Watch not against
any outward enemy, keep all your eyes and all your ears to your own
thoughts. God keeps His awful eye on your thoughts. His eye goes at
every glance to that great depth in you. Even His all-seeing eye can go
no deeper into you than to your secret thoughts. Go you as deep as God
goes, and you will be a wise man; go as deep and as often as He does, and
then you will soon come to see eye to eye with God, not only about your
own thoughts, but about His thoughts too, and about everything else. Till
you begin to watch your own thoughts, and to watch them especially in
their aims and their ends, you will have no idea what that moral and
spiritual life is that all God's saints live; that life that Christ
lived, and which He this night summons you all to enter henceforth upon.
It is such a happy fact that it cannot be too often told, that in the
things of the soul really and truly to know and feel the disease is to
have already entered on the remedy. You will not feel, indeed, that you
have entered on the remedy; but that does not much matter so long as you
really have.
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