The Practice of the Presence of God (Allenson, 1906)

Name: The Practice of the Presence of God (Allenson, 1906)
Author: Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection

Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection

The four Conversations that Abbé de Beaufort took down from Brother Lawrence in 1666-1667 and his sixteen Letters, in the English of the new and revised Allenson edition of 1906, which compared the older translation with the French of 1692, put the letters in chronological order and added a letter (the seventh) and part of the original preface. The letters are therefore numbered differently from the French; the French book of the same work has the Maxims, the Éloge and the Mœurs besides. This edition does not carry Brother Lawrence’s Spiritual Maxims, which are in the separate Allenson book of 1907.

Source: Allenson’s Preface and the extract from the 1692 preface, the four Conversations and the sixteen Letters in the edition’s chronological order with their footnotes. The publisher’s catalogue at the end, the contents table and the page furniture are left out. OCR corrected by a vocabulary check against the corpus’s English books and a few hand fixes; some stray marks and misreadings may remain.