The Private Devotions of Lancelot Andrewes
TRANSLATED BY JOHN HENRY NEWMAN & JOHN MASON NEALE & EDITED BY WILLIAM S. PETERSON
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Including The Greek Devotions, as translated by J. H. Newman; and The Latin Devotions, as translated by J. M. Neale Of this Reverend Prelate, I may say, vita ejus vita orationis, his life was a life of prayer ... He spent all his time in prayer; and his prayer-book, when he was private was seldom seen out of his hands; and in the time of his fever and last sickness, besides the often prayers which were read to him, in which he repeated all the parts of the Confession and other petitions with an audible voice, as long as his strength endured, he did – as was well observed by certain tokens in him – continually pray to himself, though he seemed otherwise to rest or slumber; and when he could pray no longer voce, ‘with his voice,’ yet oculis et manibus, ‘by lifting up his eyes and hands’ he prayed still; and when nec manus nec vox officium faciunt, ‘both voice, and eyes, and hands failed in their office,’ then corde, ‘with his heart,’ he still prayed, until it pleased God to receive his blessed soul to Himself.” – From the Funeral Sermon of Bishop Buckeridge (1626) “Had you seen the Original Manuscript, happy in the glorious deformity thereof, being slubbered [stained] with His Pious hands, and watered with His penitential tears, you would have been forced to confess That Book belonged to no other than pure and Primitive Devotion.” – Richard Drake, in the first printed edition (1684) |
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