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any Perfon, have I endeavoured to my Power to make what Reparation or Satiffaction I can, thereby teftifying my fincere Repentance for what I have done amifs?

When others have offended or injured: me, have I been easy to be reconciled; and ready to forgive and to do good Offices even to my Enemies; confidering my own many and great Offences both against God and against Man, of which I hope, and need Forgiveness?

Have I rested only in not doing Wrong, in not injuring my Neighbour, either in Soul, Body, or Eftate?

Have I had that univerfal Love and Charity to all Men, as to defire all Good to them, and not fo much as to wifh Evil or Harm to any one?

Have I not envied the Good or Profperity of my Neighbour?

Have I endeavoured to affift my Neighbour in any Good, to comfort him in his Troubles; and when afperfed wrongfully, to vindicate his Reputation?

Have I relieved the Wants and Neceffities of my Neighbour according to my Power, as one that is affected with them, and as being myself alfo in the Body, and

liable to the fame Wants, Diftreffes, and Troubles with others?

Have I had a more fpecial Love to all true and fincere Chriftians, borne with their Infirmities, and heartily defired and fought their Welfare?

Have I obferved Truth in my Words, and Dealings, and Contracts with all Men? Have I not offended by Lying, Falfehood, or Mifrepresentation?

Have I performed my Words and Contracts without Shuffling, Treachery, and Deceit ?

Have I carried it with an humble, quiet, and peaceable Spirit to all Men, avoiding (as much as in me lay) all Occafions of Offence, Quarrels, or Differences?

On the contrary, have I not widened and enlarged them?

Have I been careful of thofe of my Family, my Friends and Relations, or any others that are committed to my Care, to counfel, to comfort, to reprove, as Occafion was given, and Need required?.

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Relative Duties.

"How have I performed the Duties "incumbent upon me towards my feveral "Relations?"

As a Hufband.

HAVE I been faithful to the folema Contract and Engagement I then

made in the Prefence of God?

Have I, in all lawful and reasonable Inftances, condefcended and complied with my Wife?

Have I loved, cherished, comforted, and honoured her?

Have I borne with her Weakneffes and Infirmities?

Has my

Behaviour to her been prudent,

flexible, and obliging?

Have I not been peremptory, rigorous, and magifterial in my Commands? Have I neglected to defend and protect her, to maintain and provide for her?

Have I not omitted to pray for, and to share with her in all her reasonable Joys and Sorrows?

As

As a Wife.

HAVE I refused to comply with thofe Commands, in which God requires

me to obey and ferve, to love and honour my Hufband?

Have I not provoked him, or published

his Faults?

Have I borne with his Infirmities?

Have I given him Caufe of Jealoufy, or been unfaithful to his Bed?

Have I been frugal in the Management of my Expences, with respect to the Circumstances and Condition of my Husband? Have I not been expenfive and prodigal in my Way of Living?

Have I not fquandered away my Huf

band's Subftance?

Have I reftrained myself within thofe Bounds, that both Reafon, Religion, and the Condition of my Hufband require?

Have I been indifferent and careless in my Carriage towards him, not forecasting to do what I thought would oblige and please him?

Have I been difobedient to his juft Com-' mands, and fo caft off his Yoke from me?

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Have I been unconcerned in his Joys and Sorrows?

Have I neglected to recommend him to the Grace and Protection of God in my Prayers?

A Parent.

HAVE I preferred the eternal Interest of my Children before their temporal? Have I not been more careful and folicitous to provide for their Bodies than their Souls?

Have I taught them, as they were capable of learning, to know, fear, love, and worship God, with a perfect Heart, and a willing Mind?

Have I early inftructed them in the Ways that lead to Life everlasting, and endeavoured to form in their Minds the Principles of Virtue and Religion?

Have I earnestly and frequently prayed to God for the Gifts and Graces of his Holy Spirit, to renew, and change, and purify their corrupt Nature, and for his Bleffing and Favour upon them?

Have I been any Ways acceffary to the

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