for eyes They that see pitty the blinde Wee have a little Sister that hath no breasts wee have a poor Brother yea a world of them that have no eyes What shall we do for our poor brethren in the day that they shall bee spoken for Oh! bee eyes to thy blinde bee a light to thy dark souls let them that dwell in darkness see thy great light Sinners those whom you persecute do thus pitty do thus pray for you Lord that their eyes might bee opened will you say Amen to their prayers or will you say Lord regard not their word wee desire not the knowledge of thy waies Christians bee marvels You that have seen marvellous things bee marvellous persons set the world a wondring for some thing Let your light shine let the light which hath shined into your hearts shine forth in all your paths let the Spirit of Light within you bee a Spirit of Glory resting upon you Once you were darkness but now are yee light in the Lord Walk as Children of the light Bee yee holy harmless the Children of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked Generation amongst whom yee shine as lights in the World Beclouded Christian thou goest on bemoaning and bewailing thy self complaining that thou art still blinde the light hath shined into thy darkness but thy darkness comprehendeth it not thine eye is yet but tender at least and thou canst see but little but little of Christ the Sun is but as a sparke to thee but little of sin that Mountain looks yet but as a Mole hill It is neither clear nor dark neither night nor perfect day thou hopeedst that long e're this thy scales would have fallen off the vail would have been removed but they abide upon thee thou waitest for light but behold obscurity for brightness but thou walkest in darkness thou goest on adding darkness to darkness the darkness of sorrow to the dimness of sight Thou fearest that the Gospel is hid from thee thou doubtest 't is still night because 't is not yet noon with thee But hearken as little as thou seest of Christ doest thou see so much that thou prizest and lovest and cleavest to him above all as little as thou seest of sin doest thou see so much that thou loathest and shunnest it above all things doest thou walke in that little light thou hast dost thou love long wait cry for the light Send forth thy light and thy truth lift up the light of thy countenance Sun of Righteousness shine upon mee why are the wheels of thy Chariots so long a coming when Lord Make haste my Beloved O might I once see thy face as the Sun looking over the Mountains Is this thy voice are these the breathings of thy soul Bee of good comfort these are the glimmerings and groanings of that Holy Spirit within thee which hath already delivered thee from darkness and will bring thee forth into his marvellous light thou shalt know if thou follow on to know the Lord. Arise shine thy light is come the Glory of the Lord is risen upon thee Though yet as to thy sense it bee neither clear nor dark neither night nor perfect day in the evening there shall bee light 2 As a Spirit of Holiness and Sanctification hee is given as an Holy Spirit and as a Sanctifying Spirit therefore Sanctification is called the Sanctification of the Spirit 2 Thes 2.13 he comes to change us into his own nature to make us partakers of his holiness hee is a Refiner's fire and Fullers sope Mal. 3.2 to purge and work and wash off the filth and corruption of our natures What it is said hee shall bee to the Church Isa 4.4 A Spirit of Judgement and a Spirit of Burning to wash away the filth of the Daughters of Zion and to purge the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof a Spirit of Judgement that is in the Rulers of Israel stirring them up to do Justice and execute Judgement that so the guilt of blood may bee taken away Isa 32.15,16 and a Spirit of Burning that is in the hearts of the people of Israel to consume and destroying the inward lusts of their hearts that no more such wickedness bee committed amongst them This hee is to every Saint A Spirit of Judgement to give Sentence against their Lusts to condemn them to the fire these must bee cast out to the fire with them away with them get yee hence yee Sons of the Bond-woman you may not bee Heirs with the Sons of the Free-woman The Spirit of the Lord first discovers and convinces of sin judges betwixt light and darkness grace and sin and then gives sentence away with these Lusts they may not bee suffered to live A Spirit of Burning to execute the sentence to consume them in the fire The Spirit of Sanctification is a spirit of Mortification Rom. 8.13 If yee through the Spirit do mortifie the deeds of the body It is the Spirit that kills the Flesh profiteth nothing The Spirit implants the Soul into Christ gives it an Interest in his death brings it under the influence of his death Christus crucifixus est Christus crucifigens 'T is the death of Christ that is the death of sin these Theeves are Crucified with him Rom. 6.6 Our old man is Crucified with Christ that the body of sin might bee destroyed that henceforth wee should no longer serve sin Hell knew not what they did when they Crucified Christ Death with all its Armies were put to death with him The Spirit raises up another party in the soul a party against a party an army against an army brings Grace in to take up arms against sin Grace doth not onely fight against sinne but is in the very nature of it the death of sinne as the Generation of a new is the Corruption of the old form Humility is pride dead meekness is sinful passion and frowardnesse dead patience is impatience slain The Spirit excites and stirs up the soul against sin sets it a praying against it the Spirit of Grace is a Spirit of Supplication fetches down Hail-stones and Thunder bolts from Heaven to destroy these Amorites sets a watch against it presses the soul to deal wisely with it to keep it low by cutting off all provision from the flesh restraining and keeping it short of all those fleshly objects which would keep it in heart and so it 's starved to death It is true our greatest wisdome watchfulness abstinence self-denial and all external means alone will fall short of killing one lust it is the Spirit that killeth without it the flesh profiteth nothing all external attempts for the mortification of the flesh are but a fleshly mortification but if yee through the Spirit do mortifie pray in the Spirit watch in the Spirit curbe and keep short and keep under this body still taking in the assistance of the Spirit then it shall dye Christian thou livest in a weary Land and thou hast but a weary
the nostrils feel and smell So knowledge is involved in every grace Faith knows and believes Charity knows and loves temperance knows and abstains patience knows and suffers humility knows and stoops repentance knows and mourns obedience knows and does compassion knows and pitties hope knows and expects confidence knows and rejoyces And therefore wee believe and love and obey and hope and rejoyce because we know God gives us this knowledge as the eye of our souls and by that eye hee enters with all his power and Glory Ephes 3.19 That ye may know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge and bee filled with all the fulness of God Day-light is not that light wee receive by reflection from the Moon and Stars at second hand when the Sun is risen and come in among us then it is day When the Sun of Righteousness is risen in the heart there 's the light of life God is and God dwells in this light and where God dwells every unclean thing vanishes can Darkness dwell with the Sun can Death dwell with Life according to the measure of the manifestation of God in us so far forth is sin necessarily vanished Thou art but the carkasse of a Christian the light that is in thee is darkness the life that is in thee is death if thou bee not in the whole man renewed after the Image of him that Created thee If Christ bee not formed in thy heart if the Love the humility the meeknesse the patience the compassion the holiness of the Lord Jesus be not begotten in thee whatever thou knowest thou knowest nothing as thou oughtest to know if thou hast all knowledge and hast not charity and so if thou hast all knowledge and hast not humility meekness holiness thou art nothing thou art but as sounding brass or a tinkling Cimbal Doubting Christian that complainest of and bewailest thine ignorance and fearest that thou knowest not God look upwards where his Glory dwells lift up thine eyes and see or if thou canst not see lift up thy heart for eyes Lord where dwellest thou let mee see thy Face shew mee thy Glory pitty thy blinde let the eyes of this blinde bee opened and the tongue of this dumb shall bee loosed and speak forth thy praise Look upward and if yet thou seest not thy God look inward canst thou see his Face in thy soul canst thou see his Image on thy heart canst thou behold in this Glasse the Glory of the Lord and finde thy self changed into his Image Comfort thine heart how short sighted soever thou seemest to bee how dimme soever thy Candle burns how weak soever in the Knowledge of God thou complainest thou art thou hast seen God thou hast seen his Face in peace God that commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined into thine heart and given thee the Knowledge of his Glory in the face of Jesus Christ 2. A Fructifying Power this Sun-shine makes a fruitful soil Colos 1.9,10 my desire for you saith the Apostle is that you may bee filled with the Knowledge of his Will in all Wisdome and Spiritual understanding That yee might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing being fruitful unto every good work and encreasing in the Knowledge of God Strengthened with all might according to his glorious Power unto all Patience and long suffering with joyfulness and Phil. 1.11 Being filled with the fruits of Righteousness which are by Jesus Christ unto the Glory and praise of God Full of Light and full of Love of Faith of Patience of Humility and fruitful in every good work Mat. 12.35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things A good man hath a good treasure within him a treasure of Heavenly Wisdome of Divine Truth a treasure of Light God hath shined into his heart Hee 's filled with all the fulness of God And what is laid up within hee brings forth without An evil man hath an evil treasure Satan hath been filling his heart Act. 5.3 Why hath Satan filled thine heart the treasures of darkness are there a treasure of lust and lies Falshood and folly are found with him these treasures of darkness within bring forth darkness dark souls lead dark lives their way is dark their deeds are darkness O how fruitful are sinners in their unfruitful works filled with all unrighteousness fornication wickednesse covetousness maliciousnesse envy murther debate deceit malignity c. Rom. 1.29,30 Their hearts are full and thereupon their mouths full their eyes full their hands full mouths full of cursing eyes full of adultery hands full of violence filled with all unrighteousness O Generation of Vipers how can yee being evil having such hearts speak good things all is evil that comes from you and how can it bee otherwise Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks And in like manner O Generation of Believers How can yee being good but bring forth good things Or how can you say or think there is a treasure of Grace a fountain of light within when no streams spring forth Penury in the life speaks no great plenty in the heart the Truths of God within you are the Seed of God the good seed that hee sows in his fields where there 's good seed sown in good ground you will expect a fruitful Harvest a barren crop speaks a barren soil or no good seed sown there 1 John 2.3 Hereby we do know that wee know him if wee keep his Commandements We know God but are you sure of it are you not mistaken No wee are not mistaken wee know that wee know him But how do you know it Why how are trees known By their fruits ye shall know them How do yee know that this is indeed the Tree of Knowledge Why see what fruits are hanging upon it wee keep the Commandements Here 's Obedience growing here 's Holiness and Righteousness and Mercy Doubtless this is the right Tree for behold all the Commandements the two Tables hanging upon the boughs of it and not broken but kept and observed Wee may as well say Obedience is no Obedience Duty is no Duty Faith and Love and Humility and Patience are not what they are as that the Tree that brings forth this fruit is not the Tree of Knowledge Wee know that wee know him because wee keep his Commandements Yea and the Tree of Life too both in one a Tree of Life to them that lay hold upon her Prov. 3.18 Where these fruits are not found where are nothing but shews and sounds painted fruits where are nothing but the fruits of unrighteousness contention strife covetousness sensuality and the like he 's very ignorant indeed that is not able to say what ever I am ignorant of this one thing I know that I know not God Christian boast not of what thou hast but consider what thou doest try thy head by thine heart and thy
heart by thine hand Judge of thy light by thy love and thy love by thy life say not that God hath shined into thine heart unless thy light shine thy works shine before men The path of the just shineth Prov. 4. 'T is but a forme of Knowledge that brings forth but a forme of Godlinesse hee that holdeth the Truth in unrighteousness hath not the Truth in truth in him thou sayest thou knowest the Lord but what say thy waies do these speak the same things Action is the best Interpreter of the inner man feel the pulses of thy heart what watchfulness what holiness hath thy Knowledge brought forth hast thou received the spirit who yet walkest in the flesh what Heaven in thine heart and nought but Earth in thy hand Truth in thine heart and Lies in thy mouth Holiness in thy heart Glory in thine heart and in thy tongue nothing but filth or froth What an heart so full and a life so empty how can these things bee Hath the light in thine heart given laws only to thine heart or doth thine heart submit whilest thy tongue rebells and thou kickest with the heel Woe to us Christians that sinners should be so full and Saints to empty that they should speak what they have seen with their Father and we should speak no more what wee have seen with our Father that oaths and lyes and blasphemies and scoffs and cursing should be so rife in theirs and that truth and goodness and holiness blessings and praises should be no more in our mouths that there should be so much guile in theirs and so little grace in our lips that the shade should be more fruitful than the Sun that the good should be only the barren ground that their habitations should be so full of violence and oppression and wantonness and no more mercy and righteousness and sobriety in ours Woe to us that we know so much to so little purpose that we should be bushels to hide and not rather candlesticks to hold forth the candle of the Lord he hath lighted up in us Oh how many dark souls might our candle lead on to the Sun The light that is in Israel might do much to the turning Egypt into a Goshen speak Christians speak what you have seen and testifie what you have believed bring forth out of your treasure pitty the blinde world or at least be more helpful one to another Instruct as you have been instructed convince as you have been convinced comfort as you have been comforted of God Out-vie sinners let not their mouths be so full of cursing as yours of blessing whilest theirs are so full of blasphemies let it be said of you as of your Lord full of grace are their lips Good words are not wind you may reckon them not amongst the leaves but the fruit Whilest you are speaking of the things of God you are therein doing the will of God I confess the Proverb is true The greatest talkers are not alwaies the greatest doers But 't is true also he is seldome a great doer that hath nothing to say There is a speaking which is our doing There is a speaking in a way of boasting to magnifie and set up our selves beware of that and there is a speaking to the use of edifying to build up our brethren When we are thus speaking to instruct to convince to awaken and whet on our own and others spirits to our work wee are then in doing our work Speak Christians and speak often the things that you know onely let me adde let your lives speak also and not onely your lips If you would not bee vain-talkers bee all tongue let your lips speak and your hands speak and your feet speak let your works and your ways speak the wonderful things of God Bring forth what you have received hee that 's all inside and hee that 's all outside are equally nothing The one is a shadow without substance the others substance is but a shadow The one is a deceiver the other a deceived soul The one boasts himself the other thinks himself something but neither is any thing Christians bee full of good fruits and you will make full proof that your wisdome is from above If yee know these things happy are yee if yee do them Weakling Christian that knowest but little of God and callest that little nothing whilest thou doubtest the light hath not shined into thee dost thou walk in that little light thou hast dost thou shine as a light in the world dost thou know how to be holy and humble and harmless and honest dost thou live under the power of those truths thou knowest dost thou fear the Lord and obey the voice of his servants trust in the Lord and stay thy self on thy God thou art a childe of light though through thy trembling heart thou walkest in darkness Having not seen thou lovest and believing thou shalt rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory 2. It s favour 2 Cor. 2.14 And maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place The Knowledge of God is sweet-sented it casts forth a fragrancy where it comes It hath a gratefulness to the heart leaves sweet impressious on the senses of the Saints They taste that the Lord is gracious As their breathings go up as sweet incense so his beams come down with like sweetness to them As 't was said of Christ so of God Cant. 1.3 The Name of the Lord is an ointment poured forth Why what is his Name Exod. 34.6 This is his Name The Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquity transgression and sin Oh what a bundle of myrrhe what a garden of spices is here enclosed what a sweet smelling savour doth it send forth to them who have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil The Name of the Lord is a precious ointment and the knowledge of God is this ointment poured forth Where God is known in the soul there his sweet savour is shed abroad The thoughts of God are pretious the wayes of God are pleasant to them that understand them His fruit was sweet unto my taste O the ineffable pleasures of Religion the carnal world count it a jejune and insipid thing they cannot taste and no wonder for they do not see the things of God nor can they because they are spiritually discerned Let God be savingly known and then you will find what the savour of his Knowledge is This light is sweet it is a pleasant thing to behold this Sun O my soul let thy walks let thy dwellings bee in this garden of the Lord let the Sun shine and the smell of his spices shall flow forth unto thee O my Lord shed abroad thy sweet ointments let the smell of thy garments refresh my soul Let mee taste and see let me see and I shall taste that the Lord is gracious Vanish all yee
carnal pleasures and sensual delights these rose-buds rot the flowers of your gardens wither dead Flyes are in all your ointments the light of the Lord hath shined all your glories into darkness The waters of the Sanctuary have made all your waters brackish there remains no pleasure in them Hee that hath known the Lord hath more or less according to the measure of his knowledge received in the relish and sweetness of it and what hee hath received in hee sends forth before men he hath received and hee is a sweet savour As the Preachers so the Practitioners of piety are a sweet savour of Christ unto God and hand down the sweetness of God unto men They are of savoury lips and of savoury lives the savour of their graces is shed abroad in the Churches of Christ Carnal hearts send forth a stench instead of a sweet smell they are all rottenness the savour of a sepulchre is all they have Their waies stink their words stink their very breath smells of a rotten heart Yea the very best they have their pleasures stink their garments their gallantry their powders and perfumes and sweet odours stink of their proud and vain and sensual hearts But O what a sent do their ulcers and their excrements their oathes and their curses and their scoffs and their lyes send forth Sinners learn to know the Lord and this will quickly change your savour And you that know any thing of God think not that your knowledge is saving till your souls have received in and your waies do send forth the savour of his Knowledge The last of these the savour of this Knowledge the pleasure that it brings in to the soul though taken alone it is but of uncertain signification there may bee some pleasure and joy arise from the common Knowledge of God and sometimes but little taste where there is the truth of Religion But taken in conjunction with the former where is found both the power and the savour the evidence of its soundness will be more full Find all together this transforming this fructifying this savoury Knowledge and you may rest satisfied that this is the saving Knowledge of God And of this is the promise I will give them an heart to know me Oh! how much need have wee still to wait and beg for the accomplishment of this Promise how little sound Knowledge is there found among us Some are weak in Knowledge who have been long taught of God and yet are not taught of God God hath been teaching them but they have not learned of him They have had a good Master but have been ill Schollars weak men so wee call a man of low understanding a weak man Oh! how many weak Souls are there even among professing Christians who though for their time they might have been teachers of others had yet need bee taught the first Principles of the Oracles of God Some men have not knowledge of God I speak this to their shame 1 Cor. 15. Others are men of Knowledge but of weak Knowledge who know much but to little purpose their great Knowledge hath little power in them their Lusts are too strong for their Light Isa 8.11 I spake unto thee with a strong hand and instructed thee If God have spoken to these men yet his hand hath not instructed them the nail hath not been struck deep enough it dwells in the head onely it hath not reached their heart they have an eye but far enough from having an heart to know the Lord their Knowledge doth not lead them on to Religion but must serve them instead of Religion it is all the Religion they have to know what it is 't is made to serve and not suffer'd to guide and govern to serve their turns to serve their interest to serve their pride and their covetousness Their Knowledge of God makes them Devils it helps them to play the Hypocrites to bee Deceivers of others yea and of their own souls It will seek them out acceptable words put prayers into their mouths praises into their lips spirituallize their language furnish them with savoury discourses carry them plausibly through Duties wherein though God hath the Name though Souls have the Name yet are they all but sacrifices to their Lusts The Knowledge of God humbleth but this Knowledge puffeth up and lifteth up puffeth them â—p in their own and lifteth them up in others thoughts and when it hath done this it hath done them all the service they have for it to do unlesse it may bee they have some worse work for it To make rents and divisions in the Church of Christ to maintain disputes to cavel and quarrel to divide and make parties to make twenty Religions out of one till at length they make that one to bee none Whilest the Apostle saies some men have not the Knowledge of God I speak this to your shame I may say also some men have the Knowledge of God I speak this to their shame What the Knovvledge of God and no more Humility the Knowledge of God and no more Charity I speak this to your shame Have the Faith of Christ in respect of persons have the Knowledge of God in respect of Parties Know God and yet divide and scatter and confound them that are of God yea and contend and quarrel about such small differences as somtimes is seen here is God and not there with us and not with you when it may bee a little Charity would tell you for the main hee may bee with both and so much uncharitableness makes it a question whether with either The more such men pretend to the Knowledge of God the greater their shame Friends beware you bee not undone either by your Ignorance or your Knowledge Love not darkness and call not darkness light call not that the Knowledge of God which is not mis-use not that which is hast thou no Knowledge What and such a Promise before thee I will give them an heart to know mee they shall all know me What and such a Gospel before thee the work whereof is to open blinde eyes and to turn from darknesse to light open thy mouth sinner and God will open thine eyes ask and thou shalt have seek and thou shalt finde See wink not at the light that shines round about thee Love not darkness if thou love not death This is Eternal Life to know thee What then is ignorance there 's death in thine heart if there bee no light in thine eye Hast thou Knowledge bee thankful and bee humble bee not high minded but fear prize it but do not abuse it Hast thou received the Knowledge of the Truth Live under the Power of the Truth thou Knowest resign up thy self to it to its transforming Power give it leave to work and to change thee into its own Image Let this new light make thee a new man to its governing Power let it teach thee and rule thee let it teach as one that hath Authority let
wine into old bottles The excellencies of this new heart may be reduced to these three 1. A new light discovering the dignity of their state the spirituality of their work the glorie of their reward 2. A new law or frame or bent of spirit inclining disposing and fitting them to all that which they are made for And this is the meaning of Gods writing his Law in the heart The Law written in the heart signifies not only the Law made known in the heart but the heart made suitable to the Law and adapted to the obedience of it There is a kind of connaturalness betwixt the new heart and all that the Law requires 3. A new power enabling them for their new work We have all these mentioned in one Scripture 2 Tim. 1.7 God hath not given us a spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind A sound mind there 's the new light a spirit of love there 's the new law or frame and with these a spirit of power In summe this new heart is the divine nature the image of God renewed the life of God begotten Christ formed in them An heart after Gods own heart containing in it all those graces of the Spirit wherein stands their likeness to God and their capacity of serving and enjoying of him This is the heart the Lord will give A new heart will I give unto you Against all those glorious things promised before it would be objected A kingdome promised glory and honour and everlasting blessedness granted Alas what 's all this to me to whom is it promised or upon what terms when I consider what is required 't is all one to me as if there had been nothing promised The way to this blessedness is too narrow the gate is too strait for me ever to hope to enter What-ever the Price be the strictness and severities of a Christian course the very fore-sight of them does amaze and confound me Live a new life deny my self take up my cross follow Christ spend my daies in fasting and praying and mourning live by rule look to every step to every word to every thought c. all these things are against me A new life a new course if this be it I shall never bear it No man having tasted of the old will endure this new way for he saith the old is better 'T is all one to me as if there had been no Christ no Gospel no Kingdome promised if it cannot be obtained upon other terms than these I were even as good sit down as I am and run the venture of what follows as to feed my self with hopes of that which I see I can never obtain If I do but move heaven-wards the stream carries me down If I do but take up a thought make an essay set a foot forwards towards this new course I find mine old things hang in my heels My old customes my old companions mine old pleasures and ease and liberties quickly pull mee back Oh what shall I do I must bee undone I must bee a lost and damned wretch Fain I would be happy but I cannot be holy I dread I often tremble to think of losing Christ and the blessings of his Gospel but this wretched heart is too hard for me and will not come on towards it I am ashamed I am plagued to think what I am like to lose and for how little but I cannot help it the way is such that this foolish heart will never endure it Why hearken soul The Lord that hath called thee to this new course will give thee a new heart And there is not any thing required in an holy life so irksome and so contrary to thee but this new heart is so fitted and suited to it that it will become easie to thee It s pain will bee pleasant its severity will be liberty its very drudgery as thou countest it will be a great delight Psal 40.8 I delight to do thy will O God thy Law is within mine heart And Psal 1,2 of the renewed soul it s said his delight is in the Law of the Lord. In the original his will his heart is in the law The law is in his heart and his heart is in the law Gods will and his are the same What-ever God bids him do his heart bids him do and his hand will never say his heart nay He that delights in the law and as 't is a law commanding such things will never grudge to do what it commands Where t is a pleasure to be commanded t is no pain to obey What-ever work the law cuts him out 't is work he loves Bid him pray bid him watch bid him walk humbly with his God 't is work he loves 't is in his heart to do it Bid a Saint draw nigh to God in any duty 't is as if you bid the hungry to eat or the thirsty to drink the naked to be cloathed the beggar to come for an alms or the poor labourer for a daies work Bid a Christian to deny himself to crucifie his flesh 't is the same as if you bid him deny thine enemy revenge thy self on thine enemy such revenge is sweet but O how pleasant is it to him to be called to a life of praise to live above in the light in the love in the joy of the Lord to be searching and studying and looking into and admiring those everlasting treasures of spiritual and heavenly delights laid up in God to behold his face to live in his presence and to dwell in the light of his countenance 't is true there is some remaining difficulty and irksomness in the sweetest works of religion as far forth as the heart is unrenewed and is yet carnal deny my self mortifie lust forsake my companions withdraw from iniquity Why what 's this but to cut off my hand to pluck out mine eyes to tear my flesh walk with God seek his face dwell in his presence 't is all one as to bid me feed on the air wander on the mountains dwell in the wilderness and as much pleasure can I find in the one as in the other 'T is so indeed as far as thou remainest carnal the Lord God and all his ways are a wilderness a land of darkness to thee but as much as thou hast of this new heart so much ease and pleasure thou wilt find herein Desponding soul thou saist thou art yet ignorant and hast little knowledge of the way of the Lord but behold a new light to lead thee Thou art yet carnal and thy heart is contrary and ever quarrelling at it but the new nature will end the old quarrel Thou art weak and impotent the work is too hard for thee if thou lovedst it never so well but what will this be when thou art endued with power from on high O Friend wouldst thou indeed live this new life get this new heart But oh there lies the difficulty how or where shall I