Divers practical cases of conscience satisfactorily resolved ... to which are added some counsels…

This you may come to with care and watchfulness.

Again, In religious actions let God be all. Here self (I mean carnal self,) must be shut out: otherwise this dead Fly will spoil the Box of most precious Ointment. 'Tis true, self will be crowding in, but you must knock it down carefully: otherwise if this be the predominant ingredient, all your duties will be but lost labour. What more pleasing to God then prayer? This is as incense before him, Psal. 141. 2. what more delightful then alms? This is a sacrifice acceptable and well-pleasing unto him. Phil. 4. 18. How happy a Testimony had Cornelius, Thy Prayers and Alms are come up as a memorial before God! Acts 10. 4. Yet when self is predominant in those ⟨p. 55⟩Duties, Prayers, Alms, &c. all are lost, Matth. 6. 7. and 23. 5.

Again, In religious actions let God be all. Here self (I mean carnal self,) must be shut out: otherwise this dead Flie will spoil the Box of most precious Oyntment. 'Tis true, self will be crowding in, but you must knock it down carefully: otherwise if this be the predominant ingredient, all your duties will be but lost labour. What more pleasing to God then prayer? This is as incense before him, Psal. 141. 2. what more delightful then alms? This is a sacrifice acceptable and well-pleasing unto him. Phil. 4. 18. How happy a Testimony had Cornelius, Thy Prayers and Alms are come up as a memorial before God!