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Often bring your selves to the Trials of a Self-Examination. Tis the Charge of God, in 2. Cor. 13. 5. Examine your selves whether you be in the Faith; prove your own selves. Your souls are as Vessels, then Pierce them to see what they have. Your souls are as Metals, then Touch them to see what they are▪ Such are the Allusions of the Holy Spirit there. Know thy self, was a golden Rule of Old, and it will make a golden Saint when we make much use of that Rule, Try thy self. We are to use the Word of God as a Glass in which we are to behold our selves; and we are often to compare our selves with what is therein required of us. When we are in a Meditation, as we should every day be upon some Truths of God, we should then examine ourselves, Whether we are moulded according thereunto. And when we are under a Visitation, as we sometimes are, by the Rods of God, we should then Examine our selves, as they that of Old said, Let us now search and try our ways. Especially when we are approaching to the Table ⟨p. 100⟩of the Lord, Self-Examination is not then to be omitted. So hath the Apostle urged, in 1. Cor. 11. 28. Let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. Tis a fearful Impiety and Presumption, for a man to sit down at the Holy Supper without enquiring, Have I a Wedding garment on, or no? Yea tis convenient for a man every Evening, before he sleeps to examine himself and ask, If I die this night, is my immortal spirit safe? O tremble exceedingly least your doom should be that in