nt soldier in that great army of soldier-saints who have fought
with spiritual weapons. "This fight and contest," he himself has told
us, "with Sin and Satan is not to be known by the rattling of Chariots
or the sound of an alarm: it is indeed alone transacted upon the inner
stage of men's souls and spirits--but it never consists in a sluggish
kind of doing nothing that so God might do all."[48] A Life is always
battle, and the true Christian is always "a Champion of God" clad in
the armour of Light for the defeat of {319} darkness and the seed of
Satan. In this battle of Armageddon John Smith took a man's part, and
his affectionate disciple Simon Patrick was quite right in saying, as
the master passed away, "My father, my father, The chariot of Israel
and the horsemen thereof."

The other members of this impressive group of Cambridge Platonists,
especially Ralph Cudworth, Henry More, Nathaniel Culverwel and John
Norris, might well be studied, and they would furnish some additional
aspects of religious thought, but the teachings of the two exponents
whom I have selected as representative of the school have brought the
central ideas and the underlying spirit of this seventeenth century
religious movement sufficiently into view. Their intimate connection
with the currents of thought which preceded them has also been made
adequately clear. This volume does not pretend to be exhaustive, and
it cannot follow out all the interesting ramifications of the
complicated historical development which I have been tracing. I have
been compelled to limit myself to the presentation of typical specimens
and examples of this continuously advancing spiritual movement which
found one of its noblest figures in John Smith.

[1] Simon Patrick uses this phrase in his funeral sermon on his friend
John Smith. _Select Discourses_ (1673), p. 472.

[2] _Rational Theology_, ii. p. 122.

[3] Patrick's Sermon, _Select Discourses_, p. 496.

[4] Worthington's Sketch is given in the Preface to the Reader in
_Select Discourses_, pp. iii-xxx, and Patrick's Sermon is given as an
Appendix to the same volume, pp. 471-512.

[5] Preface, p. vi.

[6] Patrick, _op. cit._ p. 498.

[7] Preface, p. xxviii.

[8] Patrick, _op. cit._ pp. 471 and 472.

[9] _Ibid._ p. 484.

[10] _Ibid._ p. 477.

[11] _Ibid._ p. 474.

[12] _Ibid._ pp. 480-481.

[13] _Ibid._ p. 486.

[14] Preface, p. iii.

[15] This portrait is made up entirely of passages g