Resolved, To Study The Scriptures So Steadily,

If There Be Ground For You To Trust, As You Do, In Your Own Righteousness, Then All That Christ Did To Purchase Salvation, And All That God Did From The Fall Of Man To Prepare The Way For It, Is In Vain. Consider What Greater Folly Could You Have Devised To Charge Upon God Than This, That All Those Things Were Done So Needlessly; When, Instead Of All This, He Might Only Have Called You Forth, And Committed The Business To You, Which You Think You Can Do So Easily.

Every Christian Family Ought To Be As It Were A Little Church, Consecrated To Christ, And Wholly Influenced And Governed By His Rules. And Family Education And Order Are Some Of The Chief Means Of Grace. If These Fail, All Other Means Are Likely To Prove Ineffectual. If These Are Duly Maintained, All The Means Of Grace Will Be Likely To Prosper And Be Successful.

Since Holiness Is The Main Thing That Excites, Draws, And Governs All Gracious Affections, It Is No Wonder That All Such Affections Tend To Holiness. That Which Men Love, They Desire To Have And To Be United To, And Possessed Of. That Beauty Which Men Delight In, They Desire To Be Adorned With. Those Acts Which Men Delight In, They Necessarily Incline To Do.

A Man Who Knows That He Lives In Sin Against God Will Not Be Inclined To Come Daily Into The Presence Of God.

Resolved, Never To Count That A Prayer, Nor To Let That Pass As A Prayer, Nor That As A Petition Of A Prayer, Which Is So Made, That I Cannot Hope That God Will Answer It; Nor That As A Confession, Which I Cannot Hope God Will Accept.