Confidence towards God, explained. 331 fore God will juftify them ? No certainly; for S ER M. then the more obdurate and ftupid any finner XIII. is, the better would his condition be; but molt obvious notions of the holinefs and juftice of God will not fuffer us to entertain fuch a thought. On the other hand, there are force too ready to condemn themfelves ; melancholy religious perfons, through a prefent violent diftemper of mind, or rather perhaps a diftemper of body affect- ing the mind, and caufing vehement per- turbation, pronounce a hafty and unjuft fen - tence againft themfelves. Far be it from us to think that fuch a rafh and wrong judg- ment bath any conneCtion with the judg- ment of God. Surely the judge of the whole world will do right ; he is not unrighteous to forget his fervants work of faith and labour of love, which they have (hewed towards his name, although under a cloud, and in the prefent confufion of their thoughts, they may not be able to fee their own integrity. But this whole cafe of mens erroneous judg- ments concerning themfelves gives occafion to thefe farther obfervations for explaining the point now ender confideration. idly, Then, that hope towards God which is laid on any other foundation than the teftimony
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