14. Thy face is as a sword smiting in sunder Shadows and chains and dreams and iron things; 15. All old gray histories hiding thy clear features, O secret spirit and sovereign, all men's tales, Creeds woven of men, thy children and thy creatures, They have woven for vestures of thee and for veils. A Light Will struggle through these thronging words at last, As in the angry and tumultuous West A soft star trembles through the drifting clouds. Special abbreviations are used in this index as follows:- ab.-" abridged " for the sake of brevity com.-compiler ins.-words "inserted" by the compiler in order to connect passages properly, or to bring r." re-arrangement" of the order of words or sentences, for clearness, or in order to pro- sub.-"substituted for," viz. the substitution of certain words by the compiler instead of t. o.-"theological phrase or word omitted," when the sense of the passage is not thereby trans.com.-" compiler's translation In Biblical references the ordinary abbreviations are used A change from the second person plural to the second person singular has been made in CHAPTER I Be not Led into Temptation 1, 2 Sir Thos. Browne, Christian Morals, 3-9 Rich. Baxter, Works, vol. iv. p. 354 10 Thos. à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, i. xiii. 5 11 Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar, act ii. sc. i. 13, 14 Dr. John Tauler, Sermons, xxiii. p. 15 Thos. à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, i. 16, 17 Idem, i. xiii. 5, ab. 18, 19 Rich. Baxter, Works, vol. iii. p. 456 20-22 Idem, p. 447, ab. 24 Prov. xxii. 3 25-27 Rich. Baxter, Works, vol. iii. p. 22 28 Prov. xiv. 16 29 Thos. à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, i. 30 Bishop Thos. Wilson. Maxims, No. 455 13 Sir Thos. Browne, Christian Morals, pt. 14 a (First sentence) Rich. Baxter, Works, b (Second sentence) Lord Bacon, Essays 15, 16 Rich. Baxter, Works, vol. iii. p. 48 17 Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, p. 132, ii. xi., 18 La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, No. 563, ab. 21 1 Cor. x. 12 20 Rom. vi. 16 21 Isa. XXX. 13 22, 23 Prov. V. 22, 23 24 Job xviii. 5 25 Job xviii. 7 26 Rom. vi. 21 5 Idem, p. 270 X. 7, 8 F. W. Robertson, Sermons, series ii. pp. 9, 10 George Eliot, Silas Marner, cap. xiv. 15 Walt Whitman, Poems, p. 258 (Leaves of 16 H. W. Longfellow, Poems, p. 551 (Biras 18 Idem, Poems, p. 297 (Life) 19 Wm. Morris, A Dream of John Ball 22-28 F. Adler, Creed and Deed, pp. 96, 97. |