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The Practice of the Presence of God - Brother Lawrence
THE PRACTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD
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Brother Lawrence
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
CONVERSATIONS
FIRST CONVERSATION
SECOND CONVERSATION
THIRD CONVERSATION
FOURTH CONVERSATION
LETTERS
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Appendix A-The electronic edition.
The Practice of the Presence of God: The Best Rule of Holy Life
being Conversations and Letters of Brother Lawrence
Good when He gives,
supremely good;
Nor less when He denies: Afflictions,
from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise.
PREFACE
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I believe in the... communion of saints.
SURELY if additional proof of its reality were needed, it might be found in the universal oneness of experimental Christianity in all ages and in all lands. The experiences of Thomas á Kempis, of Tauler and of Madame Guyon, of John Woolman and Hester Ann Rogers, how marvellously they agree, and how perfectly they harmonize! And Nicholas Herman, of Lorraine, whose letters and converse are here given, testifies to the same truth! In communion with Rome, a lay brother among the Carmelites, for several years a soldier, in an irreligious age, amid a sceptical people, yet in him the practice of the presence of GOD was as much a reality as the watch
of the early Friends, and the holy seed
in him and others was the stock
(Isa. vi. 13) from which grew the household and evangelistic piety of the eighteenth century, of Epworth and of Moorfields.
When unadorned, adorned the most
is the line which deters from any interpolations or interpretations other than the few contents
headings which are given. May the Christ in you
be the hope of glory
to all who read.
CONVERSATIONS
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FIRST CONVERSATION
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CONVERSION AND PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT. * Satisfaction in God’s presence. * Faith our duty. * Resignation the fruit of watchfulness.
THE first time I saw Brother Lawrence was upon the 3rd of August, 1666. He told me that GOD had done him a singular favour, in his conversion at the age of eighteen.
That in the winter, seeing a tree stripped of its leaves, and considering that within a little time, the leaves would be renewed, and after that the flowers and fruit appear, he received a high view of the Providence and Power of GOD, which has never since been effaced from his soul. That this view had perfectly set him loose from the world, and kindled in him such a love for GOD, that he could not tell whether it had increased in above forty years that he had lived since.
That he had been footman to M. Fieubert, the treasurer, and that he was a great awkward fellow who broke everything.
That he had desired to be received into a monastery, thinking that he would there be made to smart for his awkwardness and the faults he should