Christian letters full of spiritual instructions tending to the promoting of the power of…

Secondly, Remember what a dangerous, yea, damnable thing it is to live to your selves: To make it our main care and business to please and gratify our selves, or to have applause from and reputation with others, or to grow rich in the world, and greaten our selves and posterity, is the certain evidence of a graceless heart. And though the Godly do make God their principle end in general, yet they must know, that for so much of their lives ar is spent besides, this end (which is too too much) they shall suffer loss.

Secondly, Remember what a dangerous, yea, damnable thing it is to live to your selves: To make it our main care and business to please and gratifie our selves, or to have applause from and reputation with others, or to grow rich in the world, and greaten our selves and posterity, is the certain evidence of a graceless heart. And though the Godly do make God their principle end in general, yet they must know, that for so much of their lives ar is spent besides, this end (which is too too much) they shall suffer loss.

Thirdly, Labour to keep alive upon your selves a deep sense of your strong obligations to God. Often think with your selves what a righteous, what a reasonable thing it is, that you should with all that you have serve the Lord. Beloved, sha I not the Vessel be for the use of the Potter that made it? Shall not the servant Trade for his Master with whose goods he is entrusted? do you not fetch all your bread from Gods door? ⟨p. 54⟩Is not he the Rock that begat you? the Author of your being and well-being? is not this he that can crucify you or release you? can save you or damn you at his pleasure? Is it not from him that you fetch every breath? your interest obliges you to please him. Why should Belshazzar's charge be against you? that the God in whose hand your breach is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified, Dan. 5. 23.

Thirdly, Labour to keep alive upon your selves a deep sense of your strong obligations to God. Often think with your selves what a righteous, what a reasonable thing it is, that you should with all that you have serve the Lord. Beloved, sha I not the Vessel be for the use of the Potter that made it? Shall not the servant Trade for his Master with whose goods he is entrusted? do yot not fetch all your bread from Gods door?