4. Nor, lastly, is he distinguished by laying the _whole stress_ of religion on any single part of it. If you say, “Yes, he is, for he thinks _we are saved by faith alone_.” I answer, you do not understand terms. By _salvation_ he means, holiness of heart and _life_. And this he affirms to spring from true faith alone. Can even a nominal Christian deny it? Is this placing a part of religion for the whole? _Do we then make void the law thro’ faith?_ God _forbid_! _Yea we establish the law._ We do not place the whole of religion (as too many do, God knoweth) either in doing no harm, or in doing good, or in using the ordinances of God. No, not in all of them together wherein we know by experience a man may labour many years, and at the end have no true religion at all, no more than he had at the beginning. Much less in any one of these: or, it may be in a scrap of one of them: like her who fancies herself a _virtuous_ woman, only because she is not a prostitute; or him who dreams he is an _honest_ man, merely because he does not rob or steal. May the Lord God of my Fathers preserve me, from such a poor, starved religion as this! Were this the _mark_ of a _Methodist_, I would sooner chuse to be a sincere _Jew_, _Turk_, or _Pagan_. 5. “What then is the _mark_? Who is a _Methodist_ according to your own account?” I answer: A _Methodist_ is one, who has _the love of God shed abroad in his heart, by the Holy Ghost given unto him_: one who _loves the Lord his God with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his mind, and with all his strength_. God is the joy of his heart, and the desire of his soul: which is constantly crying out, “_Whom have I in heaven but thee, and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee!_ My God and my all! Thou art the strength of my heart and my portion for ever!”