“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
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
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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