The history and life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg
Subtitle: with twenty-five of his sermons (Temp. 1340) Translated from the German, with additional notices of Tauler's life and times, by Susanna Winkworth, and a preface by Charles Kingsley
Publisher: Eaton & Mains
Published: 1907
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: Table of Contents; title: PART I; title: Translator's Preface 15; title: Preface by the Rev. Charles Kingsley 23; title: The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler 40; title: Introductory Notice respecting Tauler's Life and Times, by the Translator 100; title: PART II; title: I. Sermon for the First Sunday in Advent 199; title: How that we are called upon to arise from our sins, and to conquer our foes, looking for the glorious coming of our Lorain our souls.; title: II. Sermon for the Second Sunday in Advent 207; title: Horn that God is very near to us, and how we must seek and find the Kingdom of God within us, without respect to time and place.; title: III. Sermon for the Third Sunday in Advent 213; title: How that we must wholly come out from ourselves, that we may go into the wilderness and behold God.; title: IV. Sermon for Christmas Day 223; title: Of the things by which we become children of God.; title: V. Sermon for Epiphany 230; title: This Sermon on the Gospel for the day, from St. Matthew, showeth how Goa, of His great faithfulness, hath foreseen and ordained all sufferings for the eternal good of each man, in whatever wise they befall us, and whether they be great or small.; title: VI. Second Sermon for Epiphany; title: Showeth on what wise a man shall arise from himself and from all creatures, to the end that God may find the ground of his soul prepared, and may begin and perfect His work therein.; title: VII. Sermon for the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany 237; title: Of the great wonders which God has wrought, and still works for us Christian men ; wherefore it is just and reasonable that we should turn unto Him and follow Him, and whereby we may discern between true and false conversion.; title: VIII. Sermon for the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany 243; title: Of the proper marks of true humility.; title: IX. Sermon for Septuagesima Sunday 255; title: In this Sermon following we core taught how we must perpetually press forward towards our highest good, without pause or rest ; and how we must labour in the spiritual vineyard that it may bring forth good fruit.; title: X. Sermon for Ash Wednesday 259; title: An Exposition of the three crosses, that of Christ, that of the malefactor on His left, and that of the malefactor on His right hand, how they are a type of the sufferings of three classes of men who are, in a spiritual sense, nailed to those three crosses.; title: XI. Sermon for the Second Sunday in Lent 272; title: Tells us how God drives forward some of His children by the struggle between the inward and outward man.; title: XII. Sermon for the Fourth Sunday in Lent 282; title: Of the power of the Word of God, of fiery desires, and the essence of self renunciation.; title: XIII. Sermon for Palm Sunday 294; title: How a man ought in all His works to regard God alone, and purely to make Him his end without anything of his own, and shall freely and simply perform all these works for the glory of God only, and not seek his own, nor desire nor expect any reward. Wherewith he may do such works without any self-appropriation or reference to time and number, before or after, and without modes. How the Divine Word speaks and reveals itself in the soul, all in a lofty and subtile sense.; title: XIV. Sermon for Thursday in Easter Week. 299; title: How we ought to love God, and how Christ is a Master of the Eternal Good, wherefore we ought to love Him above all things; a Master of the Highest Truth, wherefore we ought to contemplate Him ; and a Master of the Highest Perfectness, wherefore we ought to follow after Him without let or hindrance. 308; title: XV. Sermon for the First Sunday after Easter 315; title: How we are to ascend by three stages to true peace and purity of heart.; title: XVI. Sermon for the Fourth Sunday after Easter 320; title: How the Holy Ghost rebukes the World in man for sin, righteousness, and judgment ; how hurtful it is to judge one's neighbour; after what fashion a pious man may rebuke his neighbour ; further, what the Holy Ghost teacheth when he cometh to us.; title: XVII. Second Sermon for the Fourth Sunday after Easter 328; title: Of three hindrances which resist the coming of the Holy Ghost in three classes of men.; title: XVIII. Sermon for Ascension Day 334; title: This third sermon on the Ascension teds us how man ought continually to follow after Christ, as He has walked before us for three and thirty years, passing through manifold and great sufferings, before He returned unto His Father.; title: XIX. Sermon for Whit Sunday 342; title: How God drew the Apostles unto Christ by six degrees until they attained unto union with Himself, and so likewise draweth His friends unto Himself now.; title: XX. Sermon for the Fourth Sunday after Trinity 355; title: This sermon telleth us of four measures that shall he rendered unto man, and of two grades of a godly life, and how we ought to love our neighbour.; title: XXI. Sermon for the Tenth Sunday after Trinity 367; title: Admonishing sack man to mark what is th$ office to which he is called of God, and teaching us to practise works of love and virtue, and to refrain from self will.; title: XXII. Sermon for the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity 374; title: Teaching us that we ought to receive God, in all His gifts, and in all His burdens, with true long suffering.; title: XXIII. Second Sermon for the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity 380; title: This sermon tells us how a man who truly loves God, whose ears have been opened to receive the sevenfold gifts of the Holy Spirit, is neither lifted up in joy nor cast down in sorrow.; title: XXIV. Sermon for the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 386; title: This sermon forbiddeth all carefulness, and telleth in what righteousness consisteth, and rebukes sundry religious people cued their works, likening their ways to simony.; title: XXV. Sermon for St. Stephen's Day 395; title: Of three grades of those who learn to die unto themselves, like a com of wheat, that they may bring forth fruit ; or of those who are beginners, those who are advancing, and those who are perfect in a Divine life.; title: XXVI. Sermon for St. Peter's Day 410; title: Of brotherly rebuke and admonition, how far it is advisable and seemly or not, and especially how prelates and governors ought to demean themselves towards their subjects; title: XXVII. Sermon on a Martyr's Day 416; title: Of thru sorts of spiritual temptation by which holy men are secretly assailed ; to wit : spiritual unchastity, covetousness, and pride.