before
they
had
received
these
graces
and
favours
from
God
;
a
certain
secret
contempt
for
others
whom
they
see
so
far
behind
themselves,
and
a
certain
hard-ness
for
sin
and
sinners
;
a
zeal
of
St
John
before
the
descent
of
the
Holy
Ghost,
when
he
wanted
to
call
down
fire
from
heaven
upon
the
Samaritans
to
con-sume
them
;
a
certain
confidence
in
their
own
safety
and
virtue;
a
secret
pride,
which
causes
them
to
grieve
specially
over
the
faults
which
they
commit
in
public
:
they
appropriate
the
gifts
of
God,
and
treat
them
as
though
they
were
their
own
:
they
forget
weakness
and
poverty
in
the
strength
which
they
possess;
so
that
they
lose
all
self-distrust.
Though
all
this
and
much
more
is
to
be
found
in
persons
in
this
degree,
they
are
themselves
unconscious
of
it;
but
these
faults
will
make
themselves
known
in
time.
The
grace
which
they
feel
so
strongly
in
themselves
being
an
assurance
to
them
that
they
have
nothing
to
fear,
they
allow
themselves
to
speak
without
being
divinely
commissioned.
They
are
anxious
to
com-municate
what
they
feel
to
every
one
else.
It
is
true
that
they
are
of
use
to
others,
for
their
burning
words
take
hold
of
the
hearts
of
those
who
hear
them
;
but
