5. Or spread any report, true or false, that exposed your neighbour to contempt, or made him be undervalued?

6. Have you, by carrying stories backward and forward, created discord and misunderstanding between neighbours?

7. Have you been froward or peevish towards any one, in your carriage, speech, or conversation?

8. Ór taken pleasure to vex, mortify, or provoke them to swear, curse, or any ways offend God?

9. Have you mocked or reproached them for their corporal or spiritual imperfections?

10. Have you been excessive in re prehending those under your care, or been wanting in giving them just reproof?

11. Have you borne with their over. sights and imperfections, and given them good counsels?

12. Have you been solicitous for such as are under your charge, and provided for their souls and bodies?

13. Have you according to your power given alms, or contributed towards the relief of the poor? have you endea

voured to promote their spiritual wellfare especially by the education of the children in your congregation?

III. In relation to yourself.

1. Have you been obstinate in fol lowing your own will, or in defending your own opinion, in things either indifferent, dangerous, or scandalous?

2. Have you taken pleasure in hearing yourself praised, or yielded to thoughts of vanity?

3. Have you indulged yourself in over-much ease, or in any way yielding to sensuality?

4. Has your conversation been edifying and moderate, or have you been froward, proud, or troublesome to others?

5. Have you spent over-much time in play, or useless employments, and thereby omitted, or put off your devotions, to unseasonable times?

If such as confess often fall into any of the more grievous sins, not here mentioned, their own memory will easily suggest them; since it is impossible for a tender soul to forget any mortal offence, which must of necessity afflict her, and therefore it may not be necessary for them to turn over the following table of sins, which is chiefly intended for general confessions.

AN EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE,

ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE CHURCH, AND THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS.

The First Commandment.

I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out. of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. Thou shalt not make to, thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth. Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them. Exodus, xx.

Have you been guilty of heresy, or wilful doubting of any article of faith ? Have you rashly exposed yourself to the danger of infidelity, by reading bad books, or keeping wicked company? How often?

Have you by word or deed denied your religion? Have you been ignorant of any of those things which Christians in your station are bound to know? For how long a time?

Have you been negligent in the worship of God; praying but little, or with little attention?

Have you made a bad confession or communion, by concealing

some

mortal sin in confession, or what you doubted might be mortal?

Have you consulted fortune-tellers, or made use of any superstitious practices; or given credit to dreams ?

Have you blasphemed God or his saints, or scoffed at holy things? How often?

The Second Commandment.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.

Have you taken God's name in vain, or used it without respect in common discourse? Have you taken a false oath, or a rash oath ? Have you taken an oath to do any thing that was wicked or unlawful? or broken your lawful oaths? How often?

Have you had a custom of swearing? Have you cursed yourself or others, or any thing else? Have you been the cause of others swearing, cursing, or blaspheming ? Have

you broken any vow or solemn promise made to God? How often?

The Third Commandment.

Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day. Have you neglected to keep the

Sunday holy? Have you, when prevented from hearing Mass on Sundays and Holy-days, supplied the omission by prayers at home, and taken care those under your charge did the same? Have you done any servile work without necessity, or spent those days in idleness?

The Fourth Commandment.
Honour thy father and thy mother.

If a Child.-Have you been wanting in your duty to your parents, by not showing them due respect; or by disobeying them? Or have you been disobedient or disrespectful to any other lawful superiors? How often?

Have you desired your parents' death, or cursed them? Or struck them? Or provoked them to swear or offend God? Or caused them any trouble or uneasiness? How often?

Have you neglected to help your parents in their necessities, either corporal or spiritual?

If a Parent.-Have you neglected to get your children speedily baptized? Or to get them instructed in their prayers and catechism? Or to see that.