ld, still value your
bible as your best treasure; and whatsoever be your employment here,
still look upon religion as your best business. Your bible contains
eternal life in it, and all the riches of the upper world; and religion
is the only way to become the possessor of them.

3. To direct your carriage towards God, converse particularly with the
book of Psalms; David was a man of sincere and eminent devotion. To
behave aright among men, acquaint yourself with the whole book of
Proverbs: Solomon was a man of large experience and wisdom. And to
perfect your directions in both these, read the Gospels and Epistles;
you will find the best of rules and the best of examples there, and
those more immediately suited to the Christian life.

4. As a man, maintain strict temperance and sobriety, by a wise
government of your appetites and passions; as a neighbour, influence and
engage all around you to be your friends, by a temper and carriage made
up of prudence and goodness; and let the poor have a certain share in
all your yearly profits; as a trader, keep that golden sentence of our
Saviour's ever before you. Whatsoever you "would that men should do unto
you, do you also unto them."

5. While you make the precepts of scripture the constant rule of your
duty, you may with courage rest upon the promises of scripture as the
springs of your encouragement; all divine assistances and divine
recompenses are contained in them. The spirit of light and grace is
promised to assist them that ask it. Heaven and glory are promised to
reward the faithful and the obedient.

6. In every affair of life, begin with God; consult him in every thing
that concerns you; view him as the author of all your blessings, and all
your hopes, as your best friend, and your eternal portion. Meditate on
him in this view, with a continual renewal of your trust in him, and a
daily surrender of yourself to him, till you feel that you love him most
entirely, that you serve him with sincere delight, and that you cannot
live a day without God in the world.

7. You know yourself to be a man, an indigent creature and a sinner, and
you profess to be a Christian, a disciple of the blessed Jesus, but
never think you know Christ or yourself as you ought till you find a
daily need of him for righteousness and strength, for pardon and
sanctification; and let him be your constant introducer to the great
God, though he sits upon a throne of grace. Remember his own words,