How inspirations direct us about external calls and obligations.
External calls are to overrule internal.
Authority of superiors ought to overrule inspirations, even in things not of obligation. Inconsiderate commands of superiors in such things to be obeyed, though superiors will be severely accountable to God. Decay of true spirituality arises from the ignorance or neglect of this doctrine touching attending to divine inspirations. And by His internal operation He directs us to perform such obedience, in a spiritual manner, for the good and advancement of our souls in His divine love. And as for internal inspirations which have regard unto those external calls, the end for which they are given us is not only simply to direct and incline us to perform all our Christian, regular, or other duties with readiness and cheerfulness 129 but to do them with perfection and purity of intention, in and for God only, as if He had immediately and visibly imposed them upon us.