You will be able to see other things more clearly when these are removed. People can often hardly bear to look on lighter things till they have gone through the heavier. These face them whichever way they look, until the mind has got to the end of them, as far as it can. Under each head of habitual sins, two things will occupy your mind. It is best to take these two apart.
Conscience is the best guide.
They are a separate weight upon it. They weigh it down singly, apart from the whole mass of sin, and the soul feels that it must be discharged of these singly. But apart from these, we must endeavour to make an estimate of the frequency of each sin. If you took no account of it, and cannot now recall it, yet you may make some average of it. Or you may have made resolutions to break it off, and kept them for a time, and then relapsed, or been surprised into it again.