Remember it is a still voice that speaks to us in this day, and that it
is not to be heard in the noises and hurries of the mind; but is
distinctly understood in a retired frame. Jesus loved and chose
solitudes, often going to mountains, gardens, and sea sides, to avoid
crowds and hurries: to show his disciples it was good to be solitary, and
sit loose to the world. Two enemies lie near your states, imagination
and liberty; but the plain, practical, living, holy truth, that has
convinced you, will preserve you, if you mind it in yourselves, and bring
all thoughts, inclinations, and affections, to the test of it, to see if
they are wrought in God, or of the enemy, or of your ownselves: so will a
true taste, discerning, and judgment, be preserved to you, of what you
should do and leave undone. And in your diligence and faithfulness in
this way, you will come to inherit substance; and Christ, the eternal
wisdom, will fill your treasury. And when you are converted, as well as
convinced, then confirm your brethren; and be ready to every good word
and work, that the Lord shall call you to: that you may be to his praise,
who has chosen you to be partakers, with the saints in light, of a
kingdom that cannot be shaken, an inheritance incorruptible in eternal
habitations.
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