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We Cannot Believe That The Church Of God Is Already Possessed Of All That Light Which God Intends To Give It; Nor That All Satan's Lurking Places Have Already Been Found Out.

Resolved, Never To Count That A Prayer, Nor To Let That Pass As A Prayer, Nor That As A Petition Of A Prayer, Which Is So Made, That I Cannot Hope That God Will Answer It; Nor That As A Confession, Which I Cannot Hope God Will Accept.

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.

Lord, Stamp Eternity On My Eyeballs.

So That It Must Be Only By The Imagination That Satan Has Access To The Soul, To Tempt And Delude It, Or Suggest Anything To It. And This Seems To Be The Reason Why Persons That Are Under The Disease Of Melancholy Are Commonly So Visibly And Remarkably Subject To The Suggestions And Temptations Of Satan... Innumerable Are The Ways By Which The Mind May Be Led On To All Kind Of Evil Thoughts, By The Exciting Of External Ideas In The Imagination.