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 Exh 38 Propose God's glory as the chief end of all your actions, and make his word the rule of them: take heed that base, selfish by-ends be not your main end either in duties towards God, or towards man: He that walketh uprightly, walketh surely. I Cor x 31 Prov x 9

Exh. 39, Spend your time well and profitably; time is a precious but a passing thing, and, when once past, cannot be brought back again. When you ate to leave time, nothing will more gall you than the tormenting thoughts of having, mispent it; on the other hand, nothing will be more comfortable, than the consideration of managing your golden hours profitably: Mind God will call you to an account for every minute of time, how you have improven that excellent gift, O what a valuable, yet what an abused mercy is precious time. Eph, v, 16, Exh 40. Mind seriously ye are frail mortal creatures, liable to a thousand dangerous accidents,: Must certain it is you must die, but when, where, or how, nobody knows: Neither young nor old can