The life & death of Mr. Joseph Alleine, late teacher of the church at Taunton, in Somersetshire, assistant to Mr. Newton whereunto are annexed diverse Christian letters of his, full of spiritual instructions tending to the promoting of the power of Godliness, both in persons and families, and his funeral sermon, preached by Mr. Newton.

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 wander∣ing thoughts to eat out my duties? Mat. 18. 8, 9. Jer. 12. 2.
  • Q. 3. Have not I neglected, or been very overly in the read∣ing God's Holy Word? Deut. 17. 19. Josh. 1. 7, 8.
  • Q. 4. Have I digested the Sermon I heard last? Have I 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it over? and prayed it over? Luk. 2. 19, 51. Psal. 1. 2. & 119. 5, 11, 97.
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  • Q. 5. Was there not more of custome, and fashion in my Family Duties, than of Conscience? Psal. 101. 2. Jer. 30. 22.
  • Q. 6. Wherein have I denyed my self this day for God? Luk. 9. 23.
  • Q. 7. Have I redeemed my time from too long or needless vi∣sits, idle imaginations, fruitless discourse, unnecessary sleep, more than needs of the World? Ephes. 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. Ephes. 5. 22. to Chap. 6. ver. 9. Col. 3. 18. to chap. 4. ver. 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. Phil. 3. 23.
  • Q. 3. Have I been often looking into mine own Heart, and made conscience of vain thoughts? Prov. 3. 23. Psal. 119. 113.
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  • Q. 4. Have not I given way to the workings of Pride, or Passion? 2 Chron. 32. 26. Jam. 4. 5, 6, 7.
• For my Tongue.
  • Q. 1. Have I bridled my Tongue, and forced it in? James 1. 26. & 3. 2, 3, 4. Psal. 39. 1.
  • Q. 2. Have I spoke evil of no Man? Tit. 3. 2. Jam. 4. 11.
  • Q. 3. Hath the Law of the Lord been in my mouth as I fat in my House, went by the way, was lying down, and rising up? Deut. 6. 6, 7.
  • Q. 4. Have I come into no company where I have not drop∣ped something of God, and left some good savour behind? Col. 4. 6. Ephes. 4. 29.
• For your Table.
  • Q. 1. Did not I sit down with an higher end than a Beast, meerly to please my Appetite? Did I eat, drink for the glory of God? 1 Cor. 10. 31.
  • Q. 2. Was not mine Appetite too hard for me? Jude 12. 2 Pet. 1. 6.
  • Q. 3. Did not I arise from the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 without dropping any thing of God there? Luk. 7. 36, &c. & 14. 1, &c. John 6.
  • Q. 4. Did not I mock with God when I pretended to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a blessing, and return thanks? Acts 27. 35, 39. 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.
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  • Q. 2. Have I desrauded no man? 1 Thes. 4. 6. 1 Cor. 6. 3.
  • Q. 3. Have I dropped never a lye in my Shop or Trade? Prov. 21. 6. Ephes. 4. 25.
  • Q. 4. Did not I rashly make, nor falsly break some pro∣mise? Psal. 106. 33. Jos. 9. 14, &c. Psal. 15. 4.