Volume 1

Secret journal of a self-observer, or, confessions and familiar letters of the Rev. J. C. Lavater / translated from the German original, by the Rev. Peter Will.

  • Johann Kaspar Lavater
Date:
1795
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Credit: Secret journal of a self-observer, or, confessions and familiar letters of the Rev. J. C. Lavater / translated from the German original, by the Rev. Peter Will. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    beeil angry with myfelf to-day, for häving “ negle£ted it fo long. The feritiment which I have chofen for this day is \^Give to him “ that asketh theCy and from him that ivoiild “ horrozv of thecy turn not thou away.'* Pray how is this to be underftood ?” faid flie. “ Literally,” replied I. “ Literally ? “ very ftrange, indeed!” “ We, at leaft, muft “ take it fo, my dear, as we would db if we had heard Jefus Chrift himfelf pro- nounce thefe words. No doubt we muft take thefe words fo as if he himfelf had fpoken them to us, fmce he has caufed “ them to be committed to writing j for “ whatever is writteny can have no other meaning than the word simply. The gofpel ‘‘ contains, as I think, anfwers, either general or particular ones; yetthey are always ea- > lily to be compreheiided by our confcience j theyareuneqiiivocaltohimwho reäds them C 3 “ with