The main principles of Christian religion in a 107 short articles or aphorisms, generally…

Hom. I. p. 1. The Scriptures have power to turn through Gods promise, and they be effectual through Gods assistance; and being received in a faithful heart, they have ever an heavenly spiritual working in them. — In reading Gods will he profits most, that is most turned into it, that is most inspired with the Holy Ghost, most in heart and life changed into that thing which he readeth. —Read it humbly with a meek and lowly heart, to the intent you may glorify God, and not your self, with the knowledge of it; and read it not without daily praying to God, that he would direct your reading to a good effect.—Let us hear, read, and know these holy rules, instructions, and statutes of our Christian Religion, and upon that we have made profession to God at our Baptism. ⟨p. 154⟩Let us fear and reverence, lay up (in the chest of our hearts) these necessary and fruitful lessons. Let us night and day muse, and have meditation and contemplation in them.

Hom. I. p. 1. The Scriptures have power to turn through Gods promise, and they be effectual through Gods assistance; and being received in a faithful heart, they have ever an heavenly spiritual working in them. — In reading Gods will he profits most, that is most turn'd into it, that is most inspired with the Holy Ghost, most in heart and life chang'd into that thing which he readeth. —Read it humbly with a meek and lowly heart, to the intent you may glorifie God, and not your self, with the knowledg of it; and read it not without daily praying to God, that he would direct your reading to a good effect.—Let us hear, read, and know these holy rules, instructions, and statutes of our Christian Religion, and upon that we have made profession to God at our Baptism. ⟨p. 154⟩Let us fear and reverence, lay up (in the chest of our hearts) these necessary and fruitful lessons. Let us night and day muse, and have meditation and contemplation in them.

Expl. 90. This A. doth inform us of the right manner of using and managing the word (whether read or preached) with profit as (1st,) our attendance upon the Word must be with diligence, now this doth imply (2) things, (1) the intention of the mind, that when a man is reading Scripture, or hearing a Sermon, he do seriously mind what he is about, do not suffer his mind and thoughts to be roving upon other things; and the reason of this intention of mind is because he knows that the eye of God is intent upon him. (2) An holy solicitude, or a mans being concerned in the issue of the duty, he being sensible that he is now engaged in the use of that means for eternal life that God has prescribed, he now reads every Chapter, and hears every Sermon, as if it were (as indeed it is) for his life; so in this diligent attendance there is something wherein the outward man is concerned, sc. a devout, reverent and serious composure of the outward man to the work. (2dly,) Preparation, and this doth imply (1) a mans laying aside all worldly cares, affairs and business, sports or recreations which might any way hinder him in such holy and heavenly employment, that so he may attend upon it without distraction. (2) A mans laying aside all worldly