A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

How can I endure to approach those holy mysteries, wherein all are to drink into one Spirit, and declare their union with the God of love, with the Emmanuel, God most nearly approaching us, God with us, collecting and gathering us in unto him as our common centre, whence the blessed Spirit of holy love is to diffuse it self through the whole body, all enlivened by that spirit, and formed by it unto all kindness, benignity, goodness and sweetness! With what significancy can I do so (though I were never so well satisfied with the external forms and modes my self) if it be apparent (I say if apparent) I must cast in my lot and join my self with them (were they generally such) whose souls are under the dominion of the quite contrary spirit, that fills them with malignity, with mischievous dispositions, and purposes, towards many a sincere lover of God, that cannot be satisfied with those forms and modes, and who decline them only ⟨p. 101⟩from a sense of duty to God, and a fear of offending against the high authority of their blessed, glorious Redeemer!

How can I endure to approach those holy mysteries, wherein all are to drink into one Spirit, and declare their union with the God of love, with the Emmanuel, God most nearly approaching us, God with us, collecting and gathering us in unto him as our common center, whence the blessed Spirit of holy love is to diffuse it self through the whole body, all enlivened by that spirit, and form'd by it unto all kindness, benignity, goodness and sweetness! With what significancy can I do so (thô I were never so well satisfy'd with the external forms and modes my self) if it be apparent (I say if apparent) I must cast in my lot and joyn my self with them (were they generally such) whose souls are under the dominion of the quite contrary spirit, that fills them with malignity, with mischievous dispositions, and purposes, towards many a sincere lover of God, that cannot be satisfy'd with those forms and modes, and who decline them only ⟨p. 101⟩from a sense of duty to God, and a fear of offending against the high authority of their blessed, glorious Redeemer!