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, John xiv 6.  “No man cometh to the father but by me.”

8.  Make prayer a pleasure, and not a task, and then you will not forget nor omit it.  If ever you have lived in a praying family, never let it be your fault if you do not live in one always.  Believe that day, that hour, or those minutes to be wasted and lost, which any worldly pretences would tempt you to save out of the public worship of the church, the certain and constant duties of the closet, or any necessary services for God and godliness; beware lest a blast attend it, and not a blessing.  If God had not reserved one day in seven to himself, I fear religion would have been lost out of the world; and every day of the week is exposed to a curse which has no morning religion.