Abernathy - Houston-Packer Collection BX9178.A33 S4 1748 v.2

for knowing the Truth. 269 his error. Againft that danger he has a per- SERM0 felt fecurity, if we may rely on the affurance X. our Saviour gives us in the text. And indeed tMi the confederation of the wifdoen and goodnefs of God in the government of his reafonable creatures will not fuffer us to think otherwife. For doing the will of God in the fenfe of the text comprehends all the moral qualifications which we can reafonably conceive fhould render us acceptable to him, and to fufpend our title to his favour, or any thing which is abfolutely neceffary to it, on any other con- dition, is to reprefent him as an arbitrary Be- ing, who does not deal with moral agents according to the meafures of equity and good-. nefs, which is at once to def}roy the true and the only foundation of all religion and confi- dence towards him. In the next place, we may infer, that our prefervation from fundamental and deí}rudive errors in religion does not depend on infalli- bility in ourfelves or any other Chrif}ians Our Saviour has placed it on another and an infinitely more juft and reafonable founda- Lion. Religion is every man's perfonal affair, and his own happinefs depends upon it. If he is an infinitely good Being, and a perfe& lover of righteoufnefs in whofe hands the dif- tribution

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