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Editor's Preface |
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Conversations |
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First Conversation |
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Conversion and precious employment. |
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Satisfaction in God's presence. |
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Faith our duty. |
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Resignation the fruit of watchfulness. |
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Second Conversation |
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Love the motive of all. |
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Once in fear, now in joy. |
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Diligence and love. Simplicity the key to Divine assistance. |
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Business abroad as at home. |
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Times of prayer and self-mortification not essential for
the practice. |
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All scruples brought to God. |
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Third Conversation |
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Love the motive of all. |
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Once in fear, now in joy. |
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Diligence and love. Simplicity the key to Divine assistance. |
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Fourth Conversation |
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The manner of going to God. � Hearty renunciation. |
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Prayer and praise prevent discouragement. |
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Sanctification in common business. |
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Prayer and the presence of God. |
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The whole substance of religion. |
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Self-estimation. Further personal experience. |
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Letters |
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How the habitual sense of
God's Presence was found. |
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Difference between himself
and others. Faith alone consistently and persistently.
Deprecates this state being considered a delusion. NOT
finding my manner of life in books, although I have no
difficulty about it, yet, for greater security, I shall be
glad to know your thoughts concerning it. |
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For a soldier friend whom he encourages to
trust in God. |
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Writes of himself as of a third person, and
encourages his correspondent to press on to fuller practising
of the Presence of God. |
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Prayer for a sister who is
about to make a vow and profession. A fresh insisting upon the
necessity and virtue of practising the Presence of God. |
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To a member of the order
who had received from him a book, and to whom he again
enlarges on his favourite topic. Encouragement to persevere.
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At the age of nearly
fourscore exhorts his correspondent, who is
sixty-four, to live and die with God and promises and asks for
prayer. |
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Concerning wandering
thoughts in prayer. |
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Enclosing a letter to a
corresponding sister, whom he regards with respect tinged with
fear. His old theme concisely put. |
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Has difficulty, but
sacrifices his will, to write as requested. The loss of a
friend may lead to acquaintance with the Friend. |
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To one who is in great
pain. God is the Physician of body and of soul. Feels that he
would gladly suffer at His wish. |
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To the same correspondent
probably, and expresses his own abiding comfort through faith. |
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To the same he exhorts for
fuller and entire confidence in God, for body and soul. |
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Gratitude, for mercies to
his correspondent, and measure of relief while he has himself
been near death, but with consolation in his suffering. |
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From his death-bed. Repeats
the same exhortation to knowledge, that we may love. |
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