If The Case Be Such Indeed, That

Religion Consists Much In Holy Affection; But Those Exercises Of Affection Which Are Most Distinguishing Of True Religion Are These Practical Exercises. Friendship Between Earthly Friends Consists Much In Affection; But Those Strong Exercises Of Affection That Actually Carry Them Through Fire And Water For Each Other Are The Highest Evidences Of True Friendship.

Being Sensible That I Am Unable To Do Any Thing Without God's Help, I Do Humbly Entreat Him, By His Grace, To Enable Me To Keep These Resolutions, So Far As They Are Agreeable To His Will, For Christ's Sake.

It Is God’s Will Through His Wonderful Grace, That The Prayers Of His Saints Should Be One Of The Great Principal Means Of Carrying On The Designs Of Christ’s Kingdom In The World. When God Has Something Very Great To Accomplish For His Church, It Is His Will That There Should Precede It The Extraordinary Prayers Of His People; As Is Manifest By Ezekiel 36:37. And It Is Revealed That, When God Is About To Accomplish Great Things For His Church, He Will Begin By Remarkably Pouring Out The Spirit Of Grace And Supplication (see Zechariah 12:10).

All The Fruits Of The Spirit Which We Are To Lay Weight Upon As Evidential Of Grace, Are Summed Up In Charity, Or Christian Love; Because This Is The Sum Of All Grace. And The Only Way, Therefore, In Which Any Can Know Their Good Estate, Is By Discerning The Exercises Of This Divine Charity In Their Hearts; For Without Charity, Let Men Have What Gifts You Please, They Are Nothing.

Resolved, When I Feel Pain, To Think Of The Pains Of Martyrdom, And Of Hell.