Palæographia sacra. Or discourses on sacred subjects / By William Stukeley.
- Stukeley, William, 1687-1765.
- Date:
- 1763
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Palæographia sacra. Or discourses on sacred subjects / By William Stukeley. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ *8 ] Oil fly call Gothic, ’tis truly Arabian : came from Ara¬ bia, when cover’d temples were built, after the Mofaic Tabernacle. Such is the fabric of our antient churches and cathe¬ drals. the blender pillars imitate the taper trunk of a tree, the curve of the arches is from the delicate branching of the boughs, in a wood, or grove, the mullion’d lacework of the windows, the like ; inter¬ cepting the dubious light, as in a real grove, here filence reigns, except the agreable murmurs of the wind over¬ head ; here the gloomy obfcurity, leads the mind into a profound, and folemn ferioufnefs, a collection of thought, exciting that awe and veneration proper for the temples of the living GOD. When we add painted glafs to our churches, every fenfe is concentred into the contemplative. I have fhown in chap. XV. of Abury, that the Druids, as well as the firft ages of the world, were acquainted with the divine geniture, and the emanation from the fupreme fountain of being. As once of old in groves, fo here in their reprefen- tative fabrics, we adore the three facred perfons of the deity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft, to whom be afcribed all honour and glory, now and for ever. Amen,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30408374_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
