Resolved, Never Henceforward, Till I Die, To

But Yet It Is Evident That Religion Consists So Much In Affection, As That Without Holy Affection There Is No True Religion; And No Light In The Understanding Is Good Which Does Not Produce Holy Affection In The Heart: No Habit Or Principle In The Heart Is Good Which Has No Such Exercise; And No External Fruit Is Good Which Does Not Proceed From Such Exercises.

From Love Arises Hatred Of Those Things Which Are Contrary To What We Love, Or Which Oppose And Thwart Us In Those Things That We Delight In.

So That It Must Be Only By The Imagination That Satan Has Access To The Soul, To Tempt And Delude It, Or Suggest Anything To It. And This Seems To Be The Reason Why Persons That Are Under The Disease Of Melancholy Are Commonly So Visibly And Remarkably Subject To The Suggestions And Temptations Of Satan... Innumerable Are The Ways By Which The Mind May Be Led On To All Kind Of Evil Thoughts, By The Exciting Of External Ideas In The Imagination.

We Are Dependent On The Power Of God To Convert Us And Give Faith In Jesus Christ And The New Nature.

How Can You Expect To Dwell With God Forever, If You So Neglect And Forsake Him Here?