(1) When you are reluctant to religious conversation, and the company of the serious, heavenly-minded Christians, and enjoy yourself best with men of the world.
(2) When from preference you are absent from meetings for prayer, confine yourself to Sabbath meetings, are easily detained from them, and are ready to excuse such neglects.
(3) When you are afraid to consider some duties seriously, lest your conscience rebuke past neglect, and insist on fidelity now.
(4) When it is more your object, in doing duty, to pacify conscience, than to honour Christ, obtain spiritual profit, or do others good!
(5) When you have an over-critical spirit respecting preaching, are dissatisfied with the manner, as inelegant, too plain, too intellectual, or not according to some favourite model; or with the matter, as too doctrinal, or too perceptive, or when you complain of it as too close, or are suspicious of personality.
(6) When you are more afraid of being accounted strict, than of sinning against Christ by negligence in practice, and un faithfulness to your Lord and Master.