Lift up your heart to him that seeth in secret, and trieth the heart and reins.

Seek a close communion with the Father of your spirit.

Do not wish, but do.

Endeavour to withdraw your thoughts from worldly things, and to raise your affections from earth to heaven, to those things-which are not seen but by the eye of faith.

Shew that you are alive unto God, by living unto God, and devoting yourself to his service. Do something for him, that has done so much for you.

Strive to grow in knowledge, faith, love, purity, and godly fear; in meekness, and in every Christian grace.

Study to promote God's glory, the welfare of all men, and such a disposition in your soul, as may render you meet, through the merits of the adorable Saviour, to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light.

There is no way of being happy but by seeing yourselves miserable.When we find ourselves in danger of being lost for ever, there are hopes of our being made for ever, and not till then.

A Christian should always have one eye upon his end, and the other upon his way, and constantly keep in that path, where he can see some glimpse of heaven before him.

While you are present in the body, be drawing near to the Lord, that when you are absent from the body, you may be present with the Lord.

Look on every day as a blank sheet of paper put into your hands to be filled up.

There is only one solid pleasure in life, and that

is our duty; how miserable then are they that make that a pain!

It is better not to live at all, than not live well; for nothing but a good life and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, can fit us for dying, and yield us comfortable reflections on a death-bed.

Opportunities should never be lost, because they can never be regained.

Opportunity is like a golden instrument to dig for heavenly treasure: Do not wear it out, as many have done, in digging for pebbles, when you should use it to seek heavenly treasure.

Think how many opportunities you have out lived, which will never return.

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise,

To-morrow's sun to you may never rise.

Beg not a long life, but a good one. Whatever makes us joyful should make us thankful.

Let safety and innocence be the ingredients of your amusements; for is there any pleasure in what tends to loss of health, fortune, or soul?

Imitate the dear Redeemer's pattern; live to God, and, as far as you are able, diffuse the blessings given you in doing good.

We must die to sin and rise to righteousness, if we would rise to life and glory.

The last end of our thoughts should be the thoughts of our last end.

We should every day knock at the gate of death, and live to-day, as though we should die to-mor

row.

Take heed of being an Agrippa: An almost Christian was never saved, dying such.

Refuse not to be informed; for that shews pride or stupidity.

Value good counsel before money; one will guide you to heaven, but the other will lead you

to hell.

Never compare your condition with those above you.

Bear not ill-will to your neighbour; if he has injured you, forgive him, as you hope to be forgiven of God.

Consider yourselves as insolvent, wretched bankrupts, who have nothing, and can merit nothing; and then the perfect obedience, the full satisfaction of your divine surety, will be as health to your soul, and as marrow to your bones.

Remember now your Creator, remember to know him, remember to desire him, remember to get an interest in him, remember to live in him, and remember to walk with him.

Remember the Father, so as to know him, so as to be inwardly acquainted with him:-Remember the Son, so as to believe in him, so as to rest upon him, so as to embrace him, and so as to make a complete resignation of yourself to him:-Remember the Spirit, so as to hear his voice, so as to obey his voice, so as to feel his presence, and so as to experience his influence, &c.

Change not virtue's immortal crown for a mine of gold.

Consider that in heaven above, there is an ear which hears you, an eye which ever sees you, and a book wherein all your words and deeds are carefully written; therefore, behave in every action as if God were on the one hand, and death on the other.

Do not what thou wouldst, but what thou shouldst.

Spiritual prudence is like salt, of little bulk, but of exceeding great efficacy.

Choak lust in the embryo: better stamp upon an egg, than look upon a living basilisk.

Believe not thy own unbelief; it is an ill disease, where the physician is a murderer.

Let us be thankful to God for what we have, and we shall the better obtain of God what we have not, nor yet expected.

Commit thy way to God, and submit thy will, and he will compose thy affections, and dispose thy actions.

What an heaven would it be to our souls, if we were but half so unwilling to sin, as God is to punish?

We are naturally more taken with a grain of seeming pleasure, than a mountain of real profit.

The more the love of Christ is shed abroad in our hearts, the more love and kindness will appear in our tempers and lives.

Steer your bark by virtue's compass, so shall you avoid those rocks and quicksands on which millions have perished.

Let virtue be the guide of your actions: for when you quit her paths, you wander in uncertainties; and when you think yourself secure from danger, you may be on the brink of ruin.

Be careful to preserve your reputation; if it is once lost, you are like a cancelled writing, of no value.It is like a glass, which being once cracked, will never be made whole again.

Be sure to suppress the first motives to sensuality; its infant approaches are weak and feeble, and easy to be resisted, if you set upon it before it has

seduced your abilities, or gained too much ground upon your reason.

Be what thou pretendest.

Be thou such a one in thy behaviour towards thy parents, as thou wouldst that thy own children, when thou hast any, should be towards thee.

Boast not of thy good deeds, lest thy evil deeds be also laid to thy charge.

Boast not of riches, because they are in your present possession; nor of friends, because they have power and interest: but if ye will glory, glory in God, who is able to give all things, and willing to give that which is better than all, even himself.

Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy; believe not all you hear, nor speak all you believe.

Be not too fond of yourself, and you will not easily think ill of others.

When thoughts of pride arise in your mind from any excellency you possess, turn your eye upon some of your failings and follies.

Be sure always to receive your sickness as a punishment of your sins, and believe it withal to be the last overture that God will make to you, and be careful not to lose so gracious an opportunity. Let it be your ambition to be wise, and your wisdom to be good.

Let prayer ascend, that grace may descend. Let your prayers be as frequent as your wants and your thanksgivings as your blessings.

Let virtue be thy life, valour thy love, honour thy fame, and heaven thy felicity.

Let your wit rather serve you for a buckler to defend yourself by a handsome reply, than a sword to wound others.