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Updated: May 5, 2025

Wesley was always able to answer, with perfect correctness, that what was thus said might be true of Moravians, or of Tauler, or of Behmen, or of St. Theresa, or of Madame de Bourignon, or of the Quakers, or even of William Law, but that he himself had never done otherwise than insist most strongly on the essential need of making use of all the external helps which religion can offer.

Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey - The English Church in the Eighteenth Century

Madame de Bourignon was an excellent woman, but Leslie and Lavington showed that some of her writings seem dangerously to underrate good works. An example may even be quoted from the last century where the nobler elements of mystic enthusiasm were found in one mind combined with the pernicious tendency in question.

Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey - The English Church in the Eighteenth Century