August 15 Walter Cradock 4
A woman that hath butter in a dish,
she melts some of the butter, but if she take it too soon from the fire there will
be a core, a knob in the dish left, and being taken from the fire it grows bigger
till all be hard. So a weak saint: by studying the promises of God and the love
of God, it dissolves much of the knobbiness, yet there are some hard thoughts
and jealousies and suspicions; but God comes at last, and melts all the butter
together, all the knobbiness that is in the heart, every thought and imagination of terror and
guilt and fear, that there is a clear and pure principle of love to God - and then
the soul is fond of him.
Walter Cradock 1606-1659
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