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IV. Use. 1. Then I pray cast back your Eye, and review these ten Particulars, and then turn ⟨p. 221⟩your Eyes inward upon your selves, and your behaviour in the Premises. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, Consider your Ways, Hag. 1. 5. Hath the Fear of God accompanied you into your Shops, to the Exchange, every where? What hath been your inward frame? How have you exercised Faith? What care hath been taken of God's Worship? What Rule have you observed, and what Ends have you propounded? What spiritual use have you made of earthly things in your Callings? How have you kept the Sabbath? what Watchfulness? what Ejaculations? what Exercise of Grace? what Good have you promoted, or what Sins have you prosecuted? Of these things you will be examined, when you cannot avoid answering. It were better to judg your selves, than to be judged by the Lord. The Day is at hand, when the Secrets of all Hearts, and the Ways of all Men will be discovered, and impartial Sentence pronounced. And if you do reflect in good earnest, I conclude that you will see cause to abhor your selves, and to repent in Dust and Ashes. You will find that some of you have been so far from being religious in your Callings, that you have been earthly in your Devotions: there you can spare some Looks and Thoughts about the things of this World, when in your Vocations, you will scarce lift up one Look or Thought to a better; instead of mixing Prayers with your Cares, you have mingled Cares with your Prayers. Nay in many of your Houses no Prayers at all; lest you should be accounted Fanatics, you choose to be Profanaticks. Where's any constant praying? If every Door ⟨p. 222⟩were but marked, where there is no Prayer within, I fear many Houses would stand crossed as for the Plague, with a Lord have Mercy upon us, written upon them. We have had the Gospel in Power and Purity now above an hundred and twenty Years, and there is yet so much bare-faced Wickedness, and so little of the Power of Godliness, that the Lord may justly say to us, as he did to the old World, Gen. 6. 3. My Spirit shall no more strive with Man.

IV. Ʋse. 1. Then I pray cast back your Eye, and review these ten Particulars, and then turn