in the Day of yudgment. 201 to conform our title to the heavenly inheri- SE R ra. tance, and increafe our confidence, by cul- VIII. tivating all religious and good difpofitions, and adding to our faith all the chriftian vir- tues ; ftill Rudy to make ourfelves more perfect in love, and let it abound more and more in knowledge and in all judgment, being fincere and without fènce, filled with the fruits of righteoufnefs. Other foundation of hope can no man lay. 'Tis true, fanners have invented others, when their hearts could not help enquiring wherewith they Jhould approach the Lord, and bow to the high God ; fuperftition founded on wrong noti- ons of the Deity and his moral government, has led them to come with, rams, and with oil, and the fruit of their bodies to atone for their fins; but the fcripture has inftructed us to do what is morally good, as the Pure way to happinefs and peace to do ju/lly, and love mercy and walk humbly with our God. Even chriftians themfelves have been weak, or rather perverfe enough to fubftitute fome- thing elfe in the room of perfect love, and a felf approving mind, as the ground of their confidence. Some truft in the truth of their religious opinions, others in the regular per- formance of folemn inflituted fervices ; than. which
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