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Virtues of an Holy Life.

Feruency in devotion - frequency in
prayer - aspiring after love of God
continually - Striving to get above the
world and the body - loving Silence &
Solitude as far as one's condition will
permit humble and affable to all -
patient in suffering affronts and contradictions -
glad of occasions of doing good
even to enemies - doing the will of
God and promoting his honor to the
utmost of [??] power - resolving never
to offend him willingly for any temporal
pleasure profit or loss. These are virtues
highly pleasing to God.

Carnal man cannot comprehend that
God loves those whom he permits to
suffer - but faith teaches us that the
cross is the gift of love the foundation of our
hope the mark of his children and the
title of an inheritance in Heaven. But
unless God sanctify it by his Spririt it becomes
an insupportable burthen a Subject
of murmering and an occasion of Sin.