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…

1 In that without it we cannot with any confidence expect Gods blessing upon our pains and endeavours; For, as the Psalmist speaketh,¹ Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. So except the Lord bless our pains and endeavours, it is in vain to rise• up early, to sit up late, and to eat the bread of sorrow; and prayer is the means God hath sanctified for the obtaining his blessing.

1 In that without it wee cannot with any confidence expect Gods blessing upon our pains and indeavours; For, as the Psalmist speaketh,¹ Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. So except the Lord bless our pains and indeavours, it is in vain to rise• up early, to sit up late, and to eat the bread of sorrow; and prayer is the means God hath sanctified for the obtaining his blessing.

1. 1Psal. 127. 1, 2.

2 In regard of manifold casualties whereunto we are subject; for death lieth every where in wait for us, so that we go every moment in danger of our lives: If we walk in the streets, so many tiles on the house top, so many deaths hang over our heads:¹ if we walk in the fields, so many beasts as we meet withal, so many enemies to endanger our lives. Yea, how many have risen well in the morning, who have been found dead before the evening? And what hath befallen one may befall another. And how sad a thing will it be to be Arrested by Death, and called to the Bar of Gods Judgement, to plead Guilty or not Guilty, before we have […] our selves at the Throne of Grace, to Sue forth our pardon.