The four last things viz. death, judgment, heaven, hell, practically considered and applied in…

The Holy Spirit raises such a Love to God, that habitually and strongly inclines the Soul to obey his Commands.

This is the most clear and essential Character of a Christian, the special and most excellent Property of a Saint, upon which all other Holy Qualifications depend. As Reason is the first and chief Excellence of Man, from whence his other Perfections are derived, that distinguish him from the Brutes, and give him a natural and regular Preeminence and Dominion over them, so that a Man is most properly defined a reasonable Creature. Thus the Love of God is the most Divine Grace, the true Form of Holiness, the Root from whence all other Virtues spring and flourish, and most peculiarly distinguish a Saint from unregenerate Men, ⟨p. 73⟩however adorned and accomplished; so that a Saint is most properly defined to be a Lover of God.

This is the most clear and essential Character of a Christian, the special and most excellent Property of a Saint, upon which all other Holy Qualifications depend. As Reason is the first and chief Excellence of Man, from whence his other Perfections are derived, that distinguish him from the Brutes, and give him a natural and regular Preeminence and Dominion over them, so that a Man is most properly defined a reasonable Creature. Thus the Love of God is the most Divine Grace, the true Form of Holiness, the Root from whence all other Vertues spring and flourish, and most peculiarly distinguish a Saint from unregenerate Men, ⟨p. 73⟩however adorn'd and accomplish'd; so that a Saint is most properly defined to be a Lover of God.

This is the Principle of true Holiness inherent in the Soul, and shining in the Conversation, that distinguishes the Sincerity of a Saint from the Art of Hypocrisy, an affected Appearance of Religion for carnal sordid respects: and from civil Virtue, that restrains from what is ignominious and disgraceful to our Reputation, and makes obnoxious to Penalties of the Laws, and excites to praise-worthy Actions, upon worldly Motives: and from Philosophical Morality, that forbids Vice as contrary to Reason, and commends Virtue as the chief Ornament and Perfection of humane Nature, without a Regard to please and glorify God.