A Christian indeed, is one that unfeignedly desireth to attain to the highest degree of holiness, and to be perfectly freed from every thing that is sin. He desireth perfection, though not with a perfect desire. He sitteth not down contentedly in any low degree of grace. He looketh on the holiest (how poor soever) with much more reverence and esteem than on the most rich and honorable in the world ; and he had far rather be one of the most holy, than one of the most prosperous and great; he had rather be a Paul or Timothy, than a Caesar or an Alexander. He complaineth of nothing with so much sorrow, as that he can know and love his God no more ! How happy an exchange would he count it, if he had more of the knowledge and love of God, though he lost all his wealth and honor in the world ! His smallest sins are a greater burden to him, than his greatest corporal wants and sufferings : as Paul, who because he could not perfectly fulfil God’s law, and be as good as he would, he crieth out as in bondage, ” O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death ?” Rom. vii. 24. (Richard Baxter, Character of a Sound Christian)