in the Day of .7udgment. r 9 5 knowing whom he believed, and his perfwafion S R R M. of his ability to keep that which he committed VIII. to him againli that day. For what is be- `I'j lieving ? What is committing the foul to Chrift, which a man is confcious of as the ground of his hope ? It is not a tranfient aft, but an habitual temper of mind clearly ap- pearing to itfelf upon an impartial review, in all refpets, and without referve, conforma- ble to the gofpel ; fincere difpofitions and good purpofes uniformly carried into actual execution in a pious and univerfally virtuous converfation ; which was another fubje t of the apoftle's joyful confcioufnefs completing the former, 2 Cor. i. 12. Our rejoycing is this, the tejlimony of our confcience, that in fimplicity and godly fincerity, not with flefhly wifdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our converfation in the world. Now what is this other than the perfection of love, as it has been explained, that is of all reli- gious virtue, or all obedience to the gofpel ? We mull: not pats unobferved the reafon which the apoftle gives in the text, why our being made perfect in love gives us boldnefs in the day of judgment, and it is becaufe as he is, fo are we in this world. That is, we are like him ; as like as we 02 can p-,
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