Using arts of deceit in buying and selling.
Exacting upon the necessity of our neighbours.

FALSE WITNESS.

Blasting the credit of our neighbours :

By false witness.
By railing.

By whispering.

Encouraging others in their slanders.

Being forward to believe all ill reports of our neighbour.

Causeless suspicions. .

Rash judging of him.

Despising him for his infirmities.

Inviting others to do so, by scoffing and deriding him.

Bearing any malice in the heart.

Secret wishing of death or hurt to our neighbour.
Rejoicing when any evil befals him.

Neglecting to make what satisfaction we can, for any sort of injury done to our neighbour.

POSITIVE JUSTICE, HUMILITY.

Churlish and proud behaviour to others.
Froward and peevish conversation.
Bitter and reproachful language.

Cursing.

Not paying the respect due to the qualities or gifts of others.

Proudly overlooking them.

Seeking to lessen others' esteem of them.

Not employing our abilities, whether of mind or estate, in adininistering to those whose wants require it.

GRATITUDE.

Unthankfulness to our benefactors.
Especially those that admonish us.
Not amending upon their reproof.
Being angry at them for it.

Not reverencing our civil parent, the lawful magis

trate.

Judging and speaking evil of him.

Grudging his just tributes.

Sowing sedition among the people.

Refusing to obey his lawful commands.

Rising up against him, or taking part with them that do.

Despising our spiritual fathers.

Not loving them for their work's sake.

Not obeying those commands of God they deliver

to us.

Seeking to withhold from them their just mainte

nance.

Forsaking our lawful pastors, to follow factious teachers.

PARENTS.

Stubborn and irreverent behaviour to our natural parents.

Despising and publishing their infirmities.

Not loving them, nor endeavouring to bring them comfort.

Contemning their counsels.

Murmuring at their government.

Coveting their estates, though by their death.
Not ministering to them in their wants of all sorts.
Neglecting to pray for God's blessing on the several
sorts of parents.

Want of natural affection to children.

Mothers refusing to nurse them without a just impediment.

Not bringing them timely to baptism.

Not early instructing them in the ways of God. Suffering them for want of timely correction, to get customs of sin.

Setting them evil examples.

Discouraging them by harsh and cruel usage. Not providing for their subsistence according to our · ability.

Consuming their portions in our own riot.

Reserving all till our death, and letting them want in the mean time.

Not seeking to entail a blessing on them by our Christian lives.

Not heartily praying for them.

Want of affection to our natural brethren.
Envyings and heart-burnings towards them.

DUTY TO BRETHREN.

Not loving our spiritual brethren, i. e. our fellowChristians.

Having no fellow-feeling of their sufferings.

Causelessly forsaking their communion in holy duties. Not taking deeply to heart the desolations of the Church.

MARRIAGE.

Marrying within the degrees forbidden.

Marrying for undue ends, as covetousness, lust, &c. Unkind, froward, and unquiet behaviour towards the husband or wife.

Unfaithfulness to the bed.

Not bearing with the infirmities of each other. Not endeavouring to advance one another's good, spiritual or temporal.

The wife resisting the lawful commands of her husband.

Her striving for dominion over him.

Not praying for each other.

FRIENDSHIP.

Unfaithfulness to a friend.

Betraying his secrets.

Denying him assistance in his needs.

Neglecting lovingly to admonish him.

Flattering him in his faults.

Forsaking his friendship upon slight or no cause.

Making leagues in sin, instead of virtuous friendship.

SERVANTS.

Servants disobeying the lawful commands of their

masters.

Purloining their goods.

Carelessly wasting them.

Murmuring at their rebukes.

Idleness.

Eye-service.

MASTERS.

Masters using servants tyrannically and cruelly. Being too remiss, and suffering them to neglect their duty.

Having no care of their souls.

Not providing them means of instruction in religion.
Not admonishing them when they commit sins.
Not allowing them time and opportunity for prayer
and the worship of God.

CHARITY.

Want of bowels of charity to our neighbours. Not heartily desiring their good, spiritual or temporal.

Not loving and forgiving enemies.

Taking actual revenges upon them.

Falseness, professing kindness, and acting none. Not labouring to do all the good we can to the soul of our neighbour.

Not assisting him to our power in his bodily dis

tresses.

Not defending his good name, when we know him slandered.

Denying him any neighbourly office to preserve or advance his estate.

Not defending him from oppression, when we have

power.

Not relieving him in his poverty.
Not giving liberally and cheerfully.

Not loving peace.

GOING TO LAW.

Going to law upon slight occasion.
Bearing inward enmity to those we sue.

Not labouring to make peace among others.

[THE use of this catalogue of sins is this: upon days of humiliation, especially before the Sacrament, read them attentively over, and at every particular ask thine own heart, Am I guilty of this? And whatsoever, by such examination, thou findest thyself faulty in, confess particularly and humbly to God, with all the heightening circumstances which may any way increase their guilt; and make serious resolutions against every such sin for the future; after which thou mayest use this form following.]

O LORD, I am ashamed, and blush to lift up my face to thee; for my iniquities are increased over my head, and my trespass is grown up even unto heaven. I have wrought all these great provocations, and that in the most provoking manner; they have not been only single, but repeated acts of sin; for, O Lord, of all this black catalogue, which I have now brought forth before thee, how few are there which I have not often committed! nay, which are not become even habitual and customary to me! And to this frequency I have added both a greediness and obstinacy in sinning, turning into my course as the horse rusheth into the battle, doing evil with both hands earnestly; yea, hating to be reformed, and casting thy words behind me, quenching thy Spirit within me, which testified against me, to turn me from my evil ways, and frustrating all those outward means, whether of judgment or mercy, which thou hast used to draw me to thyself. Nay, O Lord, even my repentances may be numbered amongst my greatest sins: they have sometimes been feigned and hypocritical, always so slight and ineffectual, that they have