344J SERMON XIV. The FOUNDATION Of CONFIDENCE towards G O D, explained. iJOHNIII.19,20,2r. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and (hall ajfure our hearts before him. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence towards God. S E R M, H E defign of this text is to teach us XIV, upon what grounds we may hope for the divine approbation, or have juft reafon to fear his difpleafure, namely, the teftimony of our confciences concerning our obedience or difobedience to his law, either that which he bath engraved on our hearts, and jhewed us to be good by the light of nature, or which he hath given us by a pofitive and exprefs revelation. As this dottrine is liable to be mifapprehended, I explained it in a former difeourfe in feveral propofitions; the ruin
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