Read the History of Your Own Life
Ah sirs, let me tell you, there is not such a pleasant history for you to read in all the world, as the history of your own lives, if you would but sit down and record to yourselves from the beginning hitherto, what God hath been to you, and done for you: what signal manifestations and out-breakings of his mercy, faithfulness, and love, there have been in all the conditions you have passed through; If your hearts do not melt before you have gone half through that history, they are hard hearts indeed.
The Mystery of Providence
p. 416-417
John Flavel. “Divine Conduct: Or, the Mystery of Providence, Opened in a Treatise Upon Psal. 57:2.” In The Whole Works of the Reverend John Flavel, Volume 4, London: W. Baynes and Son, 1820.