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1. How difficult the work
of self discipline [self-discipline] & purifica-
-tion! Violence of passion subdued.
Affec's [Affections] elevated, purified. All excell [excellence] – holy – Mor. [moral].
Sense tender. Tyranny of habit destroyed; – then temple of nat. [nature]
in orig. [original] glory – walls, columns, arches &c. [etc.] ~

2. How great the motives to
Strive for high degrees of
Sanctification. Well worth
days – months – weeks years – of striving to mount
up to such a glory – – We shall shine with
a glow all of heaven ~

3 How blessed the results of
a high degree of it – how
glorious for self – for the world.

Like eve. [evening] star looking out from clouds – Would shed a
glory t. [the] world can't see. No need to speak of it – it
C'd [could] not help being known. What beatitudes & glories
in it – what splendors of grace!!