This he gave to Duncon bidding him to deliver it to Nicholas: “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.” If Ferrar thought it might “turn to the advantage of any dejected poor soul,” he should publish it else, burn it. Eying on the, bed was a small, paper-covered book. Edmond Duncon, who had ridden from Little Gidding at Nicholas Ferrar’s special request, to see how his “very, dear brother fared. As he lay there, wasted with consumption at the age of forty, there came to him the Rev. George Herbert died at Bemerton Parsonage on February 24, 1638, after a short three years’ occupation of the house which he had built. But the sanctuary called them, and they answered the call. Would diplomacy, claim them, their friends asked, or politics? In the world of books they were already known. In the life of each of the three friends there was a pause before they devoted themselves exclusively to the service of Christ each of them seemed at one time to be destined for a brilliant public career, for their abilities were outstanding. Paul’s, and Nicholas Ferrar of Little Gidding there is a triad of names which make glorious the annals of our Church in the early seventeenth century to whom we may add Izaak Walton, “that notable layman,” to whom we owe the biographies of the first two. GEORGE Herbert of Bemerton, John Donne, Dean of St.
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