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The voyce of God was made vpon Iohn the sonne of Zacharie in the Deserte.
CONSIDER, that it was in the Deser∣te, that the word of God descended vpon this great Prophete, that is, there it was that he was replenished with diuine inspirations, sacred conferences, and hea∣uenly doctrines: And there it is too, that we ought to heare our lord as he doth
promise by O see. I will leade her (the sinfull soule) into the wildernesse, and I will speake to her heart.
[Affection.] If we desire in good earnest, my soule, to be instructed from heauen, and to haue diuinelie sweete conferen∣ces, with our heauenly spouse, our he∣arts must turne deserts, that is, things forsaken by the world, and freely forsa∣king it, that in solitude and silence we may truly say, speake ô lord; for thy ser∣uant heares: say to my soule, I am thy saluation, but say it so that I may heare it. That good God ceases not amidst the multituds of our follics and vanities to speake to vs, but it reaches but to our eares onely, the noyse of the world hin∣ders our heart, to heare those heauen∣ly inuitations, come my loue, my doue, my spouse; and thence it is we answer not as we ought, my beloued is myne, and I am his.