•He loves God with all his
mind (intellect - διανοια) who applies
himself only to know God, and his holy will: - who receives with submission,
gratitude, and pleasure, the sacred truths which God has revealed to man: - who
studies no art nor science but as far as it is necessary for the service of
God, and uses it at all times to promote his glory - who forms no projects nor
designs but in reference to God and the interests of mankind: - who banishes
from his understanding and memory every useless, foolish, and dangerous
thought, together with every idea which has any tendency to defile his soul,
or turn it for a moment from the center of eternal repose. In a word, he who
sees God in all things - thinks of him at all times - having his mind
continually fixed upon God, acknowledging him in all his ways - who begins,
continues, and ends all his thoughts, words, and works, to the glory of his
name: - this is the person who loves God with all his heart, life, strength,
and intellect. He is crucified to the world, and the world to him: he lives,
yet not he, but Christ lives in him. He beholds as in a glass the glory of the
Lord, and is changed into the same image from glory to glory. Simply and
constantly looking unto Jesus, the author and perfecter of his faith, he
receives continual supplies of enlightening and sanctifying grace, and is thus
fitted for every good word and work. O glorious state! far, far, beyond this
description! which comprises an ineffable [indescribable] communion between
the ever-blessed Trinity and the soul of man!