Holy Wisdom: or, Directions for the prayer of contemplation: extracted out of more than forty treatises

Difficulties, which time has at last removed, have constantly been in my way. Duties of an imperative nature have ever attended me, and in the midst of them--though I have never lost sight of the task I had imposed upon myself--it has not been in my power to do more than a little at a time; and therefore the time has been long in proportion to the importance of the labour. In addition to reprinting the work, I felt that I ought to do two things,--to verify the quotations from the Fathers an...