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Is our Character that, in Acts 26. 18. Turned from the power of Satan unto GOD? Is God now become unto us, all that the Flesh, and the World, and the Devil was heretofore? Do we seek the Glory of God as out Last End? and is there within us a Noble principle that will not Endure to think of Living upon any less Account than this, That God may be Glorified! When there is proposed unto, us, That Blessedness of, Being the Vessels in, and by which our Glorious Creator and preserver may have His Beautiful perfections for ever presented unto the Contemplations, Admirations, and Adorations of the World. are our Souls marvellously taken with it? Are our Expanding Souls Transported, Ravished, Overcome at the Thought of t•is; and is it our Outcry thereupon, This is all my Salvation and all my Desire? Do we also seek the Favour of God, as our Left Good? ⟨p. 120⟩Are we come to say with […] have God, I have much, I have All? and with […] If the Lord be my Portion, I have a Goodly Her• […] we rather undergo any misery, than be in […] condition of them, with whom, God is Angry every Day? •nd have we an unutterable value, for the Light of his Countenance, at whose Fiery Rebukes the most ponderous Mountains are over turned? Shortly; Do we choose God above All: Should the Eternal God say to us, as to him, of old, Ask what I shall give thee; would we overlook all the pleasures, and profits, and Honours of this Earth, and say, Lord, That I may live unto thee, and with thee for ever! O give me this, and it suffi•eth! And is God unto us, instead of All? Suppose we have lost never so many Creature-Comforts, yet would an Interest in God enable us to say, 'Tis but a Cup of Water spilt unto him that has a Fountain at the Door? And like the famous Italian, Do we Reckon, That the Riches of both India's are not worth one Days Communion with God!

Is our Character that, in Acts 26. 18. Turned from the power of Satan unto GOD? Is God now become unto us, all that the Flesh, and the World, and the Devil was heretofore? Do we seek the Glory of God as out Last End? and is there within us a Noble principle that will not Endure to think of Living upon any less Account than this, That God may be Glorify'd! When there is proposed unto, us, That Blessedness of, Being the Vessels in, and by which our Glorious Creator and preserver may have His Beautiful perfections for ever presented unto the Contemplations, Admirations, and Adorations of the World. are our Souls marvellously taken with it? Are our Expanding Souls Transported, Ravished, Overcome at the Thought of tis; and is it our Outcry thereupon, This is all my Salvation and all my Desire? Do we also seek the Favour of God, as our Left Good?