gs,
turnings, and overturnings, shall prove subservient to the real
prosperity of his church."

"1800.

"I have entered into my closet; I have shut my door; I would pray
to my Father who is in secret; I would be shut up with my indwelling
God; but see the crowds that follow; see my treacherous heart that
gives them admission; see my unsanctified imagination going off with
them, leaving nothing before thee but a lifeless lump of clay. Help,
Lord. Hast thou not redeemed me from vain imaginations? Lord, fill all
thy temple; cast out the buyers and sellers; thyself prepare room for
close, undisturbed, holy conference. Grant that, according to the
riches of thy glory, I may be strengthened with might by thy Spirit in
the inner man: dwell in my heart by faith, that 'rooted and grounded
in love, I may be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the
breadth, and length, and height, and depth, and to know the love of
Christ, which passeth knowledge, and be filled with all the fulness of
God.' Give unto thy redeemed servant the Spirit of wisdom and
revelation. Reveal thyself more and more in my soul; enlighten the
eyes of my understanding. Lord, improve, enlarge the powers of the new
man. Spirit of the Father and of the Son, do thine office; take of the
things of Christ and show them unto me; that I may know what is the
hope of his calling, and what the 'riches of the glory of his
inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his
power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty
power, which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead,
and set him at the Father's right hand, in the heavenly places, far
above all principalities, and powers, and might, and dominion, and
every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that
which is to come; and hath put all things under his feet, and given
him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body,
the fulness of him that filleth all in all.' Filled with all the
fulness of God; 'the fulness of him who filleth all in all!' O what
things are these. My soul stretches to comprehend; but, weak and
feeble, cannot climb those glorious heights, nor dig into these, to
me, unsearchable depths. I can only spell after the language of the
Holy Ghost, lisp out his own words. I dare not trust my powers of
comprehension to vary even the mode of expression.