e an insupportable burden? Ps.
38:2-7. Have I ceased attempting to justify myself? Job 40:4. Luke
18:11-14. Have I utterly despaired of all help from myself? Rom. 3:20.
Have I abandoned all attempts to establish my own righteousness, by
resolutions of amendment and future obedience? Rom. 9:32. 10:3. Have I
exercised sincere and heartfelt sorrow on account of my sins? Ps. 38:17,
18. Has this been the sorrow of the world which worketh death? 2 Cor.
7:10, l.c. 2 Sam. 17:23. Matt. 27:3-5. Acts 8:24. Or has it been godly
sorrow, which worketh repentance not to be repented of? 2 Cor. 7:9-11.
Has my heart been broken, contrite, and humble, under a sense of my sins
against God? Ps. 34:18. 51:17. Isa. 57:15. Has this sense of sin emptied
me of myself, and begotten a deep poverty of spirit? Isa. 66:2. Matt.
5:3. Has it led me to feel my unworthiness of God's favor? Gen. 32:10.
Luke 15:19. 18:13, 14. Have I been filled with shame and self-loathing,
on account of the exceeding greatness of my sin, considered under a view
of the infinite purity and awful majesty of the great Jehovah, against
whom it has been committed? Ezra 9:6. Job 42:1-6. Jer. 31:19. Ezek.
16:63.

2. _As to my views of the government of God._ Do I acquiesce in the
government of God as a most wise, most just, and most righteous
government? Rev. 15:3, 4. Do I cordially, cheerfully, and without
reserve, yield myself, as a moral and accountable being, to the
authority of God, as the moral Governor of the universe? Rom. 6:13.
12:1. Do I feel no reserve in my heart, making first the condition that
I may be saved? Do I humbly acquiesce in the justice of God, in the
eternal punishment of the wicked? Do I include myself in this, thereby
"accepting the punishment of my sin"? Levit. 26:40, 41. Am I sure that
this feeling is not produced by the secret consciousness that it is an
evidence of a gracious state? Jer. 17:9. If all hope of salvation were
suddenly taken away from me, would my heart still acquiesce in the
justice of the sentence of condemnation?

3. _As to my faith in Christ._ Have I ceased from my own works, and, as
a heavy-laden sinner, come to Christ for rest? Heb. 4:10. Matt. 11:28.
Have I seen him to be, in all respects, a complete Saviour, just such as
my ruined and lost condition requires? 1 Cor. 1:30. Gal. 3:13. 4:3-5.
Col. 1:19. 2:3, 10. Have I heartily given up all for him? Matt. 10:37.
Luke 14:26, 33. Phil. 3:7-10. Have I cheerfully taken up my cross and