fection and Serious Call were put into my hands.
Christian Perfection that is, in effect, to the devil. Can any serious person doubt of this, or find a medium between serving God and serving the devil?
3. In the year 1726 I met with Kempis's Christian's Pattern. The nature and extent of inward religion, the religion of the heart, now appeared to me in a stronger light than ever it had done before.
I saw that giving even all my life to God (supposing it possible to do this, and gono further ) would profit me nothing unless I gave my heart, yea, all my heart to him.
I saw that "simplicity of intention and purity of affection," one design in all we speak or do, and one desire ruling all our tempers, are indeed "the wings of the soul," without which she can never ascend to the mount of God.
4. A year or two after, Mr. Law's Christian Perfection and Serious Call were put into my hands.
These convinced me more than ever of the absolute impossibility of being half a Christian, and I determined, through His grace (the absolute necessity of which I was deeply sensible of), to be all devoted to God, to give Him all my soul, my body, and my substance. Will any considerate man say that this is carrying matters too far? or that anything less is due to Him who has given Himself for us, than to give Him ourselves, all we have, and all we are?
5. Inthe year 1729 I began not only to read but