Modernized extract from Dr. Doddridges 1825 publication, ‘The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul”

3. How to End the Day with God

Read & Meditate
Read a few verses in the Bible, or a part of some other good book,  and spend some time in meditation upon it, according to the directions given for the beginning of the day.

2. Self-Examination
Then enter upon that soul-profiting exercise Self-examination; which you may manage by poseing your conscience with the following questions:.
• Did I indulge myself this morning in sleeping beyond what was a necessary or convenient refreshment?
• Did I then awake as with God, and rise with a thankful sense of his goodness?
• How were the secret devotions of the morning performed?
• How did I read the sacred scriptures, or any other devotional piece?
• Did it do my heart good?
• How have the other stated devotions of the day been conducted, whether in the family or in public?
• Have I pursued the common business of the day with diligence and spirituality, doing everything in season, and with all convenient dispatch, as unto the Lord?
• What time have I lost this day? What occasioned the loss of it? 
• Have I seen the hand of God in my mercies, health, cheerfulness, food  clothing, success in business, conversation, kindness of friends, family?
• Have I also eyed a divine hand in my afflictions and crosses, and particularly in those little things which had a tendency to vex and disquiet me?
• How have I guarded against the temptations of the day?
• Have I maintained a humble dependance on divine influence?
• Have I lived by faith in the Son of God, and regarded Christ this day as my teacher and governor, my atonement and intercessor, my example and guardian, my strength and forerunner?
• Have I been looking forward to death and eternity this day; and considered myself as a probationer for heaven, and through grace, an expectant of it?
• Have I governed my thoughts well in solitude; and my discourses well in company?
• Did I say nothing passionate, mischievous,  slanderous , imprudent, or impertinent?
• Has my heart this day been full of love to God, and to all mankind; and have I sought, found, and improved opportunities of doing and receiving good?

Pray
After self-examination, the exercise should be concluded with prayer.

Thank God
The time that we spend in undressing should be filled up with devotional thoughts and reflections upon the goodness of God, in adding another day, with the mercies of it, to our lives. Also his giving us commodious habitations and easy beds; and continuing to us such health of body, and peace of mind, that we can lie down with the pleasing hopes of refreshing sleep.

Commit Your Spirit to God
When we are in bed, and just going to resign ourselves to sleep, that image of death, it will be highly proper to think seriously of the end of all living; and to renew those actings of faith and repentance, which we should judge necessary, if we were to awake no more in this world.

A Short View of Death to be taken just Before we Sleep

Oh my soul! Look forward a little with seriousness and attention, and learn wisdom by the consideration of your latter end. Another of your mortal days is now numbered and it is finished. As I have put off my clothes, and laid myself upon my bed for the rest of the night, so will the day of life quickly come to its period; so must the body itself be put off, and laid to repose in a bed of dust. There let it rest; for it will be no more regarded by me than the clothes which I have now laid aside 

I have another far more important concern to mind. Think, oh my soul, when death comès, you are to enter upon the eternal world, and to be fixed either in heaven or in hell for ever. All the schemes and cares, the hopes and fears, the pleasures and sorrows, of life, will come to their period; and the world of spirits will open upon you. And oh! how soon may it open! Perhaps before the returning sun brings on the light of another day. Tomorrow’s sun may not enlighten mine eyes, but only shine round a senseless corpse, which may lie in the place of this animated body. At least the deaths of many in the flower of their age, may loudly warn me not to depend on a long life; but rather to wonder that I am continued here so many years, than to be surprised if I be speedily removed.

And now, oh my soul! Answer as in the sight of God, are you ready? Are you ready? Is there no sin held so fast, and cherished, as to fill you with anguish in your departing moments, and make you tremble on the brink of eternity. Dread to remain under the guilt of it; and this moment renew your most earnest applications to the God, and the blood of a Redeemer, for deliverance from it. But if you have cordially repented of all past sin, and have taken up strong resolutions against it for the time to come, and have sincerely committed thyself by faith into the hands of the blessed Jesus, then start not at the thoughts of the king of terrors. It is not in the power of death to hurt a soul devoted to God, and united to the great Redeemer. It may take me from my earthly friends, and earthly enjoyments;  but, oh, my soul, better company, and nobler enjoyments, await you beyond the grave. For ever blessed be the name of God, and the love of Jesus, for these quieting, encouraging and joyful views. I will now lay me down in peace and sleep. Father! into your hands I commend my spirit, for you have redeemed it, O God of truth. And therefore I can cheerfully refer to it as your choice, whether I shall awake in this world, or in another.