You must keep your memory clean and pure, as it were a wedlock chamber, from all strange thoughts, fancies and imaginations, and it must be trimmed and adorned with holy meditations and virtues of Christ’s holy crucified life and passion: That God may continually and ever rest therein.

Robert Leighton (1611–1684), Erzbischof

Topics: Growth & Character, Prayer & Silence

Occasions: For Reflection

Robert Leighton

Robert Leighton (1611–1684) war ein schottischer Theologe, Universitätsprediger und späterer Erzbischof von Glasgow. Im konfessionell zerrissenen Schottland des 17. Jahrhunderts bemühte er sich um eine Vermittlung zwischen Presbyterianern und Anglikanern, wobei seine Annahme des Bischofsamts von strengen Covenanters als Verrat verurteilt wurde. Heutigen Bibellesern ist er vor allem durch seinen praxisorientierten Kommentar zum ersten Petrusbrief und seine Schriften über persönliche Heiligung und Demut bekannt.

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