A Little Hand-book, Being a Fragrant Flower: The Primrose

so that God may be his knowing, willing, and working, then he is not yet ready for such knowledge.

7. For there are many who only seek the mysteries because they desire to be highly regarded and esteemed before the world, only for their own self-interest: but to such a ground (where the Spirit, as it stands written, searches all things, yes even the depth of the Godhead) they do not come.

8. It must be a wholly surrendered human, and a surrendered will, in which God Himself searches and works: who continuously presses into surrendered humility, and self-abandonment unto God, and seeks nothing else but his eternal Fatherland, and to serve his neighbor therewith, who with David says: "Lord, I will let you do it, you shall do it well," doing so, it may well be reached