Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

5 Be earnest with God in Prayer, that he would help thee in this search, that he would discover and make known unto thee the Sin,¹ or Sins at which he especially aimeth; thus did Job, Show me, saith he, wherefore thou contendest with me; i. e. for what Sin or Sins thou dost thus afflict me. And afterwards he cries out in his afflictions, Make me to know my transgression, and my sin. ²In like manner do thou in thine affliction fly unto God by Prayer, beseeching him to show unto thee wherefore he doth so contend with thee, and to make known unto thee what is thy transgression, and thy sin, that hath provoked his displeasure against thee.

5 Be earnest with God in Prayer, that hee would help thee in this search, that he would discover and make known unto thee the Sin,¹ or Sins at which he especially aymeth; thus did Iob, Shew me, saith he, wherefore thou contendest with me; i. e. for what Sin or Sins thou dost thus afflict me. And afterwards he cries out in his afflictions, Make me to know my transgression, and my sin. ²In like manner doe thou in thine affliction fly unto God by Prayer, beseeching him to shew unto thee wherefore he doth so contend with thee, and to make known unto thee what is thy transgression, and thy sin, that hath provoked his displeasure against thee.

1. 1Job 10. 2
2. 2Job 13. 23

III. Having fo•nd out the particular Sin God amed at in thine affliction, then go and confess it unto God in Prayer, with the aggravating circumstances thereof; freely judging and condemning