186 Of the Vanity of Man's yudgnient SERM. own kind we have to do, and our defire of XI. approbation is not wholly confined to them; `/".l^' if there are other intelligent and moral beings to whòm our conduEt is known, we find our- felves inclined to Rand fair with them, and study to be approved by their judgment; above all, it is a folid foundation of inward joy and fatisfaEtion to be accepted of God, the greateft and belt of all beings, the foun- tain of being, of intelligence, and good- nefs. This is a fubftantial happinefs to the hu . man mind, and fully fuflicient to all the pur- pofes of approbation. I do not fpeak now of the effeEts of the divine judgment in a future flat; which will convey as much en- joyment as the capacity of our natures can receive, and as lafting as our exiftencc ; but honour itfelf, confidered abftradly from any interefting confequences of it, which, according to fome wrong notions of it, and as given by fome perfons, is the empty idol of the vain and ambitious ; honour, I fay, is here a folid, a real enjoyment, rnoft fuit- able to the conftitution of our minds, and fil- ling them with a true permanent pleafùre. All the fatisfa &ion which arifes from a fenfe of true dignity is ftrengthened, the ground of it
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