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almafu_9960819770002883
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1 online resource (xl, 526 pages) :
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1-80010-492-8
Series Statement:
Works of Thomas Traherne ; v.7
Uniform Title:
Works. 2005
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Thomas Traherne (1637-1674), a clergyman of the Church of England during the Restoration, was little known until the early twentieth century, when his poetry and 〈i〉Centuries of Meditations〈/i〉 were first printed. Since then, only selections of his poetry and devotional writings have been fully-edited for print publication, a gap which 〈i〉The Works of Thomas Traherne〈/i〉 will remedy by bringing together Traherne's extant works, including his notebooks, in a definitive, printed edition for the first time.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Jul 2022).
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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General Preface --
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Acknowledgements --
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Abbreviations --
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Introduction --
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Christian Ethicks --
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TO THE READER --
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The Contents --
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CHAP. I. Of the End, for the sake of which, Virtue is desired --
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CHAP. II. Of the Nature of Felicity, its Excellence and Perfection --
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CHAP. III. Of Vertue in General. The Distribution of it into its several Kinds, its Definition --
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CHAP. IV. Of the Powers and Affections of the Soul; What virtues pertain to the Estate of Innocency; what to the Estate of Grace; what to the estate of Glory --
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CHAP. V. Of the Necessity, Excellency, and Use of Knowledge; its Depths and Extents, its Objects and its End --
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CHAP. VI. Of Love and Hatred. The necessity and sweetness of Love. Its General use and efficacy. The several kinds of love. Of the Power, Inclination and act of Love. Its extent and capacity --
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CHAP. VII. What Benefit GOD himself does receive by his Eternal Love. That when our Love is made compleat and Perfect, it will be like his, and the Benefit of it will be Eternal --
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CHAP. VIII. Of the Excellency of Truth, as it is the Object and Cause of Vertue. The Matter and form of Vertuous Actions. That their form is infinitely more Excellent then their Matter, and the Heathen Morality infinitely defective and short of the Christian --
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CHAP. IX. Wisdom is seated in the Will, it attaineth the best of all possible Ends by the best of all possible Means --
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CHAP. X. Of Righteousness. How Wisdome, Justice, and Right Reason are shut up in its Nature. What GOD doth, and what we acquire, by the Exercise of this Vertue --
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CHAP. XI Of Goodness Natural, Moral and Divine; its Nature described, The Benefits and Works of Goodness --
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CHAP. XII Of Holiness: Its Nature, Violence, and Pleasure. Its Beauty consisteth in the infinite Love of Righteousness and Perfection --
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CHAP. XIII. Of Justice in General, and Particular. The Great Good it doth in Empires and Kingdoms, a Token of the more retired Good it doth in the Soul. Its several Kinds. That GODS Punitive Justice Springs from his Goodness --
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CHAP. XIV. Of Mercy, The indelible Stain and Guilt of Sin. Of the Kingdom which GOD recovered by Mercy, The transcendent Nature of that Duty, with its Effects and Benefits --
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CHAP. XV. Of Faith. The Faculty of Believing implanted in the Soul. Of what Nature its Objects are. The Necessity of Faith; Its End, Its Use and Excellency. It is the Mother and Fountain of all the Vertues --
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CHAP. XVI. Of Hope. Its foundation, its Distinction from Faith, its Extents and Dimensions, its Life Sand Vigor, its Several Kinds, its Sweetness and Excellency --
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CHAP. XVII. Of Repentance. Its Original, its Nature, it is a Purgative Vertue. Its necessity, its Excellencies. The measure of that sorrow which is due to Sin is intollerable to Sense confessed by Reason, and dispensed with by mercy --
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CHAP. XVIII. Of Charity towards GOD. It Sanctifieth Repentance, makes it a Vertue, and turns it to a Part of our true Felicity. Our Love to all other Objects is to begin and End in GOD. Our Love of GOD hath an Excellency in it that makes it worthy to be desired by his Eternal Majesty. He is the only Supreme and Perfect friend. By Loving we enjoy him --
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CHAP. XIX. Charity to our Neighbour most natural and Easie in the Estate of Innocency: Adams Love to Eve and his children a great Examplar of our Love to all the World. The Sweetness of Loving. The Benefits of being Beloved. To Love all the World, and be beloved by all the World is perfect security and Felicity. Were the Law fulfilled all the World would be turned into Heaven --
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CHAP. XX. Of Prudence. Its Foundation is Charity, its End Tranquillity and Prosperity on Earth, its Office to reconcile Duty and Convenience, and to make Vertue subservient to Tempora Welfare. Of Prudence in Religion, Friendship, and Empire. The End of Prudence is perfect Charity --
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CHAP. XXI. Encouragements to Courage. Its Nature, Cause, and End. Its Greatness and Renown. Its Ornaments and Companions. Its Objects, Circumstances, Effects and Disadvantages; how Difficulties increase its Vertue. Its Ver[tues] and Triumphs. How subservient it is to Blessedness and Glory --
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CHAP. XXII. Of Temperance in Matters of Art, as Musick, Dancing, Painting, Cookery, Physick, &c. In the works of Nature; Eating, Drinking, Sports and Recreations: In occasions of Passion, in our Lives and Conversations. Its exercise in Self-denial, Measure, Mixture and Proportion. Its effects and atchievments --
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CHAP. XXIII. Of Temperance in GOD. How the Moderation of Almighty Power guided in its works by Wisdom its Works by Wisdom, perfecteth the Creation. How it hath raised his own Glory and our Felicity beyond all that Simple Power could effect by its Infiniteness --
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CHAP. XXIV. Of Patience. Its Original. How GOD was the first Patient Person in the World. The Nature, and the Glory, and the blessed Effects of his Eternal Patience. The Reason and Design of all Calamities. Of Patience in Martyrdom. The extraordinary Reward of ordinary Patience in its meanest obscurity --
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CHAP. XXV. The Cause of Meekness is Love. It respects the future beauty and perfection of its Object. It is the most supernatural of all the Vertues. The Reasons and Grounds of this Vertue in the estate of Grace and Misery. Its manifold Effects and Excellencies. Of the Meekness of Moses and Joseph --
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CHAP. XXVI. Humility is the basis of all Vertue and Felicity, in all Estates, and for ever to be exercised. As Pride does alienate the Soul from GOD, Humility unites it to him in Adoration and Amity. It maketh infinite Blessedness infinitely greater, is agreeable to the Truth of our Condition, and leads us through a dark and mysterious way to Glory --
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CAP. XXVII. That Contentment is a Vertue. Its Causes and its Ends: Its Impediments, Effects and Advantages. The way to attain and secure Contentment --
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CAP. XXVIII. Of Magnanimity, or Greatness of Soul. Its Nature. Its Foundation in the vast Capacity of the Understanding. Its Desire. Its Objects are infinite and eternal. Its Enquiries are most profound and earnest. It disdaineth all feeble Honours, Pleasures and Treasures. A Magnanimous Man is the only Great and undaunted Creature --
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CAP. XXIX. Of Modesty. Its Nature. Its Original. Its Effects and Consequences --
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CHAP. XXX. The excellent Nature of Liberality. Rules to be observed in the practice of it. Regard to our Servants, Relations, Friends and Neighbours must be had in our Liberality, as well as to the Poor and Needy. How our external acts of Charity ought to be improved for the benefit of mens Souls. Liberality maketh Religion real and substantial. --
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CAP. XXXI. Of Magnificence in GOD. Its resemblance in Man. The chief Magnificence of the Soul is Spiritual. It is perfectly expressed in the outward Life, when the whole is made perfect, and presented to GOD. GOD gives all his Life to us: and we should give ours all to him. How fair and glorious it may be --
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CAP. XXXII. Of Gratitude. It feeds upon Benefits, and in height and fervour answerable to their Greatness. It is impossible to be grateful to GOD without it. A hint of the glorious Consequences of so doing --
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CAP. XXXIII. The Beauty of Gratitude. Its principal Causes. Amity and Communion the great effect of its Nature. The true Character of a Grateful Person. GOD’s Incommunicable Attributes enjoyed by Gratitude. All Angels and Men are a Grateful Person’s Treasures, as they assist him in Praises. He sacrifices all Worlds to the Deity, and supreamly delighteth to see him sitting in the Throne of Glory --
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An APPENDIX. Of Enmity and Triumph: Of Schism and Heresie, Fidelity, Devotion, Godliness. Wherein is declared, how Gratitude and Felicity inspire and perfect all the Vertues --
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Textual Emendations and Notes --
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Roman Forgeries --
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A Premonition --
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AN ADVERTISEMENT. TO THE READER --
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CAP. II. Of the Primitive Order and Government of the Church. The first Popish Encroachment upon it, backed with Forgery. The Detection of the Fraud in the Sixth Council of Carthage --
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CAP. III. A multitude of Forgeries secretly mingled among the Records of the Church, and put forth under the Name of Isidore, Bishop of Hispalis: Which Book is owned, defended, and followed by the Papists --
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CAP. IV. James Merlin’s Editions of the Councils, who lately published Isidore Hispalensis for a good Record, which is now detected, and proved to be a Forgery --
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CAP. V.
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Divers Forgeries contained in Isidore’s Collection, mentioned in particular --
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CAP. VI. What use Merlin makes of Isidore, and the Forgeries therein. How much he was approved in the Church of Rome. How some would have Isidore the Bishop to be a Merchant, others, a Sinner --
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CAP. VII. Of Francis Turrian the Jesuite: With what Art and Boldness he defendeth the Forgeries --
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CAP. VIII. Of Peter Crabbe’s Tomes of the Councils: Wherein he agrees with, and wherein he differs from Isidore and Merlin --
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CAP. IX. Of Carranza: his Epitome of the Decrees and Councils. He owneth the Forgeries --
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CAP. X. Of Surius his four Tomes, and how the Forgeries are by him defended. He hath the Rescripts of Atticus and Cyril, by which Pope Zozimus was condemned of Forgery in the sixth Council of Carthage --
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CAP. XI. Of Nicolinus his Tomes, and their Contents for the first 420 years. His Testimony concerning the sixth Council of Carthage --
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CAP. XII. Nicolinus his Epistle to Pope Sixtus. His contempt of the Fathers. He beginneth to confess the Epistle of Melchiades to be dubious, if not altogether Spurious. He overthrows the Legend about Constantines Donation --
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CAP. XIII. The Epistle of Pope Damasus to Aurelius, Archbishop of Carthage, commanding him to take care, that the Decretals of the Roman Bishops be preached and published abroad: Wherein the Forgeries of the Church of Rome are Fathered on the Holy Ghost --
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CAP. XIV. Counterfeit Canons of the Apostles defended by Binius. A Glympse of his Pretences, Sophistries, and Contradictions. A Forged Council of Apostles concerning Images, defended by Binius and Turrian --
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CAP. XV. Of the Pontifical Falsely Fathered upon Damasus, Bishop of Rome, An. 397. How the Popish Collectors use it as their Text, yet confess it to be a Forgery full of Lyes and contradictions --
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CAP. XVI. Of the Decretal Epistles forged in the Names of the first holy Martyrs and Bishops of Rome. The first was sent (as they pretend) from S. Clement, by S. Peter’s order, to S. James the Bishop of Jerusalem, seven years after he was dead; and by the best Account 27. S. Clement’s Recognitions a confessed Forgery --
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CAP. XVII. Of Higinus and Pius, as they are represented in the Pontifical; and of a notable Forgery in the name of Hermes: Where you have the Testimony of an Angel, concerning the Celebration of Easter, cited by no body, while the matter was in controversie --
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CAP. XVIII. A Letter fathered on Cornelius Bishop of Rome in the year 254. concerning the Removal of the Apostles Bones: giving Evidence to the Antiquity of many Popish Doctrines, but is it self a Forgery --
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CAP. XIX. The ridiculous Forgery of the Council of Sinuessa, put into the Roman Martyrologies. How the City, and the name of it was consumed, (though when, no man can tell) by an Earthquake --
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CAP. XX. Divers things premised in order, first to the Establishment, and then to the Refutation of Constantine’s Donation; the first by Binius, and the latter by the Author. The Forgeries of Marcellus, Pope Eusebius, and Binius opened --
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CAP. XXI. The EDICT of our Lord CONSTANTINE the Emperour --
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CAP. XXII. The Donation of Constantine proved to be a Forgery by Binius himself. He confesseth the Acts of Sylvester, which he before had cited as good Records, to be Counterfeit --
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CAP. XXIII. Melchiades counterfeited. Isidore Mercator confessed to be a Forgery. The Council of Laodicea corrupted, both by a Fraud in the Text, and by the False Glosses of the Papistss --
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CAP. XXIV. Learning of Alphonsus Pisanus. The counterfeit Epistles of Sylvester, and that Council. A Roman Council wholly counter-feited. Letters counterfeited in the Name of Pope Mark, and Athanasius, and the Bishops of Egypt, to defend the Forgeries that were lately added to the Nicene Council --
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AN APPENDIX. Cardinal Baronius his Grave Censure and Reproof of the Forgeries: His fear that they will prove destructive and pernicious to the See of Rome --
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AN APPENDIX. Cardinal Baronius his Grave Censure and Reproof of the Forgeries: His fear that they will prove destructive and pernicious to the See of Rome --
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APPENDIX --
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THE WILL OF THOMAS TRAHERNE, AS REGISTERED IN THE PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY --
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Brooke’s account of the discovery of Thomas Traherne’s manuscripts --
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Glossary
Additional Edition:
Print version: Ross, Jan The Works of Thomas Traherne VII Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, Limited,c2022 ISBN 9781843846185
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781800104921
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