ANTOINETTE See also:BOURIGNON (1616-168o)
, Flemish mystic,
was See also:born at See also:Lille on the 13th of See also:January 1616
.
From an See also:early See also:age she was under the See also:influence of See also:religion, which took in course of See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time a mystical turn
.
Undertaking the See also:work of a reformer, she visited See also:France, See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, See also:England and See also:Scotland
.
Her religious See also:enthusiasm, peculiarity of views and disregard of all sects raised both zealous persecutors and warm adherents
.
On her See also:death at See also:Franeker, See also:Friesland, on the 3oth of See also:October 168o, she See also:left a large number of followers, who, however, dwindled rapidly away; but in the early 18th See also:century her influence revived in Scotland sufficiently to See also:call forth several denunciations of her doctrines in the various Presbyterian See also:general assemblies of 1701, 1709 and 1710
.
So far as appears from her writings and See also:con-temporary records, she wa ,, a visionary of the See also:ordinary type, distinguished only by the audacity and persistency of her
pretensions
.
Her writings, containing an See also:account of her See also:life and of her visions and opinions, were collected by her See also:disciple, See also:Pierre Poiret (19 vols., See also:Amsterdam, 1679-1686), who also published her life (2 vols., 1679)
.
For a See also:critical account see Hauck, Realencyklopadie (See also:Leipzig, 1897), and Etude sur Antoinette See also:Bourignon, by M
.
E
.
S
.
(See also:Paris, 1876)
.
Three of her See also:works at least have been translated into See also:English:—An Abridgment of the See also:Light of the See also:World (See also:London, 1786) ; A See also:Treatise of Solid Virtue (1699) ; The Restoration of the See also:Gospel Spirit
(1707)
.
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