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Those Who Are In A State Of Salvation Are To Attribute It To Sovereign Grace Alone, And To Give All The Praise To Him Who Maketh Them To Differ From Others.

Resolved, Never To Count That A Prayer, Nor To Let That Pass As A Prayer, Nor That As A Petition Of A Prayer, Which Is So Made, That I Cannot Hope That God Will Answer It; Nor That As A Confession, Which I Cannot Hope God Will Accept.

Holiness Appeared To Me To Be Of A Sweet, Pleasant, Charming, Serene, Calm Nature; Which Brought An Inexpressible Purity, Brightness, Peacefulness And Ravishment To The Soul.

Being Sensible That I Am Unable To Do Any Thing Without God's Help, I Do Humbly Entreat Him, By His Grace, To Enable Me To Keep These Resolutions, So Far As They Are Agreeable To His Will, For Christ's Sake.

Resolved, That I Will Do Whatsoever I Think To Be Most To God’s Glory, And My Own Good, Profit And Pleasure, In The Whole Of My Duration, Without Any Consideration Of The Time, Whether Now, Or Never So Many Myriad’s Of Ages Hence. Resolved To Do Whatever I Think To Be My Duty And Most For The Good And Advantage Of Mankind In General. Resolved To Do This, Whatever Difficulties I Meet With, How Many And How Great Soever.