Capitolo 58
to, and it is acquiescent in, every divine dispensation and operation.
'Therefore you work out Your his/her own salvation with fear and trembling', and,
accordingly, with alacrity, diligence, ardour and the fidelity....
Would Yes wait for Christian perfection correctly then? Impartially admits
the two Evangelical axioms, and faithfully it reduces them to practise. In
you order to this, allow them to meet himself/herself/themselves in Your hearts as the two legs of a pair
of reunion of compasses in the nail that manufactures their a mixture
tool.... When quietly Your heart stays in faith God as it
firmly the part of a passive receiver acts, it resembles to the leg of
the compasses that you stay in the centre of a circle; and then the
poet's expressions, 'without rest, resigned' ("_Restless, resigned for
God that I wait; for God my vehement soul sustains still_."--Wesley),
it describes his/her fixedness in God. But when Your heart quickly the movements
toward faith God, as the part of an industrious worker acts; when
Your ardent soul follows ago after God as a thirsty buck after the
water-brooks, can be comparative to the leg of the compasses that
traces the circumference of a circle; and then these words of the
poet, 'without rest' and 'vehement', properly belongs to him.
"Is it Christian perfection to instantly be dejected to us? or
do we have to grow above gradually to him? We am done perfect in love from
a habit of the holiness suddenly infused in us, or from actions of weak
the faith and weak love repeated as so frequently become strong,
usual, and evangelically natural to us?"
Man is the difficulties with which draws Fletcher, patiently and
fully resulting them in, comparing and contrasting that it defines and
widening, conducting the footstep of reader from footstep to the conclusion that
Essentially Christian perfection is the perfection of _love_,
with love, "the tallest gift of God, humble, you tame, patient love", shed
to the foreign countries in the believer's heart from anointing of the