Answ. To dispatch it in a word, thus, 1. Be sure that God be habitually your End in the main. For if you take him not for your Portion, and intend him not habitually in the drift of your lives, you cannot rightly intend him in particulars. 2. Make it your every days prayer to God, before you go about the labours of your calling, that he would give you hearts to seek him in all, and would watch over you, and save you from ensnaring temptations, and remember you of himself, and give in somewhat of himself by his creatures, and sanctify them all to you. 3. Keep up a godly jealousy of your hearts, lest they should abuse the creature, and seek it and use it more for your carnal selves then for God. If God be jealous, its time for you to be jealous of your selves. Especially when the sin is the most common, and radical, and destroying sin. 4. Before you go about your callings, bethink your selves how you may Improve them for God. Find out his Interest, and study how to promote it; and how to improve all that he gives you to that end. And renew your particular Intentions of God, in the midst of your work. 5. When you receive or use any creature, consider it both as a mercy and as an obligation unto duty; and as you will not run over the Bible by bare reading, without considering what is the meaning, but will endeavour to take the sense as you go; so do in your callings and about all the creatures. Think with your selves, [Here is now a lesson in my hands, if I can but learn it. Here is somewhat that may show me, both God himself and my duty; if I could but skilfully open it, and understand it.] And so bethink ⟨p. 161⟩your selves, What it is that God would teach you, or command you by that creature: and especially, to what use he requireth you to put it. And remember, that if you should think of God all the day long, and yet not intend him, and refer your labours and your riches to his service, and give them up to his use, this is not sanctifying God in the creature, but hypocritical abusing of him. For it is not all thinking of God that will serve the turn. 6. As you use to take account of your servants, how they do your work, so I would advise you every night, or as often as you can, to take an account of your selves as you are the servants of the God of heaven, and ask your Consciences, [What have I done this day for God;
Answ. To dispatch it in a word, thus, 1. Be sure that God be habitually your End in the main. For if you take him not for your Portion, and intend him not habitually in the drift of your lives, you cannot rightly intend him in particulars. 2. Make it your every daies prayer to God, before you go about the labours of your calling, that he would give you hearts to seek him in all, and would watch over you, and save you from ensnaring temptations, and remember you of himself, and give in somewhat of himself by his creatures, and sanctifie them all to you. 3. Keep up a godly jealousie of your hearts, lest they should abuse the creature, and seek it and use it more for your carnall selves then for God. If God be jealous, its time for you to be jealous of your selves. Especially when the sin is the most common, and radicall, and destroying sin. 4. Before you go about your callings, bethink your selves how you may Improve them for God. Find out his Interest, and study how to promote it; and how to improve all that he gives you to that end. And renew your particular Intentions of God, in the midst of your work. 5. When you receive or use any creature, consider it both as a mercy and as an obligation unto duty; and as you will not run over the Bible by bare reading, without considering what is the meaning, but will endeavour to take the sense as you go; so do in your callings and about all the creatures. Think with your selves, [Here is now a lesson in my hands, if I can but learn it. Here is somewhat that may shew me, both God himself and my duty; if I could but skilfully open it, and understand it.] And so bethink ⟨p. 161⟩your selves, What it is that God would teach you, or command you by that creature: and especially, to what use he requireth you to put it. And remember, that if you should think of God all the day long, and yet not intend him, and refer your labours and your riches to his service, and give them up to his use, this is not sanctifying God in the creature, but hypocriticall abusing of him. For it is not all thinking of God that will serve the turn. 6. As you use to take account of your servants, how they do your work, so I would advise you every night, or as often as you can, to take an account of your selves as you are the servants of the God of heaven, and ask your Consciences, [What have I done this day for God;
