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 that could remedy the mischiefs they did when He pleased, he gave himself no further trouble.

That to arrive at such resignation as requires, we should watch attentively over all the passions which mingle as well in spiritual things as in those of a grosser nature; that would give light concerning those passions to those who truly desire to serve Him. That if this was my design, viz., sincerely to serve, 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.



That he had always been governed by love, without selfish views; and that having resolved to make the love of 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, 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 , 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, 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 