Wednesday 22 January 2014

The Spritual Barometer (from the Evangelical Magazine, 1800)


70
Glory: dismission from the body.
60
Desiring to depart to be with Christ; patience in tribulation; glorying in the cross.
50
Ardent love to the souls of men; followed hard after God; Deadness to the world by the cross of Christ.
40
Love of God, shed abroad in the heart; frequent approach to the Lord’s Table; meeting for prayer and experience.
30
Delight in the people of God; looking to Jesus.
20
Love of God’s house and word; daily perusal of the Bible with prayer; vain company wholly dropped.
10
Evangelical light; retirement for prayer and meditation; concern for the soul; alarm.
0
Indifference; family worship only on Sunday evenings; private prayer frequently omitted; family religion wholly declined.
10
Levity in conversations; fashions, however expensive or indecent, adopted.
20
Luxurious entertainment; free association with carnal company.
30
The theatre; Vauxhall; Ranelagh, etc.; frequent parties of pleasure; home of God forsaken; much wine, spirits, etc.
40
Love of novels, etc.; scepticism; private prayer totally neglected; deistical company prized.
50
Parties of pleasure on the Lord’s day; masquerades; drunkenness; adultery; profaneness; lewd songs.
60
Infidelity; jesting at religion; sitting down in the chair of the scoffer.
70
Death; perdition.

 

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