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.