Unconverted Men Walk Over The Pit 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.

Christ Gives Peace To The Most Sinful And Miserable That Come To Him. He Heals The Broken In Heart And Binds Up Their Wounds.

Resolved, To Study The Scriptures So Steadily, Constantly And Frequently, As That I May Find, And Plainly Perceive Myself To Grow In The Knowledge Of The Same.

Religion, In Its Purity, Is Not So Much A Pursuit As A Temper; Or Rather It Is A Temper, Leading To The Pursuit Of All That Is High And Holy. Its Foundation Is Faith; Its Action, Works; Its Temper, Holiness; Its Aim, Obedience To God In Improvement Of Self, And Benevolence To Men.

He Who Does Not Know Him, Knows Nothing Else As It Truly Is.