Divine contemplations, and spiritual breathings of Mr. Henry Dorney

1665. To D. H. N^o 80.

AS for your Complaints, turn them into Prayer; and make the same Moan to Christ as you do to me: he has not only fellow-feeling, but can suc∣cour also. All other Friends can but administer words; but he is not only willing, but able also to succour them that come to him. All that we can do is but to hand over his Relief to one another, therefore tell him all your mind; when you are wea∣ry, sit down at the Fountain and drink: never ex∣pect Medicine elsewhere. The more you expect from him, the more you get. The more you talk with him, the better you will be acquainted; and he loves such Society. He is not harsh and strange; but as a prudent Father and Husband, full of Bowels; and takes nothing so ill as your standing aloof off. He loves Holiness, and a composed Walk with him; but to the end that he may teach a Soul how to come by it, he leaves that Soul sometimes to darkness, discomposedness, and deadness, that it might be for∣ced

to know him, and to be exercised in going to himself, as all the Store-house we have; and to be∣lieve our Acceptation, our Growth and Fruitfulness to be only in Union and Communion with him by his Spirit. But these things he can teach you best, &c.