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title: 'William Traill’s Counsel on the Christian Life'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2023-10-20
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2023-william-traills-counsel-on-the-christian-life
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# William Traill’s Counsel on the Christian Life

“Follow Christ, by taking up the cross that he has appointed for you, and by faith lean upon him for strength and succour, to bear you up under its burden from day to day. Observe your daily deficiencies and short-comings, and press forward that you may know more of the spirit, life, and power of every duty. Keep constant watch against your easily-besetting sins, and take heed that, by a sudden surprisal, they do not prevail against you. Particularly inquire whether you are not tempted to unbelief, and calling in question almost every truth — whether you are not sinfully jealous of the love of God to your soul, after the multiplied evidences of his care — whether affected diffidence, impatient haste, rash and uncharitable censures of others, are not found in your heart— whether you regard the proper season for every duty, and daily labour to ‘redeem the time’ — whether in circumstances of difficulty you ask yourself, what would my Lord and Saviour have done in this case? and do likewise whether you mind his own blessed rule, ‘Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.’ Learn to remember your latter end, ‘to die daily’ — adventure upon nothing but what appears to be your duty, both lawful and seasonable, and such as you would adventure upon, if you had but a day to live.” — [**William Traill**](/authors/william-traill), *Necessary and Excellent Advice About Some Duties* (1708, 1841)