Song of Songs of Solomon / Explanations and Reflections having Reference to the Interior Life

In the Providence of God, Madame Guyon, of whose general history and character the reader is, doubtless, already sufficiently well informed, [1] was an inmate, during the years 1682 and 1683, of a Convent at Thonon, a small town of Savoy, on the southern shore of the Lake of Geneva. Here, in the midst of varied crosses and persecutions, multiplied labors and never ceasing bodily suffering, she composed the greater part of the works, which have endeared her memory to interior souls, and have been the means of leading multitudes into a pure and higher knowledge of the way of Jesus Christ.