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Love's
Redeeming Work
The Anglican Quest for Holiness
COMPILED BY
GEOFFREY ROWELL, KENNETH STEVENSON
AND
ROWAN WILLIAMS
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Contents
PREFACE Xlll
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS XV
GENERAL INTRODUCTION The Anglican Quest for Holiness xix
PART 1 • 1530-1650
INTRODUCTION 3
Hugh Latimer (1485-1555) 13
Myles Coverdale (1488-1568) 20
Thomas Cranmer (1489—1556) 28
William Tyndale (1494?-1i536) 33
Thomas Becon (1512-1567) 37
Nicholas Ridley (15oo?-i555) 52
Richard Davies (1501?-1581) 53
John Bradford (1510?-1555) 56
Edwin Sandys (1516?-1588) 61
Anne Askewe (1521-1546) 67
John Jewel (1522-1571) 68
Henry Bull (? before 1530-1575) 74
John Woolton (1535-1593/4) 81
Material from the Reign of Edward VI 86
Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599) 89
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) 94
Fulke Greville (1554-1628) 97
Minor Poets 98
George Gascoigne (1542-1566) 99
Sir Walter Ralegh (?1552-1618) 100
Sir John Davies (1569-1626) 101
Richard Hooker (1554?-1600) 103
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626) 111
William Perkins (1558-1602) 119
John Norden (dates unknown) 124
VI CONTENTS
Material from the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) 129
Richard Field (1561-1616) 133
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 136
Lewis Bayly (1565-1631) 139
John Donne (1572-1631) 141
William Laud (1573-1645) 150
Rhys Prichard (1579-1644) 153
James Ussher (1581-1656) 155
William Forbes (1585-1634) 159
Francis Quarks (1592-1644) 161
Nicholas Ferrar and the Little Gidding Community (1592—1637) 163
Henry King (1592-1669) 166
George Herbert (1593-1633) 169
Thomas Browne (1605-1682) 175
Henry Vaughan (1621-1696) 178
PART 2 • 1650-1830
INTRODUCTION 185
Thomas Pestell (1584?-1659?) 194
John Bramhall (1594-1663) 196
Herbert Thorndike (1598-1672) 197
Matthew Hale (1609-1676) 199
Robert Leighton (1611-1684) 199
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) 202
John Pearson (1613-1686) 208
William Thomas (1613-1689) 210
Peter Gunning (1614-1684) 210
Daniel Brevint (1616-1695) 211
Ralph Cudworth (1617-1688) 212
Richard Allestree (1619-1681) 213
John Evelyn (1620-1706) 216
Samuel Grossman (1624?-1684) 218
The Book of Common Prayer (1662) 220
A Week's Preparation (1679) 221
Simon Patrick (1625-1707) 221
Susanna Hopton (1627-1709) 226
John Tillotson (1630-1694) 229
George Bull (1634-1710) 232
CONTENTS VII
Thomas Traherne (1637-1674) 233
William Beveridge (1637-1708) 237
Thomas Ken (1637-1711) 239
Glbert Burnet (1643-1715) 242
Margaret Godolphin (1652-1678) 245
James Bonnell (1653-1699) 246
Nathaniel Spinckes (1654-1727) 247
Robert Nelson (1656-1715) 248
John Norris (1657-1711) 250
William Wake (1657-1737) 251
John Johnson (1662-1725) 252
Thomas Wilson (1663-1755) 254
William Nicholls (1664-1712) 257
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) 257
MaryAstell (1668-1731) 259
Edmund Gibson (1669—1748) 262
Joseph Addison (1672—1719) 264
Benjamin Hoadly (1676-1711) 266
Daniel Waterland (1683-1740) 267
The New Week's Preparation for a Worthy Receiving
of the Lord's Supper (1749) 268
Griffith Jones (1683-1761) 269
Thomas Rattray (1684-1743) 269
The Scottish Liturgy (1764) 270
William Law (1686-1761) 272
Charles Wheatly (1686-1742) 278
Joseph Butler (1692-1752) 279
Thomas Seeker (1693-1768) 280
Samuel Johnson (1696-1772) 282
John Hume (1703-1782) 284
John Wesley (1703-1791) 286
Charles Wesley (1707-1788) 292
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) 303
Samuel Walker (1714-1761) 304
Howell Harris (1714-1773) 307
John Berridge (1716-1793) 308
John Skinner (1721-1807) 309
Christopher Smart (1722-1770) 311
Henry Venn (1725-1797) 312
Vlll CONTENTS
John Newton (1725-1807) 316
William Jones (1726-1800) 322
Samuel Seabury (1729-1796) 324
George Home (1730—1792) 327
William Cowper (1731—1800) 330
Samuel Horsley (1733-1806) 333
Thomas Haweis (1734—1820) 335
Augustus Montague Toplady (1740-1778) 336
James Woodforde (1740-1803) 338
Hannah More (1745-1833) 339
Thomas Scott (1747-1821) 342
Alexander Jolly (1756-1838) 344
Alexander Knox (1757-1831) 347
William Wilberforce (1759-1833) 351
Charles Simeon (1759-1836) 353
Sydney Smith (1771-1845) 355
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) 356
John Henry Hobart (1775-1830) 361
John jebb (1775-1833) 362
John Marriott (1780-1825) 363
Reginald Heber (1783-1826) 364
PART 3 • 1830-2001
INTRODUCTION 369
Harriet Auber (1773-1862) 377
Edward Bickersteth (1786-1850) 378
Charlotte Elliott (1789-1871) 380
John Keble (1792-1866) 381
William Hodge Mill (1792-1853) 386
Henry Francis Lyte (1793-1847) 387
Marianne Williams (1793-1879) 388
Allen Francis Gardiner (1794-1851) 391
Julius Charles Hare (1795-1855) 392
John Gregg (1798-1878) 393
Walter Farquhar Hook (1798-1875) 395
George Washington Doane (1799-1859) 395
Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800—1882) 396
John Henry Newman (1801—1890) 402
CONTENTS IX
Robert Isaac Wilberforce (1802-1875) 411
Frederick Denison Maurice (1805-1872) 413
Samuel Wilberforce (1805-1873) 417
Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885) 421
Thomas Thellusson Carter (1808—1901) 424
Henry Edward Manning (1808-1892) 425
William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) 428
John S. B. Monsell (1811-1875) 434
Krishna Moham Banerjea (1813-1885) 436
Richard Williams (1815-1851) 438
Richard William Church (1815-1890) 440
Cecil Frances Alexander (1818-1895) 443
John Mason Neale (1818-1866) 444
Charles Fuge Lowder (1820-1880) 447
Richard Meux Benson (1824-1915) 448
William Bright (1824-1901) 453
Nathaniel Dimock (1825-1900) 454
Nilakantha Nehemiah Goreh SSJE (1825-1885) 455
Brook Foss Westcott (1825-1901) 456
Frederick Meyrick (1827-1906) 458
John Coleridge Patteson (1827-1871) 459
H. A. Krishan Pillai (1827-1900) 460
Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828-1892) 462
Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828-1889) 469
George Ridding (1828-1904) 470
Edward White Benson (1829-1896) 473
Edward King (1829-1910) 475
Henry Parry Liddon (1829-1890) 476
Gerard Moultrie (1829-1885) 477
Charles Chapman Grafton (1830—1912) 477
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) 482
Richard Frederick Littledale (1833-1890) 484
George Howard Wilkinson (1833-1907) 485
Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) 487
Edwin Hatch (1835-1889) 488
William Porcher DuBose (1836-1918) 493
Arthur Henry Stanton (1839-1913) 495
George Body (1840-1911) 497
Handley Carr Glyn Moule (1841-1920) 498
