He is still in motion, either in bodies upon earth
or in the bodies in the heavens, or in both; in the night and in
the day, in Winter, in Summer, in cold, in heat, in growth or not
in growth.'"
THE CAUSE OF IGNORANCE, EVIL AND SORROWS.
"But when a studying imagination comes into man, which is the
devil, for it is the cause of all evil and sorrows in the world;
that is he who puts out the eyes of man's knowledge, and tells him
he must believe what others have writ or spoke, and must not trust
to his own experience. And when this bewitching fancy sits in the
Chair of Government, there is nothing but saying and unsaying,
frowardness, covetousness, fears, confused thoughts, and
unsatisfied doubtings, all the days of that man's reign in the
heart."
EXAMINE THE WAYS OF MEN, NOT ONLY THEIR PRECEPTS.
"Or, secondly, examine yourself and look likewise into the ways of
all Professors, and you shall find that the enjoyment of the earth
below, which you call a low and a carnal knowledge, is that which
you and all Professors (as well as the men of the world, as you
call them) strive and seek after. Wherefore are you so covetous
after the world, in buying and selling, counting yourself a happy
man if you be rich, and a miserable man if you be poor? And though
you say, _Heaven after death is a place of glory where you shall
enjoy God face to face_, yet you are loth to leave the earth and go
thither.
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