These are the channels through which he conveys the riches of his grace and precious love to my soul.
These I have often found to be indeed the time of refreshing and strengthening from the presence of the Lord.

Then I can see my hope of an interest in the covenant of his love, and praise him for his mercy to the greatest of sinners.
"I earnestly wish to be more established in his ways, and to honour him in the path of duty, whilst I enjoy the smiles of his favour.

In the midst of all outward afflictions I pray that I may know Christ and the power of his resurrection within my soul.

If I were always thus, my summer would last all the year; my will would then be sweetly lost in God's will, and I should feel a resignation in every dispensation of his providence and his grace, saying, 'Good is the will of the Lord: Infinite Wisdom cannot err.' Then would patience have its perfect work.
"But, alas! sin and unbelief often, too often, interrupt these frames, and lay me low before God in tears of sorrow.

I often think what a happiness it would be if his love were so fixed in my heart that I might willingly obey him with alacrity and delight, and gradually mortify the power of self-will, passion, and pride.