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…

I Look back into thy former course of life, and call to mind the ⟨p. 66⟩manifold aberrations thereof; as the vanity of thy thoughts, how vain and empty how carnal and profane they have been; as also the unsavouriness of thy words and speeches, how Godless, and Christless, yea how unprofitable they have been for the most part; as also the wickedness of thine actions. And in examining thy self concerning thine actions, call to mind, as thy sinful Omissions, and Commissions, I mean, as what Duties thou hast omitted, and what Sin• thou hast committed; so likewise thy sinful manner of performing holy Duties, how thy most religious Services have had a mixture of Sin in them. Likewise run over the several Ages of thy life, and consider what Sins thou committedst in thy Childhood, what in thy Youth, and what in thy riper years.

I Look back into thy former course of life, and call to mind the ⟨p. 66⟩manifold aberations thereof; as the vanity of thy thoughts, how vain and empty how carnal and prophane they have been; as also the unsavouriness of thy words and speeches, how Godless, and Christless, yea how unprofitable they have been for the most part; as also the wickedness of thine actions. And in examining thy self concerning thine actions, call to mind, as thy sinful Omissions, and Commissions, I mean, as what Duties thou hast omitted, and what Sin• thou hast committed; so likewise thy sinful manner of performing holy Duties, how thy most religious Services have had a mixture of Sin in them. Likewise run over the several Ages of thy life, and consider what Sins thou committedst in thy Childhood, what in thy Youth, and what in thy riper years.

And together with the number of thy Sins, consider the aggravating circumstances of them; as how thou hast sinned against a gracious God, a loving Father, and bountiful Lord and Master; how thou hast sinned against the admonitions of Gods Ministers, the motions of his Spirit, and the checks of thine own Conscience; against the patience and long-suffering of God, which should have lead thee to repentance; against the manifold vows and promises thou hast made unto God for newness of life, and better obedience; and how thou hast sinned out of a presumptuous hope of mercy, making the mercy of God an occasion of Sin, and thereby turned the very grace of God into wantonness. Thus go on aggravating thy sins, till thou find thine heart in some measure affected with grief and sorrow for the same; and then,