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The Homely Presence of Christ

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

Giles Brewse
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Brother, if thou desire to have the homely presence of our Lord Jesus Christ ghostly in thy soul in feeling, but how the blessed presence of Jesus is felt, it may better be known by experience than by any writing, for it is the life and the love, the might and the light, the joy and the rest of a chosen soul. And therefore he that once hath soothfastly felt it, he may not forbear it without pain, he must needs desire it, it is so good in itself and so comfortable. What is more comfortable to a soul here than for to be drawn out through grace from the vile noise of worldly business and filth of desires and from vain affection of all creatures into rest and safeness of ghostly love, privily perceiving the gracious presence of Jesus, fully fed with favour of his unseeable blessed face?

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Research Article
Information
Life of the Spirit , Volume 4 , Issue 39 , September 1949 , pp. 109 - 114
Copyright
Copyright © 1949 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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References

1 watching.

2 for or by our soul's sins.

3 except.

4 The following verses are not proper to St Bernard's hymn.

5 glance aside.

6 work, working, mode of prayer.

7 For this paragraph see Hilton Scale, ii. 34.

8 hindering.

9 Hilton, Scale, Book ii, 30.

10 ‘I like’.

11 Scale of Perfection.

12 dram = drachma.

13 Compare the following with Hilton, Angels’ Song, last section. (Cell of Self-Knowledge, p. 70).

14 in bliss, heaven.

15 The next paragraph is taken bodily from the Scale of Perfection, ii, 17, and is here omitted.

16 Walter Hilton died in 1396. His book was first printed in 1494 and became very popular. It may be that this author refers to the printed copy.