Self Is The Root, The Tree, And

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

Now If You Will Stop Here And Ask Yourself Why You Are Not As Pious As The Primitive Christians Were, Your Own Heart Will Tell You That It Is Neither Through Ignorance Nor Inability, But Purely Because You Never Thoroughly Intended It.

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.

The Greatest Saint In The World Is Not He Who Prays Most Or Fasts Most; It Is Not He Who Gives Alms, Or Is Most Eminent For Temperance, Chastity Or Justice. It Is He Who Is Most Thankful To God.

This New Birth In Christ, Thus Firmly Believed And Continually Desired, Will Do Everything That Thou Wantest To Have Done In Thee, It Will Dry Up All The Springs Of Vice, Stop All The Workings Of Evil In Thy Nature, It Will Bring All That Is Good Into Thee, It Will Open All The Gospel Within Thee, And Thou Wilt Know What It Is To Be Taught Of God.