Sanctified Persons 
                                  Archbishop Secker

1.      Sanctified persons do much good and make but little noise.

2.      They bring up the bottom of their life to the top of their light.

3.      They prefer the duty they owe to God to the danger they fear from man.

4.      They choose the worst sorrow rather than commit the least sin.

5.      They keep their hearts the lowest when God raises their estates the highest.

6.      They seek to be better inwardly in the substance, than outwardly in appearance.

7.      They render the greatest good for the greatest evil.

8.      They take those reproofs best which they need most.

9.      They take up their contentment in God¡¦s appointment.

10. They are more in love with the employment of holiness than with the enjoyment of happiness.

11. They set out for God at the beginning and hold out with Him to the end.

12. They value a heavenly reversion above an earthly possession

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