compared with that of God. 28i handing, upon (lender information, and upon SERM. circumftances which are very remote from XL the true merit of perfons or actions. The` judgment of the fober confiderate few, does, in the eftimation of a thoughtful fedate mind, outweigh numberlefs multitudes of fuch, ei- ther applaufes or cenfures, which are often alike groundlefs and alike changeable. But, in point of knowledge there is an in- finitely greater difproportion between God and the wifeft man, than between this latter and the very weakeft of all rational beings. His underftanding is infinite, ours confined within very narrow limits ; he fees all things clearly, they are naked and open h fore him even to their inmoft effences; we fee the brighteft objects but darkly, and very many not at, all ; he difcerns effects in their caufes, and extends his views to the remoteft con - fequences and iffues of things ; we,know nod thing of caufes but by their apparent effects, and that very imperfe&ly ; and for futurity, the events of it are hid from our fight in impenetrable darknefs. But, efpecially, the fubje&: of our prefent confideration, the ex- á& morality, or the meafure of good and evil in chara&ers and actions, is very imper- fetly underftood by men. We have indeed
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