Have you flattered them in their passions, or indulged them in their evil inclinations?

Have you given them bad example?

If a Servant.-Have you disobeyed your master or mistress? Have you been wanting in diligence or industry? Have you injured or destroyed their property through carelessness or neglect? or suffered others to injure them?

Have you stolen from them, or given anything away without their knowledge?

Have you betrayed their confidence by revealing their secrets, by tale bearing, by lies, &c.?

Have you obeyed, or flattered them in anything sinful?

If a Master or Mistress.-Have you neglected to watch over the conduct of your servants?

Have you refused without necessity to allow them time to attend Church on Sundays and holy days, or to frequent the Sacrament?

Have you overburdened them with work, or treated them injuriously?

The Sixth Commandment.

Thou shalt not kill.

Have you been guilty of anger, or violent passion? Have you desired any one's death, through hatred or malice? Or for your temporal interest?

Have you revenged yourself of any one by word or action, or desired revenge, or taken pleasure in the thought of it?

Have you provoked, challenged, or struck others, or been guilty of quarrelling or fighting with them?

Have you borne malice to others, or refused to be reconciled to them?

Have you done anything to shorten your own or any other's life, or to hasten death? Or rashly exposed yourself or others to danger?

Have you desired your own death, through passion

or impatience? Or entertained any thought of making away with yourself? or attempted or designed any such thing?

Have you been guilty of any spiritual murder, by drawing others into sin? Or have you been accessary to the sins of others, by counsel, or command, or provocation, or any other way ?

Have you given scandal, or occasion of sin to others by irreligious discourse; by drunkenness or swearing; by immodesty of dress or behaviour, &c. ?

The Seventh Commandment.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Have you been guilty of any acts of impurity? (Under this head, all sins against purity must be carefully examined; as well as whatsoever leads to their indulgence or commission.)

The Eighth Commandment.

Thou shalt not steal.

Have you been guilty of stealing, or cheating, or in any way wronging your neighbour in buying or selling, or in any other bargains or contracts. Or have you been accessary to another's committing any such injustice?

Have you unjustly retained what belonged to another?

Have you caused any damage to your neighbour in his house, cattle, or other goods?

Have you contracted debts without design of paying them; or without any prospect of being able to pay them? Or have you delayed or refused to pay your just debts when you were able? Or have you by prodigal expenses rendered yourself unable, and so wronged your creditors, or your own family.

Have you been guilty of negligence in the securing or administrating of trusts confided to your care, whether for ecclesiastical, charitable, or other purposes?

Has any actual loss resulted from this negligence? Have you been negligent in the administration of property otherwise entrusted to you, as guardian or administrator? If so, have others thereby suffered ?

Have you been guilty of usury, in the loan of money?

Have you put off false money?

Have you professed any art, or undertaken any business without sufficient skill or knowledge?

Have you bought or received stolen goods? Or taken of those who could not give?

Have you neglected your work or business to which you were hired, or by contract obliged? Or have you broken your promises?

Have you then neglected or delayed, without just cause, to make satisfaction and restitution when it was in your power?

The Ninth Commandment.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Have you been guilty of telling lies? And whether in any matter of consequence, or to the injury of any one?

Have you been guilty of hypocrisy or dissimulation? Have you entertained a bad opinion of your neighbour without grounds, or judged rashly of his actions or intentions?

Have you been guilty of backbiting, or uncharitable conversation, by speaking of the known faults of your absent neighbour?

Have you been guilty of the sin of detraction, which consists in taking away or lessening your neighbour's reputation, by publishing his secret faults or defects?

Have you been guilty of calumny, which consists in saying of your neighbour what is false or uncertain ? In either case you are obliged to restore his character as far as you are able.

Have you willingly given ear to detraction or

calumny? Have you taken pleasure in it? Or in any way encouraged it ? Or not hindered it when you might?

Have you injured your neighbour's honour by reproaches and affronts, or robbed him of his peace of mind, by scoffs and derision?

Have you, by carrying stories backwards and forwards, or in any other way caused misunderstanding or quarrels betwixt others?

Here also judges, lawyers, solicitors, &c., ought to examine themselves, what injustice they may have been guilty of in managing causes, &c., as well as accusers, witnesses, &c.

The Tenth Commandment.

Thou shalt not covet, etc.

Have you desired your neighbour's goods, not caring whether had them right or wrong? you Or been in a disposition of stealing or otherwise wronging him if it lay in your power?

Have you desired your neighbour's loss or misfortune, or any public calamity, that you might be the gainer by it?

Of several Sins.

Pride. Have you been guilty of pride, or complacency in yourself, or contempt of others?

Have you been guilty of vain-glory, by doing your actions to procure esteem?

Have you taken delight in the esteem and applause of others, or have you rather been uneasy and discontented when you did not receive such esteem or applause?

Covetousness. Have you been guilty of covetousness in desiring or loving too much the things of this world? Have you sought after them too eagerly, or been too much distressed at the loss of them?

Gluttony. Have you been guilty of gluttony, by eating or drinking to excess, so as to endanger or injure your health or reason?

Have you indulged an inordinate gratification of your appetite?

Have you made others drunk, or sought to make them so? Or boasted of having made them so?

Envy. Have you envied or repined at your neighbour's good, either spiritual or temporal? Or rejoiced at his harm?

Have you been guilty of jealousy in consequence of any attention or preference shown to others. Have you rejoiced to see them disappointed or mortified?

Sloth. Have you been guilty of sloth, or laziness of mind or body, which has prevented you from discharging your duty?

Have you neglected your spiritual duties, or discharged them with indolence? Have you studied too much your own ease, leading an unmortified and unchristian life?

Have you squandered away much of your time in idleness, or useless occupation?

Have you entertained with pleasure the thought of saying or doing anything, which it would be a sin to say or do ?

Have you had the desire or design of committing

any sin?

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Have

you gloried in any sin whatsoever ?

Here also masters and servants, husbands and wives, lawyers and physicians, ecclesiastics and magistrates, &c., ought to examine into the sins which are peculiar to their states, and how far they may have neglected the duties of their respective callings.

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MATRIMONY.

THE holy state of Matrimony was in the beginning of the world instituted by the Almighty, and, under the law of nature, had a particular blessing annexed to it. GOD created man to His own image: male and female He created them. And GOD blessed them, saying, increase and multiply, and fill the earth. Gen. i. 27, 28. Under the Mosaic Law, the Almighty more distinctly an