Distinctive
of God:
God is
perfectly good. All the perfection we can arrive at in this life is sincerity.
We may resemble God a little, but not equal Him; He is infinitely perfect.
Thomas Watson
Goal
of the saints:
This is
the sum of all; for he which can abstain not only from evil, but from the
appearance of evil, is so perfect as a man can be in this sinful life. Henry
Smith
This life
was not intended to be the place of perfection, but the preparation for it.
Richard Baxter
A
prayer of the saints:
O good
God, guide me by Thy holy hand, that I may keep myself within the lists of
Christianity, being modest in apparel, moderate (in) diet, chaste and temperate
in speech, sober in fashion and my ordinary deportment, respective to my
superiors, amiable to my equals, without pride and insolency towards those that
are below me, courteous and affable and yet without vanity and popularity
towards all. Samuel Hieron"
-From A
Puritan Golden Treasury Complied by I.D.E. Thomas Published by The Banner
of Truth Trust Carlisle, PA 1997 Page 207
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