The Soul's Conflict with Itself

1. He lays open his desire springing ¹from his love. Love being the prime and leading affection of the soul from whence grief springs, from being crossed in that we love. For the setting out of which his affection to the full, he borroweth an expression from the Hart, no Hart being chased by the hunters, panteth more after the waters, then my ²heart doth after thee O God, though he found God present with him in exile, yet there is a sweeter presence of him in his ordinances which now he wanted ⟨p. 3⟩and took to heart: places and conditions are happy or miserable, as God vouchsafeth his gracious presence more or less, and therefore; When, O when shall it be, that I appear before God?

1. He layes open his desire springing ¹from his love. Love being the prime and leading affection of the soule from whence griefe springs, from being crossed in that we love. For the setting out of which his affection to the full, hee borroweth an expressiō from the Hart, no Hart being chased by the hunters, panteth more after the waters, then my ²heart doth after thee O God, though hee found God present with him in exile, yet there is a sweeter presence of him in his ordinances which now hee wanted ⟨p. 3⟩and tooke to heart: places and conditions are happy or miserable, as God vouchsafeth his gratious presence more or lesse, and therefore; When, O when shall it bee, that I appeare before God?

1. 11.
2. 2verse 1.