Love And Pity And Wish Well To

Until We Are Renewed In The Spirit Of Our Mind And Illumined In Every Part, Our Very Virtues Are But Taught Practices Grafted Upon A Corrupt Bottom

Feasts And Business And Pleasure And Enjoyments Seem Great Things To Us, Whilst We Think Of Nothing Else; But As Soon As We Add Death To Them They All Sink Into An Equal Littleness.

Hell Is Nothing Else But Nature Departed Or Excluded From The Beam Of Divine Light.

Devotion Signifies A Life Given, Or Devoted, To God. He Therefore Is The Devout Man, Who Lives No Longer To His Own Will, Or The Way And Spirit Of The World, But To The Sole Will Of God, Who Considers God In Everything, Who Serves God In Everything, Who Makes All The Parts Of His Common Life, Parts Of Piety, By Doing Everything In The Name Of God, And Under Such Rules As Are Conformable To His Glory.

When Therefore The First Spark Of A Desire After God Arises In Thy Soul, Cherish It With All Thy Care, Give All Thy Heart Into It; It Is Nothing Less Than A Touch Of The Divine Loadstone, That Is To Draw Thee Out Of The Vanity Of Time, Into The Riches Of Eternity.