26 The Happinefs of the Righteous S E R m. bearing than they might be, or may be in Xl. another Rate, but yet they are fufficient, efpecially fince he has given us fatisfying evidence of his own moral perfe &ions and his moral government, though they do not Thine out in their full fplendor. The true confequence therefore from the promifcuous adminiftration in the prefent ítate, fo far as it is promifcuous, is not that it (hall be fo throughout; but quite on the contrary, that the lefs manifeftly it appears now to be well with the righteous, the more manifeft it fhall be hereafter : for, if the government of the rational creation be moral, and the ends of it muff be obtained, it follows that they who fincerely adhere to the caufe of virtue, muff: in proportion be happy, not perfeEtly and apparently in every circumftance and condition of their being, for that the divine wifdom and rec- titude do not require, but in the whole : When, and where, and in what manner, are points which our unfinifhed reafon doth not reach to. Here the fcripture inftruéts us more particularly, affuring us that the latter end of the perfect and upright man is peace ; that the dead are blued who die in the Lord ; that God has appointed a day in which
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