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For about thirty years his soul has been filled
with joys so continual, and sometimes so great, that he
is forced to use means to moderate them, and to hinder their appearing outwardly.
If sometimes he is a little too much absent from that divine presence, GOD presently makes Himself to be
felt in his soul to recall him, which often happens
when he is most engaged in his outward business. He
answers with exact fidelity to these inward drawings,
either by an elevation of his heart toward GOD, or by
a meek and fond regard to Him; or by such words as
love forms upon these occasions, as, for instance, My
GOD, here I am all devoted to Thee. LORD, make me according to Thy heart. And then it seems to him (as in
effect he feels it) that this GOD of love, satisfied with
such few words, reposes again, and rests in the fund
and center of his soul. The experience of these things
gives him such an assurance that GOD is always in the
fund or bottom of his soul that it renders him incapable
of doubting it upon any account whatever.
Judge by this what content and satisfaction he enjoys
while he continually finds in himself so great a treasure.
He is no longer in an anxious search after it, but has
it open before him, and may take what he pleases of it.
He complains much of our blindness, and cries often
that we are to be pitied who content ourselves with so
little. GOD, saith he, has infinite treasure to bestow, and
we take up with a little sensible devotion, which passes in
a moment. Blind as we are, we hinder GOD and stop
the current of His graces. But when He finds a soul
penetrated with a lively faith, He pours into it His graces
and favors plentifully; there they flow like a torrent.
