Remains of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection…Remaines of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection…

Rule 8. You must at the entrance of every action, remember the Rules that you are to act by. Else in vain do you receive and lay up Rules, if when occasion is, you do not apply them to the particular Case. To what purpose have you rules for prayer, if you do not remember and use them when you come to prayer? To what purpose have you rules to examine your selves by, if you do not observe them in examining your selves accordingly? As ever you desire to make any thing of your Religion, remember when you come to your tables, the rules that you are to eat by; when you go to your callings, make visits, read, or hear the word, be sure you think on the rules that you are to read by, or discourse by, or hear by, &c. You cannot think of God in every motion, but with a little pains, watchfulness, and prayer, you ⟨p. 276⟩may come to this, to mind your rule and your end at the entrance of every solemn action. And this I desire you to enjoin upon your selves, and take a daily account of your selves, how tis performed. This would be indeed to keep up the power of Christianity. Oh be at the pains to put to this, and you will know what it is to walk with God, and to be in the fear of the Lord all the day long, and will have learnt that happy son, To walk up and down in the name of the Lord, Prov. 23. 17. Zech. 10. 12.

Rule 8. You must at the entrance of every action, remember the Rules that you are to act by. Else in vain doe you receive and lay up Rules, if when occasion is, you doe not apply them to the particular Case. To what purpose have you rules for prayer, if you do not remember and use them when you come to prayer? To what purpose have you rules to examine your selves by, if you do not observe them in examining your selves accordingly? As ever you desire to make any thing of your Religion, remember when you come to your tables, the rules that you are to eat by; when you go to your callings, make visits, read, or hear the word, be sure you think on the rules that you are to read by, or discourse by, or hear by, &c. You cannot think of God in every motion, but with a little pains, watchfullness, and prayer, you ⟨p. 276⟩may come to this, to mind your rule and your end at the entrance of every solemn action. And this I desire you to enjoyn upon your selves, and take a daily account of your selves, how tis performed. This would be indeed to keep up the power of Christianity. Oh be at the pains to put to this, and you will know what it is to walk with God, and to be in the fear of the Lord all the day long, and will have learnt that happy sson, To walk up and down in the name of the Lord,