| 
   
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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