Spiritual Marriage and - Durham e-Theses - Durham University

the soul expatiate; O it is worthy, blessed, soul-ravishing subject to think upon: and the rather if we consider that conformity ...

Additionally those who were ravished could not eat or sleep, Peter jumped overboard and swam ashore to greet Jesus, and fainting ...

morning experience of ravishment was also tangible and visual.^121 None of Ambrose’s personal experiences exhibit the visual dyn ...

Therefore, in surveying Ambrose’s usage of the spiritual senses he employs each one at least once while sight is the dominant me ...

with strong and heavenly affections of love, joy and desire.”^132 While Ambrose does not use the language of sweetness in relati ...

follow Jesus, to an awareness of the future benefits of heaven. In the conforming to Jesus section in relation to his gift of sa ...

Jesus’ suffering for those condemned because of sin, “[i]ndeed with what lesse than ravishment of spirit can I behold the Lord J ...

loving Jesus. Mary’s experience further indicates that some of these areas of new knowledge suggest the promissory nature of rav ...

According to Ambrose, while ravishment can create a deep peace and assurance of God’s promises, he reminds his readers that ravi ...

next step to encourage this new birth is “an hungering desire after Christ and his merits.”^150 He reiterates this again in Look ...

This fourth benefit once again draws upon Ambrose’s May 20, 1641 seminal retreat experience to learn more fully his understandin ...

progresses through the various phases of this meditation Ambrose asks; “what are the effects, O my soul, of this eternity?” He r ...

within when thou shalt see thy self in the armes of Christ.”^161 Ambrose employs another water metaphor as he reinforces that pr ...

presence and joy because he “is All in all to all his Saints” because “God is the very top of heavens joy.”^164 Before summarizi ...

is a strong eschatological nature to ravishment since a person is more likely to focus on God and meditate on heaven the closer ...

stage for the final goal of this thesis of retrieval. However, before that can be attempted the highly significant barrier of re ...

Chapter 6 Resistance and Retrieval The people seemed to have a renewed taste for those old pious and experimental writers, Mr. H ...

can be determined it is first necessary to recognize that Ambrose and other Puritans were equally critical of certain spiritual ...

primary reason for Ambrose’s suspicion was the Quakers. No doubt Ambrose’s fears were heightened because the Quakers were partic ...

Gospel.”^8 To summarize his primary concern, Ambrose declares, “the testimony of Gods Spirit is ever agreeable to the Word.”^9 T ...