The divine life in three treatises

8. And with our selves we must resign up all to God that we have. For if we are not our own but His, then our children, our wealth, our wits, our time, our abilities and all that we have are his. All is not to be used one way for God: not all to the poor, nor all to the Commonwealth, nor all to the direct promoting of his worship: but all must be his, and used for him, in one way or other, and in those ways which he requireth▪ Possess not any thing merely for your selves.

8. And with our selves we must resign up all to God that we have. For if we are not our own but His, then our children, our wealth, our wits, our time, our abilities and all that we have are his. All is not to be used one way for God: not all to the poor, nor all to the Commonwealth, nor all to the direct promoting of his worship: but all must be his, and used for him, in one way or other, and in those wayes which he requireth▪ Possess not any thing meerly for your selves.

9. And especially see to it in the use and improvement, that you use your selves and all that you have for God. Let this be your intention, trade and study. See that you be always at his work; that if a man come in upon you any hour of the day, and ask you what you are doing, and whose work it is that you are upon, you may truly be able to say, the Lords. If you be asked, who you are now speaking for, or spending your time for, or for whom you do expend your wealth?] you may truly say of every hour, and every penny, and every word, [It is for the Lord.] Even that which you give your children or friends, and that which you receive for your support or comfort, may all be principally and ultimately for God: [Ye are not your own; for ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are Gods] 1 Cor. 6. 19, 20. [Christ dyed for all, that they which live, should not henceforth live unto themselves, but to him that dyed for them, and rose again,