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…

It is said of the Viper, that when she goeth to join with her Mare, she casteth out all her poison. How much more oughtest thou, when thou goest to have communion with thy heavenly Spouse, the Lord Jesus Christ, cast out thy sins, which are a spiritual poison, worse than the poison of any Viper? In this Examination, as thou must search after thine evil thoughts, wo•ds, and deeds, and after thy sins of omission and commission, so likewise and especially after the sins thou hast committed since thy last receiving of the blessed Sacrament, and such as are most against the vows and covenants that formerly thou madest with God, and which do most gaul thy conscience, or most disgrace thy profession, or are greatest occasions of dulling thy spirit; that these being found out, they may be the more lamented, and pardon for them more earnestly desired. In the examining thy self, it will be a good help to read such a Treatise as doth in particular set out the several sins against the several Commandments. For when by such a Treatise thou art showed that such a thing is a sin against such a Commandment, thy conscience will, upon the reading of such sins, tell thee, that therein thou hast sinned. Having examined and searched thine heart thoroughly of all thy known sins, then humble thy self before the Throne of Grace, in a true and unfeigned acknowledgement, and confession of them, freely judging and condemning thy self before God, with a broken and contrite heart. Directions to help thee in the right manner of confessing thy sins, See in Chap. 20.

It is said of the Viper, that when she goeth to joyn with her Mare, she casteth out all her poison. How much more oughtest thou, when thou goest to have communion with thy heavenly Spouse, the Lord Jesus Christ, cast out thy sins, which are a spiritual poison, worse than the poison of any Viper? In this Examination, as thou must search after thine evil thoughts, wo•ds, and deeds, and after thy sins of omission and commission, so likewise and especially after the sins thou hast committed since thy last receiving of the blessed Sacrament, and such as are most against the vows and covenants that formerly thou madest with God, and which do mostgaul thy conscience, or most disgrace thy profession, or are greatest occasions of dulling thy spirit; that these being found out, they may be the more lamented, and pardon for them more earnestly desired. In the examining thy self, it will be a good help to read such a Treatise as doth in particular set out the several sins against the several Commandements. For when by such a Treatise thou art shewed that such a thing is a sin against such a Commandement, thy conscience will, upon the reading of such sins, tell thee, that therein thou hast sinned. Having examined and searched thine heart thorowly of all thy known sins, then humble thy self before the Throne of Grace, in a true and unfeigned acknowledgement, and confession of them, freely judging and condemning thy self before God, with a broken and contrite heart. Directions to help thee in the right manner of confessing thy sins, See in Chap. 20.