To be near unto God - pagina 500

if

the

spiritual

life

of

the

including

soul,

the

walk with God, leads to this end, the whole appointment regarding the form in which you were to be born, both after soul and body, was of necessity directly connected with what you once will be as a child of God, and v/ith the particular waj^ in which God will be willing to receive you, in distinction from others, into his holy, secret walk. If in your intercourse with people, you daily meet with those who have much in common Vvith you, and you with them, but never meet with a person of whom you can say, in every particular: "He is just like me. He is my exact double," there must be something in the disposition of your soul and in your bodih' existence, which is different from that in others. And this is not by chance, but after God's will and appointment. And every peculiarity that constitutes your person, is in turn no play of the riches of nature, but has been so disposed and not otherwise, because each of you have to seek your secret walk with God in your own way and after your own method; and that you might find that way, and walk in it, you were in need of just such a disposition of soul, and of such natural temperament. Thus are you free from people, even from secret

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people who press their piety upon you. everything, from your conception and For birth you are personally bound to God. consider and do not forget in Psalm 22 it says: pious

But

in

"Thou

didst

make me

trust

when

I

was upon

my

mother's breasts." To make one trust, in such a way, that the soul itself trusts, is to evoke an inner working of the soul itself. David reckons 492

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