Precious faith considered in its nature, working, and growth

Secondly, Faith is very chary and loth to lose the teaching spirit. Like the Spouse in the Canticles, it holds him and and will not let him go, Cant. 3.4. This is to the believer as the apple of his eye, he would not have a dust of earth fall into to lest it grieve and weep out some of the holy light, and as the fire in the Temple, it must not go out, if there be but a live coal or single spark it must be brown up into a flame. Holy motions are very precious to the believer, as it were beams of heaven, better in Faiths account then the great Sun which quickens the animal world; and like so many good Angels sent from God to give the soul a visit: rather then these should be violated and abused, faith will offer all its worldly comforts, as Lot his daughters, to be deflowered. ⟨p. 89⟩If the holy spirit depart, faith writes scabbed upon all other things, and the believer becomes as a dead man, unable to breath in prayer, or walk in holiness, or live or have a being in the spiritual world. The Sun is down, and it is night with him; the dew is off, and his fleece dry; the gales are wanting, and he is at a stand in his voyage to heaven. Thus faith yields up the soul to be taught by the spirit.

Secondly, Faith is very chary and loth to lose the teaching spirit. Like the Spouse in the Canticles, it holds him and and will not let him go, Cant. 3.4. This is to the believer as the apple of his eye, he would not have a dust of earth fall into to lest it grieve and weep out some of the holy light, and as the fire in the Temple, it must not go out, if there be but a live coal or single spark it must be brown up into a flame. Holy motions are very precious to the believer, as it were beams of heaven, better in Faiths account then the great Sun which quickens the animal world; and like so many good Angels sent from God to give the soul a visit: rather then these should be violated and abused, faith will offer all its worldly comforts, as Lot his daughters, to be defloured. ⟨p. 89⟩If the holy spirit depart, faith writes scabbed upon all other things, and the believer becomes as a dead man, unable to breath in prayer, or walk in holiness, or live or have a being in the spiritual world. The Sun is down, and it is night with him; the dew is off, and his fleece dry; the gales are wanting, and he is at a stand in his voyage to heaven. Thus faith yields up the soul to be taught by the spirit.