The voice
is too still, the seed too small, and the light shineth in darkness; they
are abroad, and so cannot divide the spoil: but the woman that lost her
silver, found it at home, after she had lighted her candle, and swept her
house. Do you so too, and you shall find what Pilate wanted to know,
viz. Truth. Truth in the inward parts, so valuable in the sight of God.
The light of Christ within, who is the light of the world, and so a light
to you, that tells you the truth of your condition, leads all, that take
heed unto it, out of darkness into God's marvellous light. For light
grows upon the obedient; it is sown for the righteous, and their way is a
shining light, that shines forth more and more to the perfect day.
Wherefore, O friends, turn in, turn in, I beseech you: where is the
poison, there is the antidote. There you want Christ, and there you must
find him; and blessed be God, there you may find him. Seek and you shall
find, I testify for God. But then you must seek aright, with your whole
heart, as men that seek for their lives, yea for their eternal lives:
diligently, humbly, patiently, as those that can taste no pleasure,
comfort, or satisfaction in any thing else, unless you find him whom your
souls want to know and love above all.
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