for knowing the Truth. 271 imagine that the doctrine of fincerity as con- SERM. taining all needful qualifications for fufficient X. knowledge in divine things, tends to leffen eM) the value of believing aright, and to make Chriftians indifferent about religious truths. But indeed the quite contrary follows from it. It does diminifh the importance of cu- rious fpeculations about which good men may differ, and yet which fome tyrannically im- pofe upon others as neceffary points, thereby throwing the chriftian world into confulion. But what can lay a greater importance on real falutary knowledge and a right difcern- ment of religious truth, and raife it higher in the efteem of men, than making the belt thing that the human nature is capable of, that is, fincerity in doing the will of God, the condition of attaining it? Another inference is, that we Ihould al- ways have an inviolable regard to the will of God, I mean the weighty matters of his law, in which all good men are agreed, and make it a rule in judging of religious truth. Whatever has a neceffary conneEtion with judgment, and mercy, and honefty, 'and the love of God, and a direst immediate ten- dency to promote them, we may fafely re- ceive. Whatever has no relation to them is of
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