Well may a man ask his own heart whether it is able to admit the Spirit of God. For where that divine Guest enters, the law of another world must be observed. The body must be given up to matyrdom, or spent in the Christian warfare, as unconcernedly as if the soul were already provided of its house in heaven. The goods of this world must be parted with as freely as if the last fire were to sieze them tomorrow. Our neighbor must be loved as heartily as if he were washed of all sins and demonstrated to be s child of God by the resurrection from the dead.
The fruits of this Spirit must not be mere moral virtues, calculated for the comfort and decency of the present life, but holy dispositions, suitable to the instincts of a life already begun.
Thus to press forward, whither the promise of life calls him--to turn his back upon the world, and comfort himself in God--everyone that has faith perceives to be just and necessary, and forces himself to do it. Everyone that has hope does it gladly and eagerly, though not without difficulty. But he that has love does it with ease and singleness of heart.
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