*_Come unto me_, says the holy Jesus, _all ye that labour, and are heavy laden, and I will refresh you_. Here is more for you to live upon, more light for your mind, more of unction for your heart, than in volumes of human instruction. Pick up the words of the holy Jesus, and beg of him to be the light and life of your soul: love the sound of his name: for Jesus is the love, the sweetness, the compassionate goodness, of the _Deity_ itself; which became man, that so men might have power to become the sons of God. Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; _dwell in love_, and then you _dwell in God_; hate nothing but the evil that stirs in your own heart. *Teach your heart this prayer, till your heart continually saith, though not with outward words; “O holy Jesus: meek Lamb of God! Bread that came down from heaven! Light and life of all holy souls! help me to a true and living faith in thee. O do thou open thyself _within me_, with all thy holy nature, spirit, tempers, and inclinations, that I may be born again of thee, quickened and revived, led and governed by thy Holy Spirit.” Prayer so practised, becomes the _life of the soul_, and the true _food of eternity_. Keep in this state of application to God; and then you will infallibly find it to be the true way of rising out of the vanity of time, into the riches of eternity. The poverty of our fallen nature, the depraved workings of flesh and blood, cannot destroy us, so long as the _spirit of prayer_ works contrary to them, and longs for the light and spirit of heaven. Our natural evil loses its poison and death, and only becomes our _holy cross_, on which we happily die from ourselves and this world, into the kingdom of heaven. Would you have done with error, scruple, and delusion? Consider the Deity to be the greatest love, the greatest meekness, the greatest sweetness, the _eternal unchangeable will to be a good and blessing to every creature_; and that all the misery, darkness, and death of fallen angels and fallen men, consist in their having lost their _likeness to this divine nature_. Consider yourself and all the fallen world, as having nothing to wish for, but by the _spirit of prayer_ to draw into your soul this divine, meek, loving, nature of God. Consider the holy Jesus as the _gift of_ God to your soul, to begin and finish this within you, in spite of every inward or outward enemy. These three infallible truths, heartily embraced, and made the nourishment of your soul, shorten and secure the way to heaven, and leave no room for error, scruple, or delusion. Expect no life, strength, or comfort, but from the Spirit of God, dwelling and manifesting his own goodness in your soul. The best of men, and the best of books, can only do you good, so far as they turn you from themselves, and every human thing, to seek and receive every kind of good from God alone; not a distant, or an absent God, but a God living, moving, and working in your inmost soul.