I Did Nothing That I Might Not

Sinful Zeal Doth Make Men Doubly Sinful.

See That Your Chief Study Be About Heart, That There God's Image May Be Planted, And His Interest Advanced, And The Interest Of The World And Flesh Subdued, And The Love Of Every Sin Cast Out, And The Love Of Holiness Succeed; And That You Content Not Yourselves With Seeming To Do Good In Outward Acts, When You Are Bad Yourselves, And Strangers To The Great Internal Duties. The First And Great Work Of A Christian Is About His Heart.

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.

Make Careful Choice Of The Books Which You Read: Let The Holy Scriptures Ever Have The Pre-eminence, And, Next To Them, Those Solid, Lively, Heavenly Treatises Which Best Expound And Apply The Scriptures, And Next, Credible Histories, Especially Of The Church... But Take Heed Of False Teachers Who Would Corrupt Your Understandings.

Keep Up Your Conjugal Love In A Constant Heat And Vigor. Love Will Suppress Wrath: You Cannot Have A Bitter Mind Upon Small Provocations, Against Those That You Dearly Love.