The Literary Remains

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THE LITERARY REMAINS
OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

VOLUME THE THIRD

COLLECTED AND EDITED BY
HENRY NELSON COLERIDGE.

1838

TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE THE
THIRD AND FOURTH VOLUMES OF COLERIDGE'S REMAINS
ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.

CONTENTS
Preface Formula Fidei de SS. Trinitate Nightly Prayer Notes on 'The
Book of Common Prayer' Notes on Hooker Notes on Field Notes on
Donne Notes on Henry More Notes on Heinrichs Notes on Hacket
Notes on Jeremy Taylor Notes on 'The Pilgrim's Progress' Notes on
John Smith Letter to a Godchild

PREFACE
For a statement of the circumstances under which the collection of Mr.
Coleridge's Literary Remains was undertaken, the Reader is referred to
the Preface to the two preceding Volumes published in 1836. But the
graver character of the general contents of this Volume and of that
which will immediately follow it, seems to justify the Editor in
soliciting particular attention to a few additional remarks.
Although the Author in his will contemplated the publication of some
at least of the numerous notes left by him on the margins and blank
spaces of books and pamphlets, he most certainly wrote the notes
themselves without any purpose beyond that of delivering his mind of
the thoughts and aspirations suggested by the text under perusal. His
books, that is, any person's books--even those from a circulating
library--were to him, whilst reading them, as dear friends; he conversed
with them as with their authors, praising, or censuring, or qualifying, as
the open page seemed to give him cause; little solicitous in so doing to
draw summaries or to strike balances of literary merit, but seeking
rather to detect and appreciate the moving principle or moral life, ever
one and single, of the work in reference to absolute truth. Thus
employed he had few reserves, but in general poured forth, as in a
confessional, all his mind upon every subject,--not keeping back any
doubt or conjecture which at the time and for the purpose seemed
worthy of consideration. In probing another's heart he laid his hand
upon his own. He thought pious frauds the worst of all frauds, and the
system of economizing truth too near akin to the corruption of it to be
generally compatible with the Job-like integrity of a true Christian's

conscience. Further, he distinguished so strongly between that internal
faith which lies at the base of, and supports, the whole moral and
religious being of man, and the belief, as historically true, of several
incidents and relations found or supposed to be found in the text of the
Scriptures, that he habitually exercised a liberty of criticism with
respect to the latter, which will probably seem objectionable to many of
his readers in this country. [1]
His friends have always known this to be the fact; and he vindicated
this so openly that it would be folly to attempt to conceal it: nay, he
pleaded for it so earnestly--as the only middle path of safety and peace
between a godless disregard of the unique and transcendant character of
the Bible taken generally, and that scheme of interpretation, scarcely
less adverse to the pure spirit of Christian wisdom, which wildly arrays
our faith in opposition to our reason, and inculcates the sacrifice of the
latter to the former,--that to suppress this important part of his solemn
convictions would