in all Circumflances ïlluflrated. 27 llances of our outward condition, as the dif- S a R rd. petitions of our minds and our moral con- XI. duet. This argument has been largely infifieci on, and the force of it clearly feen by wife and thoughtful men, without the advantage of a revelation, even when they were un- certain concerning a future Efate, as force of them at all times, and pro';abjy all of them at fometimes, were : It was the foundation on which they maintained the excellence and the eligiblenefs of virtue, as moll becoming the dignity of a rational nature, and the chief good of man, abfira Ling from any confideration of God's interpofing, to re- ward and punifh men according to their works. But if we take in that confidera- tion, the firength of the argument will become irrefiftible, and the prophet's afi'er- tion in the text will reft, not only on the conflitution and fiate of human nature, as we find it by obfervation and experience, but the evidence we have of the being, the perfeftions, and the moral government of God, from which it is a juft confequence. We are, then, to confider righteoufnefs not merely as the glory of the human mind, and the naturally felicitating exercife and attainment
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