The New Living Way Prepared by Christ

§. 7. Speak in your heart with the prophet Micah Micah 7:7: I will look to the LORD alone and wait in patience for the GOD of my salvation, and be silent. I will look only to His purpose and be obedient to Him as a child. I will persist with prayer and supplication for His divine wisdom and the spirit of testing, and not grow weary. My GOD will hear me at the right time according to His love, faithfulness, and truth, and direct all these circumstances for the good of my soul. Do not rejoice, my enemy, that I lie low; GOD has given you and the power of darkness an hour to cool your little temper upon me, to exercise your malice upon me. I will rise again. And if I sit in darkness and am led from one prison to another, yet the LORD is my light, my strength, my peace and constant joy, my way, my truth, my life. He shall remain so. Nothing from without, no tribulation, no man, no devil can disturb this divine peace and joy within me and make me restless, except my own will; that is the sole cause of all restlessness. I will therefore bear the LORD’s anger, this His blessed judgment, when He hides Himself from me, withdraws all the consolations of the angels from me for a time, turns the pleasure and delight I had in fellowship with people and even good souls into pure gall, and often lets the black brooks of Belial the personification of worthlessness/wickedness flow in with it. I will bow my entire own-life under this fire of His judgment to kill it entirely: I will gladly lose it. For I have sinned against Him, murmured against His divine ways and wholesome leadings and judgments, hated and fled them. In doing so, I laid the cause of my restlessness, hell, and sadness, now upon the place, now upon the people in the house with great anger and aversion. Most of all, I have taken the punishments and judgments—which are linked to my sins as long as they retain their life in me at the root—away from my sins and laid them entirely upon JESUS, and wanted to comfort myself with His merit, and thus wanted to make JESUS a servant of sin who merely covered sin from the outside with His merit, while in my heart they had to retain their life as long as I lived here. And in such a way I raised sin, and