38. Beware you do not fall into the second sort of _Enthusiasm_, fancying you have those _gifts_ from God which you have not. Trust not in visions or dreams; in sudden impressions, or strong impulses of any kind. Remember, it is not by these you are to know, what is _the will of God_ on any particular occasion; but by applying the plain scripture-rule, with the help of experience and reason, and the ordinary assistance of the Spirit of God. Do not lightly take the name of God in your mouth: do not talk of _the will of God_ on every trifling occasion. But let your words as well as your actions be all tempered with reverence and godly fear.
39. Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end, without using the means conducive to it. God _can_ give the end, without any means at all: but you have no reason to think he _will_. Therefore constantly and carefully use all these means, which he has appointed to be the ordinary channels of his grace. Use every means which either reason or scripture recommends, as conducive (thro’ the free love of God in Christ) either to the obtaining, or increasing any of the gifts of God. Thus expect a daily growth in that pure and holy religion, which the world always did, and always will call _Enthusiasm_: but which, to all who are saved from real _Enthusiasm_, from merely nominal Christianity, is the wisdom of God and the power of God, the glorious image of the Most High: righteousness and peace: a fountain of living water, springing up into everlasting life!