What we do must not be to gratify
our inclination, promote our own interest, or please either the good or the great, but in
obedience to the will of God. To be acceptable it must likewise be universal and
persevering; not from mercenary, but grateful motives; not for life, but from life; not that
God may love, but because he hath loved us.
(Benjamin Beddome, “Sermon V, John iii. 7,” in Twenty Short Discourses, Adapted to Village
Worship, or, The Devotions of the Family/Published from the Manuscripts of B. Beddome London: Samuel
Burton, 1824, 29.)
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