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Such Is Man's Nature, That He Is Very Inactive And Lazy Unless He Is Influenced By Some Affection, Either Love Or Hatred, Desire, Hope, Fear, Or Some Other. These Affections We See To Be The Springs That Set Men Agoing, In All The Affairs Of Life, And Engage Them In All Their Pursuits: These Are The Things That Put Men Forward, And Carry Them Along.

The Happiness Of The Creature Consists In Rejoicing In God, By Which Also God Is Magnified And Exalted.

Assurance Is Not To Be Obtained So Much By Self-examination As By Action

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.

What Self-righteous Persons Take To Themselves, Is The Same Work That Christ Was Engaged In When He Was In His Agony And Bloody Sweat, And When He Died On The Cross, Which Was The Greatest Thing That Ever The Eyes Of Angels Beheld. Christ Could Accomplish Other Parts Of This Work Without Cost; But This Part Cost Him His Life, As Well As Innumerable Pains And Labors. Yet This Is The Part Which Self-righteous Persons Go About To Accomplish For Themselves.