A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

but you'll say, all this with Grace will do well: Do you think so? but would not Grace without all this do better? Can you think that such a Condition would Wean you from the World, and fit you for Heaven? or is Earth the place where you would live for ever, and have no more Happiness than that can afford you? Return, Poor Soul, return to thy Self, and to thy God; acknowledge that God is Wise, and thou art a Fool: And 'tis better be employed in the present Duty of thy present Condition, than to doze out thy Life in wild Imaginations.

but you'l say, all this with Grace will do well: Do you think so? but would not Grace without all this do better? Can you think that such a Condition would Wean you from the World, and fit you for Heaven? or is Earth the place where you would live for ever, and have no more Happiness than that can afford you? Return, Poor Soul, return to thy Self, and to thy God; acknowledge that God is Wise, and thou art a Fool: And 'tis better be employed in the present Duty of thy present Condition, than to doze out thy Life in wilde Imaginations.

Use 3 Make Conscience of both sorts of Duties, Religious and Worldly; and allot fit and distinct times for Heavenly and Worldly Business; but with this difference, let Religion mix it self with worldly business, and spare not, but let not the World break in upon Religion, lest it spoil it. Religion will perfume the World, but the World will taint Religion: Though every thing in the World be clogged with Vanity, yet there's something of Duty about every thing we meddle with, and we must not call neglect of Duty, contempt of the World. Use the World as you do your Servants, to whom you give due liberty, as the best way to prevent their taking more than is due: so to take a due care about the World, is the best way to prevent Religion's being jostled out by worldly cares. Count not any Sin or Duty about the least matters, so small, as to venture upon the one, or neglect the other, but proportion your carefulness according to the business before you. I see more cause every day than other, to commend both the Truth and Weight of the Observation, that all Over-doing is undoing: You can't bestow too much diligence about one thing, but you rob something else of what diligence is necessary, and mar that about which you are over-solicitous. I'll close this with that of the Apostle,