 | Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 страници
...sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains,...kindle up, as it were, a sweet burning in my heart; an ardour of soul, that I know not how to express. Not long after I first began to experience these things,... | |
 | Gaile McGregor - 1988 - 372 страници
...traditional Calvinism could scarcely have conceived. I had a "kind of vision," says Edwards in his journal, "of being alone in the mountains, or some solitary...conversing with Christ, and wrapt and swallowed up in God." "[H]is wisdom, his purity and love, seemed to appear in everything; in the sun, moon, and stars; in... | |
 | Gaile McGregor - 1988 - 372 страници
...traditional Calvinism could scarcely have conceived. I had a "kind of vision," says Edwards in his journal, "of being alone in the mountains, or some solitary...conversing with Christ, and wrapt and swallowed up in God." "[H]is wisdom, his purity and love, seemed to appear in everything; in the sun, moon, and stars; in... | |
 | John Braisted Carman - 1994 - 470 страници
...sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world; and sometimes a kind of vision . . . of being alone in the mountains, or some solitary...heart; an ardor of soul that I know not how to express. Edwards goes on to describe his feelings in more abstract terms that directly recognize the polar attributes... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 страници
...sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains,...kindle up, as it were, a sweet burning in my heart; an ardour of soul, that I know not how to express. Not long after I first began to experience these things,... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 432 страници
...sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains,...from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ, and wrapped and swallowed up in God. The sense I had of divine things would often of a sudden kindle up,... | |
 | A. Robert Lee, W. M. Verhoeven - 1996 - 376 страници
...a calm, sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world, and ... a kind of vision ... of being alone in the mountains or some solitary wilderness,...from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ. . . ."31 The experiential pattern of withdrawal into solitude followed by spiritual uplift and privileged... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - 1997 - 1148 страници
...calm, sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world; and a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains,...from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ, and wrapped and swallowed up in God. The sense I had of divine things, would often of a sudden as it were,... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - 1997 - 1146 страници
...mountains, or some solitary wilderness, far from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ, and wrapped and swallowed up in God. The sense I had of divine things, would often of a sudden as it were, kindle up a sweet burning in my heart; an ardor of my soul, that I know not how to express.... | |
 | Susan Clair Imbarrato - 1998 - 200 страници
...the woods, he replaces fearful images of nature as a foreboding wilderness with his "vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains,...conversing with Christ, and wrapt and swallowed up in God" (84). The witch-infested forests of Cotton Mather have become a contemplative landscape, and a fiery... | |
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This I know not how to express otherwise, than by a calm, sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains, or some solitary wilderness, far... 
