Part 80

12. Considering then the insufficiency, the absurdity, and the unhappiness of a half religion, let us instantly labour _to fill up the things that are behind_, that are wanting to the measure of our righteousness. Let us earnestly endeavour to bring ourselves under the full power and influence of religion, that it may have its due work upon our hearts and lives, that we may _be perfect, entire, and wanting nothing_: always imploring the Holy Spirit of God, by the victorious sweetness of his divine grace, to give the last finishing to that holy birth, he is forming in us, that it may _come to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of_ Christ: that so, according to the apostle’s wish, we may be both almost, and altogether Christians!