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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.

The Godly Are Designed For Unknown And Inconceivable Happiness.

Resolved, Never To Speak Evil Of Anyone, So That It Shall Tend To His Dishonor, More Or Less, Upon No Account Except For Some Real Good.

Holiness Appeared To Me To Be Of A Sweet, Pleasant, Charming, Serene, Calm Nature; Which Brought An Inexpressible Purity, Brightness, Peacefulness And Ravishment To The Soul.

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.