The Beauty Of The World Consists Wholly

But It Is Doubtless True, And Evident From [the] Scriptures, That The Essence Of All True Religion Lies In Holy Love; And That In This Divine Affection, And An Habitual Disposition To It, And That Light Which Is The Foundation Of It, And Those Things Which Are The Fruits Of It, Consists The Whole Of Religion.

Resolved, Never To Count That A Prayer, Nor To Let That Pass As A Prayer, Nor That As A Petition Of A Prayer, Which Is So Made, That I Cannot Hope That God Will Answer It; Nor That As A Confession, Which I Cannot Hope God Will Accept.

The Foundation Of The Christian's Peace Is Everlasting; It Is What No Time, No Change Can Destroy. It Will Remain When The Body Dies; It Will Remain When The Mountains Depart And The Hills Shall Be Removed, And When The Heavens Shall Be Rolled Together As A Scroll. The Fountain Of His Comfort Shall Never Be Diminished, And The Stream Shall Never Be Dried. His Comfort And Joy Is A Living Spring In The Soul, A Well Of Water Springing Up To Everlasting Life.

Immediately Upon The Fall, The Mind Of Man Shrank From Its Primitive Greatness And Expandedness, To An Exceeding Smallness And Contractedness... Before, His Soul Was Under The Government Of The Noble Principles Of Divine Love, Whereby It Was Enlarged To The Comprehensiveness Of All His Fellow Creatures And Their Welfare... [but] Sin, Like Some Powerful Astringent, Contracted His Soul To The Very Small Dimensions Of Selfishness, And God Was Forsaken, And Man Retired Within Himself, And Became Totally Governed By Narrow And Selfish Principles And Feelings.

Envy Is A Spirit Of Dissatisfaction Or Opposition To The Prosperity Or Happiness Of Other People.