Reflections on
the Life of
Madame Jeanne de la Mothe Guyon.
Her growth in grace. The account she gives of her will, as subdued in its operations, but not wholly renovated in its nature. Remarks on this subject.
Whatever mistakes she may have committed in the period of which we are now speaking, it is evident that she was growing in grace. The world had lost, in an increased degree, its power. Her inward nature had become more conformed to the requisitions of the gospel law. We have evidence of this in various ways. Among other things, speaking of Paris, which had formerly been to her a place of temptation and injury, she remarks, in connection with a visit which she was obliged to make there,