A Memorial of a Christian Life - Containing All That a Soul Newly Converted to God Ought to Do, That It May Attain the Perfection to Which It Ought to Aspire; In Four Books #247041

This has made me a long time desirous to see in some one book the manner of forming a perfect christian, in order that such a book might be, as it were, an abridgment of what ever belongs to the conduct of a christian in this life. For as good workmen take care to furnish themselves with all instruments, na cessary for their trade, and as those who ap ply themselves to any art or science, do ail they can to have some book in which'they may find whatever concerns the knowledge they would acquire, that they may ease their me mory by enclosing it, as it were, in one only' place; so it seems to me very expedient to do the same in the science of Christianity, which is the art of arts, and science of sciences, to the end, such as desire to serve God. Sincere ly, having this little treatise, may find in it light enough for the direction of their lives; and that the preachers and confessors, who are zealous for the public, may, without much pains, draw from it whatever is necessary for the infusing of true piety into the souls of their hearers.