anything rightly about your own soul unless you first know rightly
concerning God, in whom your soul lives, and moves, and has its
being?

Others may tell you to think of God's dealings with his people. I
answer--In good time, but not yet; think first of God. For how can
you rightly understand God's dealings, unless you first rightly
understand who God is, and what his character is? Right notions
concerning your own soul, right notions concerning God's dealings,
can only come from right notions concerning God himself. He is
before all things. Think of him before all things. He is the first,
and he is the last. Think of him first in this life, and so you will
think of him last, and for ever in the life to come. Think of the
Father, that he is a Father indeed, in spirit and in truth. Think of
the Son, that he is a Son indeed, in spirit and in truth. Think of
the Holy Spirit, that he is a Holy Spirit indeed, in spirit and in
truth. So you will be thinking indeed of the Ever-blessed Trinity;
and will worship God, not with your lips or your thoughts merely, but
in spirit and in truth. Think of the Father, that he is the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that the perfect Son must be forever
perfectly like the perfect Father. For then you will believe that
God the Father looks on you, and feels for you, exactly as does Jesus
Christ your Lord; then you will feel that he is a Father indeed; and
will enter more and more into the unspeakable comfort of that word of
all words, 'Our Father who art in heaven.'

Think of the Lord Jesus Christ as the perfect Son, who, though he is
co-equal and co-eternal with his Father, yet came not to do his own
will, but his Father's; who instead of struggling, instead of helping
himself, cried in his agony: 'Not my will, but thine be done;' and