Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those solid, lively, heavenly treatises which best expound and apply the scriptures, and next, credible histories, especially of the Church... but take heed of false teachers who would corrupt your understandings.

A Christian Directory, Or, A Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of Conscience: Christian ethics, (or private duties) (ed. 1825)