The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan…

Happily thou wilt say, I must provide necessaries for my Family, I must have bread for my self, and them. True, and must thou not have Grace, and Christ too? Is not thy Soul more than thy Body? Is not Christ and Grace more necessary than thy daily bread? If thou wilt not raise thy Estate upon the ruins of thy Soul, if thou wilt not sell thine hopes for hereafter, for thy present commodity, and undo thy self ⟨p. 60⟩for ever, for fear thou shouldst be undone here; then look to it, that whatever wants, thy Soul may have its due share of thy time. Let not holy duties give place to the world, let the world give place to them.

Happily thou wilt say, I must provide necessaries for my Family, I must have bread for my self, and them. True, and must thou not have Grace, and Christ too? Is not thy Soul more than thy Body? Is not Christ and Grace more necessary than thy daily bread? If thou wilt not raise thy Estate upon the ruines of thy Soul, if thou wilt not sell thine hopes for hereafter, for thy present commodity, and undo thy self ⟨p. 60⟩for ever, for fear thou shouldst be undone here; then look to it, that whatever wants, thy Soul may have its due share of thy time. Let not holy duties give place to the world, let the world give place to them.

I know it is the practice of too many, upon a pretence of much business, either wholly to omit their private devotions, or else to run over them so hastily, that they are lost in the doing; as good do nothing, as nothing to purpose. God will not be so put off; nor can thy Soul subsist upon the Income of hasty duties. If thou wilt find no more leisure to pray, God will find as little leisure to answer.