What
must
we
do
then
?
We
must
be
careful
to
give
no
support
to
the
senses,
to
suffer
them,
and
to
let
them
find
recreation
in
innocent
ways
;
for
as
they
are
not
capable
of
an
inward
operation,
by
endea-vouring
to
restrain
them
we
should
injure
health,
and
even
mental
strength.
What
I
say
applies
only
to
this
degree
;
for
if
we
were
to
make
this
use
of
the
senses
in
the
time
of
the
strength
and
activity
of
grace,
we
should
do
wrong;
and
our
Lord
Him-self
in
His
goodness
makes
us
see
the
conduct
that
we
should
pursue
;
for
at
first,
He
puts
such
a
pres-sure
on
the
senses,
they
have
no
liberty.
They
only
have
to
desire
something
in
order
to
be
deprived
of
it
;
God
orders
it
thus
that
the
senses
may
be
drawn
from
their
imperfect
operation,
to
be
confined
within
the
heart;
and
in
severing
them
outwardly.
He
binds
them
inwardly
so
gently,
that
it
costs
them
little
to
be
deprived
of
everything;
they
even
find
more
pleasure
in
this
deprivation
than
in
the
pos-session
of
all
things.
But
when
they
are
sufficiently
purified,
God,
who
wishes
to
draw
the
soul
out
of
itself
with
a
contrary
movement,
permits
the
senses
to
expand
outwardly,
which
appears
to
the
soul
as
