"In this Glass [her journal] she every Day dress'd her Mind, to this faithful Monitor she repair'd for Advice and Direction, compar'd the past with the present, judg'd of what would be by what had been, observ'd nicely the several successive Degrees of Holiness She got, and of humane Infirmity she shook off; and trac'd every single Step she took onward in her Way towards Heaven."
— Atterbury, Francis (1663-1732)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Tho. Bennet
Date
1698
Metaphor
"In this Glass [her journal] she every Day dress'd her Mind, to this faithful Monitor she repair'd for Advice and Direction, compar'd the past with the present, judg'd of what would be by what had been, observ'd nicely the several successive Degrees of Holiness She got, and of humane Infirmity she shook off; and trac'd every single Step she took onward in her Way towards Heaven."
Metaphor in Context
To secure her Proficiency in Virtue, She kept an exact Journal of her Life, in which was contain'd the History of all her Spiritual Affairs, and of the several Turns that happen'd in her Soul: A true naked History! And yet (which seldom happens in True ones) such an one, where the Person written of is not charg'd with many Blemishes and Failings. Alas for us, that the Thread of it was no longer continu'd!
In this Glass she every Day dress'd her Mind, to this faithful Monitor she repair'd for Advice and Direction, compar'd the past with the present, judg'd of what would be by what had been, observ'd nicely the several successive Degrees of Holiness She got, and of humane Infirmity she shook off; and trac'd every single Step she took onward in her Way towards Heaven.
(pp. 14-15)
In this Glass she every Day dress'd her Mind, to this faithful Monitor she repair'd for Advice and Direction, compar'd the past with the present, judg'd of what would be by what had been, observ'd nicely the several successive Degrees of Holiness She got, and of humane Infirmity she shook off; and trac'd every single Step she took onward in her Way towards Heaven.
(pp. 14-15)
Categories
Provenance
Reading Boswell's Life of Johnson (II, p. 189). Text found in EEBO, first edition (not reproduced in second edition).
Citation
2 entries in EEBO and ESTC (1698).
A Discourse Occasion'd by the Death of the Right Honourable the Lady Cutts. By Francis Atterbury, Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty. (London: Printed for Tho. Bennet, at the Half-moon in St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1698). <Link to ESTC><Link to 2nd edition in EEBO-TCP> [Some text from second edition.]
A Discourse Occasion'd by the Death of the Right Honourable the Lady Cutts. By Francis Atterbury, Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty. (London: Printed for Tho. Bennet, at the Half-moon in St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1698). <Link to ESTC><Link to 2nd edition in EEBO-TCP> [Some text from second edition.]
Date of Entry
07/31/2014
