Assuredly, for the one proceeds as truly from His love as does the other. The heart s compliance with the voice of Christ is the foundation for all practical holiness. Here again we would earnestly and lovingly beg the reader to attend closely to this detail. Any man who supposes that he is saved and yet has no genuine love for God s commandment is deceiving himself. A man profits from the Word when his heart and will are yielded to all God s commandments.
Partial obedience is no obedience at all.
A holy mind declines whatsoever God forbids, and chooses to practice all He requires, without any exception. If our minds submit not unto God in all His commandments, we submit not to His authority in anything He enjoins. If we do not approve of our duty in its full extent, we are greatly mistaken if we imagine that we have any liking unto any part of it. A person who has no principle of holiness in him may yet be disinclined to many vices and be pleased to practice many virtues, as he perceives the former are unfit actions and the latter are, in themselves, comely actions, but his disapprobation of vice and approbation of virtue do not arise from any disposition to submit to the will of God . True spiritual obedience is impartial .