amongst God's people? [Ans. No.] Ought not all God's people to acknowledge that his curse is due for this crime? [Ans. Yes.]

Questions---Has not God commanded that his people should be true and just in all their dealings [4s. Yes.] Do those deserve to be reckoned as his people, who cheat and defraud their neighbours? [Ans. No.]

Questions ---Is it not a very wicked thing to impose upon the weak and ignorant, and to lead them out of the way of everlasting life? [Ans. Yes] Is not the doing so leading the blind out of their way? [Ans. Yes.] Do those who are guilty of this crime, deserve to be reckoned as God's people? [Ans. No.] Are they not accursed? [Ans. Yes.]

Questions.---Has not God declared himself to be the friend of the stranger, of the fatherless, and the widow? [Ans. Yes.] Do those deserve to be reckoned as his people who injure or oppress them? [Ans. No.]

Questions.---What does God say in the Ninth Commandment? [Ans. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.] Is not taking away a person's character, by slander, smiting him secretly? [Ans. Yes.] Do those who do any private injury to those whom God has commanded them to love, deserve to be reckoned amongst his people? Ans. No.]

Questions---Has not God said, thou shalt not commit adultery? [Ans. Yes. Do those deserve to be reckoned amongst his people, who are guilty of this crume? [Ans. No.]

Questions.---Is it not a dreadful crime to take away the life, or to bring evil of any kind upon an innocent person for the sake of a reward? [Ans. Yes.] Do those deserve to

be reckoned amongst the people of God who do so? [ns. No.]

Questions.---On whom do we depend for every thing we have, even for life itself? [Ans. God.] In whom should we put our whole trust? [Ans. In God.] Is it not departing from God to put our trust in man? [Ans. Yes.] Does he, who in his heart goes away from God, deserve to be reckoned amongst God's people? [Ans. No.]

Questions.---Has not God denounced curses in the Scriptures, against those who are guilty of the crimes here set down? [Ans. Yes.] Has not God said that those who commit them, shall not enter the kingdom of heaven? [Ans. Yes.] As it is.plain that the curse of God is due for all the erimes enumerated in the commination, should not every one in a Christian congregation be ready to acknowledge this? [Ans. Yes.] What should every one say at the end of every sentence? [Ans. Amen.] When we are thus admonished by the minister, of the great indignation of God against sinners, what should we be moved to? [Ans. Earnest and sincere repentance.] Do we not live in very dangerous times, when temptations to vice abound every where? [Ans. Yes.] Should not we be warned by this commination, to take great care not to be drawn aside from our duty? [Ans. Yes.] What should it instruct us to flee from? [Ans. Vice and wickedness of all kinds.] Is it not mocking God to confess with our mouths that his curse is justly due for these crimes, and yet to continue in the practice of them? [Ans. Yes.] Is it not dreadful to live under the curse of God? [Ans. Yes.] Of whom should we think while these curses are denouncing, ourselves or our neighbours? [Ans. Ourselves.] Will those who do this, be guilty of the sin of cursing their neighbours? [Ans. No. Should any one who is able to attend church on Ash-Wednesday stay away? [Ans. No.] Read the Exhortation, viz. now seeing, &c. stopping after the words, He will burn up the chaff - with unquenchable fire, to ask the following Questions.

Instruction---In this the minister earnestly calls upon the congregation, to remember the just judgments of God, and

to return to him with sincere contrition of heart and true penitence.

Questions.---What are all under who wilfully err and stray from God's commandments? [Ans. The curse of God.] What hangs over the heads of those who continue in an impenitent state? [Ans. Dreadful judgmentss.] What must sinners do if they would escape these judgment? [Ans. Confess their offences and resolve to amend their lives.] Is it not a fearful thing for sinners to fall into the hands of the living God? [Ans. Yes.] How will God punish those who will not repent? [Ans. With everlasting misery.] If God send forth his dreadful judgments, War, Pestilence, Famine, Earthquakes, Tempests, and others, can any creature stand before them? [Ans. No.] Are there not not such judgments in the earth, at this time? [Ans. Yes.] Is not the plague of War at this time upon our own nation, though not to so great a degree as upon many others? [Ans. Yes]. Cannot God send still greater plagues upon us? [Ans. Yes.] Should not we humble ourselves in time? Ans. Yes.]

Begin at the words, The day of the Lord cometh, and read on to the words, Shall be made white as wool.

Questions---Are we to think ourselves safe, because the judgments of God are not sent upon us, as they are upon many other nations? [Ans. No.] Cannot God send them in a moment if he sees fit? [Ans, Yes.] Can it be expected that God will for ever withhold his vengeance, if sinners continue impenitent ? [Ans. No.] What will God do at last? [Ans. Cut them off? What will Christ say to every one of them at the last day? [Ans. Go, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.] Is there any repentance in the grave? [Ans. No.] How should we walk or live in this world, in order to escape eternal punishment? [Ans. As children of light.] Who are the children of light? [Ans. They who live according to God's word. Do not we learn from God's word, that he will pardon the contrite, and cleanse them from their sins? [Ans. Yes.]

Begin with the words, Turn ye, (saith the Lord,) from all your wickedness, and read to the end of the Exhortation.

Questions.---Do not the promises of God to returning sinners, which are here put together from the Scripture, give us great encouragement to hope for his mercy, if we truly repent? [Ans. Yes.] Can we hope to be forgiven for our What advocate or friend have we own sakes? [Ans. No.] to plead for us with the Father? [Ans. Jesus Christ the righteous.] What did Christ do to obtain pardon and salvation for us? [Ans. Suffer and die.] Who will God receive for Christ's sake? Ans. All penitent sinners.] Will it be enough if we confess and bewail our sins? [Ans. No.] What else must we do? [Ans. Lead a holy life.] Will the curse of God fall upon us if we do so? [Ans. No.] What will Christ say to his people at the last day? [Ans. Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.] Should not this exhortation make all who hear it, ready to join with the congregation in confessing and bewailing their sins? [Ans. Yes.]

Read the Rubrick.

Instruction.---The Psalm which follows, is one of the penitential Psalms of David, composed by him when Nathan the prophet had brought him to a proper sense of his sin, in causing Uriah to be slain, that he might have his wife, and it is very suitable to all penitents.

Read the Psalm with the Children, as it is read at Church.

Questions.---Do not you perceive that this Psalm is suited to all penitents? [Ans. Yes.] Should not every one of the congregation join devoutly in it? [Ans. Yes.] With what hearts should they join in it? [Ans. Penitent hearts.]

Read what follows, to the end of the Second Collect after the Lord's Prayer, the Children joining in the Responses, then ask the Questions.

Questions.---Is it not very comfortable to address God as cur Heavenly Father, after having humbled ourselves before

him as sinners? [Ans. Yes.] Are not the Sentences and the Prayers that follow the Lord's Prayer very suitable? [Ans. Yes.] What does the minister beseech God to do in the first Collect? [Ans. To spare all who confess their sins.] Does he not also pray that they may be absolved from them? [Ans. Yes.] Is not the second Collect a very suitable one for penitent sinners? [Ans. Yes.]

Read the Rubrick, then read with the Children the Supplication which follows it.

Questions.---Will this supplication avail those who do not turn to the Lord, as becomes Penitents? [ns. No.] How should sinners turn to the Lord? [Ans. With weeping, fasting, and praying.] Why do we here pray God to turn our hearts? Ans. Because we can do nothing without the help of God's Holy Spirit.] Is God a severe, or a merciful God? [Ans. A merciful God.] What would become of us all if he were not so? [Ans. We should perish for ever.] Who are meant by God's heritage? [Ans. His chosen people.] In whose name must we constantly offer up our supplications? [Ans. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.]

Read the Rubrick and the Blessing.

Questions.---What does the minister conclude with? [Ans. A blessing.] Do not you find that the office for AshWednesday is a very excellent one, and such as all Christians should devoutly join in? [Ans. Yes.] Is it not very proper to be used at the beginning of Lent? [Ans. Yes.] Should we not pass the rest of Lent in a serious manner, becoming those who are humbled by the sense of sin? [Ans. Yes. ]` Is it not very useful to afflict the soul for sin? [Ans. Yes.] Is it not very useful to mortify the body, by proper abstinence from food? Ans. Yes.]

Instruction.--After the Commination in the Prayer Book, follows the Book of Psalms.

Questions.---Where are these Psalms taken from? [Ans. The Bible.] How are they divided to be read in Churches? dns. Into portions.] How often may the whole book of Psalms be read through in this manner [Ans. Once a month. What is each portion called? [Ans. The Psalms for the day.]

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