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

(to know, the understanding and the knowledge of the Author's high writings).

9. He must begin it with the work of repentance, and with earnest prayer, that the understanding from within may be opened to him: then the inner will also lead him into the outer: (that is, the inner wisdom will also make the outer known to him).

10. When he reads such writings (which treat of the deep mysteries of God), and then still cannot understand them, he shall not immediately throw them away, and hold them to be impossible to understand: he shall turn his mind to God, and pray Him for grace and understanding, and read again, then he will see even more in them, until he is finally drawn into the depth (through the power of God), and