Do Not Waste Your Time On Light,

Keep Your Children As Much As May Be From Ill Company, Especially Of Ungodly Playfellows. It Is One Of The Greatest Dangers For The Undoing Of Children In The World; Especially When They Are Sent To Common Schools: For There Is Scarce Any Of Those Schools So Good, But Hath Many Rude And Ungodly Ill-taught Children In It.

A Foolish Physician He Is, And A Most Unfaithful Friend, That Will Let A Sick Man Die For Fear Of Troubling Him; And Cruel Wretches Are We To Our Friends, That Will Rather Suffer Them To Go Quietly To Hell, Then We Will Anger Them, Or Hazard Our Reputation With Them.

Such Is The Depth Of The Christian Scriptures, That Even If I Were Attempting To Study Them And Nothing Else From Early Boyhood To Decrepit Old Age, With The Utmost Leisure, The Most Unwearied Zeal, And Talents Greater Than I Have, I Would Be Still Daily Making Progress In Discovering Their Treasures.

And Though It Be Their Sin And Vanity That Is The Cause, It Is Nevertheless Your Sin To Be The Unnecessary Occasion: For You Must Consider That You Live Among Diseased Souls. And You Must Not Lay A Stumblingblock In Their Way, Nor Blow Up The Fire Of Their Lust, Nor Make Your Ornaments Their Snares; But You Must Walk Among Sinful Persons, As You Would Do With A Candle Among Straw Or Gunpowder; Or Else You May See The Flame Which You Would Not Foresee, When It Is Too Late To Quench It.

Though Selfishness Hath Defiled The Whole Man, Yet Sensual Pleasure Is The Chief Part Of Its Interest, And, Therefore, By The Senses It Commonly Works; And These Are The Doors And Windows By Which Iniquity Entereth Into The Soul.