Directions ToThose Under Spiritual Melancholy

Be not discouraged, though in your holy exercises you have no lively feelings, nor elevating conceptions. These, however desirable and useful they are, yet cannot, in your present condition, be reasonably expected. Although they are sometimes enjoyed by many holy persons, yet they are not the essentials of true holiness. Lively feelings, depend more on one's natural constitution, than many
are willing to allow. Some Christians have naturally a quicker sensibility, than others. A very small affair will make some of them, feel deeply.
They who live nearest to God, are commonly not those, who have the liveliest feelings and emotion*