6. In what state is thy soul? Was God, while I am yet speaking, to require it of thee, art thou ready to meet death and judgment? Canst thou stand in his sight, _who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity_? Art thou _meet to be partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light_? Hast thou _fought a good fight and kept the faith_? Hast thou secured _the one thing needful_? Hast thou recovered the image of God, even _righteousness and true holiness_? Hast thou _put off the old man and put on the new_? Art thou _cloathed upon with Christ_? 7. Hast thou oil in thy lamp? Grace in thy heart? Dost thou _love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy mind, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength_? Is _that mind in thee, which was also in Christ Jesus_? Art thou a Christian indeed? That is, a new creature? Are _old things past away, and all things become new_? 8. Art thou a _partaker of the divine nature? Knowest thou not, that Christ is in thee, except thou be reprobate?_ Knowest thou, that God _dwelleth in thee, and thou in God, by his Spirit which he hath given thee_? Knowest thou not, that _thy body is a temple of the Holy Ghost, which thou hast of God_? Hast thou _the witness in thyself? The earnest of thine inheritance?_ Hast thou _received the Holy Ghost_――or dost thou start at the question, not knowing whether there be any Holy Ghost? 9. If it offends thee, be thou assured, that thou neither art a Christian, nor desirest to be one. Nay, thy very _prayer is turned into sin_; and thou hast solemnly mocked God this very day, by praying for _the inspiration of his holy spirit_, when thou didst not believe there was any such thing to be received. 10. * Yet on the authority of God’s word and our own church, I must repeat the question, _Hast thou received the Holy Ghost?_ If thou hast not, thou art not yet a Christian: for a Christian is a man, that is _anointed with the Holy Ghost, and with power_. Thou art not yet made a partaker of pure religion and undefiled. Dost thou know, what religion is? That it is, a participation of the divine nature, the life of God in the soul of man: _Christ formed in the heart, Christ, in thee, the hope of glory_: happiness and holiness: heaven begun upon earth: _a kingdom of God within thee: not meat and drink_, no outward thing: _but righteousness and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost_? An everlasting kingdom brought into thy soul, a _peace of God, that passeth all understanding_; a _joy unspeakable and full of glory_?