The Fountain of Life Opened

Indeed if it were not so with me, I might doubt the root of the matter is wanting. But if to my knowledge, affection be added. A melting heart, matched with a knowing head; now I may be confident all is well. I have often heard Ministers cautioning and warning their people, not to rest satisfied with idle and unpractical notions in their understandings; but to labour for impressions upon their hearts, this I have attained; and therefore what danger of me?

I have often heard it given as the mark of an Hypocrite, that he hath light in his head; but it sheds not down its influences upon the heart. Whereas in those that are sincere, it works on their hearts and affections. So I find it with me, therefore I am in a most safe estate.

I have often heard it given as the mark of an Hypocrite, that he hath light in his head; but it sheds not down its influences upon the heart. Whereas in those that are sincere, it works on their hearts and affections. So I find it with me, therfore I am in a most safe estate.

O Soul, of all the false signs of grace, none more dangerous, than those that most resemble true ones. And never doth the Devil more surely and incurably destroy, than when transformed into an Angel of light. What if these meltings of thy heart, be but a flower of nature? What if thou art more beholding to a good temper of body, than a gracious change of spirit for these things? Well, so it may be. Therefore be not secure, but fear and watch. Possibly if thou wouldst but search thine own heart in this matter, thou mayest find, that any other pathetical moving story, will have the like effects upon thee. Possibly too, thou mayest find that notwithstanding all thy raptures and joys at the hearing of Heaven, ⟨p. 334⟩