Excerpt from Stimulus Divini Amoris: That Is the Goad of Divine Love; Very Proper and Profitable for All Devout Persons to Read
A few years ago an old copy of "The Goad of Divine Love" came into my possession. As it was imperfect (a number of leaves wanting) I made repeated endeavours to find one that was complete. But so rare, apparently, had the book become that only from the British Museum could I obtain the text of the missing pages. The edition now offered agrees almost entirely with that published at Douai in 1642. The quaint rendering is reproduced, but the spelling has been modernized, and a few unimportant and mostly verbal changes have been made. The translation is in the English of the seventeenth century. At that epoch our language had words and expressions in common use which nowadays would hardly be permissible. Of these some few I have eliminated altogether, and the rest I have toned down that there might remain nothing offensive to pious ears.
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