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

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and ennobled, of a weak creature ; but those who are consummated in the divine union act in God by a principle of infinite strength ; and thus their smallest actions are more agreeable to God than the mul-titude of heroic deeds achieved by others, which appear so great in the sight of men. ' Therefore those in this degree do not seek for gieat things to do, resting contented with being what^God makes them at each moment. These do more, without doing anything, for the conversion of a kingdom, than five hundred preachers who have not attained this condition.

God sometimes, however, permits these people to be known, though not fully. Many people apply to them for instruction, to whom they communicate a vivifying principle, by means of which many more are won to Christ ; but this is done, without care or anxiety, by pure Providence. If people only knew the glory which is rendered to God by such as these, who are scorned by the world, they would be astonished ; for it is they who render to God a glory worthy of Himself; because God, acting as God within them, brings into them a glory worthy of Him.

Oh, how many Christians, quite seraphic in appear-