Memoir of the Chisholm

FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE. 145
want of fixed godly resolution and endeavour
to make ' my calling and election sure. ' I
thank the Almighty God that He has indeed
preserved me from the commission of gross,
outward violations of His divine commands ;
and of course, if this were not so, I could by
no means believe myself a real subject of His
converting grace. But I feel not that perfect
hatred of sin, that sincere love of holiness,
which necessarily leads to determined resist-
ance of every kind and degree of the one, and
energetic endeavours after the attainment of
the other. I trust, my dearest mother, that
you will pray for yourself, and for me, that
we may be made partakers of that real and
living faith, which is ever productive of, and
which can never be evidenced but by steady
perseverance in obedience. Let us pray that
we may be delivered from a love of the world,
in every sense, and be taught to use it without
abusing it.
" I have had a letter from Jemima, and am
much vexed to find that you do not take care
of yourself. You must get somewhere or
other the little carriage of which she speaks,