356 The Foundation of S E R M. arifeth pleafure and pain ; and this natural- XIV. ly leadeth us to the prefaging expectations of the divine judgment, according to the judgment we pafs upon ourfelves ; we can- not help concluding that thus God fpeaketh to us, and maketh known his pleafure ; that in acting and judging according to the plain unalterable dictates of our nature and reafon, we pleafe him, and in counteracting them we rebel againft his will, which he difapproveth. The original ideas of mora- lity, which we find in our own minds, it is not in our power to change ; nor can we think otherwife, than that they are agree- able to the fentiments of all other moral agents ; it is by them we form our notions of the divine moral attributes, only remov- ing from our idea of God the imperfections we find in ourfelves ; and, therefore, we muff judge that what we neceffarily approve upon a calm and deliberate reflection, he will approve; and what we condemn, he will condemn alto. And, Laflly, Let it be obferved, that the judg- ment of God is of a very peculiar kind, al- together unparallelled in human judicature; for reafon teacheth, and the fcripture very expre.fily, that not only external actions will come under its cognizance, nor will it pro- ceed
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