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profaneness, the downfall of error, fulfil you my joy, in going through with this duty.

Will you answer the calls of divine providence? Would you remove the incumbent, or prevent the impending calamities? Would you plant nurseries for the church of God? Would you that God should build your houses, and bless your substance? Would you that your children should bless you? O then set up piety in your families, as ever you would be blessed, or be a blessing: let your hearts and your houses be the temples of the living God, in which his worship (according to all the said mentioned directions) may be with constancy reverently performed. Prov. xxix. 1. He that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. Oh, be wise in time, that you be not miserable to eternity.

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WHEREBY A CHRISTIAN MAY EVERY DAY EXAMINE HIMSELF.

Commune with your hearts upon your beds. Ps. iv. 4.

EVERY evening before you sleep (unless you find some other time of the day more for your advantage in this work) sequester yourself from the world; and having set your hearts in the presence of the Lord, charge it before God to answer to these interrogatories.

For your Duties.

Question 1. Did not God find me on my bed when he looked for me on my knees?Job i. 5. Ps. v. 3.

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Q. 2. Have not I prayed to no purpose, or suffered wandering thoughts to eat out my du ties? Matt. xv. 8, 9. Jer. xii. 2.

Q. 3. Have not I neglected, or been very slovenly in the reading of God's holy word? Deut. xvii. 18. Josh. i. 7, 8.

Q. 4. Have I digested the sermon I heard last? Have I repeated it over, and prayed it over? Luke ii. 19, 51. Ps. i. 2, and exix. 5, 11, 97.

Q. 5. Was there not more of custom and fashion in my family duties, than of conscience? Ps. ci. 2. Jer. xxx. 21.

Q. 6. Wherein have I denied myself this day for God? Luke ix. 23.

Q. 7. Have I redeemed my time from too long or needless visits, idle imaginations, fruitless discourse, unnecessary sleep, more than needs of the world? Eph. v. 16. Col. iv. 5.

Q. 8. Have I done any thing more than ordinary for the church of God, in this time extraordinary ? 2 Cor. xi. 28. Isa, vi. 2. 6. Q. 9. Have I took care of my company ? Prov. xiii. 20. Ps. exix. 63.

Q. 40. Have not I neglected or done something against the duties of my relations, as a master, servant, husband, wife, parent, child, &c.? Eph. v. 22, to chap. vi. verse 10. Col. iii. 18, to chap. iv. verse 2.

For your Sins.

Q. 1. Doth not sin sit light?-Ps. xxxviii. 4. Rom. vii. 24.

Q. 2. Am I a mourner for the sins of the land? Ezek. ix. 4. Jer. ix. 1, 2, 3.

Q. 3. Do I live in nothing that I know or fear to be a sin? Ps. cxix. 101, 104.

For your Heart.

Q1. Have I been much in holy ejaculations? Neh. ii. 4, 5.

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Q. 2. Hath not God been out of mind? heaven out of sight? Ps. xvi. 8. Jer. ii. 32. Col. iii. 1, 2.

Q. 3. Have I been often looking into mine own heart, and made conscience even of vain thoughts? Prov. iii. 23. Ps. cxix. 118.

Q. 4. Have I not given way to the workings of pride or passion? 2 Chron. xxxii. 26.James iv. 5, 6, 7.

For your Tongue.

Q. 1. Have I bridled my tongue, and forced it in? James i. 26, and iii. 2, 3, 4. Psa. xxxix. 1.

Q. 2. Have I spoke evil of no man? Tit. iii. 2. James iv. 11.

Q. 3. Hath the law of the Lord been in my mouth as I sat in my house, went by the way, was lying down, and rising up? Deut. vi. 6, 7.

Q. 4. Is there no company I come into, but I have dropped something of God, and left some good savour behind? Col. iv. 6. Eph. iv. 29.

For your Table.

Q. 1. Did not I sit down with no higher end than a beast, merely to please my appetite? Did I eat and drink to the glory of God? 1 Cor. x. 31.

Q. 2. Was not my appetite too hard for me? Jude 12. 2 Pet. i. 6.

Q. 3. Did not I arise from the table without dropping any thing of God there? Luke vii. 36, and xiv. 1, &c. John vi.

Q. 4. Did not I mock God when I pretended to crave a blessing and return thanks ?Acts xxvii. 25, 38. Matt. xv. 36. Col. iii. 17, 23.

For your Calling.

Q. 1. Have I been diligent in the duties of my calling? Eccl. ix. 1 Cor. vii. 17, 20, 24. Q. 2. Have I defrauded no man? 1 Thess. iv. 6. 1 Cor. vi. 8.

Q. 3. Have I dropped never a lie in my shop or trade? Prov. xxviii. 6. Eph. iv. 25. Q. 4. Did not I rashly make, nor falsely break some promise? Ps. cvi. 33. Josh. ix. 14, &c. Ps. xv. 4.

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