C ha p 4.Se&.r. Of the Nature of Self-tryal. • - ' E have done with Watchfulnefs; the eye that overrees and direc'ls all 0: ther Dmies: Now to the· Duties thcmfelves ; wherein we lhall.{ol– low this Method: r. To confider them as in ref:orence ·to private: perfons: 2. As i_n reference to Famili~s : .3. As m reference. to publique Afl'embltes. The Phtlofopher m hts method of Prachcal . Philofophy, firfl:handles Ethicb.J, in reference to particular perfons: and then he proceeds to his Oeconomicb.J, in reference to Families ;and latHy, to his Poluic/z!, in reference toCities and Countreys. Ofmany particulars a– rife a Family; of many Families is cpn.l:ituted a City; The fame order lhaU we fol· low in thcfe Divine Arts, of our Ethic/z!, Oeconomic/z!, and ·Politic/t,}, And we lhaiJ firll handle Ditties in reference to pJrticular perfons; of which fort are the(c : { 1 Self-tryal, 2: Self-deny;<!, 3 Experiences. '{4: Evidences, 5· Meditation. 6. Life ofFaith• . The flrlt Duty is Sclf-tryal : And for our better direction inth( exercire of thls Dmy, ~r. The Nature, 2. The Objects. obferve we 3. The Man11er. , . 4· The Time ofit. . · For the .Nature of it, Stlj-tryal, is a kjndc of judiciary proceeding, in whic·h 11 mait k.eepcth pnvate Sejfions at home, pajfinga Sentence on his Tho,.ghts, Words, and Adi. ons. Or, for more dill:in:t knowledge, two forts ofalions are'implyed in tqis Dutyof TrJ•al, · · SEjfcntiai. fome ~ Accidental • I. Oftheformer fort, or of Ejf'entials, ilre'lDjfl 1 ·Hjfion; th fl h .npp """on. · e e t ree Cmfure. r· Difw!Jion is a fifting of our life_ and dealings, by which we'.pull things out of the, heap, where bef?re they l~y confufed, and unfcen, and by,which we fet every fact of ours mopen vx_ew, th_at it may \Je fcanned, and fce 11 by it fclf what it is. . z · Appl,cauont~ a laymg of thefe acts, thus fea(ched and found: out, to the R.ule of Gods law, whtch ts the Touch-lloue of all our doings, and according to which God wdl judge us at the lafl: day.. . . . l· Ce(lfitre IS the judgment that_our Minds & Confciences give upon our Thoug' ts, Wo.rds and deeds, .accordmg to t~e Rule of the ~aw. Thefethree laiJ together, m 1 k.e up tn~ nature of thts work of Examin,.tion, or Self-try"/: So that we may not unqtly <l&rwe 1t out of xts own Principles, thus ,._.--- p Stlf• .
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