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If you should at any time be so unhappy as to violate your obligations to yourself, to your companions, or to me should you misimprove your time, or exhibit an unkind or a selfish spirit, or be disrespectful or insubordinate to your teachers, I should go frankly and openly, but kindly to you, and endeavor to convince you of your fault.
There should be a guarding against every thing that may obstruct this work, and grieve him in it; and therefore we would beware, To misimprove any measure of knowledge he giveth. To weary of the means and ordinances whereby he useth to convey knowledge into the soul.
Well, I did not misimprove my opportunities for knowledge, I believe; but, instead of gaining strength and manhood by my exemption from labor, I grew feebler and feebler.
The Lord may think good to suffer this, that his people may be kept humble, and made more tender and watchful in all their ways. Believers would not misimprove or abuse this great condescendency of free grace, and take the great liberty to sin, because there is such a sure, safe, and pleasant way of getting those sins blotted out and forgiven.
Do not say that you do the best that you can; for I am persuaded that there is none of you but may do more for Him than ye do. Do not say that ye improve the talent that He hath given you to trade with, for ye but misimprove it; and the best of you, we fear, come short of improving it. If ye improve it, ye should find it increase upon your hand, and you would appear like his children.
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