. Life and times of Girolamo Savonarola. ceived ; I am not thy God. I questioned theair, and the air replied : Thou must go higher. I ques-tioned the heavens, the stars, and the sun, and all madereply : He that created us from nothing He is thy God ; Herilleth heaven and earth, He dwelleth in thy heart. Thus,O Lord, I had sought Thee afar, and Thou wert near. Iasked of my eyes whether Thou hadst entered in throughthem, but they answered that they only knew colours. Iasked my ear, and it answered that it only knew the senses know Thee not, O Lord ; Thou hastentered into my soul,
. Life and times of Girolamo Savonarola. ceived ; I am not thy God. I questioned theair, and the air replied : Thou must go higher. I ques-tioned the heavens, the stars, and the sun, and all madereply : He that created us from nothing He is thy God ; Herilleth heaven and earth, He dwelleth in thy heart. Thus,O Lord, I had sought Thee afar, and Thou wert near. Iasked of my eyes whether Thou hadst entered in throughthem, but they answered that they only knew colours. Iasked my ear, and it answered that it only knew the senses know Thee not, O Lord ; Thou hastentered into my soul, Thou dwellest in my heart, andworkest in me when I do deeds of charity. 1 Thus in allthat Savonarola wrote we find a spiritual tendency ; somenoble and holy aspiration piercing the often rebellious huskof form to show us his moral greatness, and prove that,if seldom a poet, he was ever a fit theme for poetry of th-highest kind. ■ Vide Alcuni devo^^oii trattati, &c. Venice, 1537. BOOK IV. CHAPTERS I.—XI.(J497-I498-) a CHAPTER A FRESH ATTEMPT TO rRE-ESTAWir^TYr^0^ (1497.) URING _ Lent, 1497, Savonarola con-tinued his course of sermons on EzekieJ,touching upon various important pointsconnected with the struggle with Rome,now becoming daily more these discourses were veryimperfectly reported by Violi, who only made short andand summaries of them, and often omitted to record topicsof real interest in favour of revelations and propheciesWe will therefore confine our attention to certain of themore noteworthy fragments. One of the most remarkable points in these sermons isthe question of the temporal possessions of the Churchupon which Savonarola had hitherto refrained from expressing his full views, probably in the hope that a betteropportunity would be afforded him at the assembline ofthe Council. Nevertheless, in this Lenten course onLzekiel, he plainly declared that the Church was entitledto temporal wealth, and that the possession of it had been
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