The Godly Man's Picture

Answ. I shall briefly lay down some rules or helps to godliness.

1 Be diligent in the use of all means,¹ that may promote godliness, Luke 13. 24. strive to enter in at the straight gate: what is purpose without pursuit? when you have made your estimate of godliness, prosecute those mediums which are most expedient for obtaining it.

1. 11 Rule.

2 If you would be godly,¹ take heed of the world; 'tis hard for a clod of dust to become a star, 1 Joh. 2. 15. love not the world: many would be godly, but the honours and profits of the world divert them; where the world fills both head and heart, there is no room for Christ; he whose mind is rooted in the earth, is likely enough to deride godliness; when our Saviour was preaching against sin, the Pharisees, who were covetous, derided him, Luk. 16. 14. The world eats out the heart of godliness, as the lvy eats out ⟨p. 296⟩the heart of the Oak; the world kills with her silver darts.

2 If you would be godly,¹