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that GOD could remedy the mischiefs they did when
He pleased, he gave himself no further trouble.
That to arrive at such resignation as GOD requires,
we should watch attentively over all the passions which
mingle as well in spiritual things as in those of a grosser
nature; that GOD would give light concerning those
passions to those who truly desire to serve Him. That
if this was my design, viz., sincerely to serve GOD, I
might come to him (Brother Lawrence) as often as I
pleased, without any fear of being troublesome; but if
not, that I ought no more to visit him.
SECOND CONVERSATION
That he had always been governed by love, without
selfish views; and that having resolved to make the love
of GOD the end of all his actions, he had found reasons
to be well satisfied with his method. That he was
pleased when he could take up a straw from the ground
for the love of GOD, seeking Him only, and nothing
else, not even His gifts.
That he had been long troubled in mind from a certain belief that he should be damned; that all the men
in the world could not have persuaded him to the contrary; but that he had thus reasoned with himself about
it: I engaged in a religious life only for the love of GOD,
and I have endeavored to act only for Hint; whatever becomes of me, whether I be lost or saved, I will always continue to act purely for the love of GOD, I shall have this
good at least, that till death I shall have done all that is
in me to love Him. That this trouble of mind had lasted
four years, during which time he had suffered much;
but that at last he had seen that this trouble arose
