TO WHICH IS ADDED,

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR,

AND

THREE LETTERS TO A FRIEND.

He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
And behold I come quickly, and my reward is with me,

St. Luke vit. 8.

Rev. xxii. 12.

BOSTON :

PUBLISHED BY T. BEDLINGTON, No. 47, CORNHILL.

H. R. Stickney, Printer, Newburyport.

CONTENTS.

CHAP. I.

CONCERNING the nature and extent of Christian

devotion.

CHAP. II.

An enquiry into the reason, why the generality of

Christians fall so far short of the holiness and devotion of

Christianity.

CHAP, IV.

We can please God in no state or condition of life,

but by intending and devoting it all to his honour and

glory.

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CHAP. III.

Of the great danger and folly of not intending to be

as eminent and exemplary as we can, in the practice of all

Christian virtues.

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CHAP. VI.

Containing the great obligations, and the great ad-

vantages of making a wise and religious use of our estates

and fortunes.

CHAP. VII.

How the imprudent use of an estate corrupts all the

tempers of the mind, and fills the heart with poor and ri-

diculous passions, through the whole course of life; repre-

sented in the character of Flavia.

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CHAP. V.

Persons that are free from the necessity of labour

and employments are to consider themselves as devoted to

God in a higher degree.

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