From Love Arises Hatred Of

If The Heart Be Chiefly And Directly Fixed On God, And The Soul Engaged To Glorify Him, Some Degree Of Religious Affection Will Be The Effect And Attendant Of It. But To Seek After Affection Directly And Chiefly; To Have The Heart Principally Set Upon That; Is To Place It In The Room Of God And His Glory. If It Be Sought, That Others May Take Notice Of It, And Admire Us For Our Spirituality And Forwardness In Religion, It Is Then Damnable Pride; If For The Sake Of Feeling The Pleasure Of Being Affected, It Is Then Idolatry And Self-gratification.

True Weanedness From The World Don't Consist In Being Beat Off From The World By The Affliction Of It, But A Being Drawn Off By The Sight Of Something Better.

Men Will Trust In God No Further Than They Know Him; And They Cannot Be In The Exercise Of Faith In Him One Ace Further Than They Have A Sight Of His Fulness And Faithfulness In Exercise.

I Claim No Right To Myself, No Right To This Understanding, This Will, These Affections That Are In Me. Neither Do I Have Any Right To This Body Or Its Members, No Right To This Tongue, To These Hands, Feet, Ears Or Eyes. I Have Given Myself Clear Away And Not Retained Anything Of My Own.

When I Am Giving The Relation Of A Thing, Remember To Abstain From Altering Either In The Matter Or Manner Of Speaking, So Much, As That, If Every One, Afterwards, Should Alter As Much, It Would At Last Come To Be Properly False.