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The following Scripture references may employ secret and serious self-inquiry:—1Sam. 2.36. Micah 3.11. Phil. 2.20, 21. 1Tim. 3.8. Titus 1.7-11. The command of God—Jer. 45.5. The appeal of his faithful servants—1Sam. 12.3. Acts 20.33. 1Thess. 2 4-9. ‘Ask yourselves often’—said Bishop Burnet—‘would you follow that course of life, if there were no settled establishment belonging to it, and if you were to preach under the cross, and in danger of persecution? For till you arrive at that, you are still carnal, and come into the priesthood for a piece of bread.’ Conclusion to the History of his own times.