remedy against sin is to say frequently within yourself, “God beholds me." There needs no more to restrain you in the greatest violence of temptation.]
“ All things are clear and open to his eyes." — Heb. vi.
“ If you be determined to commit sin, seek first a place where God will not see you, and then do what you please." — St. Austin.
TENTH DAY. — CARE OF OUR SALVATION.
1 . The affair of salvation is, properly speaking, the only business of man; every other concern, when compared with it, should be accounted as nothing. The enterprises of kings, their negotiations, etc., are as amusements and the triflings of children. The important and the only affair, therefore, is to serve God, and thereby save our souls: the whole good, the whole perfection of man consists in this. It would be irrational, and therefore degrading to man, to neglect an affair whose consequences are so great, whose success is so uncertain, and whose loss is irreparable. What blindness ! what folly ! to think only of living, and not to think of living \yell! to apply so much time to make our fortune, and so little to the saving of our souls! “ What doth it avail a man to gain the whole world, and lose his soul?”
2. All creatures are made but for our salvation — they become useless when not employed for that great end: so that from the moment a man ceases to labour for his salvation, the sun also should cease to shine, the planets should stop in their course, the earth should no longer support him, the angels should abandon him; he should fall back into his original nothing. He is unworthy of life when he liveth not for God.
3. However, the greater part of mankind think less of saving themselves than of anything else. Every other business is carefully attended to, except
