I. Let us: love, and esteem, and use the Holy Scriptures, or the Bible, according to the state and circumstances of our souls.

September 29, 2018

It is undeniably the best and most divine book in the world, and a revelation or expression of the will of God to us; and it manifests an extremely reprehensible ingratitude and arrogance to neglect and despise it. We must not, however, forget, that the power and illumination of the Spirit of God are indispensably necessary to understand it aright, and to walk according to it.

Gerhard Tersteegen

Avoid All Unnecessary Converse and Association

Let us avoid all unnecessary converse and hurtful association with the world and frivolous people, and likewise with those, who…

Childhood

Soul, journeying through the desert wild, Couldst thou become a little child, Thou wouldst behold with joyful eyes God walking…

VII. Let us: seek, in serenity of mind, to be very faithful and attentive to the inward teachings and admonitions of the Spirit of grace.

Although we may be delivered from the law, and no longer so conscious of its threatenings, reproofs, and the terror…

VIII. Let us: avoid all unnecessary converse and hurtful association with the world and frivolous people

and likewise with those, who under the name of piety, live in false liberty, according to the impulse of the…