There are wanderers, whom neither pride nor a perverse humour have led
astray; and whose condition is such, that I think few more worthy of a
man's best directions. For the more imperious sects having put such
unhandsome vizards on Christianity, and the sincere milk of the _Word_
having been every where so sophisticated by the humours and inventions
of men, it has driven these anxious melancholists to seek for _a
teacher_ that cannot deceive, the voice of the _eternal_ Word within
them; to which if they be faithful, they assure themselves it will be
faithful to them in return. Nor would this be a groundless
presumption, if they had sought this voice in the Reason and the
Conscience, with the Scripture articulating the same, instead of
giving heed to their fancy and mistaking bodily disturbances, and the
vapours resulting therefrom, for inspiration and the teaching of the
Spirit.