The Soul's Conflict with Itself

Our time here is short, and we shall ¹[…] ere long be called to a reckoning, •refore let us study real praises. Gods blessing of us is in deed, and so should ours be of him. Thanks in words is good, but in deeds is better; leaves are good, but fruit is better, and of fruit, that which costs us most. True praise requires our whole man, the judgement to esteem, the memory to treasure up, the will to resolve, the affections to de•ght, the tongue to speak of, and the •e to express the rich favours of God: ⟨p. 452⟩what can we think of? what can we call to mind? what can we resolve upon? what can we speak? what can we express in our whole course, better then the praises of him, of whom, and through whom, and to whom we and all ²things are.

Our time here is short, and we shall ¹〈…〉 ere long bee called to a reckoning, •refore let us study reall praises. Gods blessing of us is in deed, and so should ours be of him. Thankes in words is good, but in deeds is better; leaves are good, but fruit is better, and of fruit, that which costs us most. True praise requires our whole man, the judgement to esteeme, the memory to treasure up, the will to resolve, the affections to de•ght, the tongue to speake of, and the •e to expresse the rich favours of God: ⟨p. 452⟩what can we thinke of? what can we call to minde? what can we resolve upon? what can we speake? what can we expresse in our whole course, better then the praises of him, of whom, and through whom, and to whom wee and all ²