Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.

And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.

It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.