tian man hath as much need of Christ's Spirit [called in other
passages Seed or Word] to be a Christian and to live eternally, as a
natural man hath of a spirit [principle of intelligence] to be a man and
to live temporally, so Christ's Spirit and a man together are a
Christian, which is a holy, eternal and happy thing."[10] He shows, as
do so many of those who emphasize the inner experience of Christ as a
living presence, an exalted appreciation of the historical revelation in
Christ. Christ is, he says, both God and man, and thus being the perfect
union of divinity and humanity {270} can be our Saviour.[11] Here in the
full light of His Life and Love we may discover the true nature of God,
who was "great with love before we loved Him."[12] The outer word
answers to the inner Light as deep calls unto deep, and the two are "knit
together" not to be sundered. The eye must be on Christ the Light, and
the wise soul "must watch the winde and tide of the Spirit, as the seaman
watcheth the naturall winde and tide. When the tide of the Spirit
floweth then put thy hand to the oar, for then if thou row strongly thou
maiest advance mightily."[13]

He quaintly says that he has written about these spiritual things, about
the world of divine splendour and the "soule's inner eye," because he
wants to exhibit "some bunches of grapes brought from the land of promise
to show that this land is not a meere imagination, but some have seene it
and have brought away parcels, pledges and ernests of it. In these
appears a world above the world, a love that passeth human love, a peace
that passeth naturall understanding, a joy unspeakable and glorious, a
taste of the chiefe and soveraigne good." He has, further, written
because he wanted to "provoke others of this nation to bring forth more
boxes of this precious ointment."[14]

His little books are saturated with a devotional spirit rising into words
like these: "Let my love rest in nothing short of thee, O God!" "Kindle
and enflame and enlarge my love. Enlarge the arteries and conduit pipes
by which Thou the head and fountaine of love flows in thy members, that
being abundantly quickened and watered with the Spirit I may abundantly
love Thee."[15] They contain bursts of intense prayer--"Put thy owne
image and beauty more and more on my soule." He went through all the
Parliamentary storms of that great epoch; he was Provost of Eton College;
he was Cromwell's friend; but his main am