Lifting up ones heart
3. Elevation, and often lifting up of the heart towards heaven. What Christian heart can endure to discontinue its sweet familiarity and humble intercourse with God for one day? Let thy broken heart, therefore, every day, besides solemn and ordinary ejaculations, evening and morning, and upon other special occasions, be sure, 1. To bathe itself deliciously in the blissful depths of God’s boundless mercies in Christ, that it may be happily kept, spiritually joyful, thankful, and in love with all holy duties. 2. To kiss sweetly the glorified body of our crucified Lord, with the lips of infinitely dearest, and inexpressibly affectionate love,—though the distance be great, yet the hand of faith will bring them easily together,—that it may be preserved in peace, purity, and revengeful opposition unto sin. For, as the application of his meritorious blood is a sovereign remedy to heal the wounded conscience, to turn crimson and scarlet into snow and wool, so, methinks, a serious and compassionate commemoration of the dear effusion thereof should be both a precious corrosive to eat out the heart of corruption, and a special preservative to keep from sin, since sin was the principal in slaughtering the Lord of life. 3. To cast the eye of hope upon the glory, everlastingness, and unutterable excellences of that immortal, shining crown above, which, after this life, (and this life is but a bubble, a smoke, a shadow, a thought,) shall be set upon thy head by the hand of God; a very glimpse of the goodly splendour and enrapturing beauty whereof, is able both to sweeten the bitterest villanies and basest wrongs from the world and wicked men, and to dispel those mists of fading vanities and hurtful fumes of honours, riches, and earthly pleasures, which this great dunghill of the world, heated by the fire of inordinate lusts, is wont to evaporate, and interpose between the sight of men’s souls and the bliss of heaven. [Robert Bolton]
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Nothing much to tell. I’m walking a single solitary pilgrims walk, in England, that is not an easy one. I am a Calvinistic Covenanter Christian, My Autonomic Nervous system is failing slowly, which has led to severe disability, with an ultra rare disease than medics don’t even understand, often misdiagnose.and will no doubt kill me at some point. But, I trust the Lord to get me where I’m going. All glory to HIM.
The symptomology listed on the link, most porphyrics will only have most of those symptoms if in an acute attack. A few of us, with the ongoing, smouldering symptoms, that never go away, have most if not all of the symptom list, even when not in an acute attack, and are persistent and constant. Anyone who has ever been in the psychiactric system, diagnosed as this or that, even if physically well, should consider this illness could be responsible. King George III, the most famous porphyric, his sole symptom was “insanity.” Its so rare in part, because it’s massively under-diagnosed. But in making this illness known, when it struck me physically a few years ago, God vindicated me from every mis-diagnoses and bersmirchment upon me medically that has ever been made, and has made them all null and void.
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