The New Jerusalem.

-ing fountain of living waters This continues the phrase from the previous page: "Your mouth is a spring-fountain of living waters," a common 17th-century metaphor for the spiritual nourishment found in Christ's words.; Your words are pure truth and comfort; I cannot even express to You, Lord Jesus, what joy and solace it brings to my heart that You have deigned to come to me. Oh! how happy I would be if I might always stand before You, or sit at Your feet forever, and enjoy Your presence!

The Lord. Child, My physical presence is not of great benefit This reflects a common theme in Reformed theology: that the spiritual presence of Christ through the Word and Spirit is more profitable for the believer than His physical presence on earth (referencing John 16:7)., but it pleases Me well that you pay such good heed to My words; they are indeed the words of eternal life; if you press them firmly into your heart and rightly mingle them with true faith, you shall through them also come to live eternally: for although all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as a flower of the field, which soon withers, 1 Peter 1:24 yet My word remains for eternity; and that is the word that I proclaim to you.

Mary. I know, Lord, that it is so; I have become vividly aware of this in my heart, and my soul testifies it to me: for while You have spoken to Your handmaid handmaid: dienst-maeght, a term of humble service often used by Mary, the mother of Jesus (Luke 1:38), adopted here by the soul of the believer., my Lord, my heart is ignited, my soul is ravished, and all my powers...