Capitolo 42
does it immediately withstand to or does it give him way? I bear the weakness adult
or illness without trying to mend the decadences of nature from strong
liqueurs? Or I make my Christ it soles support, while throwing the load of a
weak body in the arm of Your mercy?"
I CAPITULATE XV.
Sanctified letter-writing.
The correspondence of Fletcher was unusually a heavy; its letters do
he gave anchor completely as spiritual reading as his/her sermons, the more than first quality of
reasons for _not_ that he/she writes to a man that for a letter was waited: "Says
The Mr. Keen", he wrote to Whitefield, "I am a letter in his/her debt, and
_postpone that he/she writes him/it up to me has had man it approves of Christ as to
Your love breathes through every line_."
A lot of pearls of thought were contained in these epistles; while the
I recommend in them you/he/she had put characteristically, it was always useful, and never
launched at random.
"Your dulness in private prayer", he/she wrote him to Miss Hatton, "it rises
from the lack of the family friendship with Jesus. To resolve him/it, goes to
Your closet as if You same to meet Your favorite friend; throw
You to Your feet, Your coldness cries, you celebrate Your love to you, and
you leave that Your heart breaks with a desire to love him/it. You find _recollection_
--a residence inside of us--a being extracted from the creature
and it turned toward God. For lack of such frame, our times of prayer
it is frequently dry and useless; imagination prevails, and the heart
vague, while we easily pass from memory to delicious
prayer."
To the same person, however he recommended the crop of a
the healthy naturalness in religion of which it would assure recognition
his/her beauty in those around her:--
"Doesn't is not sin in cheerful_ of _looking there. '_Rejoice
evermore_'; and if it is our duty to be always _filled with
joy_, is our duty to _appear_ what we am in reality. ME
however, the hope that Your friends know whether to distinguish among
_cheerfulness_ and _levity_.
"You bewares of the rigid singleness in things the indifferent_ of _barely: it