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duty_n	care_n	husband_n	wife_n	1,501	5	7.4638	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26693	A most familiar explanation of the Assemblies shorter catechism wherein their larger answers are broken into lesser parcels, thereby to let in the light by degrees into the minds of the learners : to which is added in the close, a most brief help for the necessary but much neglected duty of self-examination to be daily perused : and to this is subjoined a letter of Christian counsel to a destitute flock / by Jos. Allaine.	Alleine, Joseph, 1634-1668.; Westminster Assembly (1643-1652). Shorter catechism.	1674 (1674)	Wing A974; ESTC R25230	60,470	184

What is the meaning of Amen A. 1. So let it be 2. So it shall be Useful Questions Whereby a Christian may every day examine himself Psal. 4. 4. Commune with your heart upon your beds EVery Evening before you sleep unless you find some other time in the day more for your advantage in this work sequester your self from the world and having set your heart in the presence of the Lord charge it before God to answer to these Interrogatories For your Duties Q. 1. Did not God find me on my Bed when he looked for me on my knees Job 1. 5. Psal. 5. 3. Q. 2. Have not I prayed to no purpose or suffered wandring thoughts to eat out my duties Mat. 15. 8 9. Jer. 12. 2. Q. 3. Have not I neglected or been very overly in the reading Gods holy word Deut. 17. 19. Josh. 1. 7 8. Q. 4. Have I digested the Sermon I heard last Have I repeated it over and prayed it over Luke 2. 19 51. Psal. 1. 2. 119. 5 11 97. Q. 5. Was there not more of custom and fashion in my family-duties than of conscience Psal. 101. 2. Jer. 30. 21. Q. 6. Wherein have I denyed my self this day for God Luke 9. 23. Q. 7. Have I redeemed my time from too long or needless visits idle imaginations fruitless discourse unnecessary sleep more than needs of the world Eph. 5. 16. Col. 4. 5. Q. 8. Have I done any thing more than ordinary for the Church of God in this time extraordinary 2 Cor. 11. 28. Isa. 62. 6. Q. 9. Have I took care of my company Prov. 13. 20. Psal. 119. 63. Q. 10. Have not I neglected or done something against the duties of my Relations as a Master Servant Husband Wife Parent Child c. Eph. 5. 22. to chap. 6. v. 10. Col. 3. 18. to the 4. v. 2. For your Sins Q. 1. Doth not sin sit light Psal. 38. 4. Rom. 7. 24. Q. 2. Am I a mourner for the sins of the Land Ezek. 9. 4 Jer. 9. 1 2 3. Q. 3. Do I live in nothing that I know or fear to be a sin Psal. 119. 101 104. For your Heart Q. 1. Have I been much in holy Ejaculations Neh. 2. 4 5. Q. 2. Hath not God been out of mind Heaven out of sight Psal. 16. 8 Jer. 2. 32. Col. 3. 1 2. Q. 3. Have I been often looking into mine own heart and made conscience even of vain thoughts Prov. 3. 23. Psal. 119. 113. Q. 4. Have not I given way to the workings of pride or passion 2 Chron. 32. 26. James 4. 5 6 7. For my Tongue Have I bridled my Tongue and forced it in Jam. 1. 26. Jam. 3. 2 3 4. Psal. 39. 1. Q. 2. Have I spoken evil of no man Tit. 3. 2. Jam. 4. 11. Q. 3. Hath the Law of the Lord been in my mouth as I sate in my house went by the way was lying down and rising up Deut. 6. 6 7. Q. 4. Is there no company I have come into but I have dropped something of God and left some good savour behind Col. 4. 6. Eph. 4. 29. For your Table Q. 1. Did not I sit down with no higher end than a beast meerly to please my appetite Did I eat and drink to the glory of God 1 Cor. 10. 31. Q. 2. Was not my appetite too hard for me Jude 12. 2 Pet. 1. 6. Q. 3. Did not I arise from the Table without dropping any thing of God there Luke 7. 36 c. Luke 14. 1 c. John 6. Q. 4. Did not I mock God when I pretended to crave a blessing and return thanks Acts 27. 35 36. Mat. 15. 36. Col. 3. 17. 23. For your Calling Q. 1 Have I been diligent in the duties of my Calling Eccles. 9. 1 Cor. 7. 17. 20. 24. Q. 2. Have I defrauded no man 1 Thes. 4. 6. 1 Cor. 6. 8. Q. 3. Have I dropped never a lye in my shop or trade Prov. 21. 6. Eph. 4. 25. Q. 4. Did not I rashly make nor falsly break some promise Psal. 106. 33. Josh. 9. verse 14 c. Psal. 15. 4. An Addition of some brief Directions for the Morning D. 1. If through necessity or carelesness you have omitted the reading and weighing of these questions in the Evening be sure to do it now D. 2. Ask your self what sin have I committed what duty have I omitted Against which of these Rules have I offended in the day foregoing And renew your repentance and double your watch D. 3. Examine whether God were last in your thoughts when you went to sleep and first when you awoke D. 4. Enquire whether your care of your heart and ways doth increase upon your constant using of this course for self-examination or whether it doth abate and you grow more remiss D. 6. Impose a task of some good meditation upon your selves while you are making ready either to go over these Rules in your thoughts or the heads of the Sermon you heard last or the holy meditations for the purpose in the practice of Piety or Scudders daily walk D. 6. Set your ends right for all that day D. 7. Set your watch especially against those sins and temptations that you are like to be most incident to that day To the most endeared People the Inhabibitants of Taunton Salvation Most dearly beloved aud longed for my Joy and Crown MY hearts desire and prayer for you is that you may be saved This is that which I have been praying and studying and preaching for these many years and this is the end of my venturing and suffering and writing at this prsent time God that knoweth all things he knoweth that this is my wish Oh that I could but come at your souls And that this is the prize and the gain that I run for that I might win souls I seek not other gifts give me your hearts let me but part between your sins and you suffer me but to save you Give me leave to carry you over to Jesus Christ and I will not ask you any more I will serve you gladly I will suffer for you thankfully so I may but save you Do not wonder why I follow you so pressingly why I call upon you so frequently let not my importunity be grievous to you all this is but to save you Christ did not bethink his blood and shall I bethink my breath or ink in order to your salvation What pity is it that any of you should miscarry at last under the power of ignorance or by a prophane negligence or a formal and lifeless profession of strict godliness Beloved I am afraid of you lest as to many of you I have run in vain I cannot but most thankfully acknowledg that considering the paucity of these that are saved there are not a few of you who are the joy of your Ministers the glory of Christ. But it cannot be dissembled that far the greater number give little ground to hope that they are in the