Authority Cited: Lucas
Author name and dates: Richard Lucas (1648-1717)
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Lucas cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No additional Lucas cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The edition used by SJ is unknown. The first edition was 1677. The text quoted appears to be the same in all early editions.]
Practical Christianity: or, an account of the holiness which the Gospel enjoins, with the motives to it, and the remedies it proposes against temptations. With a prayer concluding each distinct head. By R. Lucas, D. D. Vicar of St. Stephen's in Coleman-Street, the Sixth Edition, 1708, London: printed for Elizabeth Pawlett, at the Sign of the Bible in Chancery-Lane; therefore (SJ severely crops the text passage but retains the key words and general sense)
1755 Dict.: "The herd that seeks after sensual pleasure is soft and unmanly; and therefore I compose myself to meet a storm. Lucas."
Text, p.231: "I observe that the Herd which aims at Sensual Pleasure, either seldom meets it (and what a misery is it to be damn'd for Lusts they never satisfied) or else they know not how to use it, or they are so soft and unmanly, they droop in every interval wherein they want it; and therefore I compose my self on the quite contrary, to meet a Storm, . . . ."
Author name and dates: Richard Lucas (1648-1717)
BKG Bio-tweet: Oxford education; cleric; Welsh free school master; religious writing popular, admired by J. Wesley; Sion College President
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Lucas cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No additional Lucas cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The edition used by SJ is unknown. The first edition was 1677. The text quoted appears to be the same in all early editions.]
Practical Christianity: or, an account of the holiness which the Gospel enjoins, with the motives to it, and the remedies it proposes against temptations. With a prayer concluding each distinct head. By R. Lucas, D. D. Vicar of St. Stephen's in Coleman-Street, the Sixth Edition, 1708, London: printed for Elizabeth Pawlett, at the Sign of the Bible in Chancery-Lane; therefore (SJ severely crops the text passage but retains the key words and general sense)
1755 Dict.: "The herd that seeks after sensual pleasure is soft and unmanly; and therefore I compose myself to meet a storm. Lucas."
Text, p.231: "I observe that the Herd which aims at Sensual Pleasure, either seldom meets it (and what a misery is it to be damn'd for Lusts they never satisfied) or else they know not how to use it, or they are so soft and unmanly, they droop in every interval wherein they want it; and therefore I compose my self on the quite contrary, to meet a Storm, . . . ."