Puritan Wisdom

On I Peter 1:13 --

"O Let's winde our plummers (as the clock keeper) once every day, keep our mindes from being weighed down with the world, we must set apart some time to draw up our minde, especially Saturday night, not letting them down all the day following: We must so use the world, as not to run into evil for it, neither to neglect any duty to God, our Souls, our Families, our Neighbors, the Poor, or any other, we must use it to further us as the Pilgrim doth his staff: Learn we to prize Spiritual graces, which are the onely current coyne in the Countrey we are going to, yet is not the seeking of Gods Kingdom the way to hinder us of that which is meet, but rather the onely further: would we have done more than will do us good? But if we shall have less of the world, are we not more then enough recompenced, if we shall have more peace pf Conscience, more credit here, more favor with God, more joy in death?"

-- John Rogers, 75-76.