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Salvation Is So Great A Thing, So Glorious An Attainment, That 'tis Worth The While For A Man To Do His Utmost Every Day During His Whole Life In The Use Of All Proper Means That He May Attain.

A Truly Christian Love, Either To God Or Men, Is A Humble Broken-hearted Love. The Desires Of The Saints, However Earnest, Are Humble Desires. Their Hope Is A Humble Hope; And Their Joy, Even When It Is Unspeakable And Full Of Glory, Is A Humble Broken-hearted Joy, And Leaves The Christian More Poor In Spirit, And More Like A Little Child, And More Disposed To A Universal Lowliness Of Behaviour.

To Mark All That I Say In Conversation, Merely To Beget In Others, A Good Opinion Of Myself, And Examine It.

All The Fruits Of The Spirit Which We Are To Lay Weight Upon As Evidential Of Grace, Are Summed Up In Charity, Or Christian Love; Because This Is The Sum Of All Grace. And The Only Way, Therefore, In Which Any Can Know Their Good Estate, Is By Discerning The Exercises Of This Divine Charity In Their Hearts; For Without Charity, Let Men Have What Gifts You Please, They Are Nothing.

God Is The Highest Good Of The Reasonable Creature. The Enjoyment Of Him Is Our Proper; And Is The Only Happiness With Which Our Souls Can Be Satisfied. To Go To Heaven, Fully To Enjoy God, Is Infinitely Better Than The Most Pleasant Accommodations Here. Better Than Fathers And Mothers, Husbands, Wives, Or Children, Or The Company Of Any, Or All Earthly Friends. These Are But Shadows; But The Enjoyment Of God Is The Substance. These Are But Scattered Beams; But God Is The Sun. These Are But Streams; But God Is The Fountain. These Are But Drops, But God Is The Ocean.