Who art thou that queriest in thy mind what is that which I feel that condemneth me when I do evil and justifieth me when I do well, what is it? I will tell thee. Lo! He that formeth the mountains and created the winds and declareth unto man what is his thoughts, that maketh the morning darkness and tradeth upon high places of the earth. The Lord, the God of Hosts is his name.
(Journal Friends’ Hist. Soc., Vol. IX., p. 80, from a MS.)
Though you see little and know little and have little, and see your nakedness and barrenness and unfruitfulness and see the hardness of your hearts and your own unworthiness it is the Light that discovers all this and the love of God to you and it is that which is immediate, but the dark understanding cannot comprehend it.
(Works, VII., p. 24.)
The Regulating Light.
Therefore have salt in yourselves and be low in heart. The light is low in you and it will teach you to be low and to learn that lesson of Jesus Christ to the plucking down all high thoughts and imaginations.
(Works, VII., p. 90.)
The Discerning Light.
Mind every one that which is of God in you, to teach you to walk to God and before him; and as it teacheth you and enlightens your understandings it will teach you how to direct others and so to judge of things eternal so far as that is borne up in your understandings which is eternal, and as everyone hath a measure, so every one to prove his talent and not limit God to learned men (as hath long been) which have learned but their natural languages, so their original ground and religion is external, their word and light is external and their gifts and preachings is an external gift and they go to you magistrates who hath an external law to uphold them in their external ministry. For your law doth alter and exchange, which is external. Now that which is external, with it to judge things eternal cannot be, (but limit God). For he that hath the first gift of God hath that which is perfect and that which is perfect is eternal, and such hath a discerning to know the gift of God from the gift of man.
(C. J., I., pp. 96, 97.)