Hours with the Mystics: A Contribution to the History of Religious Opinion

by Robert Alfred Vaughan

[120]. Serm. on Eleventh Sun. after Trinity, ii. p. 436.

[121]. Serm. on Eleventh Sun. after Trin., ii. pp. 442, 443. Also, Predigten, vol. iii. p. 19, and Schmidt, p. 125.

[122]. Third Serm. on Thirteenth Sun. after Trin., ii. pp. 474-478.

[123]. First Serm. on Thirteenth Sun. after Trin., ii. p. 459.

[124]. See second [Note], p. [256].

[125]. Twenty-first Sun. after Trin., ii. p. 584.

[126]. See [Note], p. [257].

[127]. Preface to Tauler’s Life and Sermons by Susanna Winkworth.

[128]. Nicole, in his Traité de la Prière, describes and criticises this style of devotion. It must always be borne in mind that the warnings of Tauler with regard to the image and the symbol are addressed, not to us sober Protestant folk, but especially to the devotees of the cloister. Those who have some acquaintance with the fantastic excesses he combats, will not think his language too strong.

[129]. See Hecker’s Black Death (trans. by Dr. Babington, 1853).—Hecker gives the documents relating to the trial of the Neustadt Jews in an appendix, from the Chronicle of Jacob of Königshoven. See also pp. 103-127.