You have _three_ besetments, _Passion_, _Lust_, and _Pride_; but you have _three_ remedies, Christ’s _Obedience_, _Blood_, and _Love_. These when seen, known, felt, and enjoyed, produce _three_ most blessed effects, _Abasement_, _Humility_, _and Self-Denial_; and this will lead to the practice of _three_ duties, _Prayer_, _Hearing_, and _Obedience_; and these will be a means of the gracious visits of _three_ gracious, kind, and condescending persons. If any man love me, my Father will love _him_, and _we_ will come to _him_, and make _our_ abode with _him_; when _he_, the Spirit, shall come, _he_ shall abide with you for ever. Thus you see the connexion of great things in experience, to lead us to glory, where we shall be filled with _three_ more. The Lamb in the midst of the throne, shall lead them to fountain of living waters—_Father_, _Son_, and _Spirit_—then with unspeakable joy shall we draw waters of everlasting delight from seeing, knowing, and being with God.—Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. The heart means the whole man, body and soul, purged from sin, unpardoned by the death of Jesus—the faculties that are under the influence of divine favor; the conscience, that feels guilt when sin is felt, and peace when faith is able to receive the atonement.—The mind, will, and affections, which are open to receive Christ as he is set forth in the Gospel. The truth being received gives Christ an actual existence in the mind, so that he dwells there, and let what will happen to us Christ is uppermost. When Satan, sin, error, trouble, the deepest affliction, or the thoughts of death, judgment, and eternity impress the mind, do observe this, Christ is still uppermost; the mind bends that way as naturally, in this sense, as a child runs home, and clings to its parent in time of trouble or danger. I have had a long experience of these truths, and only regret that I have had so little time to reflect deeper on them. I see the wisdom of God in the present trial which has befallen me—the Lord has done what he devised; I am the gainer, my dear friends the loosers, but they will gain in the end; the Lord has chastened and humbled me, and has accepted my broken spirit and contrite heart. He has shewed me my faults in many things I never saw before, and others I had forgot, and has led me to see he has pardoned them, and I trust subdued what is contrary to himself. What the Lord is about to do with me I know not, I leave it with him—I only want this pruning to bring forth more fruit, that I may glorify Christ and prove that I am a disciple indeed. The eternal God be your guide, father and friend. Do pray much, read much, think much, and obey much. Still cry out, God be merciful to me a sinner! and add also, Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort. So prays _Ruhamah_. LETTER V.