Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Note on transcription and citation
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Blockish Adams’ on mystical marriage
- 2 Ecce homo: the spectacle of Christ's passion in Salve deus rex judæorum
- 3 Serpents and doves: Lady Anne Southwell and the new Adam
- 4 Public worship and private thanks in Eliza's babes
- 5 Anna Trapnel ‘sings of her Lover’
- 6 The transfiguration of Colonel Hutchinson in Lucy Hutchinson's elegies
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Index to scripture passages
5 - Anna Trapnel ‘sings of her Lover’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Note on transcription and citation
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Blockish Adams’ on mystical marriage
- 2 Ecce homo: the spectacle of Christ's passion in Salve deus rex judæorum
- 3 Serpents and doves: Lady Anne Southwell and the new Adam
- 4 Public worship and private thanks in Eliza's babes
- 5 Anna Trapnel ‘sings of her Lover’
- 6 The transfiguration of Colonel Hutchinson in Lucy Hutchinson's elegies
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Index to scripture passages
Summary
In December 1654, at the end of Anna Trapnel's annus mirabilis of visions, missionary journeys and imprisonment, a Londoner confided to a friend about the puzzling experience of meeting a prophetess in the flesh:
As for your desires concerneing Anna Trapnell, it is (to be playne) to me a very strange dispensation, yet I am perswaded she hath communion with God in it, but under what sort to ranke it, I am at some stand. The dispensation is strange, because rare, more strange, because to me there appeares no such amongst the Scripture Records, as to the manner of it, for I cannot reckon it among the vissions and Revelations of the Lord, because in the thinges she utters (whether in verse or prose) it's onely what she hath beene conversant in before, and had the knowledge of … If she did continue in it but for one or two dayes, I should be apt to thinke she might do it when she would, in the strength of parts, save for two thinges. 1st. she is so stifned in hir Body that were she not warme one would thinke hir dead. […]
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- Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England , pp. 149 - 179Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004