the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God." Do all in the name of the Lord Jesus to the glory of God.

3. Be good husbands of time, especially of opportunity time. Time is precious. Ask dying people. Ask damned people. An inch of time is worth a wedge of gold. I believe wherever God gives grace to a man, from that time he will value time at another rate than before. Especially value opportunities. These are the cream of time, whether of doing or getting good. Improve them. "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it." Eccles. ix. 10. Time may last, and opportunity be gone; "Go to the ant, thou sluggard." This present day is a price. I pray improve it. Think what shall I do for God, or for my soul, this day.

4. Be diligent in your callings. Each of us ought to have a calling. We are not to stand idle in the market-place of this world. The first Adam, heir apparent of the world, had a calling, so had the second Adam. For thirty years together our Lord worked with his supposed father in the trade of a carpen

ter. "Be diligent to know the state of thy flocks." Whatsoever your calling is, therein abide with God. Let it be never so mean, if honest, and followed diligently, with an eye to God, he accepts us. Take heed of inordinateness. Those are too busy who cannot find time from their calling to attend the service of God. Be industrious in the fear of God.

5. Look well to the duties of your particular relations. It is a certain truth, that you are really what you are relatively, as husbands and wives, parents and children, brothers and sisters, masters and servants, and fellow-servants. A well-ordered conversation discharges the duties of each of these relations with all might in the fear of God. "I and my house will serve the Lord," not only in immediate acts of worship, but in all family relations and duties. The second and third chapters of St. Peter's first Epistle are to direct in the several relations. All is comprised in one word, love. Walk in love, and dwell in love. There is no walking, no dwelling like this. They that dwell in love dwell in God, and shall be with him forever. A whole Psalm, the cxxxiii.; a whole chap ter, 1 Cor. xiii.; a whole book of Scripture,

the first Epistle of John, all written to commend brotherly love.

6. Be careful what company you keep. Psalm i. 1. Acts ii. 40. Be not delighted in that company that you would not be with for"I am a companion of all them that fear thee."

ever.

7. Set a watch over the door of thy lips. Psalm cxli. 2. By our words we shall be justified, by our words condemned. Some say, "Our lips are our own." Do not say so. Do not think so. The sound of the vessel discovers the emptiness of it. Those that are bound for Canaan must not speak the language of Ashdod. Be the first to begin good discourse, never the first to let it fall.

8. Acknowledge God in all thy ways. Knock at his door. Beg of him guidance and direction, success and a blessing. Ask at his mouth," Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" Own him in your successes. In your disappointments acknowledge him. The Lord is pleased to disappoint me in this.

9. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. I fear God hath a controversy with our nation about this. Our fights and our fires discover this so plainly, that he that runs may read. London fire began on the Sabbath

day. So did divers others. You will find: that, according as you keep the Sabbath, your worldly affairs succeed well or not; "Will a man rob God?"

10. Die daily. Let no day pass without some serious thoughts or words about death and the grave. This will help to make you serious. It was Paul's practice, "I die daily.” Do something every day to make your dying day comfortable.

11. Honour the Lord with thy substance; that is, dishonour him with no part of it, and pay him his rent out of it, in charity to the poor. They are God's receivers, and are always with us.

12. Make Christ your all in all. Make Christ your strength, to assist you in duty. Make him your righteousness, for nothing we do is, or can be, acceptable to God. None but Christ, none but Christ. I live upon him.

him.

I live by him. I live through

Mrs. Savage, a few years after her public profession of religion, commenced that particular series of writing, to which I am indebted for the most interesting parts of her biography. "August, 1686, I have had it," she remarks, "in my thoughts to do some

thing in the nature of a Diary, being encouraged by the advantages others have gained thereby, and the hope that I might be furthered by it in a godly life, and be more watchful over the frame of my heart when it must be kept on record. I would approve myself to God, who alone knows the sincerity of my heart. To him I have made my request known herein, and I heartily beg that what I shall at any time put down may be the true workings of my heart, and that I may in nothing bear false witness against myself."

The following year, March 28, 1687, she was married to Mr. John Savage, a respectable farmer and land agent, residing at Wrenbury-Wood, near Nantwich, in Cheshire. Her notice of the annual return of that day evinces much gratitude for the providential kindness which she experienced in the important change. She was not unequally yoked. Mr. Savage appears to have been a pious, active, and useful man. It was his custom, in addition to family and closet duties, to pray with his wife morning and evening, and it pleased God to continue them together on earth fortytwo years.

Mr. Henry, conformably to the pious cus