Queftions and Anfwers 4. Command. WNW The examination of the Confcience. HE profitable vfe andapplication of this Commaundement, is to way and duely confider that it is thelasie of no man , but of God the chiefefl lstw- giuer, the wifefl, moll righteous, andmoflabk to reuenge, inflituted of pia- . pofeby him for thefe and fuck Of ender. _ 7< Firfl that we fhould mho) confecrate as that day our [cluesveto the Lord, and his f ruice, hearing, reading, andmeditating thofe thinges, which .nigh:ley be. fore vs the goodneffe of almighty God towards vs, and ourgreat ingratitude to him opine, with all other fnnes, whereby wee haste prouoked him to wrath, /firms vp our heartes to truerepentance for them,and amendment of the fame. Secbnd/y, for the tuft of feruantsand cattell, which otherwife by the vnmercifullgree- dtnefJèanderueltyof fome, might happily bee abufed. Lally, to expreffe and lay before vsfame fhowe ofthat fpirituall and eternallreflin What it is to Heauen,which wee all fo looks andlong for. Thentheft thinges confidered,to call to mmde be abfent howeoften andgrieuoufy we haue offended again!leuery one of theft, asagainfl the firffby from Church, abfenting our Jellies from the Church, and place of common mesting, when we misbehave and place of beeneprefent, if weewou(d, a veryhorrrble thing, if we could dueyregardand thinke oat if. Common Forwhat is it but to conteñene God and his wifedome, to flriue and fight againfl the ¡ping prayer. seething and eomarting men by the mini lerie of theworde , androgen ineffell to fay tam ws wife andgody, as either he can make me, or fhall make : Iwillnone of his grace., yYhat.is it but to giue agrieuourefencetoothers, for the which the lutingGodhangetb4 woe osier our heades? faying, Woe be to him bywhome offence commeth : it were better for that perfon to haue a milffone tyed about his necke, and to be cart intothe bottom: ofthe.Sea ::/Ind agame, It were good for that man if he had neuer been: borne. what isitbistro feedetheDinelshumour, andto doe that thing, that moflhight, ple.ifeth him ? n4gaine, to oonfrder bow wee baste of ended,when wewere prefent at Church by negligent and eoldeperformance ofthat thing, which time, place, and dutitrequiredat our bandes. flame wee neuer come to the bearing of the word: , but with reucrence, with willing defire, preparingour heartes before vote rt by foros feeret prayer within cur 'doses, to the Lord, that bee wouldileffe the fpeaker, that he may f eake to our heartes and bhp vs, that wee may attentiuely hearken, profitably feele , and thankefully taking whatfoeuer irfpoken, increafe in obedience to it ? Hato: weenetoercometo theSacraments, whenwe could, and neuer without fuch examination, and other circumflancer, as are flraightly required of a Chriflian. ? llaue wee fpent the Sa6aoth ingodly conference and meditation, powring out thanker from a feeling foule for the Lords goodnefe weer to vi , and name y for the weekepaffed ? Haaeweevilitedor thought vponrhefacke, fore, difeafed,imprife_ ned,6an ed, oranywayfufferingforagoodeaufe,efrtootrpowercomfortedthem ? Haut wee fludyed how either to procure or continue or rncreafe among{ lour feines ,or our neigh_ hours the means of faluation,. as the preaching of the morde, and fuch like ? 0 belóued, wee haue not, wee nowe it and mu jf .cedes confeffe it, i f there be any trueth in vs. Too inrteh haste wee needled d all there , yea mendiners of them, it isgreatly robe feared, baue little or neuer eta/i troubled ourhtudes : but for their contraries in moll full meafurewee bane. wallowed in them, and withgreedoneffé euer aceomplfbed them. Where is the Minifler whole negligence hash not made his people to pollute the Sabeoth ? Whereistbe people whofeconfciecoces'amaked, may not iieflycondemn:them for vogodly gadding on this dayto Church -Ales, toweddongs, to Drinkings, to Banquets, so Fairer dud Markets, to flage- Player, to Beare-baitings, and Summer games, andfuch like ? Where is that man- fer that bath not had a confcience to reflraine his firuantes from this impiety , or the ;Peewit againethat bath .either bridled hrmfelfe for the Lords caufe, orelfe welt occepred his maflerormif refJe ref rains beingmade vitto horn und which bath not rather turf? out in- to vnlodl, yandd ÿebedient f ouches murmurmgthat decaufe be bath wrought all theweeke, therefore
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