To be near unto God - pagina 534

one absorbing subject of thought. One never get5 through talking about it. No sacrifice is deemed too great in its behalf. One devotes himself to it with all his soul and mind. Nothing higher is known and respected. With respect to it even brotherhoods are formed, insomuch as one is interested only in those who live in behalf of the same interest and are absorbed by the selfsame

With those who live like this the equilibbroken, and the highest place, which is God's right to fill, is occupied by this other thing, which they love with all their heart, and with all

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strength. self-evident, that being magnetized in this idolatrous fashion, does not occur with Christians in this literal sense. This neither can

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be so, nor is it so. He with whom this is the case may announce himself as a Christian, but a Christian he is not. But from this it by no means follows, that the child of God is not exposed to this danger. It is even confessed, of those who have most earnestly sought after the secret walk with God, that no sin was so constantly at thedoor of their heart as this inclination to allow themselves, by the workings of their own heart, their soul and their mind, to be turned away from God to creaturely things or creaturely thoughts. To be full of the Holy Ghost means, that the desire of the heart, which goes out after God and holy things, is constant. He with whom this is the case does not need to repress other things from his thoughts in order that he might think ot God. Involuntarily he thinks of God, and of othef things only by special effort. 530

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