in the Day of judgment. 193 This leads me more particularly to con- S E R M. Eider, what the evidence is upon which our VIII. boldnefs in the judgment refts ; and it has thefe two rational foundations, fill, the truth of the principles of natural religion and of chri'danity, or an affurance that God will fulfil the promifes made to his fervants, that he will finally acquit from condemnation, and give eternal life to all them who have fincerely obeyed the gofpel, And fecondly, the chriftian's confcioufnefs of his own fincerity in that obedience. The former I (hall not now infift on, for I fpeak to chriftians, to them who believe the gofpel, and I hope the foundation need not again be laid. The other, that is, the inward confcioufnefs, the fubjeit being what pates in the mind itfelf, is, in general, the great - eft certainty we can attain to. We know our own exiftence, our own faculties, and the exercife of them, by an immediate in- tuition ; and this kind of knowledge ad- mits of no reafoning ; the mind can have no clearer views, nor greater certainty of fuch points than what arifes from the firft atten- tive felf-refledtion. 'Tis true, experience. Chows us that the human mind is capable of fuch diforders, whatever the caufe be, as to Vol. I. O be
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