8. The impulses of a full grown Christian are 1. Love of God. 2. Love of our neighbour for the love of God. 3. An undefiled conscience, which prizes above every comprehensible advantage 'that peace' of God which passeth all understanding. 9. Every consideration, whether of hope or of fear, which is, and which 'is adopted' by 'us', poor imperfect creatures! in our present state of probation, as MEANS of 'producing' such impulses in our hearts, is so far a right and 'desirable' consideration. He that is weak must take the medicine which is suitable to his existing weakness; but then he ought to know that it is a 'medicine', the object of which is to remove the disease, not to feed and perpetuate it. 10. Lastly, I hold that there are two grievous mistakes,--both of which as 'extremes' equally opposite to truth and the Gospel,--I equally reject and deprecate. The first is, that of Stoic pride, which would snatch away his crutches from a curable cripple before he can walk without them. The second is, that of those worldly and temporizing preachers, who would disguise from such a cripple the necessary truth that crutches are not legs, but only temporary aids and substitutes." [Footnote 1: I give the letter as I received it,--of course it was never intended for the public eye.] [Footnote 2: This is too strong an expression. It was not idleness, it was not sensual indulgence, that led Coleridge to contract this habit. No, it was latent disease, of which sufficient proof is given in this memoir.] [Footnote 3: Those who have witnessed the witches scampering off the stage, cannot forget the ludicrous appearance they make.] [Footnote 4: Of the historical plays, he observes: "It would be a fine national custom to act such a series of dramatic histories in orderly succession, in the yearly Christmas holidays, and could not but tend to counteract that mock cosmopolitism, which, under a positive term, really implies nothing but a negation of, or indifference to, the particular love of our country." 'Literary Remains', Vol. ii. p. 161.] [Footnote 5: Vide Vol. ii. p. 1.--Also p. 103 of this work.] [Footnote 6: He had long been greatly afflicted with nightmare; and, when residing with us, was frequently roused from this painful sleep by any one of the family who might hear him.] [Footnote 7: From an anonymous criticism published soon after the 'Christabel'.] [Footnote 8: In the "Improved Version of the New Testament," the spirit of this Evangelist is perverted.] [Footnote 9: He used to say, in St. John is the philosophy of Christianity; in St. Paul, the moral reflex.] [Footnote 10: The last lines are in the 'Aids to Reflection'. The former six lines are from a note written from his conversation.] [Footnote 11: The 'Christabel' was published by Murray, but the 'Sibylline Leaves' and the 'Biog. Liter.' by Rest Fenner.]