The works of George Swinnock, M.A

Examination is the quickest way to bring the erring sheep home to the fold. Honest men will examine their weights and measures by the standard, that if they be defective they may be mended. The honest heart will examine its thoughts, its words, its actions by the Royal Law, that their unsuitableness to its strictness and latitude may be repented of, and to the utmost of its power reformed, Let us search and try our ways; ⟨p. 782⟩For what cause? What will be the issue of such a scrutiny? And turn again to the Lord, Lam. 3.39. What man will seek to a Physician, or accept his advice, or take his prescriptions, who doth not know himself distempered, and feel his disease? Tis examination of our hearts and lives, by the holy and pure Law of God, that gives thee knowledge of our spiritual sickness, and helpeth us to feel it, to prize our Physician, and thankfully and heartily to accept his directions for our cure.

Examination is the quickest way to bring the erring sheep home to the fold. Honest men will examine their weights and measures by the standard, that if they be defective they may be mended. The honest heart will examine its thoughts, its words, its actions by the Royal Law, that their unsutableness to its strictness and latitude may be repented of, and to the utmost of its power reformed, Let us search and try our ways; ⟨p. 782⟩For what cause? What will be the issue of such a scrutiny? And turn again to the Lord, Lam. 3.39. What man will seek to a Physitian, or accept his advice, or take his prescriptions, who doth not know himself distempered, and feel his disease? Tis examination of our hearts and lives, by the holy and pure Law of God, that gives thee knowledge of our spiritual sickness, and helpeth us to feel it, to prize our Physitian, and thankfully and heartily to accept his directions for our cure.