The divine life in three treatises

10. Moreover for the attaining of all this Mercy, you have many a prayer to put up to God: You must daily pray for the forgiveness of your sins, and deliverance from temptations, and even for your daily bread, or necessary provisions for the work which you have to do: You must daily pray for all the supplies of Grace which you want, and for the gradual mortification of the flesh, and for help in all the duties which you must perform; and for strength against all the spiritual enemies which will assault you; and preservation from the manifest evils which attend you: And these prayers must be put up with unwearied constancy, fervency and Faith. Keep up this course of fervent prayer, and beg for Christ, and Grace, and Pardon, and Salvation in any measure as they deserve, and according to thy own necessity, and then tell me whether thy ⟨p. 202⟩business with God be small, and to be put off as lightly as it is by the ungodly.

10. Moreover for the attaining of all this Mercy, you have many a prayer to put up to God: You must daily pray for the forgiveness of your sins, and deliverance from temptations, and even for your daily bread, or necessary provisions for the work which you have to do: You must daily pray for all the supplies of Grace which you want, and for the gradual mortification of the flesh, and for help in all the duties which you must perform; and for strength against all the spiritual enemies which will assault you; and preservation from the manifest evils which attend you: And these prayers must be put up with unwearied constancy, fervency and Faith. Keep up this course of fervent prayer, and beg for Christ, and Grace, and Pardon, and Salvation in any measure as they deserve, and according to thy own necessity, and then tell mee whether thy ⟨p. 202⟩business with God be small, and to be put off as lightly as it is by the ungodly.

11. Moreover, you are made for the Glory of your Creator, and must apply your selves wholly to glorify him in the world: You must make his service the trade and business of your lives, and not put him off with something on the by: You are good for nothing else but to serve him; as a knife is made to cut, and as your clothes are made to cover you, and your meat to seed you, and your horse to labour for you; so you are made and redeemed, and maintained for this, to Love and Please your great Creator: And can you think that it is but little business that you have with him, when he is the End and Master of your lives, and all you are or have is for him?