336 The Foundation of S E R M. all alike hurtful ; fome of them are perfectly XIII. innocent, and produce no bad effe is at all ; What is any man the worfe for his judging amifs concerning the magnitude and diftance of the heavenly bodies ? The correcting his miftake may give him pleafure, but without that, he might have been as good a man, and in the main as happy. But in the affair we are now confidering, a miftake cannot be harmlefs ; at leaft on the one fide, which is the molt dangerous, it endeth in a mife- rable difappointment. For a man to flatter himfelf that he is entitled to the favour of God, and to find at Taft that wrath abideth up- on him. I conclude, then, we are not under a fatal neceffity of being deceived, elfe I fhould not at all know how this text is to be under- flood, or, indeed, how the juftice of God could be vindicated to the full conviction of men. Let us confider how our minds are affe±ted upon the difcovery of error, how it muff appear to our own reflecting thoughts, and what confequences we can think may, and ought to follow it, from the judgment of others, particularly a fuperior. If the miftake was abfolutely invincible, that is, the perfon falling into it was not furnifhed with a capacity, or had no means whereby he could po libly Elam it, then it was certainly excu-
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