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.
|
Wednesday 22 January 2014
The Spritual Barometer (from the Evangelical Magazine, 1800)
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