Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Part 27

[9] _Sig. Dd._ xii. p. 68.

[10] Fourth series, i. p. 597.

[11] Denck's name is used in its Latin form John Denqui, and he is called _magnus theologus_.

[12] _Hermes Trismegistus_ was published in Everard's lifetime. Large extracts from his ma.n.u.script translations are given in the _Gospel Treasures Opened_ (1653). _The Vision of G.o.d_ was edited and published in full by Giles Randall in 1646, and it is very probable that Everard and Randall did this work together.

[13] _Gospel Treasures Opened_, p. 393.

[14] Sermon on "The Starre in the East," _Gospel Treas._ pp. 52-54.

See also pp. 586-587. Compare the famous lines of Angelus Silesius:

"Had Christ a thousand times Been born in Bethlehem But not in thee, thy sin Would still thy soul condemn."

_Angelus Silesius_, edited by Paul Carus (Chicago, 1909), p. 103.

[15] _Gospel Treas._ pp. 59, 72, and 98.

[16] _Ibid._ pp. 270-271.

[17] _Ibid._ p. 282.

[18] _Ibid._ p. 92.

[19] _Ibid._ p. 280

[20] _Gospel Treas._ pp. 310-311.

[21] _Ibid._ p. 286.

[22] _Ibid._ p. 468.

[23] _Ibid._ p. 343.

[24] _Ibid._ p. 344.

[25] _Ibid._ p. 341.

[27] _Ibid._ p. 344.

[27] _Gospel Treas._ p. 81.

[28] _Ibid._ p. 630.

[29] _Ibid._ pp. 637 and 658.

[30] _Gospel Treas._ p. 411.

[31] _Ibid._ 2nd ed. ii. p. 345.

[32] _Gospel Treas._ p. 753.

[33] _Ibid._ p. 418.

[34] _Ibid._ pp. 423-425.

[35] _Ibid._ p. 230.

[36] _Ibid._ p. 600.

[37] _Ibid._ p. 308.

[38] _Gospel Treas._ p. 142.

[39] _Ibid._ p. 648.

[40] _Ibid._ p. 642.

[41] _Ibid._ pp. 99 and 250. Everard's greater contemporary, Pascal, also held the view that what happened to Christ should take place in every Christian. He wrote to his sister, Madame Perier, Oct. 17, 1651, on the death of their father: "We know that what has been accomplished in Jesus Christ should be accomplished also in all His members."

[42] _Ibid._ pp. 555-556.

[43] _Gospel Treas._ p. 315.

[44] _Ibid._ p. 558.

[45] _Ibid._ pp. 561-562.

[46] _Ibid._ pp. 563-565.

[47] _Gospel Treas._ pp. 310-315.

[48] _Ibid._ p. 361.

[49] _Ibid._ p. 365.

[50] _Ibid._ p. 736.

[51] _Ibid._ p. 552.

[52] It is not possible to tell whether the sermons of John Everard were generally known to the early Quakers or not. He held similar views to theirs on many points, and he reiterates, with as much vigour as does Fox, the inadequacy of University learning as a preparation for spiritual ministry. One Quaker at least of the early time read Everard and appreciated him. That was John Bellers. In his "Epistle to the Quarterly Meeting of London and Middles.e.x," written in 1718, Bellers quotes "the substance of an excellent Discourse of a poor man in Germany, above 300 years ago, then writ by John Taulerus, and since printed in John Everard's Works, who was a religious dissenter in King James the First's time." He thereupon gives the "Dialogue between a Learned Divine and a Beggar" (which Everard ascribed to Tauler) to add force to his own presentation of "the duty of propagating piety, charity, and industry among men."

[53] Foster's _Alumni Oxonienses_ (1500-1714), vol. iii. Early Series, p. 1231.

[54] 57, Savile, Probate Court of Canterbury, Somerset House.

[55] Calendar of State Papers, Dom. Ser. Charles I.

[56] Robert Baillie's _Anabaptisme, the true Fountains of Independency_ (1646), p. 102,