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Resolved, To Confess Frankly To Myself All That Which I Find In Myself, Either Infirmity Or Sin; And, If It Be What Concerns Religion, Also To Confess The Whole Case To God, And Implore Needed Help.

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).

Men Will Trust In God No Further Than They Know Him; And They Cannot Be In The Exercise Of Faith In Him One Ace Further Than They Have A Sight Of His Fulness And Faithfulness In Exercise.

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.

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.