But It Is Doubtless True, And Evident

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.

A Man Who Knows That He Lives In Sin Against God Will Not Be Inclined To Come Daily Into The Presence Of God.

The Soul Of A True Christian, As I Then Wrote My Meditations, Appeared Like Such A Little White Flower As We See In The Spring Of The Year; Low And Humble On The Ground, Opening Its Bosom To Receive The Pleasant Beams Of The Sun’s Glory; Rejoicing, As It Were, In A Calm Rapture; Diffusing Around A Sweet Fragrancy; Standing Peacefully And Lovingly, In The Midst Of Other Flowers Round About; All In Like Manner Opening Their Bosoms To Drink In The Light Of The Sun.

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.