V/4 2 `.or. i. rz, z7i pitant, hafty and paffionate ; when he hath been in com- pany with others, when he may have had more than or- dinary occafions of provocation, he would there more par- ticularly look back, and fee what his way hath been, or what bath efcaped him in fuch company. idly, A man would efpecially try and examine himfelf in reference to fuch fins as he bath been form;,rly given to, and againft which he bath particularly engaged himfelf; and, as the more folemn the ty and engagement bath been, he Ihould watch the more againft them, fo alto examine the more, if he hath been intangled in them So fay the people of God, Pfal. 44. i 7. All this is come upon us, yet have eve not forgotten thee, neither have sue dealt fa /y in thy covenant. There were many particular failings in their way, which doubtlefs they reffe&ed on ; but efpecially they try how they had carried in their engagements to God, becaufe they knew that any more grofs failing in thefe would have much influence on God's dishonour, and on the wounding of their own peace : Whatever we re- fled on in our way, we would not negle& nor omit our engagements to God, but would narrowly look back and examine how thefe have been obferved. 4thly, Men would especially try and examine thern- felves in thefe things that caufe or occafion challenges to them ; it there be a particular challenge for any thing, that is füre a particular call narrowly to try that thing, whether wé have been right in it or not I do not fay, but a challenge may be, where there is no juft ground for it, (and we may be called to try, where we are not ro take with a challenge, where there is no ground for it) but often we are wife behind the hand, and precipitant ; and, when we have not adverted before -hand to prevent the ground of a challenge, the challenge than comes to' put us particularly to examine and try what bath been right or wrong in our carriage, in filch a particular. sthly, What may occafion, or probably bring on forne crois, should put a man ro try, that when the crois comes'' he may have peace, in fo far that he hath not meddled with fuch a thing without a clear calling. bthiy, That which probably may be a caufe, or at leaft an occafion of contending with, or of reproach from or of offence to
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