XIII. Religion in the Practice of it, is a li∣ving in, and conversing with God.

True Relion makes a Man not only live above the World, and in Converse with his own Reason, but also to live out of himself in God, conversing much with him. A real Christian will deny himself for God, quit all Self-interest, and resign to him in all Points of Du∣ty and Service. God's Glory is his End, his Work, his Directi∣on. He takes no Pleasure in Page  97himself, nor in any thing with∣out himself, further than he seeth the Stamp of God upon it. He forgets himself, and minds no∣thing but the Will of God, tri∣umpheth in nothing more, than in his own Nothingness, and God's All-sufficiency and Fulness. This is having nothing, and yet pos∣sessing all things. This is Divine Life, and the heighth of Religi∣on, to know and perceive, that not only as to our Natural Life, we depend upon Providence, and live, and move in God: But that also as to our Spiritual Life, we receive all of his Fulness, and are acted by a Life in and from him: Of this I desire to be still more, and continually sensible.