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2. The extent of this rule – "Whatsoever".
(a) Religion to enter into all our actions. "Whether ye eat or drink" &c. [et cetera]
(b) Are to be speaking & doing christians – not Ritualists, or mystics, or Monks, &c. [et cetera]
(c) The more pressed by toils, & labors, & trials, – the more nec. [necessary] is religion.
(d) Religion is glorifying God just where we are – must leave religion there
& practice it there. Navigator, Soldier, Pilot &c. [et cetera] (Quote.)
(e) Matter not contaminates – life & the world not evil, as such – powers,
passions, impulses given us for use; all are God's gifts to be used.

3. Propriety of the injunction.
(a) Lawyers – physicians – merchants – mechanics – auctioneers, –
printers – gardeners, – farmers – teachers – clerks – bankers – brokers –
all classes – too much dissever your daily thing from C. [Christ]. Nothing
sh'd [should] be tithed = all, all for religion.

(b) Heroes of the ch. [church] not to be made by running from the world – but
by taking all powers, ambitions, forces, associations into the arena – making
virtues of them, & fighting with them in the conflict for supremacy.

(c) Don't alway know just the motives & reasons of your conduct –
latent, hidden forces impel; hopes not thought of; remembrances,
anticipations, with no special connection sway us. Our faith sh'd [should]
rule over all these – should be a silent agent in our commonest
things. Here the exploration of cross purposes – inconsistent actions.

(d) Christians should not be timid, but bold to show religion better
than all pleasures, amusements, &c. [et cetera] – bec. [because] fitted for all our conditions.
The Christian life sh'd [should] be seen the broadest, most genial, most fully
furnished, of all the states of man.