Here are the closing lines from this Puritan Prayer from The Valley of Vision. What a great way to live!
Help me to be in reality before thee as in appearance I am before men,
to be religious before I profess religion,
to leave the world before I enter the church,
to set my affections on things above,
to shun forbidden follies and vanities,
to be a dispenser as well as a partaker of grace,
to be prepared to bear evil as well as to do good.
O God, make me worthy of this calling,
that the name of Jesus may be glorified in me and I in him.
From The Valley of Vision, a collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions
