Self Examining Exhorting Sins2

Tonight we continue a supplemental study on the Sixth Petition of the Lord’s Prayer with the Puritan John Whitlock’s sermons through Psalm 18:23 in the book, “The Great Duty of Keeping Ourselves from Iniquity,” recently reprinted by Dr. Don Kistler (of our own RPCGA) and his Northampton Press. We now finish studying the sixth chapter, “The Application of the Doctrine,” with self “examination” and self “exhortation” and final 5-10 signs to search and single out special sins in order to sever them in sanctification: 5) a deliberate unwillingness to have it discovered, reproved, and spoken against; 6) it is a master sin that makes all other sins stoop and bow to it and subserve as means to feed and maintain it; 7) all your duties are made subservient to; 8) it proves too hard for all means of mortification; 9) one will not part with it for Christ and all His gracious Gospel appeals; 10) it prevails most frequently before, in, and after conversing with God’s ordinances and holy duties. We also studied the pastoral disclaimer and distinction of chapter 7, “The Difference Between a Reigning Sin and a Tyrannizing Corruption,” for “some doubting Christians.”