Confession and Self-Examination: The Puritan Practice of Self-Examination
Teaching on Confession and Self-Examination from Richard Baxter: The Puritan Practice of Self-Examination
This is a spiritual discipline on self-examination and sin, drawing on Psalm 139:23-24, Hebrews 12:1 and Romans 8:13.
The English Puritans (16th-17th centuries) made self-examination a daily habit. Richard Baxter (d. 1691) wrote in "The Reformed Pastor": "Take heed to yourselves, lest you be void of that saving grace of God which you offer to others. Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish while you call upon others to take heed of perishing." The Puritans applied this not only to pastors but to every believer.…
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