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A short method of prayer, and Spiritual torrents, tr. by A.W. Marston

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20 A SHORT METHOD OF PRAYER.

own will in the will of God, a renunciation of all natural inclinations, however good they may ap-pear, in order that we may be left free to choose only as God chooses : we should be indifferent to all things, whether temporal or spiritual, for the body or the soul ; leaving the past in forgetfulness, the future to providence, and giving the present to God ; contented with the present moment, which brings with it God*s eternal will for us ; attributing nothing which happens to us to the creature, but seeing all things in God, and regarding them as coming infallibly from His hand, with the exception only of our own sin.

Leave yourselves, then, to be guided by God as He will, whether as regards the inner or the out-ward life.