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Often appears with: prayer and worship · visions of christ · st. peter’s feast day · spiritual discernment · scripture and its interpretation · saints’ intercession · sacrifice and ritual · providence and divine governance · our father · omnipresent spirit · non-imaginary locutions · methodist preaching
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At about age thirteen, Douglass’s religious nature awakens through Methodist minister Hanson’s preaching; he prays with help from Charles Johnson, reads the Bible, and meets devout Lawson in Baltimore.
were abroad in the land. It was impossible for me not to hope much from the abolition movement, when I saw it supported by the Almighty, and armed with DEATH! Previous to my contemplation of the anti-slavery movement, and its probable results, my mind had been seriously awakened to the subject of religion. I was not more than thirteen years old, when I felt the need of God, as a father and protector. My religious na…
She resumes her life story: after two years praying for safer direction and trying to desire change, she experiences a Christ-vision on St. Peter’s feast, feels constant presence without form, and is reassured as not imaginary.
some of them I could mention. Here, then, are so many reasons for believing that they come from God, as make it impossible, I believe, for anybody to mistake them. 4. The safest course in these things is to declare, without fail, the whole state of the soul, together with the graces our Lord gives me, to a confessor who is learned, and obey him. I do so; and if I did not, I should have no peace. Nor is it right th…
The prayer closes by asking the omnipresent Spirit to guide the believer through the night and includes the “Our Father” and a final commendation of body, soul, and spirit to God.
provided. O let me be found a labourer in the vineyard, though of the late hour, when the Lord and Heir of the vintage, Christ Jesus, calleth for his servant. *Our Father, &c.* To thee, great omnipresent Spirit, whose mercy is over all thy works, who now beholdest me, who hearest me, who hast framed my heart to seek and to trust in thee, in the name of my Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus, I humbly commit and commend m…