Capitolo 83
MANY BELIEVED HIS/HER RELATIONSHIP, AND IT BECAME
HIS/HER JOY IS CROWN TO REJOICE;
WHILE OTHERS FORCED HIM/IT Á. PRENDERE ON
THE PROPHET'S LAMENTATION:
"EVERYTHING IL LONG DAY I HAVE STRETCHED OUT MY HANDS
TO A DISOBEDIENT AND PEOPLE OF GAINSAYING;
HE/SHE CERTAINLY ANCHORS MY JUDGMENT IT IS WITH THE GENTLEMAN,
AND MY JOB WITH MY GOD."
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"HIM BEING DEAD, STILL SPEAKETH."
I CAPITULATE XXIV.
EXTRACTED BY THE LETTERS OF FLETCHER.
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JOY THAT CHRIST-EXALTS.
_To_ Sarah RYAN, the woman of house of _Wesley to Bristol and her
friend_, DOROTHY FURLEY:
"_October 1st_, 1759.
"Dear SISTERS,--I am postponing writing to you so that not the action
of writing my soul should divert from the terrible one and the delicious adoration
it is busy in. But I now conclude me I won't be lost if I invite
You to love him/it my loveth of the soul; to fear him/it my dreadeth of the soul; to
my adoreth of the soul adores him.
"You sink with me in front of the throne of Grace; and, while the veil of cherubim
their faces and cries in fear of tender and delicious trembling,
'Saint! Saint! Saint!' I/you/he/she allow us to put our mouths in the dust, and you echo again
the solemn sound, 'Saint! Saint! Saint!' I/you/he/she allow us to bathe himself/herself/themselves in that
ocean of purity. I/you/he/she allow us to try to deepen the depths of the Divine mercy; and,
convinced of the impossibility of such attempt, I/you/he/she allow us to lose
us in them. I/you/he/she allow us both understood by God, if we am not able
understand him/it. I/you/he/she allow us to be extremely happy God. Makes the intenseness
of our border of happiness on uneasiness, because we can do him/it no
return. You leave our head become waters and our eyes a fountain of torn wounds--
_tears_ of humble repentance, of the solemn joy, of the silent admiration of
elevated adoration, of desires of raptured, of transports inflamed of
struck dumb reverential fear. My God and my everybody! Your God and Your everybody! Our God and