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Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion, by the Ed. of 'captain Rock's Memoirs'. (1)
Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion by the Ed of 'captain Rock's Memoirs' - 1 Author:Thomas Moore Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1833 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a m... more »illion books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. Visions of Hennas. -- Weekly Fasting. -- Good Works. -- Rector of Ballymudragget. -- Rector no Faster. -- Comparison between the Rector and Hermas. After turning over the two Epistles that remain of St. Barnabas and St. Polycarp, and learning but little, towards the object of my search, from either, it was with some pleasure I opened the pages of the pious and fanciful Hermas, and among his Visions, which breathe all the simplicity of an apostolic age, forgot myself, for some hours, as in a fairy tale. His recollections of his early love -- his seeing the heavens open, as he knelt one day praying in a meadow, and beholding the maid whom he had loved looking out of the clouds to salute him, saying " Good day, Hennas!" -- his account of the various visions in which "the Church of God" had appeared to him; now, in the shape of an aged matron, reading; -- now, as a young maiden, clad all in white, and having a mitre on her head, over which the long hair fell shining; -- through all these innocent and (as they were thought at the time) inspired fancies I wandered with the good Father, in a sort of drowsy reverie, even as though I were myself the dreamer of his visions. It was not till, in the course of my reading, I came to that part of his work called Precepts and Similitudes, -- which were, as he says, revealed to him by his guardian angel, in the shape of a Shepherd, -- that I was awakened to a recollection of the immediate object of my studies, and awakened, also, alas, to find myself once more in Popish company. This Father, be it recollected, was one of those distinguished Chr...« less