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

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232 SPIRITUAL TORRENTS.

me, and I in Thee ; that they also may be one in us, I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one." (John xvii. 21, 23). "He that is joined unto the Lord is one spuit" (i Cor. vi 17).

This state is very little known, therefore it is not spoken of. O state of life ! how narrow is the way which leadeth unto thee ! O love the most pure of all, because Thou art God Himself! O love im-mense and independent, which nothing can limit or straiten !

Yet these people appear quite common, as I have said, because they have nothing outwardly to distinguish them, unless it be an infinite freedom, which is often scandalised by those who are limited and confined within themselves, to whom, as they see nothing better than they have themselves, all that is diflferent to what they possess appears evil. But the holiness of these simple and innocent ones whom they despise is a holiness incomparably more eminent than all which they consider holy, because their own works, though performed with such strictness, have no more strength than ij^e principle in which they originate, which is always the effort, though raised