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<HEAD>Some DIRECTIONS to the PANTING-SOUL, which hath been long travelling in the Letter, but hath not yet been acquainted with the Power, nor hardly &s;o much as entred into the mini&s;tration of the endle&s;s Life (which is the Mini&s;tration of the Go&s;pel) that it may feel the Spring, and come to drink there, of the living Waters.</HEAD>
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<BIBL>MATTH. 11. 28, 29, 30.</BIBL>
<Q>Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you re&s;t. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye &s;hall find re&s;t unto your &s;ouls. For my yoke is ea&s;ie and my burden is light.</Q>
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<HEAD TYPE="sub">Some &s;weet Meditations &s;prang in my heart concerning this portion of Scripture, with breathings of &s;pirit for, and rowlings of bowels towards tho&s;e that labour and are heavy laden, which I find drawings to communicate.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. <HI>IN the Go&s;pel</HI> (which is the power of God unto Salvation), <HI>is the Souls re&s;t.</HI> It is the Doctrine of the Kingdom, wherein is Life, Joy, Peace, and everla&s;ting Re&s;t to the Soul in God. The Law had the Shadow of the good things to come, but under it was not the po&s;&s;e&s;|&s;ion of the good things them&s;elves, but only a labouring after them, and a mourning and load becau&s;e of the want of them: but in the Go&s;pel is the Sub&s;tance, the Enjoyment; Life and Immortality is there brought to Light, and an Enterance mini&s;tred into the everla&s;ting Kingdom, where they are felt po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed and enjoyed. The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, &s;aith the fore-runner: It is come, &s;aith the Me&s;&s;iah: and in it there is righteou&s;ne&s;s, and peace, and joy in the pure Spirit of Life.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>It is the will of the King of Saints, that his People &s;hould enjoy the Re&s;t and Peace of his Go&s;pel.</HI> He would not have them alwayes labouring and hea|vy laden, as under the Law: but he would have their Souls feel and enjoy the Ea&s;e, the Liberty, the Sweetne&s;s, the pure Power and eternal Re&s;t of his Life. The Spirit of the Lord was upon him to preach glad Tidings to the Meek, Liberty to the Captives, Life to the Dead, the Opening of the Pri&s;on to the Pri&s;oner of Hope, the Binding up of the Broken-hearted, the Pouring in of Oyl upon the VVounded: And he would have the Souls of his People enjoy that which he came to bring them.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Chri&s;t hath plainly chalked out the path of his re&s;t to every weary panting</HI>
<PB N="2" REF="2"> <HI>&s;oul, which he that walketh in cannot mi&s;s of.</HI> He hath <HI>ca&s;t up, ca&s;t up,</HI> he hath <HI>made the way plain</HI> in the Go&s;pel, &s;o plain that the wayfaring man, though a fool, yet keeping to the light of the Go&s;pel, cannot erre therein, or mi&s;s of the ble&s;&s;ed re&s;t thereof. How is it? Why, <HI>Come unto me; Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me.</HI> He that walketh in this path, cannot mi&s;s of it: The re&s;t is at the end of it, nay the re&s;t is in it: <HI>He that believeth entereth into the re&s;t.</HI> The true Faith, the Faith which &s;tands in the Power, and which is given to the birth which is born from above, is the &s;ub&s;tance of the re&s;t hoped for, and there is a true ta&s;te and &s;ome enjoyment of it given to him that truly believeth.</P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>The re&s;t was once felt and enjoyed, when the Go&s;pel was known in Power.</HI> Believers in the fir&s;t day of the Go&s;pel, before the night ovetrook that glo|rious di&s;pen&s;ation, found <HI>Peace and Joy in Believing,</HI> yea they could <HI>Rejoyce in the Lord always.</HI> They felt the Power and the Life, which &s;tood over all the Powers of darkne&s;s, and brought good to them out of every affliction, and out of every temptation, and out of every di&s;tre&s;&s;e; &s;o that they &s;tand|ing in the Life and in the Power which had quickened them and was pre|&s;ent with them, they could <HI>count it all joy when they fell into manifold Temp|tations,</HI> knowing the advantage which would accrue to them thereby, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing their Souls in the pure patience, till God wrought it out for them.</P>
<P><HI>They had an Enterance mini&s;tred to them into the everla&s;ting Kingdom: They received the Kingdom which could not be &s;haken, and in it had fellow&s;hip with the Father and with the Son, and in the eternal Light the blood ran in their ve&s;&s;els, which clean&s;ed them and kept them pure; and they &s;at down with Chri&s;t in the heavenly places, even every one in the particular man&s;ion which God had built in them by his Spirit. The Fear of the living God was put in their hearts; The Spirit of the Lord was within them, and there his Law was writ, and read in the Spirit, and the Trea&s;ures of his Kingdom were opened by the key of David in the hand of the Spirit; and their &s;ouls had true &s;atisfaction and re&s;t in mea&s;ure, and were travelling on towards the fulne&s;s.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>There is no re&s;t to the &s;oul, to be enjoyed in the Go&s;pel, from under the Yoke.</HI> This &s;tands Eternally. That which yokes down, that which would be at ea&s;e and liberty out of the Life, that is the &s;ouls true re&s;t, there is no other; and under the yoke it is enjoyed, and not otherwayes: onely, when that which is to be yoked down is con&s;umed and de&s;troyed, it is then no longer a Yoke, but perfect Liberty. But the &s;ame thing which is the Liberty, is the Yoke: And under the Yoke the &s;weetne&s;s, the ea&s;e, the light&s;omne&s;s, the &s;afe po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the Life is enjoyed. Mark <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">his therefore diligently; The Yoke is not one thing and the Liberty another, but one and the &s;ame. The Power of God, the Life everla&s;ting, the pure Light, the divine Na|ture is a Yoke to the tran&s;gre&s;&s;ing Nature; but it is the ea&s;e, he plea&s;ure, the re&s;t, the peace, the joy, the natural center of that which is born of God.</P>
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<P> Now to the &s;oul that hath felt breathings towards the Lord formerly, and in whom there are yet any true breathings left after his living pre|&s;ence, and after the feeling of his eternal vertue in the heart, I have this to &s;ay. <HI>Where art thou? art thou in thy &s;ouls re&s;t? do&s;t thou feel the ver|tue and power of the Go&s;pel? do&s;t thou feel the ea&s;e which comes from the living arm, to the heart which is joyned to it in the light of the Go&s;pel? Is thy labour|ing for life in a good degree at an end? And do&s;t thou feel the life and power flowing in upon thee from the free Fountain? Is the load really taken off from thy back? Do&s;t thou find the captive redeemed and &s;et free from the Power of &s;in, and the captivity broken, and he which led thee captive from the Life and from the eternal Power, now led captive by the Life, and by the redeeming Power, which is eternal? Ha&s;t thou found this, or ha&s;t thou mi&s;&s;ed of it? Let thine heart an&s;wer.</HI> Ah, do not imagine and talk away the re&s;t and &s;alvation of thy &s;oul. The Go&s;pel-&s;tate is a &s;tate of &s;ub&s;tance, a &s;tate of enjoying the Life, a &s;tate of feeling the Pre&s;ence and Power of the Lord in his pure holy Spi|rit, a &s;tate of binding up, a &s;tate of healing, a &s;tate of knowing the Lord and walking with him in the light of his own Spirit. It begins in a &s;weet powerful touch of Life, and there is a growth in the Life (in the Power in the divine Virtue, in the Re&s;t, Peace, and Satisfaction of the Soul in God) to be admini&s;tred and waited for daily. Now art thou here, in the living Power, in the divine Life, joyned to the &s;pring of Life, drawing wa|ter of Life out of the well of Life with joy? Or, art thou dry, dead, bar|ren, &s;aple&s;&s;e, or at be&s;t but un&s;atisfiedly mourning after what thou wante&s;t?</P>
<P>Well, ye that are dry, dead, barren, as it were without the Living God, (that know not the &s;hining of his Sun, nor the de&s;cending of his dews from on high on his tender plants, nor the care, diligence and circum&s;pection of the husbandman over his husbandry.) Oh wait for the quickening virtue, for the vi&s;itations of the day-&s;pring from on high, that ye may be quicken|ed again to God, that ye may find his Life vi&s;iting you, his Spirit breathing upon you, that the &s;eed of Jacob may be rai&s;ed in you to travel out of this barren &s;tate, even out of this land of darkne&s;s, and from under the &s;hadow of Death, to the Land where Life lives and flouri&s;hes, and daily di&s;tribu|teth plentiful nouri&s;hment and refre&s;hment to all its off-&s;pring, who are taught to wait for it, and to feed on it in the holy place, out of the &s;ight of the eye of the fle&s;hly wi&s;dom.</P>
<P>And ye who are &s;till ga&s;ping after the living God, on whom the breath|ings of Life &s;till abide, (who remain un&s;atisfied inwardly for want of the pre&s;ence of the Lord, and who&s;e hearts &s;till mourn and lament deeply af|ter him) Oh con&s;ider what is the matter, that ye have mourned &s;o long, and &s;ought &s;o long, and yet to this day are at a di&s;tance from the thing ye have mourned and &s;ought after.</P>
<P><HI>Strait is the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">te&punc; narrow is the wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> that leadeth unto Life&punc; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></HI>
<PB N="4" REF="3"> <HI>be that find it.</HI> The way of unbelief is broad, yea the way of mi&s;chief is broad al&s;o&punc; it is ea&s;ie for a man &s;o to believe concerning Chri&s;t, or in Chri&s;t (as his heart may call it) as to mi&s;s of the nature of true Faith, and of the &s;weet and ble&s;&s;ed effects which accompany it. It is ea&s;ie likewi&s;e to mi&s;s the yoke (to take up a wrong yoke in the &s;elf-will, &s;elf-wi&s;dom, &s;elf-interpretation of Scriptures) or ea&s;ie &s;tarting a&s;ide from the true yoke: but it is hard coming under the yoke of the Life, and hard abiding un|der it. Again, it is ea&s;ie mi&s;-learning: A man may &s;o read, and &s;o hear, as that he may be always learning, and never come to the know|ledge of the Truth, never come to the Truth as it is received and held in Je&s;us; but may &s;o get and hold the knowledge of the Truth, as man in his wi&s;dom may get and hold it from the Letter. And if a man thus mi&s;s the way, how can he attain the end? If a man begin not in the true Faith, in the living faith, how can he attain the Re&s;t which the true Faith alone leades to? If a man mi&s;s of the yoke, or abide not con&s;tantly under the yoke, how can he meet with the true ea&s;e and re&s;t which is in it, and which it alone can admini&s;ter? If a man learn not the Truth aright of the true Teacher, how can he ever reap the effects of the true knowledge? Ah poor hearts! it is not enough to have breathings after God, nor to be ve|ry diligent and indu&s;trious either in outward Ordinances, or inward exer|ci&s;es of Spirit, but the way of the Go&s;pel mu&s;t be ca&s;t up by God, and the Soul led into it by him, and daily pre&s;erved by him, and mu&s;t walk in the path which is proper for it to walk in, or it may mourn and cry all its days, and never meet with that injoyment of God and &s;atisfaction in God, which it waits for and crys after. It is one thing to mourn after a Go&s;pel-&s;tate, but another thing to be brought into it by the Power. With my heart I own tho&s;e that mourn after and feel the want of God, where-ever they are: But this I know certainly, that they can never come to the enjoyment of him, but in that living path which the Scriptures te&s;tifie of to be in him who is the Life, and which his Spirit is now found manife&s;tly leading into, ble&s;&s;ed be his Name.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> But how may my poor &s;oul, who have long mourned, and groaned, and been &s;ick of love after my beloved, but could never attain to the &s;atisfactory enjoyment of him, come to walk in this path, that &s;o I may meet with and lie down in that Power of Life and Salvation, which the Go&s;pel holds forth to the true be|liever, and which I have been long &s;en&s;ible of the deep want of?</HEAD>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Thou that would&s;t enjoy thy Beloved, and feel the Re&s;t of his Go&s;pel, and walk in that Path which leads thereto, wait to learn of the Spi|rit the&s;e things following.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Know what it is that is to walk in the path of Life, and indeed is alone ca|pable of walking therein.</HI> It is that which groans, that which mourns, that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> God in thee&punc; The Path of Life is for the Seed of Life
<PB N="5" REF="3"> The true knowledge of the Way, with the walking in the Way, is re&s;erved for Gods Child, for Gods Traveller. Therefore keep in the regeneration, keep in the Birth. Be no more then God hath made thee. Give over thine own willing, give over thy own running, give over thine own de&s;iring to know or to be any thing, and &s;ink down to the Seed which God &s;owes in the heart, and let that grow in thee, and be in thee, and breath in thee, and act in thee; and thou &s;halt find by &s;weet experience that the Lord knows that, and loves and owns that, and will lead it to the inheritance of Life, which is its Portion. And as thou take&s;t up the Cro&s;s to thy &s;elf, and &s;uffere&s;t that to over&s;pread and become a yoke over thee, thou &s;halt be|come renewed, and enjoy Life and the Everla&s;ting Inheritance in that.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Know in what Light it is to walk,</HI> which is the Light of the Spirit. There the Child is begotten (not in Satans Darkne&s;s, or highe&s;t Transform|ings into the likene&s;s of Light, which is but Darkne&s;s; nor in the light of mans wi&s;dom, &s;earching Knowledge or comprehen&s;ion) and there it walks: in that Light it fetcheth every &s;tep and motion towards the Land of Life. Therefore hold no knowledge out of the Spirit. If any knowledge concerning the things of God be held out of the fre&s;hne&s;s of the Spirit, it pre&s;ently proves dead and unprofitable. The Spiritual <HI>I&s;rael</HI> cannot travel without a Spiritual Light, which Light is Eternal and incompre|&s;ible, and cannot be held by mans &s;pirit, but &s;hineth fre&s;h into the re|newed Spirit every day, and &s;o is dayly gathering it more and more in|wards into it &s;elf, comprehending it in it &s;elf, and pre&s;erving it in its own Purity, Clearne&s;s and Brightne&s;s. Oh this is it hath undone many, even catching at Light from the Spirit, tran&s;planting the Image of Divine things into the Earthly Principle, and there holding of them in the Earth|ly part, growing wi&s;e by them there, and making u&s;e of them from thence a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> man &s;ees good, and not &s;eeing a nece&s;&s;ity of depending on the Spirit for fre&s;h Light &amp; Life every day, to every &s;piritual motion. Thus the traveller &s;oon comes to lo&s;e the true path, and in&s;tead thereof travels on in a Road of his own wi&s;doms forming: and &s;o though he &s;eems to him&s;elf to make a large Progre&s;&s;e, yet makes no true Progre&s;&s;e at all, but is exceedingly run out a&s;ide in a by way, all which ground he mu&s;t traver&s;e back again, ere he can come to the Truth of his former State, or proceed in the true travel.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Know and keep to the Power,</HI> which alone began any true work in the heart, which alone al&s;o can pre&s;erve it, and which alone can carry it on. Chri&s;t was made a Prie&s;t, <HI>not after the Law of a carnal commandment, but after the Power of an endle&s;s life:</HI> and every &s;acrificer under him (which every true Believer is) is &s;o made by the &s;ame Power. The Powers of Darkne&s;s are continually at hand, which nothing can &s;tand its ground again&s;t (much le&s;s walk on &s;afely) without being in that Power which is above them. The fir&s;t coming to Chri&s;t mu&s;t be in the Power of the Fa|thers
<PB N="6" REF="4"> drawing: and no believing afterwards is of the true nature, nor will avail the &s;oul in its progre&s;s and travells towards Life, but what abides in, and goes forth in the &s;ame Power. So the taking up the yoke and drawing in it, mu&s;t be by the Power of the new Life. And &s;o mu&s;t the di&s;ciples learning be. As the Ma&s;ter teacheth in the Power of the Spirit, the things which alone can be &s;een with the new eye, heard with the new ear, and received into the new heart: &s;o the Scholar mu&s;t learn and receive his Le&s;&s;ons of Life in the &s;ame Power. Let any Di&s;ciple of Chri&s;t be from under the &s;hadow of the Power, believe out of the Pow|er, walk out of the Power, act out of the Power; he is from that wherein his Life &s;tands, and wherein alone is his Pre&s;ervation, and ah, how liable is he then to falls, brui&s;es, &s;nares and temptations of the enemy.</P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>Watch again&s;t the &s;elfi&s;h wi&s;dom,</HI> in every &s;tep of thy growth, and in e|very &s;piritual motion, that that come not between thee and thy Life; that that deceive thee not with a likene&s;s, a &s;hadow, making it appear more plea&s;ing to thy eye than the &s;ub&s;tance. Every &s;tep of thy way it will be laying baits for thee, and it is ea&s;ie for deceit to enter thee at any time, and for that wi&s;dom to get up in thee under an appearance of Spiritual wi&s;|dom, unle&s;s the Lord tenderly and powerfully pre&s;erve thee: and if it pre|vail, it will lead thee from the path of the true wi&s;dom; It will cozen thee with a fal&s;e faith in&s;tead of the true faith, with fal&s;e praying in&s;tead of the breathings of the true child, with diligence and zeal in thy fal&s;e way, in+&s;tead of the true zeal and diligence; yea it will hurry thee on in the path of error, &s;hutting that eye in thee which &s;hould &s;ee, and hardening thy heart again&s;t thy bo&s;om-friend. And being thus deceived, thou may&s;t be as zealous in thy age and generation again&s;t the Truth, as the Jews were in theirs: and as certainly as they put Chri&s;t to death, and per&s;ecuted his Apo&s;tles, though they cried up the former Prophets; So certainly thou (under this deceit) can&s;t not but act again&s;t the pre&s;ent di&s;pen&s;ation and appearance of Chri&s;t's Spirit, and would&s;t per&s;ecute either the Prophets, Apo&s;tles or Chri&s;t him&s;elf, were it their pre&s;ent day now &s;o to appear as for|merly they did.</P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>Let nothing judge in thee</HI> (concerning thine own heart, or concerning others, or concerning any way or truth of God) <HI>but onely the begotten of God</HI> in the heart. Let the Light in which thou art begotten to God, and which &s;hines upon his begotten, be the onely Judge in thee, and then thou can&s;t not erre in Judgement. Be not ha&s;ty, be not forward in Judgement, keep back to the Life, &s;till waiting for the appearance and openings of the Life. A few &s;teps fetched in the Life and Power of God are much &s;afer and &s;weet|er than an ha&s;ty progre&s;&s;e in the ha&s;ty forward &s;pirit.</P>
<P>Indeed this is the true Religion, to feel God beginning the work, and to wait on him for his carrying it on. The feeling of Gods Spirit begining
<PB N="7" REF="4"> &s;omewhat in the heart, the hearts waiting on him for more of his Spirit, and walking on with him in his Spirit, as he plea&s;eth to quicken, lead, draw and &s;trengthen, this is the Spiritual and true Religion: and there is no Duty or Ordinance of the Go&s;pel out of the Spirit, but it is ea&s;ie crying up, and ob&s;erving the likene&s;s of any of them out of the Spirit, into which ob&s;ervance a &s;trange &s;pirit ea&s;ily enters, and then that which was of God in the heart, &s;oon withers, and a contrary building is rai&s;ed, and the &s;tate of the heart changed. Oh wait on the Lord, that he may give you to under|&s;tand the&s;e things: for the Apo&s;tacy from God is very deep, and more provoking among the Prote&s;tants than among the Papi&s;ts, yea mo&s;t of all provoking, where it is mo&s;t inward and Spiritual.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> But how may I know and keep to the begotten of God, and to the Light and Power of the Lord, and keep down the fle&s;hly wi&s;dom and comprehen&s;ion con|cerning the things of God?</HEAD>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> When God begets life in the heart, there is the &s;avour of it in thy ve&s;&s;el, and a &s;ecret living warmth and vertue, which the heart in &s;ome mea&s;ure feels, whereby it is known. Lie low in the fear of the mo&s;t high, that this leaven may grow and increa&s;e in thee. This is the leaven of the Kingdom, this is it which mu&s;t change thy heart and nature, and make thy ve&s;&s;el (which perhaps hath been long and much corrupted) fit to receive the trea&s;ure of the Kingdom. Now while the &s;avour is upon thee, while the vertue of the Life is fre&s;h in thee, thou finde&s;t &s;ome &s;trength towards God, with &s;ome little ta&s;te and di&s;cerning of the things of his Kingdom: know thy weakne&s;s, and go not beyond thy mea&s;ure, but in what thou ha&s;t received bow before the Fullne&s;s, wor&s;hip God in that, and be patient in what he exerci&s;es thee withal, waiting for more from him. And when the night comes upon thee, and thou perhaps art at a lo&s;s, mi&s;&s;ing the &s;avour and pre&s;ence of the Life, and not knowing how to come by it again; Be patient and &s;till and thou wilt find breathings after a fre&s;h vi&s;itation, and a meek, humble, broken &s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rit before the Lord. Thou wilt &s;ee thou can&s;t do nothing to recover his pre&s;ence again, nay thou can&s;t not &s;o much as wait for him, or breath after him without his help: but he is nigh to the poor, nigh to the broken, nigh to the di&s;tre&s;&s;ed, nigh to the helple&s;s. Oh do not with thy fle&s;hly cryes and roarings think to awaken thy Beloved before his &s;ea&s;on; but in the night of di&s;tre&s;s, feel after &s;omewhat which may quiet and &s;tay thy heart till the next &s;pringing of the day. The Sun will ari&s;e, which will &s;catter the clouds; and he is near thee who will give thee to hope that thou &s;halt yet &s;ee God, &amp; find again the quickenings &amp; leadings of his Spi|rit. And in the day of his Power thou wilt find &s;trength to walk with him: yea in the day of thy weakne&s;s his grace will be &s;ufficient for thee. And he will nurture <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hee up in his life by his pure &s;pirit, cau&s;ing thee to grow under his &s;hadow: and he will be teaching thee to live, and to &s;peak, and to move
<PB N="8" REF="5"> and act from the Principle &amp; within the compa&s;s of his Life &amp; Light eternal. Only be not wi&s;e to catch the notions of things into the earthly part, where the moth can corrupt, and where the thief can break through and &s;teal: but know the divine trea&s;ury, where all the things of Life are trea&s;ured up by the Spirit, and handed forth to the living Child with fre&s;h Life, according to its need of them. And thus thy heart being kept clo&s;e to God, and thy Spiritual &s;ences continually exerci&s;ed about the things of God, it will be ea&s;ie to thee to know the Shepherds voice, &amp; to di&s;tingui&s;h the &s;ound of the Spirit in thine own heart. And that which tries &s;pirits and motions in thine own heart, will al&s;o give thee the di&s;cerning of Truth and Error abroad, even of the Spirit of God, and the &s;pirit of Satan in others, &s;o that thou wilt be able to try not onely words, but Spirits, becoming acquainted with the anointing, which &s;avours all things and will give thee to Judge, not by the Words but by the Power: For thou thy &s;elf being in the Power, in the Anointing, in the Savour, it will become natural to thee to feel, to ta&s;te, to know and unite with what is one with thy Life, what comes from the &s;ame &s;pirit in others, and to turn from the contrary. And thus thy Life, thy Growth, thy Path will be &s;weet, &s;afe, cleer, certain, demon&s;trative in the Spirit, and pa&s;t all rea&s;onings of fle&s;h and blood, either in thy &s;elf or others. The beginning of Life Eternal is in an higher Principle, than man can come at. Man's wi&s;dom and knowledge of the things of God, is but bruit|i&s;h before it. As thou come&s;t into that Principle, abide&s;t and growe&s;t in that Principle, thou art beyond man's judgement, and art able to judge man, and fathom his whole cour&s;e as with a &s;pan, but art quite out of his reach in the lowe&s;t of thy motions, thoughts or actions, I mean &s;uch as flow from and are comprehended in the Life.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>ISAAC PENINGTON.</HI> The Younger.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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