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A most familiar explanation of the Assemblies shorter catechism wherein their larger answers are…
A most familiar explanation of the Assemblies shorter catechism wherein their larger answers are broken into lesser parcels, thereby to let in the light by degrees into the minds of the learners : to which is added in the close, a most brief help for the necessary but much neglected duty of self-examination to be daily perused : and to this is subjoined a letter of Christian counsel to a destitute flock / by Jos. Allaine.
London: printed for Edw. Brewster, 1674
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
An Addition of some brief Directions for the Morning.
D. 1. If through necessity or carelessness you have omitted the reading and weighing of these questions in the Evening, be sure to do it now. D. 2. Ask your self, what sin have I committed? what duty have I omitted? Against which of these Rules have I offended in the day foregoing? And renew your repentance, and double your watch. D. 3. Examine whether God were last in your thoughts when you went to sleep; and first, when you awoke. D. 4. Enquire whether your care of your heart and ways doth increase upon your constant using of this course for self-examination, or whether it doth abate, and you grow more remiss. D. 6. Impose a task of some good meditation upon your selves while you are making ready, either to go over these Rules in your thoughts, or the heads of the Sermon you heard last, or the holy meditations for the purpose in the practice of Piety, or Scudders daily walk. D. 6. Set your ends right for all that day. D. 7. Set your watch, especially against those sins and temptations that you are like to be most incident to, that day.
D. 1. If through necessity or carelesness you have omitted the reading and weighing of these questions in the Evening, be sure to do it now. D. 2. Ask your self, what sin have I committed? what duty have I omitted? Against which of these Rules have I offended in the day foregoing? And renew your repentance, and double your watch. D. 3. Examine whether God were last in your thoughts when you went to sleep; and first, when you awoke. D. 4. Enquire whether your care of your heart and ways doth increase upon your constant using of this course for self-examination, or whether it doth abate, and you grow more remiss. D. 6. Impose a task of some good meditation upon your selves while you are making ready, either to go over these Rules in your thoughts, or the heads of the Sermon you heard last, or the holy meditations for the purpose in the practice of Piety, or Scudders daily walk. D. 6. Set your ends right for all that day. D. 7. Set your watch, especially against those sins and temptations that you are like to be most incident to, that day.