Rules of Living

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 12, 1865

Rules of Living.—Hugh Peters, an English preacher of the seventeenth century, left as a legacy to his daughter, in the year 1660, some rules of living, of which other persons would reap the benefit if they would conform to his excellent standard: "Let thy thoughts be divine, awful, godly; thy talk little, honest, true; thy works profitable, holy, charitable; thy manners grave, courteous, cheerful; thy diet temperate, convenient, frugal; thy apparel sober, neat, comely; thy will confident, obedient, ready; thy sleep moderate, quiet, seasonable; thy prayers short, devout, often, fervent; thy recreation lawful, brief, seldom; thy memory, of death, punishment, glory."