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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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Quest. 2. What is Self-examination?
Resp. It is a setting up a Court in Conscience, and keeping a Register there, that by a strict Scrutiny a Man may see how Matters stand between God and his Soul. Self-examination is a Spiritual Inquisition, an Heart-Anatomy, whereby a Man takes his Heart as a Watch, all in pieces, and sees what is defective there. It is a Dialogue with ones self. Psal. 77.7. I commune with my own Heart. David called himself to Account, and put Interrogatories to his own Heart. Self-examining is a critical Descant or Search; as the Woman in the Parable did light a Candle, and search for her lost Groat, Luke 15.8. So Conscience is the Candle of t•• Lord. Search with this Candle what thou canst find wrought by the Spirit in thee?
Resp. It is a setting up a Court in Conscience, and keeping a Register there, that by a strict Scrutiny a Man may see how Matters stand between God and his Soul. Self-examination is a Spiritual Inquisition, an Heart-Anatomy, whereby a Man takes his Heart as a Watch, all in pieces, and sees what is defective there. It is a Dialogue with ones self. Psal. 77.7. I commune with my own Heart. David call'd himself to Account, and put Interrogatories to his own Heart. Self-examining is a critical Descant or Search; as the Woman in the Parable did light a Candle, and search for her lost Groat, Luke 15.8. So Conscience is the Candle of t•• Lord. Search with this Candle what thou canst find wrought by the Spirit in thee?