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You see then how great a part of your Calling and Religion consisteth in Doing Good. Now it is not enough to make this ⟨p. 336⟩your care now and then, or do Good when it falls in your way but you must study it, or it will not be well done. You must study which are Good Works; and which are they that you are called to: and which are the best Works, and to be preferred, that you choose not a less instead of a greater. God looks to be served with the best. You must study for opportunities of Doing Good, and of the means of succeeding and accomplishing it; and for the removing of Impediments; and for the overcoming of dissuasives, and withdrawing Temptations. You must know what Talents God hath entrusted you with, and those you must study to do Good with. Whether it be Time, or Interest in men, or opportunity, or Riches, or Credit, or Authority, or Gifts of mind, or of body: If you have not one, you have another, and some have all.

You see then how great a part of your Calling and Religion consisteth in Doing Good. Now it is not enough to make this ⟨p. 336⟩your care now and then, or do Good when it fals in your way but you must study it, or it will not be well done. You must study which are Good Works; and which are they that you are called to: and which are the best Works, and to be preferred, that you choose not a less instead of a greater. God looks to be served with the best. You must study for opportunities of Doing Good, and of the means of succeeding and accomplishing it; and for the removing of Impediments; and for the overcoming of disswasives, and withdrawing Temptations. You must know what Talents God hath entrusted you with, and those you must study to do Good with. Whether it be Time, or Interest in men, or opportunity, or Riches, or Credit, or Authority, or Gifts of mind, or of body: If you have not one, you have another, and some have all.

This therefore is the thing that I would persuade you to: Take your self for Gods Steward: Remember the time when it will be said to you [Give account of thy Stewardship; thou shalt be no longer Steward] Let it be your every-days contrivance, how to lay out your Gifts, Time, Strength, Riches or Interest, to your Masters use. Think which way you may do most, first, to Promote the Gospel, and the Public Good of