Until We Are Renewed In The Spirit

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.

All The Wants Which Disturb Human Life, Which Make Us Uneasy To Ourselves, Quarrelsome With Others, And Unthankful To God, Which Weary Us In Vain Labors And Foolish Anxieties, Which Carry Us From Project To Project, From Place To Place In A Poor Pursuit Of We Don't Know What, Are The Wants Which Neither God, Nor Nature, Nor Reason Hath Subjected Us To, But Are Solely Infused Into Us By Pride, Envy, Ambition, And Covetousness.

As A Good Christian Should Consider Every Place As Holy, Because God Is There, So He Should Look Upon Every Part Of His Life As A Matter Of Holiness, Because It Is Offered Unto God. The Profession Of A Clergyman Is A Holy Profession, Because It Is A Ministration In Holy Things, An Attendance At The Alter. But Worldly Business Is To Be Made Holy Unto The Lord, By Being Done As A Service Unto Him, And In Conformity To His Divine Will.

If Contempt Of The World And Heavenly Affection Is A Necessary Temper Of Christians, It Is Necessary That This Temper Appear In The Whole Course Of Their Lives, In Their Manner Of Using The World, Because It Can Have No Place Anywhere Else.

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.