...and found, from time to time, an inward sweetness, that would carry me away, in my contemplations. This I know not how to express otherwise, than by...mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ, and wrapt andswallowed up in God. The sense I had of divine things, would often of a tudden kindle up, as it...

...description of the inward sense of Christ which at times came into his heart, and which he " knows not how to express otherwise than by a calm, sweet...concerns of this world ; and sometimes a kind of vision * * * * of being alone in the mountains, or some solitary wilderness, far from all mankind, sweetly...

...and found, from time to time, an inward sweetness, that would carry me away, in my contemplations. This I know not how to express otherwise, than by a calm, sweet abstraction of soul from all concerns of this world ; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being...

...key moments of delight: ". . .an inward sweetness . . . would carry me away in my contemplations ... by a calm, sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world, and ... a kind of vision ... of being alone in the mountains or some solitary wilderness, far from all...