Phillips Family Papers Box 2

It is not for the interest of the flesh to suffer the heart to be much in prayers or other duties and therefore we find for the whole generation of carnal men a little of it must serve their turn

"May your heart be daily kept by the promises of God & with this staff may you pass over Jordan. May there be your undivided companions & comforter: When you go may they lead you when you sleep may they keep you when you wake may they talk with you. May God keep these things forever upon the imaginations of the thoughts of thy heart."

There is a Principle of love in the hearts of believers and this love of Christ constrains them to live to Christ The Soul cannot consider her deliverence by the blood of Christ and my the Spirit of Christ but she crys what shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits towards me? I will take the cup of Salvation and call upon the Name of the Lord I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people: O Lord, truly

truly I am thy Servant I am thy servant and the Son of thine handmaid thou hast loosed my bond.

It is meditation and studious thought it is the exercise of our own Judgement upon all we read that gives good sense even to the best genius and afford our understanding the truest improvement. Wath.