Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

2 This puts a value and price upon all our actions, the more they a•m at this end the better they be. As therefore thou desirest to have thine actions and services acceptable and pleasing unto God, let his glory be thy chief and principal aim therein, doing what thou dost in obedience to the Command of God, that he thereby may be glorified.

2 This puts a value and price upon all our actions, the more they a•m at this end the better they be. As therefore thou desirest to have thine actions and services acceptable and pleasing unto God, let his glory be thy chief and principal aym therein, doing what thou dost in obedience to the Command of God, that hee thereby may be glorified.

I deny not but other ends may creep into thine heart, and steal into the performance of thy best actions, as thine own profit, applause, and the like; but know for thy comfort, that the Lord looketh more to the general bent of thine heart, and frame of thy spirit, in what thou dost, then upon any particular base and by end, which sometimes creepeth and stealeth into thine heart, and will reckon with thee according to the general purpose and aim of thine heart, and not according to some particular end and aim, which hath crept in unawares through the corruption of thine heart.

I deny not but other ends may creep into thine heart, and steal into the performance of thy best actions, as thine own profit, applause, and the like; but know for thy comfort, that the Lord looketh more to the general bent of thine heart, and frame of thy spirit, in what thou dost, then upon any particular base and by end, which sometimes creepeth and stealeth into thine heart, and will reckon with thee according to the general purpose and aym of thine heart, and not according to some particular end and aym, which hath crept in unawares through the corruption of thine heart.