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Doc. 209.] HIS SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE IN 1744. 157
time, but afterwards inexpressible. In short, I was in heaven,
and heard a language, which no human tongue can utter with
its inherent life, nor the glory and inmost delight resulting
from it.*
22. Besides, while awake, I was in a heavenly ecstasy,
which is also indescribable.*
I went to bed at nine o’clock, and arose between nine and
ten; I had thus been in bed for twelve or thirteen hours.
Praise, and honour, and glory be to the Highest ; hallowed be
His name ! Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts!
23. How I learned by experience the meaning of this: not
to love the angels more than God ; as they had nearly over
thrown the whole work. In comparison with our Lord no
attention must be paid to them, i. e. to them in respect to
the help they can render ; since their love is far lower
than His.
24. By some rays of light in me I found that it would be
the greatest happiness to become a martyr ; for on behold
ing inexpressible grace combined with love to God, a de
sire was kindled in me to undergo this torture, which is no
thing compared with eternal torment ; and [a conviction then]
that the least of the things that one can offer is his life.
25. Both in my mind and body I had a sensation of such
indescribable delight, that had it been more intense, the body
would have been, as it were, dissolved in pure bliss.*
This took place in the night between Easter Sunday and
Easter Monday, and during the whole of that day.
26. April 6X7. N.B.; N.B.; N.B. In the evening I came
into another kind of temptation.† Between eight and nine
o’clock in the evening, while I was reading God’s miracles
wrought through Moses, it seemed to me as if something of
my own understanding was mixed up with it, so that I was
not able to have so strong a faith as I ought. I believed,
and yet did not believe. I was thinking that for this reason
angels and God appeared to shepherds, and not to a philo
* See Note 162, ii.
See Note 166, i.
See Note 162, i, E.
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