Important truths. With extracts from the way to Christ by Jacob Boehme

...to show how to stop their veins and drain their springs The author uses the metaphor of stopping or draining a water source to describe cutting off the flow of sin at its origin. by properly using the means given to us by GOD for a holy resistance to our corrupt desires. It is not necessary—and perhaps not even advisable—to know more about these authors while there is such intense hostility original: "heats"; meaning passionate arguments or conflicts among the various factions of Christians. However, this work is sure to receive a kind and friendly welcome from everyone except those who have entirely abandoned themselves to desperate immorality and a stubborn mind. Such people cannot expect to find anything here to satisfy their corrupt nature, since our authors speak out openly against such behavior. Instead, they wrote their books for those who lead a spiritual life—a life that those focused on worldly pleasures are ignorant of.

It is a great shame that many well-meaning people—who strongly support the literal words of Christianity—are such enemies to its spirit that they lash out against all internal workings of the soul. They label these experiences as "Enthusiasm" Enthusiasm, "Fanaticism," and whatever else their resentment and dislike can suggest! All the mockery and insults directed at revealed religion by Deists Deists and Atheists are also used by

Enthusiasm — In the 17th and 18th centuries, this was a negative term for people who claimed to receive direct, private revelations from God, which critics saw as irrational or delusional.
Deists — People who believe in a creator God based on reason and nature, but reject the "revealed" truths of the Bible or God's direct intervention in human affairs.