.1 Holiness is a most beautiful and lovely thing. We drink in strange notions2 of holiness from our childhood, as if it were a melancholy, morose, sour3 and unpleasant thing; but there is nothing in it but what is sweet and ravishingly lovely. ’Tis the highest beauty and amiableness, vastly above all other beauties. ’Tis a divine beauty, makes the soul heavenly and far purer than anything here on earth; this world is like mire and filth
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