Self-love, Butler startles his sober-minded reader as he bursts out--self-love rends and distorts the mind of man! Now, you are a man.

Well, then, do you feel and confess that rending and distorting to have taken place in you?
Butler is a philosopher, and Goodwin is a preacher, but you are more: you are a man.

You are the owner of a human heart, and you can say whether or no it is a rent and a distorted heart.

Is your mind warped and wrenched by self-love, and is your heart rent and torn by the same wicked hands?
Do you really feel that it needs nothing more to take you back again to paradise but that your heart be delivered from self-love?
Do you now understand that the foundations of heaven itself must be laid in a heart healed and cleansed and delivered from self-love?
If you do, then your knowledge of your own heart has set you abreast of the greatest of philosophers and theologians and preachers.

Nay, before multitudes of men who are called such.