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1. Though I have been laborious in my literary inquiries, and have possessed myself of a great number of valuable books and manuscripts upon all ancient subjects, yet I can rest the happiness of my soul on none of them except the Holy Scriptures.
2. Every morning, read seriously and reverently a portion of the Holy Scriptures, and acquaint yourselves with the history and doctrine thereof. It is a book full of light and wisdom, will make you wise to eternal life, and furnish you with directions and principles to guide and order your life safely and prudently.
3. Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read any other book, and I as rarely felt the want of any other.
4. The first and almost the only book deserving universal attention is the Bible...the Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life.
5. The deathless Book has survived three great dangers: the negligence of its friends; the false systems built upon it; the warfare of those who have hated it.
6. Explain the Scriptures by the Scriptures.
7. Believe God's word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences.
8. The Word of God is plain in itself; and if there appear any obscurity in one place, the Holy Ghost, which is never contrarious to Himself, explains the same more clearly in other places.
9. The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight.
10. It is a great thing, this reading of Scriptures! For it is not possible to ever exhaust the mind of the Scriptures. It is a well that has no bottom.
