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Dr. Doddridge set down in his memorandum book hints, as they occurred to him, of what might be done for the good of his congregation. At the close of the year he took a large and distinct view of its state, wrote some remarks on it, and laid down rules for his future conduct in his relation to it.—Orton’s Life, ch. v. ‘Were the Lord to make me young again’ (said Mr. Brown on his death-bed), ‘I think I should study to devise some other means for gaining souls, than those which I have used, and to prosecute them with more activity than I ever did.’—Life and Remains, p. 287. ‘If an angel’ (says Cotton Mather) ‘were in the flesh, as I am, and in such a post as mine, what methods would he use to glorify God!’ One of Plato’s qualifications for his disciple—filoponov—(De Repub. Lib. vi.) illustrates the industry, interest, and labour of the whole heart concentrated in the work of God. ‘The Devil in the last day shall rise against us in condemnation, for he has been more careful to gain souls, than we have been to save them.’ Bernard.