A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

Dir. 9. In your addresses to God in holy worship, be sure that Praise and Thanksgiving have its due proportion. They are the chief and most excellent and acceptable part, and therefore let them not have the smallest room. Though your sins and wants be as great as you imagine in your complaints, it is yet your duty to Praise the Excellencies and Attributes and works of your Creator, and to be Thankful for the preparations made by Christ, and freely offered you, so that they shall certainly be yours, if you accept them. But much more Thankful should you be that have but the evidence of Desire and Consent to prove your Interest in Christ and in his Covenant.

Dir. 9. In your addresses to God in holy worship, be sure that Praise and Thansgiving have its due proportion. They are the chief and most excellent and acceptable part, and therefore let them not have the smallest room. Though your sins and wants be as great as you imagine in your complaints, it is yet your duty to Praise the Excellencies and Attributes and works of your Creator, and to be Thankful for the preparations made by Christ, and freely offered you, so that they shall certainly be yours, if you accept them. But much more Thankful should you be that have but the evidence of Desire and Consent to prove your Interest in Christ and in his Covenant.

I would entreat poor troubled fearful souls to Resolve upon this one thing, which is reasonable, necessary and in their power, that when they are upon their knees with God, they will spend as much of their Time and words in confessing mercies and Praising God, as in confessing sin, and condemning themselves and lamenting their wants, and weaknesses, and distress. Though they cannot do it cheerfully as they should, let them do it as they can. And at last while they keep in the right way of duty, and use themselves to the commemoration of that which is sweet and grateful to the soul, Religion it self will become sweet and grateful; and cheerfulness of heart will be promoted by our own considerations & expressions.

I would intreat poor troubled fearful souls to Resolve upon this one thing, which is reasonable, necessary and in their power, that when they are upon their knees with God, they will spend as much of their Time and words in confessing mercies and Praising God, as in confessing sin, and condemning themselves and lamenting their wants, and weaknesses, and distress. Though they cannot do it cheerfully as they should, let them do it as they can. And at last while they keep in the right way of duty, and use themselves to the commemoration of that which is sweet and grateful to the soul, Religion it self will become sweet and grateful; and chearfulness of heart will be promoted by our own considerations & expressions.