compared with that of God. 293 good and evil which comes under their cog - SERM, nizance ? Not the religion or irreligion, nor Xi. ftri tly the morality and immorality, of men's tempers and anions, as they lie before the Judgment -feat of Chrift, where the hearts are pondered and the determination is ac- cording to their fincerity or infincerity, but that good and evil which is, and fo far as it is, beneficial or hurtful to mankind as focial creatures in this world. This the fcripture, inftead of difparaging, injoins to reverence with a confcientious refpet, is very ufeful in its own fphereforpreferving publick order and peace among men, God commands to ren- der unto Cxfar the things which are Czefar's; referving Rill to himfelf the things which are his, the right of his infinitely fuperior au- thority to determine the true moral and re- ligious Rate of men's minds and their works, and to fix their final everlafting condition ac- cording to it. There is, beffdes this, a right of private judgment in every man for himfelf, not only to judge his own actions, which he can do indeed with greater certainty and to better purpofe, beingconfcious oftheir fecret fprings, but alfo in fome meafure to judge concern -,, ink the actions of others. We cannot help U 5 judging,
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