“Whether we may not try to persuade them to confirm and increase their industry, by communicating as often as they can?
“Whether we may not mention to them the authors whom we conceive to have wrote the best on those subjects?
“Whether we may not assist them, as we are able, from time to time, to form resolutions upon what they read in those authors, and to execute them with steadiness and perseverance?
“III. Whether, upon the considerations above-mentioned, we may not try to do good to those that are hungry, naked, or sick? In particular, whether, if we know any necessitous family, we may not give them a little food, clothes, or physic, as they want?
“Whether we may not give them, if they can read, a Bible, Common Prayer Book, or ‘Whole Duty of Man’?
“Whether, we may not, now and then, inquire how they have used them, explain what they do not understand, and enforce what they do?
“Whether we may not enforce upon them, more especially, the necessity of private prayer, and of frequenting the church and sacrament?
“Whether we may not contribute, what little we are able, toward having their children clothed and taught to read?
“Whether we may not take care that they be taught their catechism, and short prayers for morning and evening?
“IV. Lastly: whether, upon the considerations above-mentioned, we may not try to do good to those that are in prison? In particular, whether we may not release such well-disposed persons as remain in prison for small sums?