Resolved, Never To Do Anything Which I

If We Make A Great Show Of Respect And Love To God, In The Outward Actions, While There Is No Sincerity In The Heart, It Is But Hypocrisy And Practical Lying Unto The Holy One.

True Virtue Never Appears So Lovely As When It Is Most Oppressed; And The Divine Excellency Of Real Christianity Is Never Exhibited With Such Advantage As When Under The Greatest Trials; Then It Is That True Faith Appears Much More Precious Than Gold, And Upon This Account Is "found To Praise And Honour And Glory.

It Is Not By Telling People About Ourselves That We Demonstrate Our Christianity. Words Are Cheap. It Is By Costly, Self-denying Christian Practice That We Show The Reality Of Our Faith.

Resolved, Never To Speak Evil Of Anyone, So That It Shall Tend To His Dishonor, More Or Less, Upon No Account Except For Some Real Good.

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.