190 Perfea`l Love gives Boldnefs S E R M. life, we are made perfect in love. This will VIII. appear plainly to an attentive perfon from the `"-' nature of the thing, for what better evidence can there be of the firength, and indeed the perfedion, fuck as we can attain, of good principles, than an inviolable adherence to them, and ailing upon them conflantly ún- der the fevereft trials. And the apoflle lames has taught us fo in exprefs words ; * Let patience have her perfec`l work, that ye may be perfecl and intire, wanting nothing. Having thus fhew'd you wherein the perfection of love confifts, or what is meant by our being made perfect in it, I proceed Secondly, To confider the happy effe& of this perfetion, which is eflablifbing our hearts in the expeäation of the future judg- ment, as giving us boldnefs in it, and calling out all tormenting and difquieting fear. At our entrance on this part of the fubjed, it is neceffary to obferve, that as the mind of man refts with fatisfadion in the difcovery of truth, with different degrees of fatif- faElion, however, according as the truth dif- covered is apprehended to be of importance to itfelf, fo there are different kinds and de- grees of evidence. There are felf- evident * James i. 4. propofitions,
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