HOW AM I TO KNOW WHETHER I HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT?
If you have the Holy Spirit, you have seen the evil of sin; you have repented of sin; you have forsaken sin; you hate sin; you watch and pray against sin; you have received the spirit of love. If you have the Spirit of God, you love God supremely. You love the Father, who gave his Son to suffer and die. You love the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, for what he hath done and suffered on your account. You love all the sincere followers of Jesus Christ, and confine not your regards to a party. You love the human race at large, as children of the same family, and you wish them to know the things that belong to their peace. You are of a forbearing and forgiving temper; you pity, and pray for sinners, who, through blindness and ignorance, oppose at present their own eternal interest; you are of a thankful spirit; you thank God for making you to differ, by his grace, from many others, and you praise him for every favor, both of a temporal and spiritual nature; you are zealous for the honor of God in the world; you desire to rejoice in Christ Jesus, and in all the duties of Christianity; you esteem the applause, the pleasure and the wealth of the whole world as nothing, in comparison of the love and blessing of God, through Christ Jesus.