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CHAP. II. Pursues the same.
6. IN the external Way they take care to do continual Acts of all the Vertues, one af∣ter another, to get to the attainment of 'em: They pretend to purge Imperfections with In∣dustries, proportionable to Destruction; they take care to root up Interests, one after ano∣ther, with a different and contrary Exercise: But though they endeavour never so much, they arrive at nothing; because we cannot do any thing which is not Imperfection and Mise∣ry.
7. But in the inward Way and loving Enter∣tainment in the Presence Divine, as the Lord is he that Works, Vertue is established, Interests are rooted up, Imperfections are destroyed, and Passions removed; which makes the Soul free unexpectedly, and taken off, when occasions are represented, without so much as thinking of the good which God of his infinite Mercy pre∣pared for 'em.
8. It must be known that these Souls, though thus Perfect, as they have the true Light of God, yet by it they know profoundly, their own miseries, weaknesses and imperfections, and what they yet want to arrive at Perfection, towards