Oh therefore let not the mind go forth from God; for if it do it will be stained, venomed and corrupted. If the mind go forth from the Lord it is hard to bring it in again; therefore take heed of the enemy, and keep in the faith of Christ. To live and walk in the spirit of God is joy and peace and life; but the mind going forth into the creatures or into any visible things from the Lord, this bringeth death.
Now when the mind is got into the flesh and into death, the accuser gets within and the law of sin and death gets into the flesh. Then the life suffers under the law of sin and death, and then there is straightness and failings.
Take heed of conforming to the world, and of reasoning with flesh and blood, for that bringeth disobedience. But the obedience of faith destroyeth imaginations and questionings and all the temptations in the flesh and buffettings and lookings forth and fetching up things that are past.
(Journal, 8th ed., Vol. I., pp. 60-61, condensed.)
And dwelling in the light, there is no occasion at all of stumbling, for all things are discovered with the light. Thou that lovest it, here is thy teacher. When thou art walking abroad it is present with thee in thy bosom. Thou needest not to say lo, here, or, lo, there; and as thou liest in thy bed it is present to teach thee and judge thy wandering mind which wanders abroad, and thy high thoughts and imaginations and makes them subject. For following thy thoughts thou art quickly lost. But dwelling in this light it will discover to thee the body of sin and thy corruptions and fallen estate where thou art.
In that light which shows thee all this, stand. Neither go to the right hand nor to the left. Here is patience exercised, here is thy will subjected. Here thou wilt see the mercies of God made manifest in death. Here thou wilt see the drinking of the waters of Shiloah, which run softly.
(Works, IV., p. 17.)
So the son of God within riseth through death to destroy death in man.
(C. J., I., p. 98.)