To Live With All My Might, While

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.

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.

One Of These Grand Defects, As I Humbly Conceive, Is This, That Children Are Habituated To Learning Without Understanding.

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

Since Holiness Is The Main Thing That Excites, Draws, And Governs All Gracious Affections, It Is No Wonder That All Such Affections Tend To Holiness. That Which Men Love, They Desire To Have And To Be United To, And Possessed Of. That Beauty Which Men Delight In, They Desire To Be Adorned With. Those Acts Which Men Delight In, They Necessarily Incline To Do.