I am not worthy that the earth should bear me."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li29\ri38\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin38\lin29\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Now when the Bridegroom seeth this entire and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 faithf
ul will in the Bride, and her deep and thorough }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 humility, what does He then do ? His heart yearns }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 over the Bride, and giveth her a very costly, noble, }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 sweet cup to drink. What is this cup ? It is that }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 she suffers yet far more from all manner of tempta}{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 tion 
and tribulation than she has ever suffered }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 before. And when the Bride perceiveth this, and }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 seeth the Bridegroom's earnestness and good pleasure }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 
concerning her, she suff ereth all these things willingly }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 and gladly for the Bridegroom's sake, and boweth }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 herself down humbly before Him, and saith, " Ah ! }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 dear Lord and Bridegroom, it is just and right that Thou shouldest not will as }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 I }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 will, but I desire and }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 ought to will as Thou wilt; I receive this gift right }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 willingly and gladly for Thy love from Thy divine han
d, whether it be pleasant or painful to the flesh, I acquiesce wholly in it for love of Thee."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li0\ri86\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin86\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\insrsid8331928 Now when the Bridegroom, in His eternal wisdom, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
perceives this disposition within His humble Bride, and her thorough earnestness, she begins to grow precious to Him, and from hearty love He giveth her }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 to suffer in all her nature, until the Bride is wholly }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 purified from all faults and stain of sin, and become }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 perfectly fair and unspotted. Then He says, " Now }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 
rise up, my beloved, my pleasant, my beautiful Bride, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 for Thou art pure and without spot, and altogether }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 lovely in my eyes." Then He looks upon her with }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 infinite, mighty, divine love.    To this joyful high-}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li43\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin43\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\fs24\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 go     }{
\b\fs24\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li19\ri0\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin19\itap0 {\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 tide cometh the Father of the Eternal Bridegroom, }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 
and saith to the Bride, " Rise up, my lovely, chosen }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 beloved, it is time to go to Church," and He taketh }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 the Bridegroom and the Bride, and leadeth them to }{
\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 the Church, and marries them to each other, and }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 binds them together with divine love; yea, God doth }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 
bind them together in bonds so fast that they can }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 never be parted again, either in time or eternity. }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-6\insrsid8331928 And when, in these divine espousals, they have been }{
\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 made one, the Bridegroom saith, " O, beloved and }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 Eternal Father, what shall be our wedding-gift ? " }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 
And the Father saith, " The Holy Ghost, for that it is His office to be in the Father's stead." And He }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-6\insrsid8331928 sheds forth upon the Bride the torrent of divine love, }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 
and this love flows out unto the Bridegroom, inso}{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-6\insrsid8331928 much that the Bride loseth herself, and is intoxicated }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-7\insrsid8331928 with love, so that she forgets herself and all creatures, }{
\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 in time or eternity, together with herself.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi221\li5\ri19\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin19\lin5\itap0 {\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 Now he only who is bidden to such a spiritual, }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-7\insrsid8331928 
glorious marriage-feast, and has obeyed the call, does }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 for the first time perceive and taste the real, true, }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 blessed, gracious sweetness of the Holy Spirit. Now }{
\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 is this Bride a true worshipper, for she worshippeth }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 the Father in the Holy Spirit. In this marriage-}{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 
feast is joy upon joy, and therein is more peace and }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 joy in one hour than all the creatures can yield in }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 time or in eternity. The joy that the Bride hath }{
\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 with the Bridegroom is so vast that no senses or }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 reason can apprehend or attain unto it."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li0\ri29\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin29\lin0\itap0 {\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 As the Doctor spoke these words a man cried out }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 
with a loud voice, " It is true ! " and fell down as if he were dead. Then a woman called out from the }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-6\insrsid8331928 crowd and said, " Master, leave off, or this-man will }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 die on
 your hands."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li629\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin629\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs24\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE      91}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li48\ri0\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin48\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Then the Master said, " Ah, dear children, and if }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
the Bridegroom take the Bride and lead her home }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 with Him, we will gladly yield her to Him; nevertheless, I will make an end and leave off. Dear children, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
let us all cry unto the Lord our God in Heaven. For }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 verily we have all need so to do, seeing that, alas ! we }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 have grown so dull of hearing and foolish of heart that }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 
none of us has compassion on his fellow, although we }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 confess that we are all called brothers and sisters. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
There be also few who are willing to fight their way against their own flesh, and follow the Bridegroom,, }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 in order to reach a nobler joy and a glorious wedding-}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 feast.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li19\ri53\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin53\lin19\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 I give you to know that in these days those be few }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 and far betwe
en who do truly go out to meet the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Bridegroom, such as there were many in the olden }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 time. Therefore it behoveth each one to look at }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
himself and consider his ways with great earnestness. }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 For the time is at hand\emdash nay, it is already come\emdash  }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 when it may be said of most who are now living here, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 that " they have eyes and see not, and ears that hear }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 not." Dear children, let us all strive to enter into }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
this wedding-feast, most rich in joy, and honour, and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 blessedness.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li0\ri77\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin77\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 But when the Bride departs from this marriage-}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
feast and is left to herself, and beholds that she has come back again to this miserable earthly state, she }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 says within herself, " O ! poor miserable creature that }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
I am, am I here again ? " And she is sad in herself; nevertheless, she is so utterly resigned in boundless humility to her Bridegroom, that she in no wise may }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 think of or desire His presence, because she deems }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 herself wholly unworthy thereof. But the Bride* }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 groom does not therefore forsake her, but looketh}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li10\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin10\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 
92      TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri5\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin5\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 upon His Bride from time to time, because He well }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 knoweth that none will or can comfort her, but He }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 alone.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li14\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin14\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 And now that you have heard this, let it not }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 surprise you that I have not told you how lovingly the }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Bridegroom talketh with the Bride. It might well happen that none would believe me (except such a }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 one as had tried and tasted it himself), should I }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 tell you what strange words the Bride saith to her }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 Bridegroom We find, too, in the Scriptures, that }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 the loving soul ofttime
s holds such converse with her }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 Beloved as words cannot perfectly express. Nay, does it not happen every day with earthly lovers, that a bride and bridegroom talk together in such }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 wise that if others heard it they would declare them }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 mad or drunk ?}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li10\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin10\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 Now, dear children, I fear that I have kept you }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 too long ; but the time has not seemed long to me : 
}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 also, I have said it all for your good, and could not }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 well this time make my sermon shorter if I were }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
rightly to explain my meaning; therefore receive }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 it kindly.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li14\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin14\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 That we may all become real, true, perfect brides }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that we may in sincere, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 true, utter humility and resignation, go out to meet our glorious Bridegroom, and abide with Him for }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
ever, may God help us, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.    Amen."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li1133\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin1133\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
ELEVENTH CHAPTER}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-197\li221\ri0\sb240\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin221\itap0 {\i\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
Of a great prodigy that was wrought in certain persons through this sermon, as afterwards appeared, whereby we are given to understand what great wonders God }{\i\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 works by good instruments, that is,, that He will do }{
\i\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 more by one sermon of an enlightened man than }{\i\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 by a hundred others.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri10\sb235\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 T T 7"HEN this sermon was ended, the Master went }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 Y y down and read Mass, and gave the Lord's }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Body to certain good people ; but after the sermon }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 the man perceived that some forty people remained }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
sitting in the churchyard. When Mass was over he }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 told the Master of it, and they went out to where }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
he had seen the people sitting that they might see how it was with them. But in the meantime, while }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 the Master had been celebrating Mass, they had risen }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
up and gone away, except twelve, who were still }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 there. Then said the Master to the man, " Dear }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
son, what dost thou think we had best do with these people ? " Then the man went from one to another }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 and touched them, but they lay as if they were dead, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
and scarcely moved. The Master knew not what to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 think of this strange thing, for he had never seen the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 like before, and so he said to the man, " Tell me, what }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 dost thou think ? Are the people alive or dead ? " }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 Then he smiled and said, " If they were dead, it }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
would be your fault and the Bridegroom's ; how then }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 should you bring them round again ? " The Master }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 said, " But if the Bridegroom be with me in this}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li163\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin163\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd3\expndtw16\insrsid8331928 
94     TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li38\ri0\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin38\itap0 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 business, ought I to awaken them ? "   The man }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
answered, " Sir, these people are still in this present }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 state, and I wish that you would ask the convent }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
ladies to let them be carried into their cloister, that they may not take some sickness and harm to their }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 bodies, by lying in the open air on the cold earth." And they did so; and the people were brought into }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 a warm place.   Then the convent ladies said, " Dear sir, we have a nun here to whom the same thing has happened, and she is lying on her bed as if she were dead."   Then said the Master, " My dear daughters, }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 be patient, for God's sake, and look to these sick }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 people, and when any one of them comes to himself }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
give him something warm to take ; if he will have it; }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 give it him in Christ's name."   And the ladies said }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 they would willingly do so.   So the Master and the }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 man went their way, and entered into the Master's }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 cell.   Then the man said, " Now, dear Master, what }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
think you of this ?   Has the like ever happened to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 you in your life before ?   Now I wot you see what }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 wonders God works with good tools.   Dear sir, I }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 perceive that this sermon will stir many, and one will }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 tell it to another.   If it please you, methinks it were }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
well that you let these sick children rest for awhile, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 for this sermon will give them plenty to digest for some time, and if you think it good, arid God give }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
you so to do, that you preach a sermon also to those }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 who are in the world, seeing it is now Lent."   And }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 thfr Master did so gladly, and preached also to those }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 who were in the world, to the great amendment of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 certain of them.*}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi178\li0\ri106\sb149\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin106\lin0\itap0 {\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 \bullet  Here follow two chapters in the original, containing sketches of }{\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 
other sermons preached, by Tauler; but as they are less valuable than }{\b\fs16\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 most of his sermons, and have nothing whatever to do with the }{\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
progress of the story, I have indged it best to omit them.\emdash }{\b\scaps\fs16\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Tr.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li1104\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin1104\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 
FOURTEENTH CHAPTER}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi-202\li240\ri5\sb240\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin5\lin240\itap0 {\i\fs22\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 How this holy Doctor came to his end, and afterward }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 
appeared to his dear friend the layman, and showed }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 him the cause of his painful departure from this }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 world, to wit that it had been his purgatory, after }{
\i\fs22\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 which he attained great joy and eternal blessedness, }{\i\fs22\insrsid8331928 which were given him by God as the reward of his }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 good and faithful teaching.}{\insrsid8331928 

\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sb240\sl-516\slmult0\keepn\nowidctlpar\pvpara\dropcapli2\dropcapt1\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs70\dn8\charscalex89\insrsid8331928 N
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb240\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 OW you must know that the Master made }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 progress in the divine life, and received }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 such wisdom, by the grace of the Holy Spirit, that }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 he preached both to clergy and laity, and came to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
be held in such esteem and honour throughout the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 land, and also in that city, that whenever the people had any weighty matter to transact, he was called in }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
to settle it with his wisdom, whether it concerned }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 spiritual or temporal affairs, and whatever he coun}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 selled them was right in their eyes, and they hearkened }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 unto him gladly. And after that the Master had }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 led this faithful life full eight years, God would not }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
leave His servant longer in this earthly misery, and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 saw fit to take him to Himself without purgatory. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Wherefore He sent His judgments upon him, and }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 visited him with sickness, so that the Master kept }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 his bed for more than twenty weeks, and his suffer}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
ings were very sore, and his pains grievous.   Then}{\insrsid8331928 
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      TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 he perceived, by the grace of the Holy Spirit, that he was about to depart from this world (God was }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
minded to reward him for his work); wherefore he }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 sent for the man, his dear friend, and begged him to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 come to him, for he expected not to be much longer in }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 this world.    And the man hearkened and came to the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Master, who received him after a most friendly sort; }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
and the man was glad that he found him yet alive, and said, " Dear Master, how fares it with you ? " }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 The Master said, " I believe that the time is very }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
near when God purposes to take me from this world, for which cause, dear son, it is a great consolation to }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 me that thou art present at my end.    I pray thee }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 
take these books which are lying there: thou wilt }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 find written therein all thy discourse with me afore}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 time, and also my answers, and thou wilt find some}{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 what concerning my life, and the dealings of God with me His poor unworthy servant.   Dear son, if }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 thou think fit, and if God give thee grace, make a }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 little book of it."   Then said the man, " Dear Master, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 I have written down five of these sermons, and if it }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
please you, I will write them out also, and will make }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 a little book about you."    Quoth the Master, " Dear }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 son, I lay upon thee my most solemn admonition, }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 that thou write nothing about me, and that thou do }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 not mention my name ; for thou must know that of a }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
truth the life, and words, and works which God has }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 wrought through me a poor, unworthy, sinful man }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
are not mine, but belong to God Almighty, now and for evermore ; therefore, dear son, if thou wilt write it down for the profit of our fellow-Christians, write }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 it so that neither my name nor thine be named, but }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 thou mayst say the Master and the man.   Moreover, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 thou shalt not suffer the book to be read or seen by}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li619\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin619\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 
TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE      }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 97}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li77\ri19\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin19\lin77\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 any one in this town, lest he should mark that it was }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
I, but take it home with thee to thy own country, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 and let it not come out during my life."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li0\ri29\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin29\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 And for a space of eleven days the Master held much discourse with the man. After that, the time }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 
^came that the Master should die. Then he said, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 " Dear son, I pray thee, in God's name, to give thy }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 consent to it, if God should permit my spirit to come }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 back to thee, and tell thee how it fared with me." }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 The man answered, " Dear Master, if God will have }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
it so, I am also willing." But it came to pass that at }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 the last the Master had a most horrible and frightful death-struggle, insomuch that all the brethren in the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
convent, and also other people, were greatly terrified }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 and distressed thereat, and were sore amazed at the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 dreadful anguish that they saw in his death.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li14\ri48\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin48\lin14\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Now when he was dead, all who were in the con}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 vent and the city were filled with sorrow. But when }
{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 they perceived who was the man that had been so }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 long his bosom-friend in secret, they came and desired }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
to show him honour, and besought him to be their }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 guest. But when he was aware of their intent, he }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 fled that same hour out of the city, and travelled }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 home again. And as he was on the way, the third }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 day after the Master's death, at nightfall he was pass}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
ing through a little village with his servant, and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 seeing a nobleman go past along the road, he said to him, " My friend, is there any inn in this village ? " }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
The nobleman answered, " No." Then said the man, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 " Then show us the kindness, dear friend, in God's }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 name, to let us lodge in thy house for to-night, and }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 take for it what thou wilt." Then he said, " If you }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 will put up with such things as we have, I will willingly lodge you, and give you the best in my power."}{\insrsid8331928 

\par }\pard \ql \li408\ri0\sb24\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin408\itap0 {\b\f1\fs16\insrsid8331928 G}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 
98      TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 So he took him home with him. When it was night }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 he laid the man upon a feather-bed, and showed the }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 servant into the barn to lie upon the straw. Now in }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 the night the man awoke and heard a voice close by ; }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 
yet he saw no one. Then a shudder ran through }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 him, and he made the sign of the Cross. Then the, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 voice said, " Fear not, dear son, it is I, the Master." }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 Then said the man, " Dear Master, is it you ? Then I beseech you, with my whole heart, to tell me, if }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 God will, how it standeth with you, and how it came }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 to pass that you had such a dreadful end ; for your brethren in the convent were much astonied at you, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 and it is to be feared that your frightful end will be a }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 great stumbling-block to your own brethren in the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 convent." Then said the Master's voice, " Dear son, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 
that will I tell thee. Thou must know that our }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 Lord God saw fit to appoint me such a hard death }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 in order that the holy angels might straightway }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 receive my soul to themselves; and for the same }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 cause thou shalt also have such a like hard death. It }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
was needful that I should suffer this as a purgatory ; but know likewise, my dear son, that the evil spirits tormented me greatly, and assailed me with such }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 cunning and instancy, that I was in constant fear }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 lest my courage should fail me. But, however hard }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 my death was, it was as nothing compared to the joy which the Almighty, Eternal, and Merciful God hath }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 given me in return. Know, dear son, that the same }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 hour in which my soul left my body, the blessed }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 angels received it, and conducted me to Paradise, and }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 said to me, ' Here shalt thou tarry five days, and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 shalt know no anxiety or fear lest the evil spirits }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 sh
ould harm thee any more, neither shalt thou labour }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 any more, only thou shalt be deprived for these five}{\insrsid8331928 
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TAULER'S HISTORY AND LIFE     }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 99}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li14\ri10\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin14\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 days of the blissful company of the blessed in eternity. }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 And then we will come again with joy, and bring thee }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 to the unspeakable joys, and reward thee for thy }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 good and faithful teaching and useful counsels; " all }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 
which I have received by thy excellent instruc}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 tion, for the which I can never thank God and thee }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 enough."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi202\li0\ri14\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin14\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Then said the man : " Dear Master, I beseech you }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 from the bottom of my heart that when you come }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 into the presence of God, you pray Him for me." }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 But whatever the man said after this, or whatever }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
questions he put, no one answered him again. Then }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 he would fain have slept, and turned from one side }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 to the other; but it availed him nothing: he got no }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 more rest that night, and could hardly wait till it was }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 light. And at daybreak he rose up, and wrote that }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
same hour word to the Prior and brethren of all }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 things that the spirit had said to him, and returned }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 to his own house, and came also to a good and }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 blessed end.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li5\ri29\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin29\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 That we may all follow the pattern of our Lord }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
Jesus Christ, insomuch that after this miserable life }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 and this transitory world we may come to eternal }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 and never-ending joys,\emdash to God and His chosen and }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 beloved friends, may He help us, God the Father, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 the Son, and the Holy Ghost.   Amen !}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li0\ri29\sb226\sl-250\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin29\lin0\itap0 {\i\fs22\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 Here endeth the History of the Life of the enlightened }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Doctor John Tatder.}{
\insrsid8331928 
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Introductory Notice}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qc \li178\ri0\sl-432\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin178\itap0 {\fs24\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 respecting}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li691\ri0\sl-432\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin691\itap0 {\fs34\expnd3\expndtw16\insrsid8331928 Tauler's Life and Times}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qc \li101\ri0\sb5\sl-432\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin101\itap0 {\fs24\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 By the Translator.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sb115\sl-684\slmult0\keepn\nowidctlpar\pvpara\dropcapli2\dropcapt1\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs94\dn11\charscalex76\insrsid8331928 J
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sb115\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 OHN TAULER, who appears as " the Master " }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
in the foregoing History, was born at Strasburg in the year 1290. His father was most probably }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 Nicolas Tauler, whose name occurs among those of }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
the senators of Strasburg in 1313.    At all events, he }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 belonged to a tolerably wealthy family, and might }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 have lived on his patrimony }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\sub\insrsid8331928 
t}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928  since he tells us in one }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 of his sermons : " Had I known when I lived as my }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 father's son, all that I know now, I would have lived }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 on his heritage and not upon alms."    He devoted }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 himself, however, in early years to a clerical life, and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
entered the Dominican Order in Strasburg, taking up }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 his abode in the handsome, spacious convent belong}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 ing to that Order, the church of which was conse}{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 crated in the year 1308.    A sister of his was a nun in }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 the convent of St. Nicolas at Krautenau, likewise }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
belonging to the* Dominican Order.    In what year }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 Tauler renounced the world cannot be determined }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 with precision, but there can be little doubt that he }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 did so at the same time with his friend John von }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 Dambach, in 1308.   From allusions in his writings,}{\insrsid8331928 
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THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS      101}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li106\ri19\sb120\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin19\lin106\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 it seems probable that he soon after, with the same }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
friend, betook himself to Paris, the great metropolis }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 of Christian learning in that age, in order to study }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 theology in the famous Dominican College of St. }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Jacques, from which the monks of that Order were }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 called Jacobins in France.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \fi206\li0\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 The University concentrated within its precincts }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
representatives of the varied intellectual tendencies of the age.    Up to the middle of the thirteenth cen}{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 tury, it had been distinguished by the freedom of }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 
thought which prevailed among its teachers, un}{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 shackled  as they were by any episcopal,  almost by any regal jurisdiction over their doctrine, and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
acknowledging   only   the   authority   of   the   Pope }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 himself,  directly exercised.   The influence of the all-questioning  Abelard,  the subtle  Gilbert de la Poree, the pantheistic Amaury de Betie, and other }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 free-thinking teachers, was not extinct, though they }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 lay under the censure of heresy.   The works of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
Aristotle, condemned in 1209, had been gradually }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 introduced into the schools, with the Arabian com}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 mentaries of Avicenna and Averrhoes.    The Domini}{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 can Order, founded for the extirpation of heresy, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 early recognised the prime necessity of providing }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
instruction which should purify the streams of human }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 thought at their fountain-head; and in spite of the }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 opposition raised by the heads of the University, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 succeeded, in 1228, in establishing theological chairs }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 in their convent in Paris, from which to combat the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
heathenising philosophers of Christendom with their }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 own weapons of reason ; and in Albert the Great, and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 Thomas Aquinas they may be said to have recon}{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 quered philosophy for the Church, and Christianised }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 Aristotle, who thenceforth became the established}{\insrsid8331928 
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102       TAULER'S LIFE AND TIMES}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li43\ri0\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin43\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 master of philosophy, but was studied through the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 commentaries of the great Dominican luminary.}{
\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li0\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 But the colossal volumes of the schoolmen, embrac}{\fs22\insrsid8331928 ing as they did within the vast sweep of their specula}{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 tion disquisitions upon the nature of the Godhead, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 upon the universe of superhuman intelligence }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
revealed by the pseudo-Dionysius, and upon the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 nature of man and matter, \emdash  while affording a }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 tremendous gymnastic discipline to the human }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 intellect, were barren in actual practical results, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 and might well be unsatisfactory to one whose soul }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
craved to be something more than a logical athlete. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 And it is evident that, in his later life, Tauler did not }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 look back upon the scholastic theology which he studied du
ring his sojourn in Paris as having taught him that which answered to the needs of his spirit. }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 Thus, in one passage of his sermons he says : " These }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
great masters of Paris do read vast books, and turn }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 over the leaves with great diligence, which is a very }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 good thing ; but th^se [spiritually enlightened men] }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 read the true living book, wherein all things live: }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 they turn over the pages of the heavens and the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
earth, and read therein the mighty and admirable }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 wonders of God." He seldom cites any of the school}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 men in his writings, with the exception of " Master }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 Thomas;" but he not unfrequentiy refers to Aris}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 totle, under the title of the " Natural Master," or }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 
the " Master of Nature." The authors who seem }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 to have had the greatest attraction for him, and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 whom he must h
ave early made the subject of his study, judging from the acquaintance with.them }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 displayed in his writings, and the little leisure which }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 
he could have had for such pursuits during the }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 busv activity of bis later years, were the more}{\insrsid8331928 
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THE SCHOOLMEN}{\b\fs22\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs22\expnd-3\expndtw-18\insrsid8331928 103}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li62\ri10\sb134\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin62\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 mystical and speculative among the ecclesiastical }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 writers, the pseudo-Dionysius, the Monks of the 
}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 school of St. Victor, St. Bernard, and above all St. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Augustine. Neither was he a stranger to the Neo-}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 platonists,\emdash 
Proclus is referred to several times in }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 his writings.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \fi216\li0\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd3\expndtw17\insrsid8331928 While the whole bent of Tauler's mind thus }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
appears to have disposed him to contemplation on the great spiritual questions immediately affecting }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 man's actual destiny, rather than more purely in}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 tellectual
 theses, he must, on returning from Paris to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 Strasburg, have come in contact with several of the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 mystical teachers whom we know to have flourished }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 there about this time, and who certainly cannot }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 have been without influence on the course of his }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 mental devel
opment.   The most eminent of these }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 was the celebrated Master Eckart, a brother of his own Order, who, after having filled the important }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
offices of Provincial in Saxony and Vicar-General }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 in Bohemia, had returned to Strasburg, where, with }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 the earnestness of profound conviction, he was now }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 discoursing to the people in their native tongue, on }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 lofty philosophical themes, till then only deemed }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 
fit to be treated of in Latin before learned assemblies ; }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 and which he handled in a way that he himself con}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 fesses to be contrary to what any of the Masters had }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 taught hitherto.   Yet it is clear, from the accusations }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 afterwards brought against him of misleading the }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 
vulgar, that the metaphysical speculations which }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 form the staple of his sermons, though they would }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 
seem to us utterly beyond the range of ordinary thinkers, must have touched some chords in the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 hearts of the multitude, expressed as they are, not }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
only in a sharp, clear, forcible style, but often clothed}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li77\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin77\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs24\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
104      TAULER'S LIFE AND TIMES}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li72\ri0\sb115\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin72\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 in a thoroughly popular form, and illustrated by }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
metaphors appealing to the eye, and allegorical inter}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 pretations of Scripture histories.*}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li58\ri10\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin58\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 The man himself and his doctrines were equally }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 
calculated to make a powerful impression on the mind }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 of the youthful Tauler, already dissatisfied with the frigid subtleties of the dialecticians, and arriving at }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 
an age when he was called on to exercise his vocation }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 as a preaching friar in times of extraordinary commotion and perplexity.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li24\ri24\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin24\lin24\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 Eckart's keen and soaring intellect had been }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 trained by a close study of the Fathers and the }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Schoolmen before he became a professor in the con}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 vent at St. Jacques at Paris, in which position he }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
soon acquired no ordinary fame; being esteemed }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 (according to the statement of the Abbot Trithemius }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 in his great encyclopaedia of ecclesiastical writers) }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 " the most learned man of his day in the Aristotelian }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 philosophy." The vivid remembrance of such a }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
master would be still lingering in the hearts of many }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 pupils when Tauler came to Paris ; though Eckart himself must have quitted his professorship some }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
years before, as, on account of the severity of his }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 morals and the firmness of his character, he was}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi163\li0\ri43\sb264\sl-154\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin43\lin0\itap0 {\fs16\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 * I borrow the following note from Schmidt's }{\i\fs16\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 "Eckart." Theolog. }{
\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Stud. u. Krit. }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 1839, S. 684, An. 15. "The raising of the widow's son }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
furnishes him with materials for more than one allegory. In the Second }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Sermon on the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity, the widow is first the }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
soul, and her dead son, the Reason, which our Lord animates with new }{\fs16\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 life; afterwards a widow signifies a forsaken one, and taken in an abstract sense, a state of loneliness, and forthwith Eckart springs to }{
\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 the conclusion, that therefore we also must forsake all things. In the }{\fs16\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 story of the woman of Samaria, the woman is a type of the soul, the }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
five husbands whom she has had are the five senses ; with these she had }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 sinned, and therefore are they dead. Christ says : ' Bring hither thy }{\fs16\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
husband ;' this is Free-will. She replies; ' I have no husband ;' on }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 which Christ says : ' Thou hast well said I have no husband ;' that is, her Free-will was not her own, but in bondage to sin, etc."}{
\insrsid8331928 
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\b\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 ECKART'S DOCTRINES}{\b\fs22\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs22\expnd-3\expndtw-18\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 105}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri10\sb125\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 appointed, in 1304, Provincial of the Dominican Order in Saxony, where he laboured with }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 such success in the restoration of discipline, that three years later he was made Vicar-General of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 Saxony, with the express commission to undertake }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 any improvements and reforms in the Order that }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 he might judge necessary. In this new sphere of }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 
action, likewise, he soon became celebrated as a }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 preacher and metaphysical teacher. From this date, }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 when he was held in reverence by the Church, }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 he disappears from our view for a space of some }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 years ; after which we find him in Strasburg, divested }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 of his dignities, but preaching with great effect his }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 peculiar doctrines, now in his mature life elaborated }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 into a system which has been claimed by Hegel and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 some of his disciples as the parent of the German }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 
philosophy.* To say whether this claim is just }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 would require a knowledge of Hegel and his school, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 which I do not possess.f That which was the aim }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 of all Eckart's reasonings, to which all else was but }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 a means, was the perfect repose of a spirit in absolute }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 union with God, and dwelling in a region far above }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 the clouds and tempests of this changeful, barren life }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 of sense. He himself appears to have attained in a }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 high degree to this state of abiding peace ; yet his }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 writings are pervaded by a strain of deep lamenta}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 tion over the imperfections of this earthly sphere, and the misery arising from a sense of separation }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 from God. In fact, he certainly retains a positive and vivid sense of the nature of sin; whether this }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\charscalex98\insrsid8331928 be  consistent with  Pantheism  or  Hegelianism,  I
}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li163\ri0\sb144\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin163\itap0 {\fs16\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 * See Schmidt's }{\i\fs16\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 Eckart. Theol. Stud. u. Krit. }{\fs16\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
1839, S. 663.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi149\li0\ri43\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin43\lin0\itap0 {\fs16\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 t Neither is my acquaintance with Eckart extensive; but I have }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
made no statement in the text which does not seem to me to be substan}{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 tiated by what I have read of his writings.}{\insrsid8331928 
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\b\fs24\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 TAULER'S LIFE AND TIMES}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 leave those better qualified to judge. In the passion}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
ate endeavour to free himself from the entanglements }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 of the creature, and to enter into living union with }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 God, he, however, undoubtedly does not escape the }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 danger of merging created existence in the one uncreated Essence which alone has true Being, and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 forgetting the limits that bar our approach to the }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 Infinite. Thus he says; " That word, I }{\i\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 am, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 can }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 none truly speak but God alone." " He has the Sub
}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 stance of all creatures in Himself; He is a being that }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 has all Being in Himself." " All things are in God, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
and all things are God." " All creatures in themselves are naught; all creatures are a speaking of }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 God." " Dost thou ask me what was the purpose }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
of the Creator when He made the creatures ? I answer, Repose. Dost thou ask again what all }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 creatures seek in their spontaneous aspiration ? I }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
answer again, Repose. Dost thou ask a third time }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 what the soul seeks in all her motions ? I answer, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 Repose. Consciously or unconsciously all creatures }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 seek their proper state. The stone cannot cease }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 moving till it touch the earth; the fire rises up to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
heaven : thus a loving soul can never rest but in God, }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 and so we say God has given to all things their proper }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 place,\emdash to the fish the water, to the bird the air, to }{
\fs22\expnd3\expndtw17\insrsid8331928 the beast the earth, to the soul the Godhead." }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 " Simple people conceive that we are to see God, as }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
if He stood on that side and we on this. It is not so ; }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 God and I are one in the act of my perceiving Him." }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 " O noble soul, put on these wings to thy feet and }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 rise above all creatures, and above thine own reason, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 and above the angelic choirs, and above the light that }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
has given thee strength, and throw thyself upon the }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 heart of God; there shalt thou lie hidden from all}{\insrsid8331928 
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ECKARTS CHARACTER}{\b\fs22\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs22\expnd-3\expndtw-15\insrsid8331928 107}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li5\ri5\sb134\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin5\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 creatures." But if, in thus denying a separate }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 existence to the creature, he uses expressions which }
{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 logically conduct to Pantheism, on the other hand }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 his God is clearly a living God; not a mere object }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
of philosophical thought, but an actual and working }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 reality.* So, again, some of his expressions might }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 seem to imply Antinomianism, as when he says: }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 " Whenever a man enters into this union with God, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 that God is so dear to him that he forgets himself, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
nor seeks himself either in time or in eternity, so oft }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 does he become free from all his sins and all his }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 purgatory, though he should have committed all the }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 sins of all mankind : " and we can hardly doubt, from }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 what we read of the Brethren of the Free Spirit, that }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
some did abuse Eckart's doctrine of th'e inward }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 freedom of the spirit to justify sin in pretenders to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 piety. But it does not seem that even his enemies }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 ever doubted of his own high morality; while }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Qu6tif and Echard, in their }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Scriptores ordinis }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
Prcedicatorum, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 praise him as a }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 virum moribus et }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 scientia probatissimum, otnni laude superiorem, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 and }{\fs22\expnd4\expndtw20\insrsid8331928 add that a hundred years after him a brother }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 of his Order says of him, that he was }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 vita }{
\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 purissimus, expedites Doctor Ecclesice, suo tempore }{\i\fs22\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 incomparabilis erudttione, fide, conversatione et moribus }{\i\fs22\insrsid8331928 insignis.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li10\ri62\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin62\lin10\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 Eckart always endeavours to bring his specula}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 tions into combination with the theology of the }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 Church; but the interpretation which he puts upon }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 the received dogmas often deviates widely from their}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi163\li0\ri48\sb317\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin48\lin0\itap0 {\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 * The second Sermon in the following collection, which is undoubtedly }{\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
by him, exhibits the mode in which he presents abstract doctrines }{\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 clothed in a popular form, and is not an unfavourable specimen of his }{\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 
style, though even more fragmentary than some others of his discourses.}{\insrsid8331928 
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io8      TAULER'S LIFE  AND TIMES}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li24\ri0\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin24\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 spirit.* He evidently regards, nay, openly proclaims }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
outward rites and observances as not necessary to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 the essence of piety. Traces of his familiarity with }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 the Schoolmen may be found in his subtile and often }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 purely formal distinctions and syllogisms; but their }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 spirit was utterly repugnant to his. On this point }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 Professor Schmidt says :\emdash 
" Regarding Neoplatonism }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 as by no means incompatible with Christianity, his }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 philosophical views resemble in their general tend}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
ency those of Dionysius Areopagita, combining }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 with them the mystical elements contained in the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 writings of St. Augustine. The theory of that great }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 Father respecting the total corruption of human }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 nature does not, however, occur in his writings in the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
sense in which it is understood by the Church. With Plato himself he is not unacquainted, but cites him }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 several times, calling him ' the great Parson' }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 (Der }{
\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 grosse Pfaffe). }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Scotus Erigena, the translator of the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 Platonizing Dionysius, though not named in his }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 writings, must be regarded as furnishing the starting }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 point for his theories. Of the other mystics of the middle ages he only names St. Bernard. But he has }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 not rested within the systems advanced by any of}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi163\li0\ri29\sb163\sl-154\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin29\lin0\itap0 {\fs16\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 * He was, for instance, accused of teaching that Hell did not exist: }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
his real teaching was that it consisted in the absence of God, as appears }{\fs16\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 from the following passage:\emdash "It is a question, what burns in hell? }{\fs16\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
The Masters commonly say, Self-will. But I say of a truth that }{\i\fs16\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 Nought }{\fs16\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 burns in hell. Whereof mark this likeness. Were you to take }{\fs16\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
a burning coal and lay it on my hand, if I were to say that the coal }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 burnt my hand I should do it a great injustice. Strictly speaking, what }{\fs16\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
burns me is Nought; for the coal has something in it which my hand }{\fs16\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 has not. See, it is that same }{\i\fs16\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 Not }{\fs16\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 which burns me. If my hand }{
\fs16\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 possessed all the essence and qualities of a coal, it would have altogether }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 the nature of fire ; and then, if you were to throw all the fire that ever }{
\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 burnt upon my hand, it would not give me pain. In like manner, I say, if God, and those who are in the light of His countenance, have aught }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
of true blessedness which those have not who are separated from God, }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 it is that same }{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Not }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
which tortures the souls that are in hell, more than }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 any fire or than self-will."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li782\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx4584\faauto\rin0\lin782\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
ECKART'S CONDEMNATION}{\b\fs22\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs22\expnd-3\expndtw-17\insrsid8331928 109}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li48\ri19\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin19\lin48\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 the philosophers he studied; he made all the ideas }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
that he may have derived from them his own, and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 gave them a further development, so that his position }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 is that of a thoroughly original thinker."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li0\ri38\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin38\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 After preaching some time in Strasburg, Eckart }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 appears to have removed to Cologne. It is not }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 known whether or not he had found it necessary to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 leave the former city; but it seems not improbable }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
that he may have fallen under accusation of heresy }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 there, from the circumstance that many of the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 propositions condemned, by the Bishop (John of }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 Ochsenstein) in 1317, as the doctrines of }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\sub\insrsid8331928 t}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 the Strasburg Beghards, agree, often word for word, with }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 propositions to be found in Eckart's writings. In }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Cologne he preached publicly for a few years in the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
church of his convent, and taught in the university ; }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 but he was not suffered to remain long unmolested. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 The way in which his writings were used by the }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Beghards, who were- condemned by the Archbishop }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 of Cologne in 1322, appears to have drawn the attention of the latter to his preaching. He cited }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 Eckart to appear before him, and accused him of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 heresy; but as Eckart refused to submit to his }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
sentence, and continued to preach, the Archbishop appealed to the Pope. His writings were at length condemned in a bull dated March 1329, from which }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw16\insrsid8331928 it appears that he was then no more, as it is }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 stated that he had returned to the Catholic faith }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 before his death. It seems utterly inconsistent }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
with the deep conviction that pervades his writings, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 and the inflexibility of his character, to suppose that he should have recanted any of his doctrines; but probably he merely expressed his adherence to the }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 doctrines of the Church, which he never seems to}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li106\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin106\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\f2\fs26\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 
no  TAULER'S LIFE AND TIMES}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li72\ri0\sb120\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin72\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 have intended to impugn, but to place upon what }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 he regarded as their true foundation. He never }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 separated from the communion of the Church, and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 gathered round him in Cologne a circle of ardent }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
admirers, among whom was probably Tauler* (who seems to have often visited Cologne), and certainly }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 Suso, whose biographer relates : " After these dread}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
ful sufferings (of conscience) had lasted near upon }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 ten years, }{\fs22\expnd11\expndtw57\insrsid8331928 ...}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928  he came to the holy Master Eckart, }{
\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 and told him of his pain, . . . and the Doctor }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 helped him out of it."f}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li19\ri38\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin38\lin19\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Tauler's influence upon his countrymen has been }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 so much more powerful and enduring than that of }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 Eckart, that he has often been called erroneously }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 the first of the German Mystics, and Eckart represented as his pupil. While, however, in his general }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 cast of thought and language, Tauler bears traces }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 of Eckart's influence, his views do not appear at any period to have been identical with those of his fore}{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 runner. Though inclined to speculation, his whole }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 turn of mind and character was more practical than }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
that of Eckart, and his attention more directed to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 the application of religious principles to real life. }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 Even the sermon which, as we have read, he preached }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 before the remarkable change wrought in him }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 through the agency of the great Layman, though }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw18\insrsid8331928 displaying more formality and subtlety with }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 less of tenderness, unction, and spirituality than }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 generally characterize his later sermons, is yet far}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi158\li14\ri86\sb197\sl-163\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin86\lin14\itap0 {\b\fs16\insrsid8331928 * Tauler quotes Eckart. See the Second Sermon for the Thirteenth }{\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 Sunday after Trinity.}{
\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi163\li0\ri96\sb43\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin96\lin0\itap0 {\b\fs16\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 t See Diepenbrock's }{\b\i\fs16\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 Suso. }{\b\fs16\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
Regensburg, 1829. S. 71. A very }{\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 interesting acceunt of Suso's life, concerning which much more is }{\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 known than of Tauler's, is given in UUmann's " Reformers before the }{
\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Reformation."   See p. 190, etc.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li912\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin912\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs24\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
NICOLAS OF STRASBURG         in}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li14\ri5\sb120\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin5\lin14\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 less abstruse and metaphysical, }{\b\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 has }{
\b\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 far }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 more }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 bearing upon morals and life, than is the case with }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Eckart's discourses.}{\insrsid8331928 

\par }\pard \qj \fi202\li5\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 There was, however, another famous Dominican }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 preacher at Strasburg, in Tauler's youthful days, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 Nicolas of Strasburg, who though also a mystic, and possessing }{\b\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 a }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 very powerful intellect, was a man of }{
\b\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 a }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 very different stamp from Eckart, and who appears to have always stood in high favour with the heads }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
of the Church. He was the author of several works, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 and was appointed by Pope John XXII. Nuncio, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 with the oversight of all the Dominican convents in }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 the provinee of Germany. I have not had the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 opportunity of reading any of his productions; }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
Professor Schmidt describes his preaching as less }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 speculative and much more popular, intelligible, and practical than Eckart's, and says that " his }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 sermons
 are rather mystical and ascetic than, strictly }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 speaking, metaphysical; they breathe a profound yearning after inward peace and a glowing love to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
God, but do not display an intellect so lofty as that }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 of the great mystic." That he was, however, a man }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 of extraordinary learning is evinced by a work which }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 he wrote on the coming of Anti-Christ, and the second }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 Advent of Our Lord, in order to prove that the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
numerous legends and prophecies current in that }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 age, as in all times of great calamity and mighty }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 convulsions, were unworthy of credit, and that }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 nothing positive was to be learnt from Holy Scripture }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 respecting the date of future events.*}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi163\li0\ri0\sb187\sl-154\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 * In the first part of this treatise he cites authorities from the heathen }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
authors to prove the truth of Christianity to those who rejected the Old Testament with the New. In the second, he reviews the writings of the }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
Jews, and refutes their doctrines where they are at variance with Christianity. The third, }{\i\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 de And- Christo ac fine mundi, }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 contains extracts from}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li202\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin202\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\fs24\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 ii2      }{
\b\fs24\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 TAULER'S LIFE AND TIMES}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \fi216\li62\ri0\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin62\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 There were^many other mystics in Strasburg at }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
this date, of whom nothing is known beyond their names, but this very fact is sufficient to prove the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 wide diffusion of such doctrines in that city.    The }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 same phenomenon also
 meets us in a heretical guise, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 among the fanatical Beghards who since the close }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 of the thirteenth  century had filled the Rhenish }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 
provinces with their doctrines of the absolute freedom }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 of the spirit, and the abolition of all distinctions }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 between the Creator and the creature.    They were }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 denominated (most likely by the title of their own }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 choosing) the Brethren and Sisters of the Free Spirit, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 
and made proselytes equally among the laity and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 clergy.    In the year 1317, Bishop Ochsenstein com}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 plains that Alsace was full of them, and in a circular }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 to the clergy of his diocese, he condemns the mystical and pantheistic doctrines of this sect, whose members }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 were given over to the secular authorities, and by }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 them   apparently   punished   with   imprisonment. }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 Whether or no Eckart was connected with them, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 they do not seem }{
\i\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 have exercised any influence }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 upon Tauler;   for  in  his  sermons  he  repeatedly }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
inveighs against " The Free Spirits," who he says, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 " striving after a false freedom, and on pretext of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 following the inward light, follow only the inclin}{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 ations of their own nature."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi221\li38\ri149\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin149\lin38\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 But besides the Beghards, there were still linger}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
ing in Southern Germany and Italy, remains of the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Albigenses and Waldenses and Manichean Cathari, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 \emdash reverers of the Abbot Joachim's Eternal Gospel}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri149\sb197\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin149\lin0\itap0 {\fs16\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 the prophecies of Hildegard, Joachim, and other mediaeval pseudo-}{\fs16\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
seers, which he treats with contempt. The whole treatise exhibits a }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 vast amount of reading in the ancient classics, as well as the Christian }{\fs16\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 and Jewish writers of the Middle
 Ages. This work was dedicated to }{\fs16\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 Pope John XXII.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li936\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin936\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs24\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
THE MENDICANT ORDERS      }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 113}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri19\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin19\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 of the Holy Ghost (that was to overthrow the Gospel }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 of the Son),\emdash 
believers in the visions of the Prophetess }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 Hildegard,\emdash adherents of the revolutionary Oliva }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 and Fra Dolcino. There were, indeed, many reasons }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 why heresies and religious divisions should abound }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 in these regions at this period. Not only was the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
German Empire, as we shall soon see, torn by politi}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 cal dissensions, which in many ways were inter}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 woven with the religious controversies then afloat, }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 but there was variance between the heads of the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Church and its most efficient servants,\emdash the devoted, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
hard-working, enthusiastic Franciscans. The two }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 Mendicant Orders were formed to reclaim for the }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 Papacy her empire over the human mind, which }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 in the twelfth century was threatened on the one hand by the moral purity and elevation of the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 Albigenses, who almost occupied the fairest provinces }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 of France, on the other by the learning and civilisa}{\fs22\insrsid8331928 tion no less than the arms of the Mahometan infidels ; }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
and faithfully had they accomplished their vocation, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 by turns refuting heretics by their learning or dazz}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
ling them by miracles, outshining them in ascetic purity, crushing them by the Inquisition, or winning them by self-devoted charity. While the higher }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
ecclesiastics, above all the Papal court, were enormously wealthy, and, with few exceptions, absorbed }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 in secular objects and pleasures,\emdash the parochial }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
clergy likewise often worldly and vicious, generally }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 ignorant and inert,\emdash  the wandering friars came }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
among the neglected flocks, roused them from the sleep of sin, reclaimed the vicious, convinced the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 scoffer, brought hope to the wretched, consolation }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
to the sick and dying; and, as a natural result, the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 people were eager to express their gratitude by }{\b\fs16\insrsid8331928 H}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs24\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
ii4      TAULER'S LIFE AND TIMES}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li14\ri38\sb115\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin38\lin14\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 placing their property in the hands of the Order }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
which had shown such zeal for their souls. And thus, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 though forbidden by their original constitution to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 hold property, in a few years the amount of wealth }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 which they accumulated from the bequests of the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 dying was so large as to excite the jealousy of the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
regular clergy, already irritated by the friars' denunciation of worldliness, and the tacit censure }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 of themselves implied in the ascetic lives and burn}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
ing zeal of their rivals, and they repeatedly demanded }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 the suppression of the two Orders.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li43\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin43\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 But within the Orders themselves had soon sprung }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
up the old strife and division that seems to threaten }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 the life of all spiritual organizations in the second }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 generation, arising from the innate antagonism }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 between the self-indulgence, prudence, and acquisi}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 tiveness inherent in human nature, and the pure but unreasoning spiritual impulses to which they have }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 owed their existence. The Dominicans, with their characteristic address, retained the conflicting elements within their own bosom, and equally availed themselves of fervent piety or worldly power. The }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Franciscans, more enthusiastic and less far-sighted, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 divided into two parties,\emdash those who consented to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
hold property in trust for the See of Rome, and those }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 termed Spiritual Franciscans, who adhered rigidly }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 to the literal interpretation of their rule of absolute }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 poverty. From the latter sprang numerous spiritual }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 and mystical sects, differing in their tenets, but all }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
coinciding in their fervid faith and their inculcation }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 of poverty and asceticism, all democratic as regarded }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 hierarchical authority, and many involving all the }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 wealthy and noble in their hatred to wealth and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 power.   Doctrines of this kind were indeed sure to}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li1224\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx4594\faauto\rin0\lin1224\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 
THE FRANCISCANS}{\b\fs22\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs22\expnd-3\expndtw-18\insrsid8331928 115}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li34\ri10\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin34\itap0 {\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 find acceptance among the oppressed serfs and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
lower classes in general; and by their very essence }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 the Franciscans had entirely cast in their lot with }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 the people. Am
ong these sects the Fraticelli, who flourished at the beginning of this century, foretold the overthrow of the corrupt and carnal Papacy, and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 the establishment of a spiritual kingdom ruled over }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 by " the Perfect." The eremitical Coelestines, the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 charitable Beguines, who originally devoted them}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
selves to works of mercy, the devotional Lollards, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 nay, probably the brethren and sisters of the Free }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Spirit, seem also to have been offshoots from these }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 Spiritual Franciscans.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li0\ri29\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin29\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 The Pope now ruling had, however, put himself in }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 opposition with those of the Spiritual party who }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 remained within the bounds of their Order, and were }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 guilty of no heresy but that of asserting the absolute }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
poverty of Christ and His Apostles. He deposed the }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 General of the Order, and caused the inmates of many }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 convents to be persecuted for maintaining a doctrine }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 which struck at the root of the Papal authority. In }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 return, they boldly denounced the Pope as a heretic, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
and became important auxiliaries to the Emperor }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Louis IV. in that long struggle which occupies the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 period we are considering. They found powerful }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 coadjutors in the profoundly learned and able }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 politicians,\emdash William of Ockham and Marsilio of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
Padua, whose writings taught men to investigate the origin of the Papal power. But not only from }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 the princes with whom the Pope interfered, and the }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 
miserable populace whose passions were at the mercy }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 of fanatical preachers or demagogues; from the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 burghers in the cities there also arose a strenuous }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 opposition to the outrageous claims and the arbitrary}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs24\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
n6      TAULER'S LIFE AND TIMES}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri38\sb120\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin38\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 tyranny of the hierarchy. This class had long been }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
rising in wealth and importance ; and in the earlier }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 half of this fourteenth century they succeeded in }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 obtaining a share of the government in nearly all }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 
the chief cities of Germany ; and the men who had }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 emancipated themselves from the temporal rule of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 the Bishop and his aristocracy, and were rejoicing }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 
in the fresh air of freedom and the sense of manhood, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 were not inclined to follow any longer blindly and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 unquestioningly their spiritual masters.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi202\li5\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 With the double election of Frederic of Austria, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
and Louis of Bavaria, who were both crowned on the 25th of November 1314, at Aix-la-Chapelle, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 began a desolating warfare, which lasted for eight }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 years, till the B
attle of Muehldorf in 1322 left Frederic }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 a prisoner in the hands of Louis. Strasburg was }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 divided between the rival Emperors. The Bishop }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
and the important family of the Zorn were adherents of Frederic; but the no less important family of the Muellenheim declared for Louis ; and the latter had }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 the greater part of the citizens on their side. Thus, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 when Frederic ascended the Rhine and arrived in }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Strasburg in January 1315, he was not received as }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
their sovereign by the citizens, but merely treated as }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 an illustrious guest; while, on the contrary, the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Bishop and clergy paid him regal honours, which }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 procured them various proofs of his favour. Louis, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 on hearing in his camp at Spires the conduct of the }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 
citizens, confirmed the liberties and privileges of the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 city. When, five years later, in August 1320, Louis }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 came with his army to Strasburg, the burghers }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 solemnly tendered him allegiance in the cathedral, in }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 return for which he again confirmed their privileges ; }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
but the clergy had suspended the offices of public}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li1171\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx4642\faauto\rin0\lin1171\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd3\expndtw17\insrsid8331928 
THE RIVAL EMPERORS}{\b\fs22\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs22\expnd-3\expndtw-17\insrsid8331928 117}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 worship, and the greater part of the nobles still sided }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
with them.    On the captivity of Frederic, most of the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 imperial cities of Alsace came over to Louis;  but }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 this did not restore concord to the afflicted land: }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 for Pope John XXII., bent upon the humiliation of }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 Louis, whose popularity and power were such as }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 
threatened to render him too independent of the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Holy See, now interfered in the affairs of the Empire, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 and by his persistent refusal to acknowledge Louis, }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 brought  down unspeakable calamities on Europe, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 while he stirred up the people to a resistance which }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
could not but in the end prove fatal to their reverence }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 for the Papal Chair.   So long as the strife lasted be}{\fs22\insrsid8331928 tween Frederic and Louis, John XXII., while claiming }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 it as his right to decide between them, had refrained }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 from pronouncing any actual decision for either party; }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 
but as soon as the former was subdued, and there }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 was a prospect of peace, he instituted a process }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 against the victorious Louis for assuming the
 title of King of the Romans before receiving the Papal }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 sanction, admonished him to   lay   down   all   his }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
powers, and forbade his subjects to render further fealty to him.     But when in the following year it }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 appeared that the real object of the Pope was to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
depose Louis altogether, and raise the King of France }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 to the throne, the Diet assembled at Frankfurt de}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
clared almost unanimously for their brave Emperor, in defiance of the unrighteous claims of the Romish }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 See.    The Pope in return laid all who had acknow}{\fs22\insrsid8331928 
ledged Louis under interdict in July 1324, from which }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 some places were not released for six-and-twenty }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 years.    It must not be forgotten what this sentence }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 involved, how intimately its consequences were felt }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 in every parish and every home, when the churches}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\f2\fs26\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 
u8  TAULER'S LIFE AND TIMES}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li10\ri0\sb120\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin10\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 stood silent and empty for years, the lawless and }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 wicked were left unwarned, and the pious deprived of }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 the consolation of worship and the holy communion }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 during all this most dark and troubled period. But, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
in spite of its terrors, the German people, and even the greater part of the clergy, took part with their }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 princes, with the exception, however, of the Bishops }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
of Passau and Strasburg. The city of Strasburg, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 however, remained faithful to Louis, resisting by force the officers who attempted to proclaim the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
Papal fulmination against the Emperor, and sending }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 troops to his assistance. The Bishop John von }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 Ochsenstein died in 1338; but his successor, Berthold }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
von Bucheke, trod in his footsteps. Strasburg itself, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 like most of the German cities, took but little heed }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 of the Interdict and the repeated sentences of ex}{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 communication hurled against Louis by the Pope. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 The internal division still continued, headed by the }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 two families of Zorn and Muellenheim, till in 1332 a }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 sanguinary contest took place, which resulted in the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 overthrow of the old constitution of the city, and the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
introduction of the craftsmen into the Senate. But }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 the new magistrates and the Bishop remained as }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 much at variance as ever. In 1338, the latter in}{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 duced his Metropolitan, the Archbishop of Mayence, }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 to convene an assembly of German Bishops at Spires, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 from which the prelates despatched an address to the 
}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Pope Benedict XII., earnestly beseeching him to be }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 reconciled with Louis, and put an end to this lament}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
able state of discord. Their petition was supported }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 by envoys from the Estates of the Empire, moved }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 thereto by Louis, who declared himself ready to yield }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
all obedience to the Holy See which was consistent }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 with God's glory, his own just right, and the weal o}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li1810\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx4627\faauto\rin0\lin1810\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
STRASBURG}{\b\fs22\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs22\expnd-3\expndtw-17\insrsid8331928 119}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sb120\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 the Empire.    But as, in spite of these and similar }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
efforts, the Pope continued to prescribe conditions }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 which made a reconciliation impossible, the Bishop }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 of Strasburg continued to withstand the Emperor, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 and do all that lay in his power to injure the imperial }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 cause in Alsace.    Louis now resolved to resort to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
decisive measures against this restless adversary, and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 in 1329 commanded the Rhenish cities to join the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Duke Rudolf of Bavaria and Conrad Lord of Kinkel, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 in attacking Berthold.    The latter, having for allies }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 the Duke of Austria, the Count of Wurtemberg, the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
Bishop of Basle, and other nobles, took the field, beleaguered several cities of Alsace, and laid waste the surrounding country : his opponents carried reprisals }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
into his territories.    Strasburg, wearied out with the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 misery caused by this never-ceasing contention, at }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 length declared to the Bishop that it would no longer }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 yield him obedience unless he made peace with the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Emperor; and the Prelate, whose arms had moreover }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 
met with reverses,  and whose finances were ex}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 hausted, fearing lest the other towns of his diocese }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 should follow the example of Strasburg, resolved to }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 do homage to Louis and receive investiture from }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 him, under the reservation of absolute obedience to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
the Pope, while he sent an envoy to Benedict XII. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 representing his desperate condition, and requesting }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 permission to sheathe the sword.    Both Emperor }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 and Pope conceded his requests ; and from this time }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 forward he did all that he could to maintain tranquillity within his bishopric, which was the more }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 necessary, as the controversy between the Empire }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 and the Papacy grew more envenomed.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \fi206\li5\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 After the famous meeting of the Electoral College at Rhense, near Coblenz, in July 1338, had declared}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li14\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin14\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\fs24\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 120      }{
\b\fs24\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 TAULER'S LIFE AND TIMES}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li10\ri0\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin10\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 that the King of the Romans received his dignity }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 and power solely from the free choice of the Electors, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 and the Imperial Diet, held immediately after, had }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 made it a fundamental law of the Empire, that " the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 im
perial dignity is bestowed directly by God, and he }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 who has been legitimately chosen by the Electoral }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Princes, becomes thereby King and Emperor without }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 further confirmation by the Pope or any other,"\emdash  }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Louis published a Manifesto to all Christendum, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 refuting
 at full length the accusations brought }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 against him by the previous Pope, and proving }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 that the Pope has no authority to sit in judgment }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw16\insrsid8331928 
on the Emperor. He further commanded that }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 none should observe the papal excommunication }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 and interdict, and sentenced all those, whether }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
individuals or whole cities and communities, who }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 should continue to submit to the bann, to be deprived of their rights and liberties.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li0\ri10\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Great was the impression made by this bold Edict }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 upon the German people, who rallied more and more }
{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 universally around the Emperor who thus defended his own rights and the honour of the Empire. But }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 concord was banished further than ever, for the }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 clergy in many cases resisted the Emperor's command }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 to resume the services which had been so long sus}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
pended, while the citizens, who had borne with impatience their terrible deprivation of the sacred rites, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 now on the strength of the Edict issued orders that }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
all the clergy who refused to perform service should }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 be banished. Many priests left their churches and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 removed into other provinces, numerous convents }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 stood empty of their inmates ; still in most places }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 there remained a sufficient number of priests and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
monks to fulfil the duties of their vocation.   This}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li1416\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx4526\faauto\rin0\lin1416\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 
THE INTERDICT}{\b\fs22\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs22\expnd-4\expndtw-20\insrsid8331928 121}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li5\ri5\sb130\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin5\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 was the case in Strasburg; the city had already }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
suffered all the calamities consequent on the Interdict : the clergy had split into two parties; the larger number obeyed the Pope's commands ; the Augus-}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 tinians especially had for many years suspended the pe
rformance of all religious services. The Dominicans and the Franciscans had availed themselves of the privilege early granted to their Orders of cele}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 brating mass during a time of interdict. But now, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 when the Emperor so openly set himself in opposition }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 to the Pope, they too, terrified by the sentence of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
excommunication hanging over them, refused in }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 many instances to say mass, on which the Senate }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 of Strasburg proclaimed :\emdash }{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \ql \fi-130\li1426\ri922\sb134\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin922\lin1426\itap0 {\fs16\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 " Either let them go on to sing, }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Or out of the city let them spring."}{
\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri19\sb202\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin19\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 The Dominicans in general quitted the city, and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
Koenigshofen relates in his Chronicle, that they left their convent standing empty for more than }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 two years; but no doubt many of the democrati-}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
cal Franciscans, who had always supported the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 Emperor, remained behind. They were, however, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 as we shall see, exceptions in these Orders to the }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 general rule, which shows to how great an extent the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 brethren must have been guided by their individual conscience rather than their corporate organization. }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Such were the scenes amidst which Tauler was }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 called to labour as a Christian minister and Domini}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
can monk. . Of the manner in which he fulfilled his }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 work, and the vicissitudes of his personal career, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 history has preserved but a small number of facts, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 but these, though few, are significant. All the testi}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 monies that have come down to us respecting him,}{\insrsid8331928 
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\b\fs24\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 TAULER'S LIFE AND TIMES}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li53\ri0\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin53\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 concur in bearing witness to the universal affection }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 and esteem with which he was regarded. Even }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 so far distant as Italy his name was known as a }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 teacher of high repute, who insisted on inward piety. }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
The famous Brother Venturini, of Bergamo, who }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 was residing at that time under disgrace in a con}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 vent at Marveges, names him in a letter which he }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 writes to another Dominican in Strasburg, Egenolph }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 von Ehenheim, calling him his beloved John Tauler, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
and wishing to enter into correspondence with him, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 because he perceives that " through him and others }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
the name of Christ will be spread abroad, ever more and more, throughout Germany." Egenolph himself }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 was one of these " others," who were fellow-workers }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
with Tauler. His early friend, Johann von Dambach }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 was also here at this time.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li0\ri19\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin19\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 But the most remarkable trait in this period of }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
Tauler's life is that he not only, unlike most of his Order, sided with the Emperor in his whole contest }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 with the Pope, but did not suspend his activity when, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
in 1338, the great struggle came between the absolutely contradictory commands of his temporal and spiritual lords, and, as we have seen, his brethren }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 quitted the town, and left their c
onvent deserted for two years. By the departure of nearly all the clergy }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 from Strasburg, Tauler found a still wider field of labour; and from allusions to him in letters of his }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
contemporaries, it appears that he did not confine }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 his exertions to that city, but preached from time to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 time at various places, from Cologne to Basle. Before }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 the close of 1338 he seems to have made a somewhat }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 lengthened visit to the latter city, where the state of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
things was very similar to that in Strasburg. The }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Bishop of Basle belonged to the opponents of Louis}{\insrsid8331928 
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VISIT TO BASLE}{\b\fs22\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs22\expnd-3\expndtw-15\insrsid8331928 123}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri5\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin5\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 of Bavaria, and made common cause with the Bishop }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 of Strasburg in attacking the adherents of the }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 Emperor in 1339. The citizens again, like those of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 Strasburg, had remained faithful to Louis, 
and had even gone so far in their hostility to the Pope, that when, in 1330, John XXII. despatched an envoy to publish his bull against the Emperor, the incensed mob hurled him, although a priest and a dignitary, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
from the citadel into the river; and, when he tried }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 to save himself by swimming, put out in boats after }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 him and slew him. During the Interdict, however, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 most of the clergy, and especially the monks, had }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 forsaken the churches, so that in many places the Sacrament had not been administered for fourteen }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 years; and on the magistrates ordering them to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 resume their functions the greater part had refused to do so. About this time, however, the people of }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Basle by some means prevailed on the Pope to relax the severity of the Interdict for the space of a year.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li0\ri14\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin14\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 In Basle, Tauter met with an old friend, Henry of }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
Nordlingen, from whose letters most of the scanty notices of Tauter during this period are derived. He }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 was a priest from Constance, which city he had been obliged to leave on account of his refusal to preach ; }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 for though a Bavarian by birth, and intimately con}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 nected with Tauter and others of similar views, he }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
did not recognize Louis as the lawful Emperor. He }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 is principally known by his correspondence with a }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 very remarkable woman, Margaretha Ebner, a nun }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 at the Convent of Maria Medingen, in the diocese }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 of Augsburg. Her sister Christina was Abbess of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
the Convent of Engenthal, near Nuremberg. Both }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 were distinguished by their mental endowments as }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 well as their earnest piety, and were evidently held}{\insrsid8331928 
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124      TAULER'S LIFE AND TIMES}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li58\ri0\sb120\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin58\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 in great respect by Tauler, Suso, and others of that }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 party. They seem also to have taken up a very }
{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 decided position amidst the ecclesiastical commo}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 tions of their age, and were zealous partizans of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
Louis. Christina, famous for her visions, in one of }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 her trances sees the Romish Church in the likeness of }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 a magnificent Cathedral, the doors of which are, }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 however, closed by reason of the Interdict. The }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 singing of the priests within is heard; a crowd of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
people are standing round, but dare not enter. On a sudden a man in the garb of a preaching friar }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 comes up to the nun, and tells her that he will give }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
her words wherewith to console the forsaken multi}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 tude ; and this man is Christ.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li0\ri24\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin24\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Tauler occasionally visited both these nuns, and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 was in correspondence with Margaretha*, whom he }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 urges to write down her visions respecting the state }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 of Christendom and the friends of God. For him }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 they had 
a deep veneration, and constantly call him }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 "our dear Father Tauler." Christina learns, in }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 one of her revelations, that he is " the holiest of }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 God's children now living on earth," that " the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 spirit of God breathes through him, as sweet music }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 through a lute 
; " Margaret speaks, too, sometimes of the joy that she has had in the presence of this }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 great friend of God, and how hard it has been to }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 
part with him. She appears to have stood rather }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 in the relation of a wise Christian friend and coun}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 sellor, than of a spiritual child, to Henry of Nord-}{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 lingen, who from his letters seems to have been a }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 man of gentle, pious spirit, more fitted for a quiet}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi158\li0\ri62\sb254\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin62\lin0\itap0 {\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 * Only one short letter, however, has been preserved, from having }{\fs16\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
been placed among those of Henry of Nordlingen, and it is too }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 unimportant for insertion.}{\insrsid8331928 
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VISIT TO BASLE}{\b\fs22\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs22\expnd-1\expndtw-9\insrsid8331928 125}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri24\sb130\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin24\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 contemplative life than for the energetic activity }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 required by the troublous times in which his lot 
}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 was cast. He, like Tauler, was filled with anguish }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 at the sight of the distress of those around him ; but }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
while Tauler's grief stirred him up to vigorous efforts in their behalf, and his courage and energy rose with }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 the emergency, the timid and hesitating Henry was }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
unable to surmount the difficulties in which he found }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 himself involved, and the greater the pressure of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 the times, the greater was his perplexity and long}{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 ing for peace. Yet, when his scrupulous conscience }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 allowed him to preach, his labours appear to have }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
been fruitful in result. This was the case during }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Tauler's visit to Basle, where he had previously been }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 sojourning for some time in inactivity, after long }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 wandering and much distress.*}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi202\li10\ri14\sl-235\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin14\lin10\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 When the Pope allowed public worship to be }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 celebrated for a year at Basle, Henry's friends, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 without his knowledge, procured him permission to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 preach, and give a forty days' indulgence; and he }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
then ventured to appear in public, encouraged by }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 Tauler's influence and counsel. Thus he says :\emdash  }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 " Afterwards I came to Basle, to my and thy dear }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 faithful Father Tauler (who was with me at thy }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 house), and he helped me in every way he could with }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 
all fidelity." He then writes: " The great mercy }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 has been granted us that we may celebrate mass in}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi158\li10\ri0\sb178\sl-154\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin10\itap0 {\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 * His letters give a lively picture of the real dangers to which his politics exposed him
. Thus he says, " I have been called before the }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 princes of this world who have proscribed me, so that there is no place }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
of safety for me in this land, unless I would consent to perform mass." }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Again, he would come to Margaretha, but '' I may not as yet dare to }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
appear openly in this land." " If the Emperor should leave the country, perhaps I might be able to see thee, if it were God's will." " At Con}{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 stance and in the neighbouring country the priests have been everywhere }{
\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 ordered to sing mass, so that I do not know where I shall be able to }{\fs16\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 remain."}{\insrsid8331928 
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126      TAULER'S LIFE AND TIMES}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb120\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
public, with the Pope's permission ; and now do the hungry souls come with great desire to receive the Lord's body, which they have not been able to enjoy }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 for fourteen years in Christian obedience. And now }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 I entreat you, with special earnestness, that you }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 pray to God for all those whom I feed with His Body, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
that we may receive His Holy Sacrament in His }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 love, and administer it to His eternal glory, and the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 consolation of al
l Christian souls." He now preached every day, and often twice a day, besides performing }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 mass daily ; and so many of all classes streamed to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
confess to him that he was overwhelmed with his duties, and writes to his friend : " If I could manage }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 it, I would gladly come to you; but I am not my }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
own. I am the property of the whole Chapter, and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 the most important parishes. The people at Basle }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 are not willing that I should leave them, neither, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 indeed, should I have courage to travel openly about }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 the country; for I should be at the mercy of any }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
ruffian or thief, and if aught befell me, no complaint }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 would be laid against him. Still I trust in the Lord }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 that He will suffer me to see thee, my heart's true }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw14\insrsid8331928 consolation." But some months later he writes: }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 " Methought I clung too much and with too carnal }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
feelings to the ease, the luxurious and pleasant }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 society, and the earthly comforts that I enjoyed at }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 Basle. In truth I knew not that I did so while I }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 had them, but felt it fully when I forsook them. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Besides, I perceived in my heart, through many }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
suggestions and admonitions, that my labours might }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 be mofe' needed elsewhere than at Basle, and so I }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 ventured my departure for the sake of Christ and }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 his flock, and have exchanged the marvellously holy }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 and pleasant and acceptable society there for all}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li998\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin998\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 
HENRY OF NORDLINGEN       }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 127}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri14\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin14\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 manner of discomfort to my inward and outward }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 man, by night and by day ; so that now I must per}{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 force retreat into myself, and take refuge in my }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 only consolation, Christ Jesus, if I were unwilling }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 to do so before."}{\insrsid8331928 

\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li5\ri19\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin19\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 By the persuasion of Tauler, Henry appears now }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 for a time to have preached even in places which }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 still lay under the Interdict, but afterwards, terrified }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 by the violent censure of the clergy for his conduct, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 to have subm
itted again to the papal prohibition, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 and resumed his wanderings. Tauler, on the con}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 trary, waited for no papal permission to do that }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
which he considered to be the bounden duty of a }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 clergyman, and after his visit to Basle it appears }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 from Henry's letters that he travelled more than }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 once as far as Cologne. In this city, where Master }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Eckart had spent the latter years of his life, numerous }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
preachers had gone forth from his school, who continued to promulgate his doctrines with more or less }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 ability and originality. Nicolas of Strasburg, too, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
was at this time lecturing at Cologne, probably }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 driven from Strasburg by the troubles to which his }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 papal politics would expose him at this period. This }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 was the case also with Tauler's old friend, Johann }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 von Dambach, who had not only declared that }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
during the Interdict it was the duty of a pious Chris}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 tian to submit unconditionally to the Church, but }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 even composed several tractates to prove the }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 justifiableness of the Interdict from the Canon Law. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Yet, as we have seen Tauler and the Ebners in undisturbed friendship with Henry of Nordlingen, in }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 spite of differences which entered so deeply into the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 life of those times, so, notwithstanding Dambach's antagonistic opinions, and his removal to the distant}{\insrsid8331928 

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\b\fs24\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 TAULER'S LIFE AND TIMES}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li19\ri0\sb120\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin19\itap0 {\fs22\insrsid8331928 Prague*, the connection between him and Tauler was }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 not broken off, as is proved by the circumstance, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 that, after 1350 he sent his book, " }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 De sensibilibus }{\i\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 ddiciis paradisi" }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
to their Alma Mater, the College }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 of St Jacques, in Paris, in their joint names.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li0\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 We now arrive at the date when that great change }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 was produced in Tauler with which the foregoing }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 " History " has acquainted us. Till recently, little was known of the " History," beyond the fact that }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 it was found attached to some MSS. of Tauler's }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 sermons, and many have doubted of its genuineness. }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 Qu\'a3tif and Echard, for instance, have treated it as }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
a mere allegory. By dint of laborious researches }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 among the old MSS. of the libraries of Strasburg }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 and Sarnen, and ingenious combinations of the }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 results thence obtained, Professor Schmidt has not only established, in a way that it seems to me must }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 be satisfactory to any one who goes through the }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 evidence, that this Tractate is a perfectly genuine }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 and truthful production, the work of the layman }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 who
 professes to have written it, but also has suc}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 ceeded in identifying this layman with a mysterious }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
personage, called the Great Friend of God, in the Oberland, the head of a secret religious association ; }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 and the latter again, with a certain Nicolas of Basle, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
whose name, however, only occurs twice; once in }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 the account of his own martyrdom, once in that of }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 one of his disciples.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li0\ri14\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin14\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 The most important of the MSS. examined by Professor Schmidt is a large folio volume, only recently discovered in the archives of Str
asburg, and formerly }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 belonging to the Convent of the Knights of St John}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi149\li0\ri24\sb125\sl-187\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin24\lin0\itap0 {\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 * He was made Professor at the newly-established University there in }{\b\fs16\expnd-1\expndtw-7\insrsid8331928 \'ab347-}{
\insrsid8331928 
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NICOLAS OF BASLE}{\b\fs22\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs22\expnd-3\expndtw-15\insrsid8331928 139}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qr \li0\ri10\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 in that city, called a }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Briefbuch }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
[book of letters], and is for the most part a collection of letters and papers }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 left by Rulman Merswin, the founder of the convent. }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
This Rulman Merswin was a friend of Tauler (who was for some time his confessor), and, in the latter }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 part of his life, of the " Layman," Nicolas, by whose }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
advice he built a house for the Brethren of St John, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 on an island at Strasburg called the Gruenen-Worth }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 \{green meadow), }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
and with whom he was in constant }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 correspondence up to the time of his death in 1382. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 Several portions of this extremely curious }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
Briefbuch }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 were carefully copied into the archives of the con}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 vent, forming what is called its }{\i\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 Memorial,* }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 but the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 codex itself did not belong to the public archives of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 the house, being kept secret from all but a few, on }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 account of the private letters and notes contained in }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 it, and therefore treasured up with peculiar care. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
So late as the seventeenth century, this was still the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 case, and a reader of that period has traced on the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 outer covering of the Codex the words: " }{
\i\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 liber iste religiose custodiendus."   }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 The documents of which it consists were arranged, and most of them copied }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
out, by Nicolas von Laufen, who (according to a few notices of himself, which he has inserted at the close }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 of the }{\i\fs22\insrsid8331928 Briefbuch) }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 seems to have accompanied Rulman }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Merswin as his secretary, on taking possession of the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 newly-built Gruenen-Worth in 1366, and a few years }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
later to have become a priest of the order of St John. }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 The codex contains among other less important }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 matter, a MS. called " }{\i\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
The Book of the Five Men," }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 being an account of Nicolas and his four companions, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 in the handwriting of Nicolas himself; twenty-two}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi144\li5\ri91\sb139\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin91\lin5\itap0 {\b\fs16\insrsid8331928 * The documents relating to the founders of the house are so called. Of this }{\b\i\fs16\insrsid8331928 Memorial }{\b\fs16\insrsid8331928 
four copies are known to exist.}{\insrsid8331928 
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130      TAULER'S LIFE AND TIMES}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li38\ri0\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin38\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 of his letters, apparently copied by Nicolas von }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Laufen, and the original MS. of Rulman Merswin's }{
\fs22\insrsid8331928 account of the first four years of his religious history, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 in his own handwriting. Thus, after a lapse of five }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
hundred years, we are able to learn more about this }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 extraordinary half-mythical " Friend of God in the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 Oberland," than his very contemporaries knew.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li10\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin10\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 From these documents we are able to obtain a }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 general idea of the character and work of Nicolas, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 though the actual course of his history, especially }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 during the earlier part of his life, is still almost }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
entirely shrouded from view. All that we can dis}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 cover respecting the commencement of his career is, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 that about the year 1328 or 1330, he was a youth of }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 
good family at Basle*, wealthy, universally esteemed, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 and possessed of abilities that ensured him success }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 in all that he undertook. Nevertheless, he was un}{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 happy, from the consciousness of his sinfulness and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 ignorance of divine things. Being, as a layman, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
uninstructed in Holy Scripture, he sought to master }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 religious truths by the exercise of his reason ; but his }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 efforts to obtain satisfaction were in vain. For }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 years he struggled with his own intellectual diffi}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 culties and the temptations of the world. One day, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
as he was meditating on the transitory nature of all }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 earthly things and the rapid flight of time, the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 thoughtlessness, sinfulness, and thorough forgetful-}{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 ness of God in all those around him were pre}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 sented in such vivid colours to his mind, that it }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 seemed inconceivable to him how man could take any }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 delight in this vain world ; and then, as the thought}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi163\li0\ri38\sb259\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin38\lin0\itap0 {\fs18\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 * The place of his abode is not certain, but inferred from the }{\fs18\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 
dialect of the Tractate found in his own handwriting. See Schmidt's }{\i\fs18\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 Gotttsfrenndt,    }{\fs18\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 S. 32.}{\insrsid8331928 
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THE FRIENDS }{\fs22\expnd4\expndtw23\insrsid8331928 OF }{\b\fs22\expnd4\expndtw23\insrsid8331928 GOD}{\b\fs22\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs22\expnd-3\expndtw-16\insrsid8331928 131}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri5\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin5\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 of his own wasted time rose to his remembrance, he was filled with such bitter remorse that he resolved }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 from that moment to renounce the world and dedicate }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 his life to God. To this end, as we have seen*, he }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 read the liv
es of the saints and imitated their austerities. This discipline he had carried on for }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 five years before he found peace in the way he }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 
describes in the " History." He afterwards set }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 himself to study the Scriptures (no doubt in Latin), }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 and says that in a space of thirty weeks he had come }{
\fs22\expnd3\expndtw17\insrsid8331928 to be able to understand it as thoroughly, and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
" speak as good grammar, as if he had studied all his days in the best Universities ; " which extraordinary facility of acquisition he refers to special divine }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 assistance. We know no more of him till we find }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 him at the head of a society of " Friends of God," }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 who live with him in utter seclusion from the world, }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 
and form the secret centre of a wide circle of religious }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 activity, unconnected with any recognized order, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 but yet not overstepping the pale of the Church.}{\insrsid8331928 

\par }\pard \qj \fi211\li19\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin19\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 The title of " Friends of God " is one which meets }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 us continually in the writings of those who are termed }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 mystics in the fourteenth century, and is used in }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 various connections. Sometimes it seems to denote }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
those who were partakers of a spiritual in opposi}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 tion to a formalistic piety; sometimes to denote the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 members of a particular body. Among those called }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 " Friends of God " we find the names of individuals }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 widely differing from each other in rank, vocation, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
opinion, and career; for they counted among their members Dominicans, such as Eckart, Tauler, Suso }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 of Constance, and Henry of Nordlingen, and Fran}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
ciscans, such as Otto of Passau; Knights married}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qc \li110\ri0\sb72\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin110\itap0 {\b\fs18\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 * See p. 20.}{\insrsid8331928 
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\b\fs24\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 TAULER'S LIFE AND TIMES}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li5\ri0\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin5\itap0 {\fs24\insrsid8331928 and single; nuns like Christina and Margaretha }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 Elmer, and a Queen, Agnes the widow of King }{
\fs24\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 Andrew of Hungary; the rich banker, Rulman }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-6\insrsid8331928 Merswin, and Conrad, the Abbot of Kaisersheim in }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 
Bavaria, who boasts, in a letter to Henry of Nord-}{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 lingen, that he has not accepted the Bishop of }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 
Augsburg's absolution either for himself or his monastery; Conrad Brunsberg, again, the Grand-}{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-8\insrsid8331928 Master of the Knights of St John in Germany, besides }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 
the layman, Nicolas of Basle, and the great mystical }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 author of the Netherlands, Ruysbroeck. The appel}{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 lation common to all these, with numbers of less }{\fs24\insrsid8331928 
distinguished persons, would seem to have been }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 used among themselves to denominate those who }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 could not but feel that they were more alive to the }{
\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 realities of religion and its spiritual nature than was }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 the case with the multitude around them. That }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-7\insrsid8331928 
those possessing common sympathies on the subjects }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 of highest import, should instinctively seek out and }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 cling to each other, and thus an association should spontaneousl
y grow up, even without any definite }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 plan, is a natural and inevitable process, where a }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-6\insrsid8331928 real, deep religious life has arrived at self-conscious}{
\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 ness ; and from a comparison of the passages in }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 which Tauler and Henry of Nordlingen use the }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 term " Friends of Go
d," it appears to me that in the }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-8\insrsid8331928 first instance the sense of having entered into a living, }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-6\insrsid8331928 personal union with God, bringing with it a yearning }{
\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 pity for sinners, and a fervent desire to bring them to the same blessed state, was the sole distinction and bond of the " Friends of God."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li0\ri77\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin77\lin0\itap0 {\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-7\insrsid8331928 It is at all events clear that their union for common }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 
action was utterly independent of the attitude they assumed towards the great conflicting questions of}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li1752\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx4579\faauto\rin0\lin1752\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\fs22\expnd3\expndtw19\insrsid8331928 
NOT A SECT}{\fs22\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs22\expnd-3\expndtw-15\insrsid8331928 133}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri10\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\insrsid8331928 the day; for, as we have seen in the Abbot of Kaisers-}{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 heim, and Henry of Nordlingen, those are called }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 '" Friends of God," and treat each other as brethren, }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 who are as far asunder in their politics as the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
Chartists and High Tories of our own days. Neither }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 did they form a sect, but, on the contrary, repudiated }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 the idea, as is shown by the following passage from }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 Tauler's sermon on the twenty-second Sunday after }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 Trinity, which I think, too, confirms this view of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
their origin. " The prince of this world has nowa}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 days been sowing brambles among the roses in all }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 directions, insomuch that the roses are often choked, }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 or sorely torn by the brambles. Children, there }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 must needs be a flight or a distinction ; some sort of a }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
separation, whether within the cloisters or without, }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw16\insrsid8331928 and it does not make them into a sect, that the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 * Friends of God' profess to be unlike the world's }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 friends." The remark that the " Friends of God " }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 were not a sect, would seem to prove that this accusa}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 tion was brought against them ; but, indeed, proof }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 of this would seem superfluous, for then, as in all }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 other times, it would infallibly happen that the un}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
worldly and spiritual-minded, who recognized a }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 nobler sort of religion than that comprised in the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 due observance of religious rites and decent moral }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 conduct, should be charged with sectarianism and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 suspected of heresy, even if they broached no new }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
dogmas, and went no farther than to bring out in }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 their teaching and practice the real significance of }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 the Church's ordinances.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li0\ri62\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin62\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 But the greater the sinfulness and deadness to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
religion in a particular age, the more strongly marked }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 must be the line of demarcation between the careless }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 and the earnest; for the religious are thus obliged to}{
\insrsid8331928 
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134      TAULER'S LIFE AND TIMES}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb115\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 abstain from pleasures and occupations which, inno}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
cent in themselves, have become corrupt. At the same time, too, the danger of enthusiasm, and mistaking one's own natural emotions for direct }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 Divine influence, will be greatest when such influences }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 known to be real by the pious, are altogether denied }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 by the world in general. Illustrations will instantly }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
suggest themselves to the mind of the reader from }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 the experience of our own Church in the times of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 Wesley and Whitfield; and in like manner, amidst }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 the universal deadness of the Lutheran Church in }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 the seventeenth century, arose the Pietistic move}{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 
ment of Spener and Franke. Thus the great }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 wickedness, especially of the clergy, the contentions }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 and dreadful catastrophes which mark the first half }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 of the fourteenth century, would impel the pious to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 come out from the world, and stimulate them to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
specially earnest and direct efforts to enkindle the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 religious life of the people. And so, during the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 terrors of the Interdict, they seem to have formed }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 an association with no declared boundary, yet whose }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 boundaries would be most distinctly recognized by }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
all who were within the line. To the name they }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 adopted, the text John xv. 15 seems to have given }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
occasion ; for Tauler says : " Then said our Lord to His disciples, ' From henceforth I call you not ser}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 vants, but friends.' The ' henceforth ' that he spoke }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
was from the time when they had forsaken all things and followed Him. Then were they his friends, and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 not servants; and therefore he who will be a true }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
friend of God must leave all things and follow after }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 Him." From this passage, in the spirit of which }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 many others concur, we see at once in what the right }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 to this title consisted\emdash namely, in the thorough self-}{\insrsid8331928 
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THEIR DOCTRINES}{\b\fs22\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs22\expnd-3\expndtw-18\insrsid8331928 135}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li29\ri0\sb120\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin29\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 surrender to God, the forsaking all things to follow }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 God alone.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li0\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 But while this principle, which surely we must }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 recognize as that which does really constitute the }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 friends of God in all ages, was brought out into }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 peculiar prominence by these German }{\i\fs22\insrsid8331928 Goitesfreunde, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 
their views could not fail to be coloured by the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 modes of thought and the circumstances of their age. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
Thus, in order to this entire devotedness to God, we find a renunciation, so far as may be, of all earthly cares and ties recommended by them ; thus, too, we see that their faith in God's direct, personal dealing
s with the individual soul is apt to be accompanied by }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 a superstitious regarding of insignificant phenomena, or even the mere effects of an over-active fancy, as a }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
positive intimation of His will. Some of us, too, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 would be inclined to think that their continual in}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 sisting on the duty of passively yielding up the soul }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 to divine influences, and their exhortations to take all outward things as from God, would involve a }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 danger of falling into an indolent quietism. But }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 the fact, far from justifying our expectations, would }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 afford another proof that when we leave off trying }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 
to do the work that God will do Himself, we shall find }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 our energies all the more vigorous to accomplish that }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 which He has set us to do ; for instead of regarding }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 the events around them with passive indifference, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 like many of the earlier ascetics, they believed them}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
selves called to exercise a very positive influence on }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 the course of events.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li5\ri24\sb10\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin24\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\insrsid8331928 This was in a special sense the case with Nicolas of Basle and his immediate companions, whom we find, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 from t
he recently discovered documents, to have }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 entertained plans for the extension of religion and}{\insrsid8331928 
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\b\fs24\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 TAULER'S LIFE AND TIMES}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li38\ri0\sb120\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin38\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 the reform of Christendom of a wider nature than it }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
was safe to disclose even to their brethren indis}{\fs22\insrsid8331928 criminately, at a time when the Dominican inquisitors }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 (who, moreover, were of the Papal, while most of }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
the " Friends of God " were of the Imperial party) }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 were actively engaged in hunting out heretics, especi}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 ally those who might betray any leaning to the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
democratic and reformatory tendencies of the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Spiritual Franciscans and their cognate sects. Thus }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 the knot of men who gathered round Nicolas as their }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 centre, seem, as compared with the Gottesfreunde }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 at large, to have formed a church within a church, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 having secret schemes i
nto which the others were }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 not initiated.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li0\ri43\sb5\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin43\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 From hints of such private schemes scattered in }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
the writings of Rulman Merswin and " the Layman," }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 it was formerly imagined that the latter at any rate }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 was a secret Waldensian}{\i\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 ; }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 but this idea is not con}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 firmed by more extended research ; on the contrary, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 the importance which he and his friends attach to }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 the rites of the Church,\emdash to obedience to ecclesias}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 tical superiors,\emdash  their belief in transubstantiation }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
and purgatory, &c, are quite inconsistent with it. }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 Indeed, the views of Nicolas seem to have been much }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
more in unison with the doctrine of the Church than those of Eckart and his school. The only peculiarity }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 of }{\i\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 his-belief, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
that I can discover, is his strong con}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 fidence in the reality of the visions and miraculous }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 revelations imparted to himself and his friends; and }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 it must be remembered that even this peculiarity he }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 not only shares in common with the great Luther, who lived two centuries later, and with the liberal }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 and sagacious Wesley, almost in our own days, but }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 that his spiritual childhood had been nurtured on}{\insrsid8331928 
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TAULER'S CONVERSION}{\b\fs22\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs22\expnd-3\expndtw-17\insrsid8331928 137}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb130\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 the legends of the saints, with all their marvels; }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 and that we see, from the history of his times, }{
\b\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 that }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 miracles and revelations were of everyday occurrence, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 at all events among the Franciscans and sectarians. }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 The secret of the extraordinary sway which Nicolas }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 obtained, not only over laymen less instructed and priests less thinking than himself, but even over }{
\b\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 a }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 man of such commanding intellect as Tauler, seems }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 to me to lie in the intense glow of his piety, the utter }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 self-devotion of his own life, his force of will, and his }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 real spiritual insight. Not only did he stand im}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
measurably below Tauler in point of learning, }{\b\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 but }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 his letters, while affording many traits of spiritual }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
wisdom and acute practical sense, exhibit neither }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 the reflective nor imaginative power of Tauler's writings. Yet the accomplished scholar, the ex}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
perienced pastor, the fearless politician, resigns }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 himself implicitly to the guidance of the obscure }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 layman as his incontestable superior.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi202\li10\ri10\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin10\itap0 {\fs22\insrsid8331928 The crisis which Nicolas was the means of bringing }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 about in Tauler's life is commonly termed a con}{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 version ; but from all that we have read of his previous }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 life, it seems clear that it cannot be regarded as what }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
is ordinarily meant by that term. Before it took }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 place Tauler was already a sincere, God-fearing, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 active Christian minister, and recognized as their }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 " Father " and leader by the " Friends of God " }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 scattered up and down Switzerland, Bavaria, and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
the Rhenish states. Neither can I discover any }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 conversion, properly speaking, in point of doctrinal }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 opinions. Nicolas agrees to all he taught as very }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 good, and blames, not his preaching, but his life. Surely, therefore, this notable change is to be re}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 garded in the light in which Tauler himself regarded}{\insrsid8331928 
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\b\fs24\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 TAULER'S LIFE AND TIMES}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 it; as the coming to a deeper, more real and practical }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 
experience of the things of God. It seems, that }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 with all his sincere piety, and hatred of sin, and }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 abhorrence of the evil world around him, Tauler }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 had never come to a clear consciousness of all the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 depths of sin concealed in his own heart, or an apprehension of the full import of the utter self-}{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 surrender to God which he preached. Such a de}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 ficiency of self-knowledge is indeed more possible with a conscientious man of Tauler's character, pure }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 and gentle by nature, than with one of the opposite, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 or more stormy type. It is true that the task which }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 God lays upon all is the same
\emdash the unceasing sur}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 render of their own wishes to the higher aims which }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 He sets successively before them. But with men of }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
passionate temperament and selfish habits, who are therefore at every turn exposed by circumstances to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 violent temptation, their natural wishes are, for the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
most part, so obviously sinful that, though the }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 struggle of renouncing them may be hard, the duty }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 of doing so is clear and pressing. And when such }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 turn to God, their falls in attempting the Christian }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 walk are often frequent enough, or at least their }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
battles with temptation severe enough, to teach }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 them the evil and weakness of their own heart. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 With men, on the other hand, of calm, pure, and }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 affectionate disposition, and trained in conscientious }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 habits, so many of their wishes are for things harm}{\fs22\insrsid8331928 
less, or even good in themselves, that it is less easy to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 see why and how they are to be given up. Such men, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 just, kindly, and finding much of their own happiness }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 in that of others, live, for the most part, in har}{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 monious relations with those around them, and have }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
little to disturb their consciences, beyond the fear of}{\insrsid8331928 
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MENTAL TRIALS}{\fs22\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs22\expnd-3\expndtw-15\insrsid8331928 139}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb120\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 falling short in the path of duty on which they have }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 already entered. But they are exposed to many }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 perils, more insidious, because less startling, than }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 those which beset their more fiercely - tempted }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 
brethren. They are in danger of depending too }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 much on the respect and love which others so readily yield them ; of valuing themselves on a purity which, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
if ever one of struggle, has come to be one of taste ; }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 of prizing intellectual clearness above moral insight }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 and vigour; of mistaking the pleasure they feel in }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 the performance of duty, for real submission to the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 Will of God; and above all, of shrinking from new }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
truths which would, for the time, confuse their belief, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 and break up the calm symmetry of their lives. The }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 greater danger to the Christian life arising from those }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 hidden heart-sins, than even from sinful acts which }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 instantly wound the conscience, is a truth which Tauler insists upon in his sermons so strongly and }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 so often, nay, sometimes almost to exaggeration, that }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 one could not but guess that he was speaking from }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
his own experience, even had we not the certainty of }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 it from the " History." For, as he often declares, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 different natures require and receive 
a very different discipline from God. Sometimes it is by outward }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 affliction that God speaks to souls thus sinking into }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 the lethargy of formalism; and the loss of friends, }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 or health, or influence suddenly seems to cut off, as }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 it were, half their means of serving Him, and to rouse }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
long-forgotten temptations to rise up against His }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 will. Sometimes, on the other hand, He speaks to }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 them inwardly, by opening their eyes to heights of }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 holiness, which they had never before steadily con}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 templated. They now suddenly perceive that many of the fancied duties which have till now occupied}{\insrsid8331928 
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\b\fs24\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 TAULER'S LIFE AND TIMES}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sb101\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 their lives, and satisfied their consciences, have long ceased to be duties, and have come to be mere habits }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 or pleasures; and that while they have been thus }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 living in self-love, unseen and unrepented-of, they }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
might have been coming to the knowledge of the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 higher obligations to which they have been so blind, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 but which were all implied in their first belief, if they }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 had but continued to read it with a single eye. Thus they are weighed down by present temptations to }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 
which they have long been strangers. For, in order to follow the new light granted to them, they must }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 give up long - cherished aims; relinquish many opportunities of doing good, and eve
n, it may seem, the very faculties for using them ; and sacrifice, not only the good opinion of the world, but the trust and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 affection of many who are dearest \'80o them. They }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
shrink from such renunciation ; and then come doubt }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 and perplexity to add to the bitterness of the struggle. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 Can it be right to abandon so much that is good and }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 worthy in itself, can it be the voice of God that }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 summons them to do this, or is it not rather a self-}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 
willed fancy of their own ? No: for conscience }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 cannot be mistaken when it tells us of sin, though }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 it is insufficient to reveal to us duty\emdash 
and this fierce clinging to their own wishes, what is it but the same obstinate resistance to the will of God, which they }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 have been accustomed to blame, nay, even wonder at, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
in the vicious and criminal, whom they have perhaps been seeking to reclaim ? Such a struggle, it seems, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 was that which Tauler had to pass through before he }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 
could fully apprehend or be fitted for the work which }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 God had for him to do. And surely, without some }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 such struggle, none can keep long in the right path. }{
\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 For the path to life does not stretch across the}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li1416\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx4555\faauto\rin0\lin1416\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs24\insrsid8331928 MENTAL TRIALS\tab 
}{\b\fs24\expnd-5\expndtw-28\insrsid8331928 141}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li34\ri19\sb120\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin19\lin34\itap0 {\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-8\insrsid8331928 levels of habit, but winds up the heights of aspiration, }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 
and at every fresh step in the ascent a wider horizon }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 of duty opens to the view.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li19\ri14\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin14\lin19\itap0 {\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 I will not mar the impression of the touching }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 
narrative given by Tauler himself by translating the }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 story it relates into any weaker words, but leave it }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 to make its own way to the heart of those who have }{
\fs24\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 hearts to understand it. There may be some who }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 are unable to find within the range of their own ex}{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-6\insrsid8331928 
perience and observation any key which can make it }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 sound to them like reality and common sense, yet }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 considering the practical energy and clear judgment }{
\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 of Tauler in other parts of his life, it may surely be worth their pains to study what he considered of so much importance with reverent and self-distrustful }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 
diligence, rather than reject it at once as the mere }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 product of a heated fancy.}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li0\ri24\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin24\lin0\itap0 {\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 It seems most likely that the attention of Nicolas }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-5\insrsid8331928 
had first been drawn to Tauler during the stay of the latter with Henry of Nordlingen, in Basle, in 1338; }{\fs24\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 for, according to one of the best MSS. of the }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 
" History," the Layman says, " I have heard much }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-6\insrsid8331928 of your doctrine in my own country." Considering }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 what we know of his previous history, and the }{
\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-6\insrsid8331928 accusation of Nicolas that he relied too much on his }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 scholarship, it seems highly probable that Tauler }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-6\insrsid8331928 
may hitherto have been somewhat influenced by the }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 cast of thought derived from his master Eckart, in }{\fs24\expnd-1\expndtw-8\insrsid8331928 whose writings the power of Knowing is so highly }{
\fs24\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 exalted that it sometimes is made to take pre}{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 cedence of the faculty of Love. That Nicolas }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 should, after hearing Tauler preach a few times, 
}{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-3\insrsid8331928 have been able to penetrate his spiritual condition }{\fs24\expnd0\expndtw-4\insrsid8331928 and detect its great imperfection, would 4iot appear}{\insrsid8331928 
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\b\fs24\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 TAULER'S LIFE AND TIMES}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li24\ri0\sb120\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin24\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 to imply anything miraculous, but to be merely a }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 rare, though by no means singular, instance of the 
}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 fine spiritual instinct sometimes found in men }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 themselves of extraordinary religious attainments. Tauler shows us what he considers to have been the }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 
value of Nicolas to himself when he says, " Therefore }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 for such as desire to live for the truth, it is a great }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw16\insrsid8331928 assistance to have a Friend of God, to whom }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 they submit themselves, and who guides them by }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 the Spirit of God. }{\fs22\expnd13\expndtw68\insrsid8331928 ...}{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928  It were well worth their }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 while to go a hundred leagues to seek out an experienced Friend of God, who knows the right path }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 and can direct them in it."*}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li5\ri14\sb5\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin14\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 The two years of silence, which must have been }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
such a terrible trial to Tauler's faith and obedience, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 were compensated, not only by inward growth, as is }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 always the case with such trials, but by the evident in}{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 crease of his outward usefulness, so that he found the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 truth of Nicolas' assurance, that one of his sermons }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
would bring forth more fruit now than a hundred }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 had before. His preaching is distinguished from }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 that of most of his brethren among the " Friends of }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 God," by its more searching application of religious }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 principles to the moral questions arising in the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 
various emergencies of inward experience and outward }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 life. How much more widely still must it have differed }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 from that of the ordinary preachers, who sought to }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 captivate the educated by the refinements of schol}{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 astic logic, employed on questions of no use but }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
to display their own ingenuity, or to entertain the }{\b\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 vulgar }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 by marvellous stories of wonder - working saints or demons,\emdash when in simple earnest language}{\insrsid8331928 

\par }\pard \qj \fi158\li0\ri10\sb139\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin0\itap0 {\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 \bullet  Fir\'bbt Sermon on the Birth of the Virgin [No. 127 of the Frankfort }{\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
Edition, i8a6].}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li29\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin29\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\fs24\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 142      }{
\b\fs24\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 TAULER'S LIFE AND TIMES}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li24\ri0\sb120\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin24\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 to imply anything miraculous, but to be merely a }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 rare, though by no means singular, instance of the 
}{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 fine spiritual instinct sometimes found in men }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 themselves of extraordinary religious attainments. Tauler shows us what he considers to have been the }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 
value of Nicolas to himself when he says, " Therefore }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 for such as desire to live for the truth, it is a great }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw16\insrsid8331928 assistance to have a Friend of God, to whom }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 they submit themselves, and who guides them by }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 the Spirit of God. }{\fs22\expnd13\expndtw68\insrsid8331928 ...}{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928  It were well worth their }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 while to go a hundred leagues to seek out an experienced Friend of God, who knows the right path }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 and can direct them in it."*}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi206\li5\ri14\sb5\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin14\lin5\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 The two years of silence, which must have been }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
such a terrible trial to Tauler's faith and obedience, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 were compensated, not only by inward growth, as is }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 always the case with such trials, but by the evident in}{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 crease of his outward usefulness, so that he found the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 truth of Nicolas' assurance, that one of his sermons }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 
would bring forth more fruit now than a hundred }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 had before. His preaching is distinguished from }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 that of most of his brethren among the " Friends of }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 God," by its more searching application of religious }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw8\insrsid8331928 principles to the moral questions arising in the }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-2\insrsid8331928 
various emergencies of inward experience and outward }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw-1\insrsid8331928 life. How much more widely still must it have differed }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 from that of the ordinary preachers, who sought to }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 captivate the educated by the refinements of schol}{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 astic logic, employed on questions of no use but }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 
to display their own ingenuity, or to entertain the }{\b\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 vulgar }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 by marvellous stories of wonder - working saints or demons,\emdash when in simple earnest language}{\insrsid8331928 

\par }\pard \qj \fi158\li0\ri10\sb139\sl-158\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin10\lin0\itap0 {\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw1\insrsid8331928 \bullet  Fir\'bbt Sermon on the Birth of the Virgin [No. 127 of the Frankfort }{\b\fs16\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
Edition, i8a6].}{\insrsid8331928 
\par \sect }\sectd \binfsxn1\binsxn1\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid8331928\sftnbj \pard\plain \ql \li1094\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx4555\faauto\rin0\lin1094\itap0 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 
TAULER'S PREACHING}{\b\fs22\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs22\expnd-3\expndtw-17\insrsid8331928 143}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li24\ri0\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin24\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 he appealed, to the consciences of his hearers, and then showed them the way of escape from the }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 
wretchedness of their sinful lives to the peace of God, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 which passeth all understanding. And when he }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 taught them that they must forsake the creature }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 and cleave to God alone, it was no selfish shutting }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 up of the heart within the narrow sphere of its own }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
emotions and experiences which he preached, for he }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 is continually admonishing to works of love, and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 ever places human duties on their true level, measur}{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 ing their value not by the nature of the act, but by }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 the obedience and love involved in its performance. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
" One can spin," he says, " another can make shoes ; }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 and all these are gifts of the Holy Ghost. I tell you, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 if I were not a priest, I would esteem it a great gift }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 that I was able to make shoes, and would try to make }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 them so well as to be a pattern to all." " The }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
measure with which we shall be measured, is the faculty of love in the soul,\emdash the will of a man ; by }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 this shall all his words and works and life be }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 measured. }{
\fs22\expnd13\expndtw66\insrsid8331928 ..."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li0\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 But that which seems to me the most striking }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 characteristic of Tauler's sermons is his profound }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 sympathy with the spirit of Christ's life, especially with his infinite sorrow over the sins of others. This }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 is, indeed, a characteristic of the " Friends of }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928 God" in general, but is expressed with greater }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw16\insrsid8331928 force and beauty in Tauler than in the other }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 
writers of the same school. In this sense they }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 specially deserve the title which they assumed; }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 for, more than any other class of religious writers }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 with whom I am acquainted, do they seem }{\b\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 to have }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 entered into that intense appreciation of the evil }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw7\insrsid8331928 of sin, mingled with endless grief and compassion}{\insrsid8331928 
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TAULER'S PREACHING}{\b\fs22\insrsid8331928 \tab }{\fs22\expnd-3\expndtw-17\insrsid8331928 143}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \li24\ri0\sb125\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin24\itap0 {\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 he appealed, to the consciences of his hearers, and then showed them the way of escape from the }{\fs22\insrsid8331928 
wretchedness of their sinful lives to the peace of God, }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 which passeth all understanding. And when he }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw11\insrsid8331928 taught them that they must forsake the creature }{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 and cleave to God alone, it was no selfish shutting }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 up of the heart within the narrow sphere of its own }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 
emotions and experiences which he preached, for he }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 is continually admonishing to works of love, and }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 ever places human duties on their true level, measur}{
\fs22\expnd1\expndtw6\insrsid8331928 ing their value not by the nature of the act, but by }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 the obedience and love involved in its performance. }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 
" One can spin," he says, " another can make shoes ; }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 and all these are gifts of the Holy Ghost. I tell you, }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 if I were not a priest, I would esteem it a great gift }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 that I was able to make shoes, and would try to make }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw12\insrsid8331928 them so well as to be a pattern to all." " The }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw4\insrsid8331928 
measure with which we shall be measured, is the faculty of love in the soul,\emdash the will of a man ; by }{\fs22\expnd1\expndtw9\insrsid8331928 this shall all his words and works and life be }{\fs22\expnd2\expndtw10\insrsid8331928 measured. }{
\fs22\expnd13\expndtw66\insrsid8331928 ..."}{\insrsid8331928 
\par }\pard \qj \fi216\li0\ri0\sl-240\slmult0\nowidctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\fs22\expnd1\expndtw5\insrsid8331928 But that which seems to me the most striking }{\fs22\expnd0\expndtw2\insrsid8331928 characteristic of Tauler's sermons is his profound }{
\fs22\expnd0\expndtw3\insrsid8331928 sympathy with the spirit of Christ's life, especially with his infinite sorrow over the sins of others. This }{\fs22\expnd3\expndtw15\insrsid8331928 is, indeed, a characteristic of the " Friends of }{
\fs22\expnd2\expndtw13\insrsid8331928