294 Of the Vanity of Man's yudgment SERM. judging, indeed, feeing that fome works of XI. men are notorioufly evil, and that others are ``good ; though we cannot know them infal- libly, becaufe their inward principles and motives lie out of our fight, yet our know- ledge is fufficient to the ends of charity and Social life. The ufe of this is to direst our regards to men with whom we are conver- fant, and aflift us in forming the meafures of our own conduét ; principally, to culti- vate a friendly correfpondence with the good for our mutual advantage, and that we may avoid evil communication which corrupts good manners ; but this has nothing to do with a definitive fentence upon other men, upon their Hate, upon the temper, the affeétions and motives of their hearts, nor confequently upon the religion and irreligion of their works ; efpecially, in a great variety, indeed the greateft numbers of cafes which are the fubjets of rafh human judgment, wherein the fecret views of men's minds cannot be certainly known, as not being plainly dif- covered by external figns and open profef- fions. The fecond obfervation (hall be in the words of the apoftle, at the fifth verfe, im- mediately following my text, that we /hog judge
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