12. Dost thou now believe? Then _the love of God_ is now _shed abroad in thy heart_. Thou lovest him, because he first loved us. And because thou lovest God, thou lovest thy brother also. And being filled with _love_, _peace_, _joy_, thou art also filled with _long-suffering_, _gentleness_, _fidelity_, _goodness_, _meekness_, _temperance_, and all the other fruits of the same Spirit: in a word, with whatever dispositions are holy, are heavenly or divine. For while thou _beholdest with open_, uncovered _face_, (the veil now being taken away) _the glory of the Lord_, his glorious love, and the glorious image wherein thou wast created, _thou art changed into the same image, from glory to glory, by the Spirit of the Lord_.
13. This repentance, this faith, this peace, joy, love; this change from glory to glory, is what the wisdom of the world has voted to be madness, mere enthusiasm, utter distraction. But thou, O man of _God_, regard them not: be thou moved by none of these things. Thou knowest in whom thou hast believed. See that no man take thy crown. Whereunto thou hast already attained hold fast; and follow, till thou attain all the great and precious promises. And thou who hast not yet known him, let not vain men make thee ashamed of the gospel of Christ. Be thou in nothing terrified by those who speak evil of the things which they know not. God will soon turn thy heaviness into joy. O let not thy hands hang down. Yet a little longer, and he will take away thy fears, and give thee the spirit of a sound mind. _He is nigh that justifieth: who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died; yea rather that rose again; who is even now at the right-hand of God, making intercession for thee._ Now cast thyself on the Lamb of God, with all thy sins, how many soever they be; and _an entrance shall_ now _be ministred unto_ thee, _into the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ_!