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

1. To improve for Eternity, the Advantages of your present State. Though you are at many disadvantages with respect to the public Ordinances, yet you have many wondrous and most happy Privilege, which Spiritual Wisdom would make no small improvement of. Oh what a mercy have you that you may serve God while you will in your Families! That you may be as much as you will with God in secret Prayer, and holy Meditation, and Self-examination! I beseech you ⟨p. 78⟩consider what a Blessing you have above others, that have your Health, and a Competency of the Comforts of this life, and are free from those continual pains, or Heart-eating Cares, that others are disabled by, from looking after God and their Souls, as you may do. Oh consider what a blessed Seed-time you have for Eternity! Now be wise and improve your happy Season, your day of Grace. Prepare for Death, make all sure: Press on towards the Mark, lay up in store for your selves a good Foundation against the time to come. In the morning sow your Seed, and in the Evening withdraw not your Hand. Treasure up much in Heaven: What profit is it that you have more than others? more Liberty, more Comfort, more Health, more Wealth, than others? except you love God more, and serve him better than others. Now ply your Work, and dispatch your Business, so as that you may have nothing to trouble You upon your Death-Beds.

1. To improve for Eternity, the Advantages of your present State. Though you are at many disadvantages with respect to the publick Ordinances, yet you have many wondrous and most happy Priviledge, which Spiritual Wisdom would make no small improvement of. Oh what a mercy have you that you may serve God while you will in your Families! That you may be as much as you will with God in secret Prayer, and holy Meditation, and Self-examination! I beseech you ⟨p. 78⟩consider what a Blessing you have above others, that have your Health, and a Competency of the Comforts of this life, and are free from those continual pains, or Heart-eating Cares, that others are disabled by, from looking after God and their Souls, as you may do. Oh consider what a blessed Seed-time you have for Eternity! Now be wise and improve your happy Season, your day of Grace. Prepare for Death, make all sure: Press on towards the Mark, lay up in store for your selves a good Foundation against the time to come. In the morning sow your Seed, and in the Evening withdraw not your Hand. Treasure up much in Heaven: What profit is it that you have more than others? more Liberty, more Comfort, more Health, more Wealth, than others? except you love God more, and serve him better than others. Now ply your Work, and dispatch your Business, so as that you may have nothing to trouble You upon your Death-Beds.