36                            HER RELIGIOUS EXERCISES.

iur, ita vita nostra in virtutibus, virtutes in intima intentione
subsistantj'—As the fabric cannot stand without pillars,
the pillars without foundations, so doth our life and livlie-
hood consist in virtues, and virtues receive their consist¬
ency from an internall intention.

By these symptoms that appeared, we may form an im¬
perfect conjecture of that the all-searching eye of God
could only penetrate, and undoubtedly conclude that as
shee contemplated him by virtue of this intention, whilst
the interposition of mortallity impedited a better finition,
so those obstacles being removed, shee now enjoys him in
a very eminent degree or intension of beatifical vision.

Even as the Spouse who thro' dimm clouds wounded
her beloved but with one eye, or the eagle that in a
density of mist cannot clearly discover the sun, but when
that obscurity is dispell'd, shee wounds with both, and
the eagle beholds that bright body of light with undazled
eyes.
 

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