When you visit the _sick_, or well _awakened_, or _dully senseless_, go as in obedience to God, as on his errand, and say only what the love of God and man suggests to your heart, without any anxiety about the success of it; that is God’s work. Only see that the love, the tenderness, and patience of God towards sinners, be uppermost in all that you do to man. Nothing is to be shewn to man, _but his want of God_; nothing can shew him this so powerfully, so convincingly, as love. And as love is the fulfilling of the whole law, so love is the fulfilling of all the work of the ministry. * * * * * LETTER III. To a Clergyman of _Bucks_. I AM much surprised, my friend, that you should still want more to be said about the doctrine of _imputation_, whether of _Adam_’s sin, or the _righteousness_ of Christ to his followers. _Cain_ could not possibly have any other natural life, than that which was in _Adam_; and therefore so sure as _Adam_ in soul, spirit, and body, was all sin and corruption, so sure is it, that all his offspring must come from him in the same depravity of soul, spirit and body. And to talk of their having this disordered fallen nature not from their natural birth, but by an outward imputation, is only as absurd as to say, that they have their _hands_ and feet, or the whole form of their body, not from their natural birth, but by an outward imputation of such a form, and members to them. As in _Adam all die_, says the text: Is not this the same, as saying, that all men have their fallen nature, because born of _Adam_? Take now the other part of the text, so _in Christ shall all be made alive_. Is it not a flat denial of all this, to say, they are not made alive by a real new birth, but are accounted as if they were alive, by the imputation of Christ’s _life_ to them? Could dead _Lazarus_ have been said to have been made alive again, if still lying in the grave, he had only been _accounted_ as alive, by having the nature of a living man, imputed to him?