[Pryr-1.2-33] So from all this, we may
gather these following Truths: First, the true Ground and Reason that when the
Call of God to Repentance arises in your Soul, you should be retired, silent,
passive, and so that you are humbly attentive to this new risen Light within You.
By wholly stopping, and disregarding the
Workings of your own Will, Reason, and Judgment you will hear his voice clearly.
This is necessary because of all the false Counselors, sworn Servants, bribed
Slaves of your fallen Nature, Born and Bred in your Kingdom of Self will try to
shut Him out.
Therefore, if a new Kingdom is to be set up
in You, if the Operation of God is to have its Effect in You, at all, these
natural Powers of Self must have silenced and suppressed, till they have
learned Obedience and Subjection to the Spirit of God.
Now this is not requiring You to become a
Fool, or to give up your Claim to Sense and Reason, not at all, but the
shortest Way to have your Sense and Reason delivered from Folly, and your whole
rational Nature strengthened, enlightened, and guided by that Light, which is
Wisdom itself is to be still.
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