Holiness Appeared To Me To Be Of

The Deceitfulness Of The Heart Of Man Appears In No One Thing So Much As This Of Spiritual Pride And Self-righteousness. The Subtlety Of Satan Appears In Its Height, In His Managing Persons With Respect To This Sin. And Perhaps One Reason May Be That Here He Has Most Experience; He Knows The Way Of Its Coming In; He Is Acquainted With The Secret Springs Of It: It Was His Own Sin. Experience Gives Vast Advantage In Leading Souls, Either In Good Or Evil.

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

We Have Seen That The Son Of God Created The World For This Very End, To Communicate Himself In An Image Of His Own Excellency. ... When We Behold The Light And Brightness Of The Sun, The Golden Edges Of An Evening Cloud, Or The Beauteous (rain)bow, We Behold The Adumbrations Of His Glory And Goodness; And In The Blue Sky, Of His Mildness And Gentleness.

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.

Intend To Live In Continual Mortification, And Never To Expect Or Desire Any Worldly Ease Or Pleasure.