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 may have good thoughts toward God,  about your soul concerns. Gen. xxiv. 3. Psal lxiii. 9. and civ. 34. Phil. iv. 8.

Exh. 9. Entertain and nourish the motions and impulses of God's Spirit on your spirits: when ye find kindly  to duty, fall in with them; when you feel inward checks and fears with respect to sin, improve them to retrain you from all iniquity; take special  you do not smother convictions, or wilfully resist and quench the Spirit's workings in your hearts. Rom. viii 1.5. 3. 1 Thess. v. 16, 20.

Exh 10. Wait punctuIlly on public ordinances, and always prepare for appearing before the Lord in the sanctuary; the word reverently Let it be your earnest desire to meet with God, and to get your souls edified in to the grace and knowledge of Christ Jesus; make particular application both of promises and  agreeablely to your cases. When you are returned home, meditate and confer on what you have been hearing; and frequently pray that God may give you good of his word: Neglect not