for knowing the Truth. 265 him to favour them with thofe aids whereby SEI M. they fhould be rendered capable of under - X. flanding it. Now, of all men they are the"`^" molt likely to be diltinguifhed with the pri- vilege of receiving farther inftruftion from God, who have duly improved in practice the knowledge they have already attained, and faithfully done the will of God fo far as they could underftand it. So that we may con- fider the words of the text as containing a promife to fincere well - difpofed perfons, the lovers of true virtue and gbodnefs, cc That GC God will teach them fo far as is abfolutely " neceffary, and that they fhall, not fatally " err by receiving a pernicious impofture for a divine revelation." And this indeed is what our notions of the wifdom and good - . fiefs of the Supreme Being will naturally lead us to believe. come now to draw form inferences,. And Firfi, What has been faid concerning the çhriftian fcheme in general, may be applied to its particular parts. The gofpel is a fyftern which contains a variety of doctrines properly fo called, or articles of belief, which are principally the fats reported in it concerning gu
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