Resolved, That I Will Live

Resolved, Never To Do Anything Which I Should Be Afraid To Do If It Were The Last Hour Of My Life.

So That It Must Be Only By The Imagination That Satan Has Access To The Soul, To Tempt And Delude It, Or Suggest Anything To It. And This Seems To Be The Reason Why Persons That Are Under The Disease Of Melancholy Are Commonly So Visibly And Remarkably Subject To The Suggestions And Temptations Of Satan... Innumerable Are The Ways By Which The Mind May Be Led On To All Kind Of Evil Thoughts, By The Exciting Of External Ideas In The Imagination.

When I Am Giving The Relation Of A Thing, Remember To Abstain From Altering Either In The Matter Or Manner Of Speaking, So Much, As That, If Every One, Afterwards, Should Alter As Much, It Would At Last Come To Be Properly False.

Resolved, That I Will Do Whatsoever I Think To Be Most To God’s Glory, And My Own Good, Profit And Pleasure, In The Whole Of My Duration, Without Any Consideration Of The Time, Whether Now, Or Never So Many Myriad’s Of Ages Hence. Resolved To Do Whatever I Think To Be My Duty And Most For The Good And Advantage Of Mankind In General. Resolved To Do This, Whatever Difficulties I Meet With, How Many And How Great Soever.

The Seeking Of The Kingdom Of God Is The Chief Business Of The Christian Life