“Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.”
Ps. 26:2
“Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?”
2 Cor. 13:5
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Order of Contents
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Articles
1600’s
Perkins, William – A Direction for Examination of the Conscience in Of the Nature & Practice of Repentance, 7. Of the Practice of Repentance appended to A Golden Chain (Cambridge: Legat, 1600), pp. 744-50
Baxter, Richard – Direction 44, ‘Take the bad example of religious men to be one of your most perilous temptations: and therefore labor to discover especially what are the sins of professors in the age that you live in, that you may especially watch and fortify your souls against them’ in The Cure of Church Divisions… (London, 1670), pt. 1, pp. 221-22
Alleine, Joseph – ‘Self-Examination’ in The Puritans on the Lord’s Supper (SDG 1997), pp. 85-109
Watson, Thomas – ch. 7, ‘Offering Violence by Self-Examination’ in Heaven Taken by Storm (SDG, 2020), pp. 30-33
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1700’s
Henry, Matthew – ‘Matthew Henry’s Self-Examination Before Ordination’ (†1714) 13 pp. being questions Henry put to himself before his ordination.
Edwards, Jonathan – ‘The Resolutions of Jonathan Edwards’ (1723) 70 resolutions, helpfully rearranged and categorized by Matt Perman (2006)
“Remember to read over these resolutions once a week.” – Edwards
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1800’s
Green, Ashbel – ‘Questions & Counsel for Young Converts’ 5 pp. 13 questions & 6 counsels, appended to John Willison, The Young Communicant’s Companion, pp. 68-72
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Book
1600’s
Corbet, John – Self-Employment in Secret, containing: I. Evidences upon Self-Examination, II. Thoughts upon Painful Afflictions, III. Memorials for Practice… (London: Parkhurst, 1681) 75 pp. Preface by John Howe
Corbet (1620-1680) was an English, congregationalist puritan, friends with Richard Baxter.
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“And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void to offence toward God, and toward men.”
Acts 24:16
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