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This view of the subject is nearly identical with Bishop Burnet. His application is too striking to be omitted. ‘This man’ (remarks the Bishop with a solemnity truly episcopal), ‘and this man only—so moved and qualified, can in truth and with a good conscience answer, that he trusts he is inwardly moved by the Holy Ghost. And every man that ventures to say it without this, is a sacrilegious profaner of the name of God, and of his Holy Spirit. He breaks in upon his church, not to feed it, but to rob it; and it is certain that he who begins with a lie may be sent by the father of lies; but he cannot be thought to “enter in by the door” who prevaricates in the first word that he says in order to [gain] his admittance.’—Pastoral Care, ch. vi.