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The Best Assurance Any One Can Have Of His Interest In God, Is Doubtless The Conformity Of His Soul To Him. When Our Heart Is Once Turned Into A Conformity With The Mind Of God. When We Feel Our Will Conformed To His Will, We Shall Then Presently Perceive A Spirit Of Adoption Within Ourselves, Teaching Us To Say, "abba, Father.

Sense Is A Line, The Mind Is A Circle. Sense Is Like A Line Which Is The Flux Of A Point Running Out From Itself, But Intellect Like A Circle That Keeps Within Itself.

True Zeal Is An Ignis Lambeus, A Soft And Gentle Flame, That Will Not Scorch One's Hand.

Christ Came Not To Possess Our Brains With Some Cold Opinions, That Send Down A Freezing And Benumbing Influence Into Our Hearts. Christ Was A Master Of The Life, Not Of The School; And He Is The Best Christian Whose Heart Beats With The Purest Pulse Towards Heaven, Not He Whose Head Spins The Finest Cobweb.

If Intellection And Knowledge Were Mere Passion From Without, Or The Bare Reception Of Extraneous And Adventitious Forms, Then No Reason Could Be Given At All Why A Mirror Or Looking-glass Should Not Understand.