Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces

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Coleridge Samuel Taylor. Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces

INTRODUCTION

Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit

LETTER I

LETTER II

LETTER III

LETTER IV

LETTER V

LETTER VI

LETTER VII

ESSAY ON FAITH

NOTES ON THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

Prayer

The Sacrament of the Eucharist

Companion to the Altar

Communion Service

Marriage Service

Communion of the Sick

XI. Sunday after Trinity

XXV. SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY

Ps. VIII

Ps. LXVIII

Ps. LXXII

Ps. LXXIV

Ps. LXXXII. vv. 6–7

Ps. LXXXVII

Ps. LXXXVIII

Ps. CIV

Ps. CV

Ps. CX

Ps. CXVIII

Ps. CXXVI

Articles of Religion

A NIGHTLY PRAYER. 1831

A SAILOR’S FORTUNE

ESSAY I

ESSAY II

ESSAY III

ESSAY IV

ESSAY V

ESSAY VI

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My Dear Friend,

I employed the compelled and most unwelcome leisure of severe indisposition in reading The Confessions of a Fair Saint in Mr. Carlyle’s recent translation of the Wilhelm Meister, which might, I think, have been better rendered literally The Confessions of a Beautiful Soul.  This, acting in conjunction with the concluding sentences of your letter, threw my thoughts inward on my own religious experience, and gave immediate occasion to the following Confessions of one who is neither fair nor saintly, but who, groaning under a deep sense of infirmity and manifold imperfection, feels the want, the necessity, of religious support; who cannot afford to lose any the smallest buttress, but who not only loves Truth even for itself, and when it reveals itself aloof from all interest, but who loves it with an indescribable awe, which too often withdraws the genial sap of his activity from the columnar trunk, the sheltering leaves, the bright and fragrant flower, and the foodful or medicinal fruitage, to the deep root, ramifying in obscurity and labyrinthine way-winning—

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“And in terms which a Christian must tremble to tamper with?”

Yea.  The expressions are as direct as strong; and a true believer will neither attempt to divert nor dilute their strength.

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