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Meditation XCII.
ON BEING INTERRUPTED IN SECRET PRAYER.
Lying off France, June 13, 1758.
Nothing can still the agitation of my spirit—but the fore-thoughts of perfect and eternal liberty, into which the sons of God shall shortly be delivered. Little needs the world without, to disturb our retired moments; there is enough within to distract our meditations.
But, O thrice happy day, which is approaching on the out-stretched wings of the promise—when I shall stand among a numerous throng of adorers, worshiping before the throne, with the eye of my soul fixed on him who sits thereon; and not one of the many thousands of eternity shall disturb my adorations.
The eye of my mind, the flow of my affection, and the flame of my love—shall eternally fix on the divine object, from whom none shall draw one thought away.
Here on earth, my circumstance is doubly calamitous; for, though the busy throng should not break in on me, there is a throng of 'base distracting thoughts' already within me, that will not be at rest; but there, as nothing shall disturb without, so nothing shall distract within.
Not one trespassing thought, not one trifling idea, not a moment lost, nor one expression unworthy of the sacred subject—but all enrapt to the sublimest height of ecstasy; and every adoration of God shall be in spirit and in truth—shall be without intermission through an indefatigable immortality; without interruption, through consummate perfection; without wearying, through inconceivable joy and delight; and without end, through an eternal duration.
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