Excerpt from Holy Wisdom: Or Directions for the Prayer of Contemplation, Extracted Out of More Than Forty Treatises

Mysteries implied in reference to the various terms used and required, with regard to unity of Substance and plurality of operations, a more exact terminology was strictly observed, in order that orthodoxy might be professed, and that through the sound word that cannot be blamed, he who is on the contrary part might be afraid, having no evil to say (titus 11. If even St. Paul's own words, notwithstanding the inspiration under which he wrote, were wrested to destruction, no wonder that the words of faithful and wise theologians and martyrs were sometimes misinterpreted and wrenched into a defence of heresy. Father Baker, I have said, lived and wrote just before Quietism was condemned. For it was in the year 1687 that Pope Innocent XI. Censured and pronounced sentence against the sixty-eight propositions of Molinos and in 1699 Innocent XII. Condemned the semi-quietism of Madame Guyon and the illustrious Fenelon. Father Baker had already completed his labours, having gone to his reward in 1641, and Father Cressy in 167 4. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.