But Yet It Is Evident That Religion

All Truth Is Given By Revelation, Either General Or Special, And It Must Be Received By Reason. Reason Is The God-given Means For Discovering The Truth That God Discloses, Whether In His World Or His Word. While God Wants To Reach The Heart With Truth, He Does Not Bypass The Mind.

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.

The Deceitfulness Of The Heart Of Man Appears In No One Thing So Much As This Of Spiritual Pride And Self-righteousness. The Subtlety Of Satan Appears In Its Height, In His Managing Persons With Respect To This Sin. And Perhaps One Reason May Be That Here He Has Most Experience; He Knows The Way Of Its Coming In; He Is Acquainted With The Secret Springs Of It: It Was His Own Sin. Experience Gives Vast Advantage In Leading Souls, Either In Good Or Evil.

He That Sees The Beauty Of Holiness Or True Moral Good ,sees The Greatest And Most Important Thing In The World.

Grace Is The Seed Of Glory, The Dawning Of Glory In The Heart, And Therefore Grace Is The Earnest Of The Future Inheritance.