by Coleridge · Cluster: Faith · Providence · Divine Love
Abstract
Verses to the preacher Edward Irving on the divine Reason and Absolute Will, plus a comic Luther-on-devils squib; theological reflection mixed with affectionate wit.
Connections
Motifs: Supernatural Themes & Concepts: Faith, Friendship, Truth Forms & Genres: Fragment Historical References: Christianity
Testo integrale / Full text
But you, honored IRVING, are as little disposed as myself to favor
such doctrine! [as that of Mant and D’Oyly on Infant Baptism].
Friend pure of heart and fervent! we have learnt
A different lore! We may not thus profane
The Idea and Name of Him whose Absolute Will
Is Reason — Truth Supreme! — Essential Order!
1824. First published in Aids to Reflection, 1825, p. 373. First
collected 1893.
[LUTHER — DE DÆMONIBUS]
The devils are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark pooly
places, ready to hurt and prejudice people, etc. — Doctoris Martini
Lutheri Colloquia Mensalia — (Translated by Captain Henry Bell. London,
1652, p. 370).
‘The angel’s like a flea,
The devil is a bore;—’
No matter for that! quoth S. T. C.,
I love him the better therefore.
Yes! heroic Swan, I love thee even when thou gabblest like
a goose; for thy geese helped to save the Capitol.
1826. First published in Lit. Rem., 1839, iv. 52. First collected P.
and D. W., 1877, ii. 367.