MAY 26
Yet the enemy injected a fear: “If thou dost believe, why is there not a more sensible change?” I answered (yet not I): “That I know not. But this I know: I now have peace with God. And I sin not to-day, and Jesus has forbid me to take thought for the morrow.”
“But is not any sort of fear,” continued the tempter, “a proof that thou dost not believe?” I desired my Master to answer for me, and opened His Book upon those words of St. Paul: “Without were fightings, within were fears.” Then, inferred I, well may fears be within me; but I must go on and tread them under my feet.
Journal, 25th May, 1738
Beware of lukewarmness. Beware of cleaving to the present world. Let your treasure and your heart be above.
Letter, 27th November, 1783
