Spiritual Marriage and - Durham e-Theses - Durham University

as Sathan cannot intuitively or immediately discern it, so neither can he imperiously or efficaciously work upon it.”^87 This ca ...

searched into the Common places and uses of my corruptions in nature and practice; of my comforts against the burthens of my dai ...

own heart: he acted in things doubtful, against the reluctancy of his own conscience before; no question this is sin, because it ...

he experienced God amid these battles. His primary conflict appears to have been his desire to create a better public image than ...

anger, reconciled himself to his adversary, and immediately God spake peace to his conscience.”^105 Apparently Ambrose took seri ...

increases one’s ability to notice life and detect the origin of blessings and hence have a more contemplative attitude towards l ...

This night desiring God to sanctifie my sleep and dreams, that I sinned not in them: I dreamed, that after some troubles of life ...

appear from the material preserved that Ambrose’s heart was softened and changed and aided him in looking unto Jesus. Struggles ...

increases freedom and encourages Ambrose to lovingly gaze upon Jesus. Even his greatest interior struggle with pride seems to ha ...

Roman Catholic literature.^125 Richard Greenham has been acknowledged as the founding father of Puritan casuistry. He is also re ...

worship when he “identified the busy show of activity in the liturgy with Martha and the devotional life of “heart religion” wit ...

“[r]eading the holy Scriptures, which is nothing else but a kinde of holy conference with God, wherein we enquire after, and he ...

This language was not unique to him. Simon Chan comments that among Puritan pastors “a few possessed that rare balance of “[a] B ...

heart, that he opened the fountains of all eyes about him, and caused a flood of tears in my Chamber, I never saw the like day. ...

While the previous examples exhibit Ambrose’s spiritual guidance to other ministers, the following incident pertains to a woman ...

Puritan preacher’s role in conversion, “[p]reachers meant to unsettle their audiences by driving home the enormity of sin.”^145 ...

God through this situation. However, it does illustrate that sometimes we meet God through others and sometimes we might miss Go ...

this discipline for Ambrose.^150 Historically Horton Davies is correct when he asserts that fast days were not a Puritan innovat ...

fervent in prayer.”^154 According to Ambrose, there were four important components to a fast day: fasting from sin, combining sc ...

midst of us.”^161 Another “soul feeding” day was August 16, 1648, just one day before the Battle of Preston that would end the s ...