dwelleth in you_. So, then, true Christians are the
very temples of the Holy Ghost, who dwelleth in them; that is, the Holy
Ghost dwelleth in the Will, and the Creature dwelleth in the Body.

DISCIPLE

If now the Holy Spirit doth dwell in the Will of the Mind, how ought I
to keep myself so that he depart not from me again.

MASTER

Mark, my son, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ: _If ye abide in my
words_, then my words abide in you. If thou abidest with thy Will in the
Words of Christ; then his Word and Spirit abideth in thee, and all shall
be done for thee that thou canst ask of him. But if thy Will goeth into
the creature, then thou hast broken off thyself thereby from him. And
then thou canst not any otherwise keep thyself but by abiding
continually with that resigned humility, and by entering into a constant
course of penitence, wherein thou wilt always be grieved at thine own
creaturely Will, and that creatures do still live in thee, that is, in
thy bodily appetite. If thou dost thus, thou standest in a daily dying
from the creatures, and in a daily ascending into heaven in thy will,
which will is also the Will of thy Heavenly Father.

DISCIPLE

O my loving Master, pray teach me how I may come to such a constant
course of holy penitence, and to such a daily dying from all creaturely
objects, for how can I abide continually in repentance?

MASTER

When thou leavest that which loveth thee, and lovest that which hateth
thee; then thou mayest continually abide in repentance.

DISCIPLE

What is it that I must thus leave?

MASTER

All things that love and entertain thee, because thy Will loves and
entertains them. All things that please and feed thee, because thy Will
feeds and cherishes them. All creatures in flesh and blood; in a word,
all visibles and sensibles, by which either the imaginative or sensitive
appetite in men are delighted and refreshed. These the Will of thy mind,
or thy supreme part, must leave and forsake, and must even account them
all its enemies. This is the leaving of what loves thee. And the loving
of what hates thee is the embracing the reproach of the World. Thou must
learn then to love the Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, and for his sake
to be pleased with the reproach of the World which hates thee and
derides thee; and let this be thy daily exercise of penitence to be
crucified to the World, and the World to thee. And so thou shalt have
continual cause to hate thyself _in the