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352 is its inward beginning, and the glory of God its end, then that is pure which appeareth outwardly: otherwise it is nought but hypocrisy or false righteousness. Matt. xxv. 26. 1693. What else can we be, but darkness, but wandering, and sin, without the light of faith, without Christ, and without charity. Eph. v. 8. As no sin is without our own self-love, so is no good work without the love of God. Mark vii. 22, 23. In vain do we cry unto God, "my father," if that which crieth be not the spirit of charity. Rom. viii. 15. Faith justifieth, when it operates; but it does not itself operate, save through charity. Acts xiii. 39. All other means of salvation are contained in faith, is in its own proper germ and seed; but this faith is not apart from love and confidence. Acts x. 43. Charity alone in Christian wise maketh [actions Christian] through relation to God and Jesus Christ. Coloss. iii. 14. It is charity alone which speaketh unto God; God heareth his alone. 1 Cor. xiii. 1. God crowneth nought but charity; he that runneth from another impulse or motive runneth in vain. 1 Cor. ix. 24. God rewardeth only charity, because charity alone honoureth God. Matth. xxv. 36. Everything is wanting to the sinner, when hope is wanting to him; and there is no hope in God, where there is not the love of God. Matth. xxvii. 5. Neither God, nor religion, is there, where charity is not. 1 John iv. 8. The prayer of the ungodly is a new sin, and what God [thereupon] doth grant to them, is a new judgment against them. John x. 25. 1693. If the fear of punishment alone excites penitence, the more violent it (penitence) is, so much the more doth it lead to desperation. Matth. xxvii. 5. Fear restraineth but the hand, but the heart is devoted to sin so long as it is not led by the love of justice. Luke xx. 19. He who abstains not from evil, save through the fear of punishment, commits that [evil] in his heart, and is already guilty before God. Matth. xxi. 46.