Three Rules for a Holy Life.
By H. Venn
WHOEVER desires to persevere and increase in the fear of the Lord, and the comfort of the Holy Ghost, to live in hope that maketh not ashamed, must be diligent in secret prayer; must constantly read the Holy Scriptures, begging the Most High to explain them and give faith in them: and must walk with those who walk conscientiously before God—who are always aspiring to what they have not attained—in whose manner, spirit, and discourse, there is what reaches the heart, and tends to humble, quicken, and comfort the soul. In all my reading and acquaintance for forty years with religious people, I never saw an instance of one decaying and coming to nothing, who observed these rules—never saw one who presumed, on any consideration, to give over attention to them, who did not fall away.—H. Venn.