A True Love For God Must Begin

There Are Two Sorts Of Hypocrites: Ones That Are Deceived With Their Outward Morality And External Religion; And The Others Are Those That Are Deceived With False Discoveries And Elevation; Which Often Cry Down Works, And Men's Own Righteousness, And Tlak Much Of Free Grace, But At The Same Time Make A Righteousness Of Their Discoveries And Of Their Humiliation, And Exalt Themselves To Heaven With Them.

As It Is With Spiritual Discoveries And Affections Given At First Conversion, So It Is In All Subsequent Illuminations And Affections Of That Kind; They Are All Transforming. There Is A Like Divine Power And Energy In Them As In The First Discoveries; They Still Reach The Bottom Of The Heart, And Affect And Alter The Very Nature Of The Soul, In Proportion To The Degree In Which They Are Given. And A Transformation Of Nature Is Continued And Carried On By Them To The End Of Life, Until It Is Brought To Perfection In Glory.

Almost All Men, And Those That Seem To Be Very Miserable, Love Life, Because They Cannot Bear To Lose Sight Of Such A Beautiful And Lovely World. The Ideas, That Every Moment Whilst We Live Have A Beauty That We Take Not Distinct Notice Of, Brings A Pleasure That, When We Come To The Trial, We Had Rather Live In Much Pain And Misery Than Lose.

I Know Not How To Express Better, What My Sins Appear To Me To Be, Than By Heaping Infinite Upon Infinite, And Multiplying Infinite By Infinite . . . When I Look Into My Heart And Take A View Of My Wickedness, It Looks Like An Abyss Infinitely Deeper Than Hell.

As God Delights In His Own Beauty, He Must Necessarily Delight In The Creature's Holiness Which Is A Conformity To And Participation Of It, As Truly As [the] Brightness Of A Jewel, Held In The Sun's Beams, Is A Participation Or Derivation Of The Sun's Brightness, Though Immensely Less In Degree.