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Forbshearts of his chosen, tells us that the Word of God hath three degrees of operation in the first it falleth to mens ears as ...

A review of other Puritan Song of Songs commentaries further substantiates this understanding.^31 Further, there is some debate ...

Calvin, and other Puritans.^37 The previous chapter established that desire was one of the nine ways of looking at Jesus. Accord ...

of the Holy Spirit” to encourage this process.^43 According to him the “greatest gift we can expect in this world is the Spirit ...

soul.^48 For without “an holy kinde of violence [a person can not] lay hold upon the Kingdome of heaven, Mat. 11.12.”^49 Therefo ...

from sin to himselfe.”^56 John Knott accurately summarizers the Puritan understanding of holy violence, “[t]he gulf between God ...

between husband and wife the same was experientially true for Jesus and his bride the Church or individual Christians. Once agai ...

of God’s melting love to burn off any sin and the barriers of the world that keep him from enjoying God.^63 Further, wounding th ...

more and he that desires let him desire yet more abundantly.”^69 Not only is it critical to seek God’s assistance in stirring up ...

writing Looking Unto Jesus was recovering from a serious illness in 1653.^76 Related is the addition of the Saints Suffering sec ...

Autobiographical Experiences of Isaac Ambrose Bernard McGinn distinguishes between mystical language, mystical theology, and mys ...

characteristics of mystical experiences; tasting the goodness and sweetness of God, being filled with the joy of the Spirit, rec ...

Further, he had been touched by the “[k]isses of his mouth” and tasted “the new wine of his kingdom.” More incredibly this exper ...

unlike Bernard, Ambrose does not use the language of spiritual inebriation for ecstasy that Williams maintains “was often compar ...

Puritan. Hearing this affective delight and desire for God only increases the misfortune that Ambrose’s complete diary no longer ...

creature, behold thou art faire my love, behold thou art faire, there is no spot in thee, my sister, my spouse, thou hast wounde ...

“Reading the Word,” “[t]hat it happens sometimes such raptures may seize on a man, even while he is reading the Scriptures; as t ...

hearing the Word Ambrose declares, “[o]h what meltings, chearings, warmings of the Spirit had such a one? and such a one? the Wo ...

Transfiguration or Mary on Easter morning or the saints in heaven they cannot but be ravished by the overwhelming sight of Jesus ...

out of the devils, if they had but grace to see his beauty.”^110 This statement is significant for two reasons. First, it reiter ...