and trials, however impossible
to flesh and blood.

"I am often tempted to say, How can this Man save us? How can
Christ in heaven deliver me from lusts which I feel raging in
me, and nets I feel enclosing me? This is the father of lies
again! 'He is able to save unto the uttermost.'

"I ought to study Christ as an Intercessor. He prayed most for
Peter, who was to be most tempted. I am on his breastplate. If I
could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not
fear a million of enemies. Yet the distance makes no difference;
He is praying for me.

"I ought to study the Comforter 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. Wha