PIERRE POIRET’S

SELECTED LIBRARY OF MYSTICS

Consisting of three parts:

1. A more general CONCEPT OF MYSTICAL THEOLOGY The study of direct, lived experience of the divine, often focusing on the inner life of the soul.,

2. The principal CHARACTERISTICS OF MYSTICAL AUTHORS,

3. A CATALOG OF THE SAME, and an ASSESSMENT of most of them.

Placed at the beginning as a preparation

By the most Illustrious Man, JAMES GARDEN, Doctor and Professor of Theology

A DISSERTATION on PACIFIC original: Theologia Pacifica; a "peace-making" theology intended to find common ground between conflicting religious sects. or

COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY, or on DISCERNING

the Essentials and

non-essentials original: accessoriis; secondary or peripheral matters of doctrine that should not cause division among Christians. of CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY.

Everything for the benefit of the Learned

Who desire, without extensive reading, a brief and yet

solid and fruitful explanation of theological and

spiritual matters.

A symmetrical printers' ornament or fleuron, consisting of intricate calligraphic scrollwork and floral motifs.

AMSTERDAM,

From the WETSTEIN Printing House, 1708.