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Among the innumerable Ways, which men take this World, there is but one Way wherein GOD is to be found: we cannot light upon it, ſo  are our minds. GOD himſelf muſt Teach us. Such as are Wiſe, have this Senſe fixed in their minds that they will loſe his Way, unless he Teach

The Soul is continually diſquieted, toſſed and agitated through the variety of Diſturbing Thoughts and till it come to ſettle on its true Centre where  becomes fixed and immoveable; nothing being able  make ſuch impreſſions on it, as to ſhake and unſsettle it.

When the pious Soul is by any means taken off from GOD its true Reſt, it is in Trouble and Diſquiet, and no eaſe, nor quiet, but in going thither again;  finding itſelf clogged, and being ſenſible of its neſs and inactivity, rouſes and ſtires up it ſelf to.

The pious Soul finds no Reſt any where but in GOD: aim he hath acceſs, and conſiders himſelf as never Home, but when there, whenſoever his mind is  down to the things of this Life, and he is intangled