For Pastors! and parents, and comm group leaders, and people with friends.. and...

These words were--i think--originally written to pastors as a way of "coaching them up" on how to help their people fight sin and pursue the life that is life indeed... a kind of primer on how to envision & equip their people (and themselves! who needs grace more than a preacher?) in the art of saying NO to drinking from broken/rusty water fountains that send out brown gunk and saying YES to the clean spring water of Christ (that's my translation of jeremiah 2)
Anyway

Let us not cease then to ply the only instrument of powerful and positive operation, to do away from you the love of the world. Let us try every legitimate method of finding access to your hearts for the love of Him who is greater than the world. For this purpose, let us, if possible, clear away that shroud of unbelief which so hides and darkens the face of the Deity. Let us insist on His claims to your affection - and whether in the shape of gratitude, or in the shape of esteem, let us never cease to affirm, that in the whole of that wondrous economy, the purpose of which is to reclaim a sinful world unto Himself - he, the God of love, so sets Himself forth in characters of endearment, that nought but faith, and nought but understanding, are wanting, on your part, to call forth the love of your hearts back again.
---Thomas Chalmers, The Expulsive Power of a New Affection.... whole thing at
http://www.newble.co.uk/chalmers/comm9.html/