In The Word

Resolved, to be endeavoring to find out fit objects of charity and liberality.

Resolved, if I take delight in it as a gratification of pride, or vanity, or on any such account, immediately to throw it by.

Resolved, when I think of any theorem in divinity to be solved, immediately to do what I can towards solving it, if circumstances don’t hinder.

Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.

Resolved, to think much on all occasions of my own dying, and of the common circumstances which attend death.

Resolved, to act, in all respects, both speaking and doing, as if nobody had been so vile as I, and as if I had committed the same sins, or had the same infirmities or failings as others; and that I will let the knowledge of their failings promote nothing but shame in myself, and prove only an occasion of my confessing my own sins and misery to God.

Resolved, never to do anything, which I should be afraid to do, if it were the last hour of my life.

Resolved, to live with all my might, while I do live.

Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.

4. Resolved, never to do any manner of thing, whether in soul or body, less or more, but what tends to the glory of God; nor be, nor suffer it, if I can avoid it.