3 3 8 The Foundation of S E R M, sth y, therefore, the judgment we pats XI upon ourfelves, or upon our own temper and courfe of anions, ought not to be rafh and indeliberate. The lean confideration of the frame and the powers of our minds muff convince us, that attention, in order to prevent miftakes, and to judge rightly in matters of importance, is one of the firft duties incumbent on fuch creatures as we are. Seeing the human underflanding is fo impeded, far from a comprehenfive intui- tion of things, even many truths, which may be clearly known, do not appear to its firft view; what can be more reafonable and becoming us, than that we fhould not run haflily into a conclufion upon points which nearly concern our duty and our happinefs, but that we fhould apply ourfelves to a di- ligent examination of the evidence upon which a judgment is to be formed, which every man is confcious to himfelf he bath it in his own power to do, and for neglect- ing it his heart will reproach him ? We know by experience, that many errors have been thus prevented, and many correced; and, furely, we muff acknowledge there is no affair which more juflly calleth for our deliberation and careful inquiry, than thé judgment
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