Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and having true light to see that it is not to be found in himself, nor without himself, nor around himself, he begins to seek it above himself. This uplifting is so mighty and transcendent that it does not pause at Heaven; that cannot satisfy it; nor higher yet, with the angels, or spirits made perfect. The soul passes through all creation, and cannot stop until it reaches the Throne of God, where it finds its rest, and that only Good than which there is nothing better, and which cannot be taken from it against its will. Even if the man does not yet experience the delights with which God rewards habitual piety, he at least perceives that the creature cannot be preferable to the Creator, and his reason, aided by the light of grace, proves to him that nothing is more to be loved than God, and that He cannot be taken from any save those who reject Him, inasmuch as to desire Him is to possess Him, and to refuse Him is to lose Him. Thus the soul rejoices in having found a possession which cannot be snatched away so long as it is desired, and than which there is nothing better. Then, amid such new-born thoughts, the man begins to perceive the greatness of his Creator, and to experience a deep humility and worship. Bowed down to the depths, and unable to form a low enough idea of himself, nor one great enough of his Supreme Good, he makes a fresh effort to plunge yet lower, by contemplating God in that immensity which seems ever multiplying around him. All exhausted by such an effort, his soul worships silently, owning himself God's vile, profitless servant, blessing and adoring Him for ever and ever. After a while he recognises the grace which has vouchsafed to manifest itself to one so beneath contempt, and making a fervent resolution of eternal gratitude, he becomes lost ...