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Originally Posted by Amazing Grace  But this is not how Pemble, Perkins and sibbes and others thought matthew...Visualization to them was visualizing the crucified Lord. Hence the problems |
All the statements you provided speak of conception and thought, nothing about visualisation. Perkins: "internall images rightly
conceived." Pemble: "
thinke on Christ tome and rent in his precious body with stripes and wounds." Sibbes: "[when] thou seest the Bread broken, and the Wine poured forth, this should
stirre thee up to bee in the same estate, as if thou wert upon Golgotha, at the place whereupon he was crucified, crying with a loud voyce, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? as if thou sawest him sweate water and blood." The conclusion -- "The act of seeing thus became an act of imagining as well" -- is simply false. The Puritans were concerned with the affections, not the imagination.