If You Long To Be More Like

The Material Universe Exists Only In The Mind.

Christian Practice Is That Evidence Which Confirms Every Other Indication Of True Godliness.

Every Christian Family Ought To Be As It Were A Little Church, Consecrated To Christ, And Wholly Influenced And Governed By His Rules. And Family Education And Order Are Some Of The Chief Means Of Grace. If These Fail, All Other Means Are Likely To Prove Ineffectual. If These Are Duly Maintained, All The Means Of Grace Will Be Likely To Prosper And Be Successful.

As It Is With Spiritual Discoveries And Affections Given At First Conversion, So It Is In All Subsequent Illuminations And Affections Of That Kind; They Are All Transforming. There Is A Like Divine Power And Energy In Them As In The First Discoveries; They Still Reach The Bottom Of The Heart, And Affect And Alter The Very Nature Of The Soul, In Proportion To The Degree In Which They Are Given. And A Transformation Of Nature Is Continued And Carried On By Them To The End Of Life, Until It Is Brought To Perfection In Glory.

Godliness Is More Easily Feigned In Words Than In Actions