254. Sincere Obedience the bell Pretaration. SERM. of the perfon who Ihall rightly judge concern- X. ing this, and by parity of reafon concerning any other doctrine, whether it be of God. If any man will do his, that is God's, will. It was to the Jews our Saviour fpoke, and therefore with refpe ± to them his meaning mutt be, that they thould be qualified to pafs a right judgment upon chriftianity, by conforming themfelves, their temper and con- verfation to the rule of religion which,they had already embraced. They acknowledged, and he agreed with them, that Mofès and the prophets were meflengers by whom God fpoke at fundry times, and in diverfe man- ners to their fathers. If therefore, they were the true difciples of thofe ancient teachers, if they fincerely received the law, and the holy oracles delivered by them, and walked accoratng to their direction, uprightly, they might then be able to difcern; whether the gofpel which he taught was accompanied with fufficient evidence of a divine original. But, a mere profeffion would not fo qualify them, or a merely fpeculative and unaffec- tionate affent to the truth, and an external conformity to the ceremonial injun Lions of the law. Mofes himfelf, and the prophets did not lay the ftrefs there : nor was their doc-
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