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Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /
Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume / by several ministers in and about London, preached in October, 1689.
London: printed by James Astwood for John Dunton, 1690
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Fourthly, Wisdom would teach us the due order and method of all things, what first, what last ought to be our study, and our concern; wisdom would teach us to seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, Matth. 6.33. And then if there be time to spare, to bestow some small portion of it, for those other things which God in his bounty will not deny, and in his wisdom knows in what measure to bestow. Fifthly, Wisdom would teach us the true worth and value of all things; to labour, pray, and strive for them proportionable to their true intrinsic dignities; to think that Heaven cannot be too dear, what-ever we pay for it; nor Hell cheap how easily soever we come by it; wisdom would instruct us, that we cannot lay out too much of our time, strength, contrivance upon Eternals, nor too little upon these perishing Temporals; that Earth deserves very little of our Hand, less of our Head, and nothing at all of our Heart; little of our pains, less of our plotting, and least of all of our love and affections.
Fourthly, Wisdom would teach us the due order and method of all things, what first, what last ought to be our study, and our concern; wisdom would teach us to seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, Matth. 6.33. And then if there be time to spare, to bestow some small portion of it, for those other things which God in his bounty will not deny, and in his wisdom knows in what measure to bestow. Fifthly, Wisdom would teach us the true worth and value of all things; to labour, pray, and strive for them proportionable to their true intrinsick dignities; to think that Heaven cannot be too dear, what-ever we pay for it; nor Hell cheap how easily soever we come by it; wisdom would instruct us, that we cannot lay out too much of our time, strength, contrivance upon Eternals, nor too little upon these perishing Temporals; that Earth deserves very little of our Hand, less of our Head, and nothing at all of our Heart; little of our pains, less of our plotting, and least of all of our love and affections.