VIII. 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 all 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.
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IX. See that you watch and labor, as well as pray. Diligence and dependence must be united in the practice .•f every Christian. It is the same wise man acquaints us, that the hand of the diligent, and the blessing of the JLord, join together to make us rich, Prov. x. 4, 22, rich in the treasures of body or mind, of time or eternity.
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