George Herbert
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Temple
$12.95Add to cartAlthough George Herbert was a pastor of a small remote church in Elizabethan England, he came to fame because of a small collection of poems called The Temple. In this short but beautiful collection of poetry, Herbert devised 116 new poetic forms to capture his experiences of awe, sorrow, glory, turmoil, repentance, and heart-rending joy, all of it dedicated to God, not man.
In this book, we have a picture of the full range of human experience and emotion, felt by a man being sanctified by God and describing it with all his poetic powers.
“Sir, I pray deliver this little book to my dear brother … and tell him he shall find in it a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed betwixt God and my soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus my Master, in whose service I have now found perfect freedom; desire him to read it: and then, if he can think it may turn to the advantage of any dejected poor soul, let it be made public; if not, let him burn it; for I and it are less than the least of God’s mercies.” ~ George Herbert
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Priest To The Temple Or The Country Parson
$20.99Add to cartGeorge Herbert, who died before he was forty, found his vocation as a poet in the last six years of his life and as a priest in the last three. It was a time of low standards for the Church and its ministry and from his parish at Bemerton near Salisbury he set about reflecting on what his role should be. The result was A Priest to the Temple, a text of deep devotion and beauty and a classic statement on the nature of priestly ministry that is unparalleled in its practical and timeless wisdom. Some thirty devotional poems, ranging across the poets life are also included here.