Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…

February 1. When I was on my Bed a Monday Morning, the Lord let me see, I was nothing else but a Mass of Sin, and that all I did was very vile.—Which when my Heart was somewhat touched with, immediately the Lord revealed himself to me in his Fullness of Goodness with much sweet Affection. The Lord suddenly appeared, and let me see, there was Strength in him to succour me, Wisdom to guide, Mercy in him to quicken, Christ to satisfy: And so I saw all my Good was there, as all Evil was in my self. Hereupon I began to entertain Thoughts of the Glory of this Mercy, if the Lord would become mine; so that I should be strong with God's Strength, and live by God's Life, and be guided by God's Wisdom &c. And should become his, for him to take Care for me and love me, and I to pitch my Thought and Heart on him. I considered, this would be an Exchange of wonderful Love, for me to have God and not my self, and God to have me and give me himself.—

February 1. When I was on my Bed a Monday Morning, the Lord let me see, I was nothing else but a Mass of Sin, and that all I did was very vile.—Which when my Heart was somewhat touched with, immediately the Lord revealed himself to me in his Fulness of Goodness with much sweet Affection. The Lord suddenly appeared, and let me see, there was Strength in him to succour me, Wisdom to guide, Mercy in him to quicken, Christ to satisfie: And so I saw all my Good was there, as all Evil was in my self. Hereupon I began to entertain Thoughts of the Glory of this Mercy, if the Lord would become mine; so that I should be strong with God's Strength, and live by God's Life, and be guided by God's Wisdom &c. And should become his, for him to take Care for me and love me, and I to pitch my Thought and Heart on him. I considered, this would be an Exchange of wonderful Love, for me to have God and not my self, and God to have me and give me himself.—

I arose with these Thoughts, and had some Purposes to consider more of them. And on Monday Night, the same Day in Prayer and Meditation, ⟨p. 9⟩these Thoughts came in from the Experience which I found then; viz. (1) I saw all Fullness in God of all the Good I did need; and so all my Good, or what might be good for me, there: And so considered, that the first Thing the Lord reveals to draw the Soul to himself, is the Fullness of Grace in himself. (2) Being doubting, Is this mine or no? I then considered, that the Lord did invite me to come to him, because I saw that his Word did not bid me depart from him. And methought, in considering this, the Lord's Word, Come poor Creature, was so sweet, that I came to him. (3) Being thus come I considered, I must cleave to him, and be knit to him. And then the Remembrance of this, that all my Good, All was in him, made me so to do, in some Measure, with dear Affections. (4) Cleaving thus to him, I considered, whether he was become mine now, and I his? And here I stuck a while, being loth to fancy such a Thing, and because he did not cleave to me, as I could feel. But the Night after, God returned this Answer.