The Golden Beams Of Truth And The

The Best Assurance Any One Can Have Of His Interest In God, Is Doubtless The Conformity Of His Soul To Him. When Our Heart Is Once Turned Into A Conformity With The Mind Of God. When We Feel Our Will Conformed To His Will, We Shall Then Presently Perceive A Spirit Of Adoption Within Ourselves, Teaching Us To Say, "abba, Father.

If Intellection And Knowledge Were Mere Passion From Without, Or The Bare Reception Of Extraneous And Adventitious Forms, Then No Reason Could Be Given At All Why A Mirror Or Looking-glass Should Not Understand.

The True Knowledge Or Science Which Exists Nowhere But In The Mind Itself, Has No Other Entity At All Besides Intelligibility; And Therefore Whatsoever Is Clearly Intelligible, Is Absolutely True.

The Golden Beams Of Truth And The Silken Cords Of Love, Twisted Together, Will Draw Men On With A Sweet Violence, Whether They Will Or Not.

Things Are Sullen, And Will Be As They Are, Whatever We Think Them Or Wish Them To Be.