The Duty of a Wife to her Husband,

HAST thou refused to comply with those

commands, in which God requires thee

to obey and serve, to love and honour thy husband?

Art thou loving to him, and desirous to render his life as easy and comfortable as thou can'st?

Hast thou provoked him, or published his faults?

Hast thou spoken ill of him?

Hast thou borne with his infirmities?

Hast thou given him cause of jealousy, or been unfaithful to his bed?

Hast thou been frugal in the management of thy expences, with respect to the circumstances and condition of thy husband? Or,

Hast thou squandered away thy husband's substance?

Hast thou kept thyself within those bounds, which both reason, religion, and the condition of thy husband require? Or,

Hast thou been indifferent and careless in thy carriage towards him, neglecting to do what thou didst or mightest know would oblige and please him?

Hast thou been unconcerned in his joys and Sorrows?

Hast thou neglected to recommend him

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to the grace and protection of God in thy prayers?

The Duty of a Husband to his Wife.

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AST thou been faithful to the solemn contract and engagement made in the presence of God, at thy entering upon the state of matrimony?

Dost thou love thy wife, and shew it in kind, tender, and gentle behaviour towards her?

Art thou faithful to her bed?

Hast thou neglected to defend and protect thy wife, to maintain and provide for her? Hast thou been peremptory, rigorous, and magisterial in thy commands?

Hast thou omitted to pray for her, and to share with her in all her reasonable joys and sorrows?

The duty of a Servant to his Master or Mistress.

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AST thou been faithful and industrious in serving thy master and mistress? Dost thou obey them in all lawful commands chearfully, and in obedience to God, whose Providence hath set them over thee?

Hast thou purloined, or stolen, or any way de frauded them of their goods, or been careless and wasteful of them?

Dost thou not take the advantage of their ab sence, to be idle, or unjust to them?

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Hast thou any ways injured them in their reputation?

Hast thou, as much as in thee lay, lived quietly and peaceably with thy fellow-servants?

Hast thou not been spiteful and malicious against them?

Hast thou exercised that tenderness to the children in the family, that was justly and reasonably expected from thee?

Hast thou prayed for thy master and mistress, and the rest of the family in thy private prayers?

The Duty of a Master or Mistress to a Servant.

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AST thou treated thy servants as a christian, and like one who believes that he has a Master in Heaven, to whom he must render an account?

Hast thou performed the conditions thou wast obliged to, when thou didst take them into thy service?

Hast thou taken care to provide such food as was fitting for them?

Art thou reasonable and moderate in the commands which thou layest upon them?

Dost thou admonish and correct them with calmness and gravity, when they transgress their duty?

Has not thy severity put them. upon cheating and lying? for that will make thee a partaker with them in their sin.

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Hast thou been remiss in suffering them to neglect their Duty to God?

Hast thou afforded them time and opportunities for the service of God in public and private?

Dost thou set them an example of sobriety and Godliness in thy own life, and conversation, and dost thou encourage their living soberly and religiously, by proper marks of thy kindness and favour?

Hast thou been constant in thy daily devotions with thy family?

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The Duties of a Magistrate.

AST thou made it thy endeavour to be a a terror to evil-doers, and to give a becoming countenance to those that do well?

Hast thou not been more intent upon thy own private interest, than in advancing the common good?

Hast thou endeavoured to inform thyself of thy' duty in order to the doing of it, when thou hast been called to any Public Office?

DIRECTIONS,

"When you have once thoroughly examined "yourself, and made a particular confession of "the sins of your whole life, and begged par "don; there is not the same absolute neces"sity for such a laborious examination, at your "next communicating; especially if you examine "yourself

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"yourself carefully every night, and daily repent of the evil of the day past, and are not "conscious to yourself of any great and noto*rious sins, since your last confession: for if << you are not, the examination, and confession, "only of what passed since your last communi"cating, together with a general confession of "your former sins, and a solemn renewing of 86 your former acts of repentance, may be suf"ficient. But if your conscience accuses you

of any culpable neglect in your last examina❝tion, or of any great relapses, or of any wil. "ful violations of your last vows and resolutions; in those and the like cases, it is the "surest way to begin all your repentance again.

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I am sensible it is not easy to enumerate all "the instances of duty reducible to these three heads, concerning God, one's Neigbour and " one's Self; nor to set down the several branch"es and violations of them: But the method here proposed, will, I am persuaded, (if "carefully attended to) assist any one in getting a competent knowledge of his own state and "condition. And as the foregoing examina * tion of our lives, is in order to the confession "of our sins, and that such a distinct sight and

consideration of them may create in an hum❝ble and contrite heart; so when we are come to a sufficient knowledge of our sins, by the foregoing method of examination, our next "step is to Repent of them; and the first part "of our repentence is to make an humble con*fession of our violence and unworthiness in committing them.

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