For these very qualities it would seem indubitably to be his.
[30] Surely also by Donne, but see Grierson, vol. ii., pp. cxxxviii-ix.
[31] _Centuries of Meditations_, ed. Dobell, 1908, pp. 20, 21.
[32] _Centuries of Meditations_, pp. 156-58.
[33] _Life of Tennyson_, by his son, 1905, p. 268; see also pp 818, 880.
[34] This is the idea, essentially mystical, and originating with
Boehme, which is worked out in the suggestive little book, _The Mystery
of Pain_, by James Hinton.
[35] _An Appeal, Work's_, vol. vi. pp. 27, 28.
[36] _The Spirit of Prayer_, _Works_, vol. vii. pp. 23, 24.
[37] _Cf._ St Augustine, "To will God entirely is to have Him" (_City of
God_, Book xi. chap, iv.), or Ruysbroek's answer to the priests from
Paris who came to consult him on the state of their souls: "You are as
you desire to be."
[38] See _The Spirit of Prayer_, _Works_, vol. vii. pp. 150, 151.
[39] _An Appeal, Works_, vol. vi. p. 169.
[40] _Ibid._, pp. 19, 20.
[41] _Ibid._, pp. 69, 80.
[42] _The Spirit of Prayer_, _Works_, vol. vii. pp. 23, 27.
[43] _The Way to Divine Knowledge, Works_, vol. vii. p. 60.
[44] _The Spirit of Prayer_, _Works_, vol. vii.
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