The happiness of a life wholly devoted unto God, farther proved, from the vanity, and ridiculous, poor enjoyments which they are forced to take up with, who live according to their own humours. This represented in various characters.
That not only a life of vanity, or sensuality, but even the most regular kind of life, that is not governed by great devotion, sufficiently shews its miseries, its wants and emptiness to the eyes of all the world. This represented in various characters.
Concerning that part of devotion which relates to times and hours of prayer. Of daily early prayer in the morning. How we may improve our forms of prayer, and increase the spirit of devotion.
Recommending devotion at nine o’clock in the morning, called, in scripture, the third hour of the day. The subject of these prayers may be humility.
Shewing how the education which men generally receive, makes the doctrines of humility difficult to be practised. The spirit of a better education represented in the character of Paternus.