Bull was a great smoker, and had made himself a cozy and secluded nook in his garden for the enjoyment of his pipe.

He was probably something of a spiritual as well as of a physical Quietist, for he set Cowper to translate the poetry of the great exponent of Quietism, Madame Guyon.

The theme of all the pieces which Cowper has translated is the same--Divine Love and the raptures of the heart that enjoys it--the blissful union of the drop with the Ocean--the Evangelical Nirvana.

If this line of thought was not altogether healthy, or conducive to the vigorous performance of practical duty, it was at all events better than the dark fancy of Reprobation.

In his admiration of Madame Guyon, her translator showed his affinity, and that of Protestants of the same school, to Fenelon and the Evangelical element which has lurked in the Roman Catholic church since the days of Thomas a Kempis..