Thy Will must be wholly pure and fixed in a firm
resolution never to return to its old idols any more, but that thou
wilt, that very instant leave them, and separate thy mind from them, and
enter into the sincere way of truth and righteousness, according to the
plain and full doctrine of Christ. And as thou dost thus purpose to
forsake the enemies of thine own inward Nature, so thou must also
forgive all thy outward enemies and resolve to meet them with thy Love,
that there may be left no Creature, Person, or Thing at all able to
take hold of thy Will and captivate it; but that it may be sincere and
purged from all Creatures. Nay, further, if it should be required, thou
must be willing and ready to forsake all thy temporal honour and profit
for Christ's sake, and regard nothing that is earthly so as to set thy
heart and affections upon it; but esteem thyself in whatsoever state,
degree and condition thou art, as to worldly rank and riches, to be but
a servant of God, and of thy fellow-Christians; or as a steward in the
office wherein thy Lord hath placed thee. All arrogance and
self-exaltation must be humbled, brought low, and so annihilated that
nothing of thine own or of any other Creature may stay in thy Will to
bring the thoughts or imagination to be set upon it.

Thou must also firmly impress it on thy mind that thou shalt certainly
partake of the promised Grace in the Merit of Jesus Christ, viz., of his
outflowing Love, which indeed is already in thee, and which will deliver
thee from thy Creatures, and enlighten thy Will, and kindle it with the
Flame of Love, whereby thou shalt have victory over the Devil. Not as if
thou couldst will or do anything in thy own strength, but only enter
into the suffering and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and take them to
thyself, and with them assault and break in pieces the kingdom of the
Devil in thee. Thou must resolve to enter into this way this very hour,
and never to depart from it, but willingly to submit thyself to God in
all thy endeavours and doings, that he may do with thee what he
pleaseth.

When thy Will is thus prepared and resolved, it hath then broken through
its own Creatures, and is sincere in the Presence of God, and clothed
with the Merits of Jesus Christ. It may then freely go to the Father
with the Prodigal Son, and fall down in his Presence and pour forth its
prayers; and putting forth all its strength in this Divine Work, confess
its sins and disobedience;