Jane Frances de Chantal

My Lord, Now Full of Sweet Content by Madame Guillon Madame Guyon was a mystic, a friend of the great Fenelon, and an enthusiastic apostle of quietism.

Educated in a convent at Montargis, France, the town in which she was born, she devoted much study to the writings of St. Francis de Sales, Madame de Chantal, and Thomas Akempi, which largely determined the character of her faith.

Her marriage at the age of sixteen to the wealthy M. Guyon resulted unhappily.

after a series of long illnesses he died in sixteen seventy six shortly afterwards she started her career as an evangelist of quietism and as the influence of her teachings expanded she incurred the displeasure of the roman catholic church and a virulent persecution against her was begun in sixteen eighty six when she came to paris she was imprisoned in the convent of sainte marie for eight months again after an ecclesiastical commission had warned her to be less active she was cast into prison at vincennes in sixteen ninety five until the following year refusing to cease her propaganda she was incarcerated in the bastille from sixteen ninety eight until seventeen o two expecting almost daily to be executed for heresy after her release she was banished to a distant province where she remained in retirement with her daughter and yet in what spirit she bore these tribulations for the sake of the faith that was within her we may understand from william cowper's translation of her french hymn my lord how full of sweet content i pass my years of banishment where'er i dwell i dwell with thee in heaven or earth or on the sea End of section 29.

My Lord, Now Full of Sweet Content by Madame Guillon Madame Guyon was a mystic, a friend of the great Fenelon, and an enthusiastic apostle of quietism.

Educated in a convent at Montargis, France, the town in which she was born, she devoted much study to the writings of St. Francis de Sales, Madame de Chantal, and Thomas Akempi, which largely determined the character of her faith.

Her marriage at the age of sixteen to the wealthy M. Guyon resulted unhappily.

after a series of long illnesses he died in sixteen seventy six shortly afterwards she started her career as an evangelist of quietism and as the influence of her teachings expanded she incurred the displeasure of the roman catholic church and a virulent persecution against her was begun in sixteen eighty six when she came to paris she was imprisoned in the convent of sainte marie for eight months again after an ecclesiastical commission had warned her to be less active she was cast into prison at vincennes in sixteen ninety five until the following year refusing to cease her propaganda she was incarcerated in the bastille from sixteen ninety eight until seventeen o two expecting almost daily to be executed for heresy after her release she was banished to a distant province where she remained in retirement with her daughter and yet in what spirit she bore these tribulations for the sake of the faith that was within her we may understand from william cowper's translation of her french hymn my lord how full of sweet content i pass my years of banishment where'er i dwell i dwell with thee in heaven or earth or on the sea End of section 29.