The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

This Spiritual Taste is the Ground of all Experience, it is not what we have heard or understood only, but what we have tried and tasted, whereof we have Experience. This makes us long for what we have formerly enjoyed, and strengthens Faith, as unto what we pray for and expect.

This Spiritual Tast is the Ground of all Experience, it is not what we have heard or understood only, but what we have tryed and tasted, whereof we have Experience. This makes us long for what we have formerly enjoyed, and strengthens Faith, as unto what we pray for and expect.

In every darkness, in every damp of Spirit, under every apprehension of Dreadness, or the withdrawing of the sense of Divine Love, the Soul knoweth what it wants, and what it doth desire. Oh! saith such an one, that it were now with me as in former days; I know he who then gave me such refreshing Tastes of his own Goodness, who made every thing of himself sweet and pleasant unto me, can renew this work of his Grace towards me; he can give me a new Spiritual Appetite and Relish, and he can make all Spiritual things Savoury unto me again.

In every darkness, in every damp of Spirit, under every apprehension of Dreadness, or the withdrawing of the sense of Divine Love, the Soul knoweth what it wants, and what it doth desire. Oh! saith such an one, that it were now with me as in former dayes; I know he who then gave me such refreshing Tasts of his own Goodness, who made every thing of himself sweet and pleasant unto me, can renew this work of his Grace towards me; he can give me a new Spiritual Appetite and Relish, and he can make all Spiritual things Savoury unto me again.

As a man under a Languishing Sickness, or when he is chastened with strong pain, so as that his Soul abhorreth Bread, and his daily Meat; can remember what Appetite he had, with what Gust and Relish he was wont to take in