more,—­his Godhead, his love, his almightiness.  I have found by experience that nothing sanctifies me so much as meditating on the Comforter, as John 14:16.  And yet how seldom I do this!  Satan keeps me from it.  I am often like those men who said, They knew not if there be any Holy Ghost ...  I ought never to forget that my body is dwelt in by the third Person of the Godhead.  The very thought of this should make me tremble to sin; I Cor. 6 ...  I ought never to forget that sin grieves the Holy Spirit,—­vexes and quenches Him ...  If I would be filled with the Spirit, I feel I must read the Bible more, pray more, and watch more.

“3. To gain entire likeness to Christ, I ought to get a high esteem of the happiness of it.  I am persuaded that God’s happiness is inseparably linked in with his holiness.  Holiness and happiness are like light and heat.  God never tasted one of the pleasures of sin.

“Christ had a body such as I have, yet He never tasted one of the pleasures of sin.  The redeemed, through all eternity, will never taste one of the pleasures of sin; yet their happiness is complete.  It would be my greatest happiness to be from this moment entirely like them.  Every sin is something away from my greatest enjoyment ...  The devil strives night and day to make me forget this or disbelieve it.  He says, Why should you not enjoy this pleasure as much as Solomon or David?  You may go to heaven also.  I am persuaded that this is a lie,—­that my true happiness is to go and sin no more.

“I ought not to delay parting with sins.  Now is God’s time.  ’I made haste and delayed not.’ ...  I ought not to spare sins because I have long allowed them as infirmities, and others would think it odd if I were to change all at once.  What a wretched delusion of Satan that is!

“Whatever I see to be sin, I ought from this hour to set my whole soul against it, using all scriptural methods to mortify it, as the Scriptures, special prayer for the Spirit, fasting, watching.

   “I ought to mark strictly the occasions when I have fallen, and
   avoid the occasion as much as the sin itself.

   “Satan often tempts me to go as near to temptations as possible
   without committing the sin.  This is fearful,—­tempting God and
   grieving the Holy Ghost.  It is a deep-laid plot of Satan.

“I ought to flee all temptation, according to Prov. 4:15—­Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.’ ...  I ought constantly to pour out my heart to God, praying for entire conformity to Christ—­for the whole law to be written on my heart ...  I ought statedly and solemnly to give my heart to God—­to surrender my all into his everlasting arms, according to the prayer, Ps. 31., ’Into thine hand I commit my spirit,’—­beseeching Him not to let any iniquity, secret or presumptuous, have dominion over me, and to fill me with every grace