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PARADISE.
WITH SOME REPLY ΤΟ
CANON LUCKOCK'S 'AFTER DEATH';
AND A PREFACE
BY THE
REV. CANON BELL, D.D.,
RECTOR OF CHELTENHAM.
BY
JAMES E. WALKER, M.A.,
CORP. CHR. COL., OXFORD.
'La poisencza del Payre, et sapiencia del Filh,
Et la bonta del Sant Sperit nos garde tuit
Denfern, e nos done Paradis. Amen.'
LA NOVEL SERMON of the ancient Vaudois Church.
TO THE
MOST DEAR AND HOLY MEMORY
OF.
MY OWN BLESSED DEAD, WHO LIVE IN GOD,
AND ENJOY,
IN THEIR PERFECTED life,
THE VISION OF CHRIST IN PARADISE ;
AND TO
ALL OTHER BROKEN HEARTS,
THAT MOURN THEIR HOLY DEAD;
THIS BOOK
IS,
WITH ALL SWEET REVERENCE,
DEDICATED.
CHAPTER I.-Introduction (pp. 1-3)-Jacob's Vision (4-8)-The Pro-
cession of the Types (8-11)-The Ministries of Angels (11-14)—The
Soul's Ascension to God (14-17)-The_Beatific Death (17, 18)-Hope
and Love in the Mystical Life (19, 20)-The Songs of Degrees (21-23)-
The Vision of Perpetua and Felicitas (23, 24)-Scala Paradisi (24-29)
-St. Anselm's Instruction for the Dying (30, 31).
CHAPTER II.—The Supernatural Life (32-34)—Images of Death (34-38)-
The Gate of Death: Its Silence and Shadow (34-43)—The going forth
of the Dying (42-47)—A Voice from the Cloister (47-49)-Death, an Act
rather than a State (49-52)-Death, a Journey (53-56)-Death, a Tran-
sition (57, 58)-The Retrospective Vision in Death (58, 59)-The Soul's
Attitude in Dying (59)-The Penitence of Saints and of Martyrs (60-62)
-The Psalms 'upon Sheminith' (63, 64)-Is there a Judgment imme-
diately after Death? (64-66)—Is there Welcome from other Souls in
Paradise? (66-72)—Minucius Felix on the Obsequies of the Early
Christians (72, 73)-' Departed Friends' (74).
CHAPTER III.-The Hauntings of Eternity (76, 77)—Hearts to be Com-
forted (77-80)--Death, a Change (80-82)-The Words from the Cross
(83-85) The Penitent Robber (85-88)—Death, a Transfigurement (88,
89)-The Fiction of Purgatory (89-91)-Paradise no mere Figure (91, 92)
-Recognition after Death (92, 93)-The Semi-corporeity of the Sout
(93-98)-Patristic Opinion: Irenæus, Tertullian, and Justin Martyr (95,
96) The Sentient Powers of the Unclothed Soul (97, 98)-Angelic
Manifestations: St. Thomas Aquinas on (99, 100) Scholastic and
Mediæval Conceptions of the Blessed Life (101-103)-The Voice of
the Primitive Church (103, 104)—St. Anselm (105)—Paradise, the Deri-
vation of (100); Jeremy Taylor, upon (107, 108)-The Civitas Dei' of
St. Augustine (109)—The Pleiades and the Islands of the Blessed (110,
III) The Garden of Paradise (112-117)-St. Bernard (117) The
Words of Jesus (118, 119)-Luis de Leon (120).
CHAPTER IV.-Ancient Hymns of the Blessed Life (120-122)—The Soul's
Consciousness after Death (122-132)-Death, an Entrance into the Un-
known (124)-Death, no Sleep (127, 128)-Memory in Death (129) —
The House from Heaven (130-132)-St. Cyprian's 'De Mortalitate'
(133-137)—The Angel of Death (137-139)-The Regrets of Death (139-
143)-The Soul's Maturity in the Blessed Life (144, 145)—The Con-
tinuity of the Now and the Hereafter (146)—This Life a Probation (147)
-The Intermediate Life, a Schola Theologiæ' (148)-No Stagnation,
but a Progression of Spiritual Life, both in the Middle and Final States
(149-152)-The Occupations of the Life within the Veil (153, 154)-Its
Isolation (154)-Its Beatific Communion (155)-Mortality swallowed
up of Life (156)—St. Methodius (156)—The Clothing of the Separated
Soul with the Super-vestment of Immortality' (157, 158)—The First
Robe (159, 160)-The Bosom of Abraham (161, 162)-St. Anselm (163)
-Prayers for the Dead (162-165)—The Spectre of Purgatory (166).