The Spiritual Maxims of Brother Lawrence (Allenson, 1907)

Name: The Spiritual Maxims of Brother Lawrence (Allenson, 1907)
Author: Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection

Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection

Brother Lawrence’s own Spiritual Maxims, or Means for Attaining to the Presence of God, in their six sections, newly translated in 1907, with The Character of Brother Lawrence by the chronicler of the Conversations (Beaufort’s Mœurs) and a set of Gathered Thoughts compiled from the Life. It is the only public-domain English of the Maxims; the Conversations and Letters are in the separate Allenson book of 1906.

Source: The translator’s Preface, the Spiritual Maxims (six sections), The Character and the Gathered Thoughts. The contents table, running heads and library stamps are left out. OCR corrected by a vocabulary check and hand fixes; a few of the footnotes of the Character and Maxims survive only as fragments inside paragraphs.