Another.
I Rejoice to hear you are in health, and have behaved your self so well in the place where you Live; Be Thankful to God for all the Favours you enjoy. Oh, beware that Evil Company doth not secretly Steal away your Heart from GOD. Consider, ⟨p. 39⟩that whatever your Business be, you must and will have an Eating and a Sleeping time. Oh, be as Solicitous every Day […] keep your Praying Times, which are a thousand times more necessary than a time to Eat or Sleep in. Be sure that there doth not a Morning or Evening pass over your head in which you have not sought GOD by Solemn & Fervent Prayer. Your very Soul must be employed & Engaged in these Duties, and the Life and Strength of your Affections be found to go after GOD in them. O Awaken your self with all Godly Fear and Holy Diligence, lest by any means you should come short of the Glory of GOD. Let this be your care, seek first the Kingdom of GOD & the Righteousness thereof, and then all these things shall be added. You have GOD's sure Promise for it. Oh, Make sure of Heaven betimes. Walk Humbly with GOD; beware of a Proud Heart, and a Lofty Spirit; abhor your self, else GOD will not be Pleased with you; condemn your self, that GOD may acquit you. Pride will render your Person, and Prayers and all an Abomination to the Lord, if it prevail in you. Be not high minded but Fear, and by Prayer & Watchfulness, restrain & root ⟨p. 40⟩up this Wretched Corruption of Pride, which is a Sin so natural to you, that you had need to use great care and caution to keep it under.
THAT the God of your Life may preserve you Blameless and present you Faultless at the Great Day, shall be the Earnest Desire of your Affectionate Mother.
Another.
I Rejoyce to hear you are in health, and have behav'd your self so well in the place where you Live; Be Thankful to God for all the Favours you enjoy. Oh, beware that Evil Company doth not secretly Steal away your Heart from GOD. Consider, ⟨p. 39⟩that whatever your Business be, you must and will have an Eating and a Sleeping time. Oh, be as Sollicitous every Day 〈…〉 keep your Praying Times, which are a thousand times more necessary than a time to Eat or Sleep in. Be sure that there doth not a Morning or Evening pass over your head in which you have not sought GOD by Solemn & Fervent Prayer. Your very Soul must be employed & Engaged in these Dutys, and the Life and Strength of your Affections be found to go after GOD in them. O Awaken your self with all Godly Fear and Holy Diligence, lest by any means you should come short of the Glory of GOD. Let this be your care, seek first the Kingdom of GOD & the Righteousness thereof, and then all these things shall be added. You have GOD's sure Promise for it. Oh, Make sure of Heaven betimes. Walk Humbly with GOD; beware of a Proud Heart, and a Lofty Spirit; abhor your self, else GOD will not be Pleased with you; condemn your self, that GOD may acquit you. Pride will render your Person, and Prayers and all an Abomination to the Lord, if it prevail in you. Be not high minded but Fear, and by Prayer & Watchfulness, restrain & root ⟨p. 40⟩up this Wretched Corruption of Pride, which is a Sin so natural to you, that you had need to use great care and caution to keep it under.
THAT the God of your Life may preserve you Blameless and present you Faultless at the Great Day, shall be the Earnest Desire of your Affectionate Mother.
