XXVIII. Let us therefore look carefully to ourselves, and consider what manner of spirit we are of: let us not think our condition safe, because we are of this or that church or persuasion, or because we are strict observers of the outward offices of religion. For we can’t but see, these are marks that belong to more than belong to Christ. All are not his that _prophesy_, or even _cast out devils, and work miracles in his name_. Much less those who, with corrupt minds and worldly hearts, are only _baptized in his name_.
*If religion has raised us into a _new world_; if it has filled us with _new ends_ of life; if it has taken possession of our hearts, altered the whole turn of our minds, and changed the whole stream of our affections: if it has given us _new joys and griefs, new hopes and fears_; if all things in us are become new: if _the love of_ God _is shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost given unto us_, and this _Spirit beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of_ God: then are we Christians, not in name only, but in truth; then we do believe in the Holy Jesus, and we shall _rejoice in the day of_ Christ, _that we have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain_.