He Who Has Christ Has All He

If The Heart Be Chiefly And Directly Fixed On God, And The Soul Engaged To Glorify Him, Some Degree Of Religious Affection Will Be The Effect And Attendant Of It. But To Seek After Affection Directly And Chiefly; To Have The Heart Principally Set Upon That; Is To Place It In The Room Of God And His Glory. If It Be Sought, That Others May Take Notice Of It, And Admire Us For Our Spirituality And Forwardness In Religion, It Is Then Damnable Pride; If For The Sake Of Feeling The Pleasure Of Being Affected, It Is Then Idolatry And Self-gratification.

Those Who Are In A State Of Salvation Are To Attribute It To Sovereign Grace Alone, And To Give All The Praise To Him Who Maketh Them To Differ From Others.

If You Seek In The Spirit Of Selfishness, To Grasp All As Your Own, You Shall Lose All, And Be Driven Out Of The World, At Last, Naked And Forlorn, To Everlasting Poverty And Contempt.

Because God Is Not Only Infinitely Greater And More Excellent Than All Other Being, But He Is The Head Of The Universal System Of Existence; The Foundation And Fountain Of All Being And All Beauty; From Whom All Is Perfectly Derived, And On Whom All Is Most Absolutely And Perfectly Dependent; Of Whom, And Through Whom, And To Whom Is All Being And All Perfection; And Whose Being And Beauty Are, As It Were, The Sum And Comprehension Of All Existence And Excellence: Much More Than The Sun Is The Fountain And Summary Comprehension Of All The Light And Brightness Of The Day.

If You Long To Be More Like Christ, Then Act Like Him, And Walk As He Walked.