The Way To Heaven Is Ascending; We

The Soul Of A True Christian, As I Then Wrote My Meditations, Appeared Like Such A Little White Flower As We See In The Spring Of The Year; Low And Humble On The Ground, Opening Its Bosom To Receive The Pleasant Beams Of The Sun’s Glory; Rejoicing, As It Were, In A Calm Rapture; Diffusing Around A Sweet Fragrancy; Standing Peacefully And Lovingly, In The Midst Of Other Flowers Round About; All In Like Manner Opening Their Bosoms To Drink In The Light Of The Sun.

You All Have By You A Large Treasure Of Divine Knowledge, In That You Have The Bible In Your Hands; Therefore Be Not Contented In Possessing But Little Of This Treasure.

Christ Gives Peace To The Most Sinful And Miserable That Come To Him. He Heals The Broken In Heart And Binds Up Their Wounds.

As God Delights In His Own Beauty, He Must Necessarily Delight In The Creature's Holiness Which Is A Conformity To And Participation Of It, As Truly As [the] Brightness Of A Jewel, Held In The Sun's Beams, Is A Participation Or Derivation Of The Sun's Brightness, Though Immensely Less In Degree.

When I Am Giving The Relation Of A Thing, Remember To Abstain From Altering Either In The Matter Or Manner Of Speaking, So Much, As That, If Every One, Afterwards, Should Alter As Much, It Would At Last Come To Be Properly False.