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This is a sort of thrift or good-husbandry in moral life, which does not throw away any single Action, but makes every one go as far as it can. It multiplies the means of salvation, increases the number of our Virtues, and diminishes that of our vices.

If then We apply a good intention to all our most indifferent Actions, we make our very existence one continued act of obedience, we turn our diversions and amusements to our eternal advantage, and are pleasing Him (whom we are made to please) in all the circumstances and occurences of life.

It is this exellent frame of mind, which is recommended to us by the Apostle in that uncommon precept, wherein he directs us to propose to ourselves the glory of our Creator in all our most indifferent Actions, (whether we eat, or drink, or Whatsoever we do.)

A person therefore who is possessed with such an habitual good Intention, as that which I have been here speaking of, enters upon no single circumstance of life, without considering it as well pleasing to the great Author of his Being, comformable to the dictates of reason, suitable to human nature in general or to that particular station in which Providence has placed him. He lives in a perpetual sense of the Divine