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2. So again, for our converse with God. He that is acquainted with God, he hath had his converse with God, he hath dwelt with God, and God with him; he hath supped with Christ, and Christ with him; his great business and employment hath been nigh God, in those things wherein is most of God. If I find my soul much conversing with God, oft sending out breathings to Heaven, oft casting my eye towards God, if I find the great work of my mind to be with God, my great business lies in Heaven, my treasure is laid up there, and my thoughts, and desires, and joys, and delights, and meditations are there; I may comfortably conclude that I am in some measure acquainted with God. But if in the inquiry into my self, I find that I have my whole converse with the world, that I can afford no time for Prayer to God in my family, and in secret; If I find all the day long my cares, and desires, and thoughts, run out most naturally and fully without control towards the things of the world, or that I will mind my self in a natural carnal way, and mind not the things of God; this signifies to me my unacquaintance with God, and it will be an ungrounded presumption in me to reckon of my self any other then a stranger to him.

2. So again, for our converse with God. He that is acquainted with God, he hath had his converse with God, he hath dwelt with God, and God with him; he hath supped with Christ, and Christ with him; his great business and employment hath been nigh God, in those things wherein is most of God. If I find my soul much conversing with God, oft sending out breathings to Heaven, oft casting my eye towards God, if I find the great work of my mind to be with God, my great business lies in Heaven, my treasure is laid up there, and my thoughts, and desires, and joys, and delights, and meditations are there; I may comfortably conclude that I am in some measure acquainted with God. But if in the inquiry into my self, I find that I have my whole converse with the world, that I can afford no time for Prayer to God in my family, and in secret; If I find all the day long my cares, and desires, and thoughts, run out most naturally and fully without controle towards the things of the world, or that I will mind my self in a natural carnal way, and mind not the things of God; this signifies to me my unacquaintance with God, and it will be an ungrounded presumption in me to reckon of my self any other then a stranger to him.