This Is The State Of All Creatures,

We Must Alter Our Lives In Order To Alter Our Hearts, For It Is Impossible To Live One Way And Pray Another.

Where Has The Scripture Made Merit The Rule Or Measure Of Charity?.

God Seeth Different Abilities And Frailties Of Men, Which May Move His Goodness To Be Merciful To Their Different Improvements In Virtue.

We Have All Of Us Free Access To All That Is Great, And Good, And Happy, And Carry Within Ourselves A Key To All The Treasures That Heaven Has To Bestow Upon Us. We Starve In The Midst Of Plenty, Groan Under Infirmities, With The Remedy In Our Own Hand; Live And Die Without Knowing And Feeling Anything Of The One Only God, Whilst We Have It In Our Power To Know And Enjoy It In As Great A Reality As We Know And Feel The Power Of This World Over Us; For Heaven Is As Near To Our Souls As This World Is To Our Bodies; And We Are Created, We Are Redeemed, To Have Our Conversation In It.

This Is The State Of All Creatures, Whether Men Or Angels; As They Make Not Themselves, So They Enjoy Nothing From Themselves; If They Are Great, It Must Be Only As Great Receivers Of The Gifts Of God; Their Power Can Only Be So Much Of The Divine Power Acting In Them; Their Wisdom Can Be Only So Much Of The Divine Wisdom Shining Within Them; And Their Light And Glory, Only So Much Of The Light And Glory Of God Shining Upon Them.