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Such as Mark 8.38. Archbishop Seeker remarks, that ‘we are apt to fail in not always appearing, in the common intercourse of life, sufficiently penetrated with the importance of our function, or sufficiently assiduous to promote the ends of our mission.’ He warns us also that ‘talking with great earnestness about worldly affairs, or with great delight about diversions and trifles, betrays a mind overly fixed on them. No, our being good judges of such matters, only in a very particular degree, or of any other matters that are unconnected with our office will (unless we have some special call to them) commonly be thought to imply that we have studied and love them beyond what we should, to the neglect of our proper business.—If practical Christian piety, and benevolence, with constant zeal to promote them, are not the first and chief qualities which our parishioners and acquaintance ascribe to you; if they speak of you (as noted) on other accounts, but pass over these articles, and when asked about them, are at a loss what to say, except possibly that they know of no harm from you; all is not right, nor can such a Clergy answer the design of its institution anywhere.’ Charges, pp. 229, 236, 237.