Do not eat the bread of a selfish man, or desire his delicacies; for as he thinks within himself, so he is. He says to you, “Eat and drink!” But his heart is not with you. You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten, and waste your compliments. Proverbs 23:6–8 The same principle may, in part, be applied to our love for God. As Richard Baxter, the prolific Puritan writer, put it, Wherever the interest of carnal self is stronger than and more predominant habitually than the interest of God, of Christ,