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An
Enquiry
after
a
mans
e
ate.
can
ye
k.
oro
?
No?
then your
egate
is
very
bad:
find
out
force
good
toke
s
in
you
except you
be
reprobates.T
his
command
makes
it
a
clear
duty.
But
a
fécond
reat'on
to
prove it our
duty
to
enquire what
elate
we
are in,
is,
becaufe
without
the knowledge
thereof
we
can
never
have
any
true
peace
in
our
confciences
:
The
confci-
ence
:Huff
needs be
without
peace, io
long
as
we
are
ignorant
of
what eftate
we
are
in
:
Being
juftified
by
faith
we
have
peace
with
cod
through
our
Lord
?efus
Orig.
Firit the Apoltle
(hew
-
eth their
estate
;
they were
in
a Efate
of
yuf
ification
:
and from
the
knowledge
thereof
they had
Peace.
We are
bound
to
get
true
peace
to
our
confciences
;
Oh, what
a
lamentable
maze
are we
in
till
our
confciences.
have
peace?and this
they
cannot
have
untill
we are fully
acquainted
in
what
cafe we
ítand before
God:
Acquaint
thy
(èl
f
with
God
and
he
at
peace.
3.
Thirdly,
we can never be
fit
for
any
duty
of Gods
wor-
(hip,
as
long
as
we
know not
what eitate
we
are
in
:
We
can
never be
fit
for
any holy
duty
to
beare, pray,
receive
the
Sacra-
ment
:
Let a
man examine
himfelfe andfo
let
him
eat,
&c.
Fir{t,
he
mutt examine
in
what
estate he is
before
he
can
be fit
for
that
high
fervice.
So
for
repentance
:
Let
us
/earch and
try our ways,
and
turn
again
to
the
Lord:
firít find
our
felves in
an
ill
eflate,
and
then
So
for
joy
;
it
is
a
duty
to
rejoyce
in
the
Lord
:
But we
are
never
fit
for
re}oycing,
till
we
have
proved
what
&ítate
we are
in
:
Let
ev'rJ
man prove his
own arorh_
o
"hall
he
have
rejoycing.
We
can
never'he
fit
for
any
duty
until( we
know
in
what citate
we are
in
becaufe
every dirty varieth
ac-
cording
as
the estate
of
every man is.To
inítance
in
prayer
;
He
that
is
not
in
the
'late
of
grace
mull
pray one
way and
he
that
is
in
the
'late
of
salvation mull
pray anotl.er
way
:
the one
that
he may
be converted and
brought
home
to God
;
the
o-
ther that
he may be
ftrengthned
and
.inc.ea{
d
in
grace. And
fo
for
the
duty
of
bearing,
&c.
The íecond
Life
is
for direction to
let
us
underhand
by
what
means we
may
know
what
eílate
we are
in,
There
be
foure
means
to know
this.
C
2
Roani
5.
a.
I.Cor.II.
28.
Lain.
3,4o
Gal.
6.4.
Vfe
of
Di.
rec`lion.