But the body, being in its present constitution, so made subject to
vanity, and living in a vain image and creaturely shadows according to
the life of the undergraduated creatures or brutes, whose breath goeth
downward to the earth; I am still very much afraid thereof, lest it
should continue to depress the mind which is lifted up to God, by
hanging as a dead weight thereto; and go on to abuse and perplex the
same, as formerly, with dreams and trifles, by letting in the objects
from without, in order to draw me down into the World and the hurry
thereof; whereas I would fain maintain by conversation in Heaven even
while I am living in the World. What, therefore, must I do with this
body, that I may be able to keep up so desirable a conversation, and not
to be under subjection to it any longer?