Divers practical cases of conscience satisfactorily resolved ... to which are added some counsels…

Q. II. When others have their reserves in closing with Christ, do you give up all to him entirely? Have you taken Christ not hand over head, but deliberately, understandingly, sitting down first, and counting the cost? Have you not secret reserves for your own ease, safety, estates, esteem on some beloved sin? Have you upon solemn consideration accepted Christ as the Lord your righteousness, for better for worse, for all changes of times and conditions? to run all hazards with him, and to take your lot with him fall as it will?—

Q. III. When others are for a little of religion by the by, do you make religion your business? Do you not put off God with the worlds leavings? and serve him when you are at leisure? Must not God stand by while the world is first served? and are not your souls the least of your cares? and put off with some by scraps, and ends of your time? Is Religion your Trade, and your conversation in Heaven? ⟨p. 13⟩do you walk with God? or have you only now and then a turn with him? When you have ended your prayers, is there an end of your religion till you come to them again? or do you carry on a design of religion throughout your whole course? Have you only a list of religion at the outside the piece? or is the woof of religion woven into the whole cloth? into heart and life? into your discourse and trades and tables? do you first seek the kingdom of God and the righteousness thereof? Is it the chief care of your lives, that God be served, and your souls be saved? and is this the one thing necessary with you, that you chiefly mind, and are most solicitous about? Do your very hearts say with David, one thing have I desired of the Lord, that I will seek after, &c.—

Q. IV. When others are for the wages of religion, are you for the work? Can you say with David, I have chosen thy precepts? do your hearts come off freely in this choice? Had you rather be holy, than otherwise, if you were at your choice? had you rather be Gods servants and live at his command, then at your own lusts? Do you count the Laws of Christ your heritage, or rather do you not count them your bondage? Do you choose not only the wages of righteousness, but the ways of righteousness? Are Gods Commandments your delight? and are the sweetest hours of your lives, the hours you spend with him? Do you never enjoy your selves so much as when you most enjoy God? Is his service the greatest comfort, and is it meat and drink to you to do his will, (unless when you are not your selves in the time of temptation or desertion.) Do you make use of holy duties only as men do of Physic, when they are ill at