lence turn our souls
towards another end than God. As there is nothing more easily moved and
turned wrong than the needle that is touched with the adamant, yet it
settles not in such a posture, it recovers itself and rests never till it
look towards the north, and then it is fixed--even so, temptations and the
corruptions and infirmities of our hearts disturb our spirits easily, and
wind them about from the Lord, towards any other thing, but yet we are
continuing with him, and he keeps us with his right hand, and therefore
though we may be moved, yet we shall not be greatly commoved, we may fall,
but we shall rise again. He is "the strength of our heart," and therefore
he will turn our heart about again, and fix it upon its own portion. Our
union here consists more in his holding of us by his power, than our
taking hold of him by faith. Power and good will encamp about both faith
and the soul. "We are kept by his power through faith," 1 Pet i. 5. And
thus he will guide the soul, and still be drawing it nearer to him, from
itself, and from sin and from the world, till he "receive us into glory,"
and until we be one as with the Father and the Son,--"He in us and we in
him, that we may be made perfect in one," as it is in the words read.

This is strange. A greater unity and fuller enjoyment, a more perfect
fellowship, than ever Adam in his innocency would have been capable of!
What soul can conceive it? what tongue express it? None can, for it is
that which "eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into
man's heart to conceive." We must suspend the knowledge of it till we have
experience of it. Let us now believe it, and then we shall find it. There
is a mutual inhabitation which is wonderful. Persons that dwell one _with_
another have much society and fellowship, but to dwell one _in_ another is
a strange thing,--"I in them, and they in me," and therefore God is often
said to dwell in us, and we to dwell in him. But that which makes it of
all most wonderful and incomprehensible is that glorious unity and
communion between the Father and the Son, which it is made an emblem of.
"As thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in
us." Can you conceive that unity of the Trinity? Can you imagine that
reciprocal inhabitation,--that mutual communion between the Father and the
Son? No, it hath not entered into the heart to conceive it. Only thus much
we know, that it is most perfect, it is mos