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{The Application
Application for the Godly
The Right Improvement of Holy Duties}
I will next direct you to make a right improvement of duties.
Godliness does not consist merely in praying, meditating, or examining one’s heart and life. There is a further purpose that these duties have and must accomplish: a holy life. A holy life is the purpose and goal to which our holy duties are to lead and help us toward. That they may do so, take these following two directions.
First, whenever you set yourself to your duties, resolve to vigorously strive to enjoy such perceptible communion with God in them that you may leave in a better and more spiritual frame of heart than before.
Second, when you have gotten your hearts to any better frame in duty, be careful to keep up that better frame after the duty.
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