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gross sin? Am I not guilty of rash, unprepared, heedless, forgetful, and fruitless reading, hearing, receiving the sacraments, or performances of any other part of the worship of God?

Have I not thought or spoken blasphemously or contemptuously of God, or any of the things of God? Have I not used the name of God needlessly, rashly, wickedly, or falsely in swearing, or lightly in my salutations, admirations, or otherwise in my ordinary discourse?

Have I not abused the name of God, his Scriptures, his ordinances and creatures, using them for other purposes than he allows, as, for sports, charms, or any sorcery, luxury, or the like? Have I not passed by the great works of God's power, mercy, and judgments, (especially of his redeeming love in Christ Jesus,) without due observation and acknowledgment of God therein?

4th. The fourth commandment concerns the ordinary solemn time of the service and worship of God, requiring that the seventh day (now our Lord's day) be kept as an holy rest, Exod. xx. 8 - 11.

Have I upon the six days remembered the Lord's day, that I might despatch all my worldly business, and prepare my heart, that when it came I might keep an holy Sabbath to the Lord, according to the commandment? Did I, according as my health would permit, rise early on that day?

Have I performed my daily (both morning and evening) exercises of religion alone, and with my family, that day in prayer?

Have I caused all under my authority, according to my power, to rest from all manner of works and worldly recreations; also myself not only from the labour of my body, but of my mind in all worldly business; except about the things that concern common honesty, and comeliness, works of mercy, and such works of necessity as could not be done before, or let alone till afterwards?

Have I always prepared my heart before I went