The Examnation upon the first Commandment.
I.
DOst thou really believe, O my Soul, that there is a God, or hast thou set some secret touches of Athe∣ism within thee?
Holy rules and helps to devotion both in prayer and practice In two parts. The fourth edition. Written by the right reverend father in God, Bryan Duppa, late Lord Bishop of Winton, in the time of his sequestration.
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- Holy rules and helps to devotion both in prayer and practice In two parts. The fourth edition. Written by the right reverend father in God, Bryan Duppa, late Lord Bishop of Winton, in the time of his sequestration.
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- Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662.
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- London :: printed for W. Hensman, at the King's-Head in Westminster-Hall,
- 1683.
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II.
Hast thou doubted at any time of his Providence, or of his Power, of his Justice, Mercy, or any other of his Attributes?
III.
Hast thou been willing to entertain scruples of this na∣ture, and to listen to their discourses, who turn the rea∣son that God hath given, as a weapon against himself.
IV.
Hast thou proudly ascribed the good that thou hast done unto thy own strength, or imputed thy sins and follies
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to the necessitating and ine∣vitable Decrees of God.
V.
Dost thou think thy self obliged to obey God, as well as to believe in him, to love him as thy Father, to fear him as thy Judge, to praise him as thy Maker, with dai∣ly, and most humble Thanks for all his Mercies to thee? Hast thou done this, or wherein hast thou failed?
VI.
Hast thou really in thy Thoughts no other Gods but him? Hast thou set up no∣thing in Competition with him, no Pride, no Pleasure,
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no Ptofit, no Self-Love, no Self-Interest of thine own?
VII.
Hast thou given credit to vain Predictions of men, to Dreams or Fortune-tellers, or gone about to know any secret thing by lot?
VIII.
Hast thou in thy Prosperi∣ty forgot thy God, or in thy Adversity hast thou put thy confidence more in worldly helps than in him?