Spiritual Perfaion, Peace, and future Glory, are increafed by our excelling in Holinefs. 4, T O be ftria and fevere in judg- ingour felves, to be candid and favourable to others, argues a Man to be a proficient in pray}ical Religion. TheDivine Nature planted in theSaints, is as contrary to Sin, as Life is to Death ; and according as Grace is more lively in them, there is a quicker perception, a more feeling fenfeof Sin, and a ftronger deteflationof it. For the clearer appre- henfions wehave of the Majefty andPu- rity of the Law-giver, the more exten- five underftanding of the perceaion of the Law, the Rule of our Duty and Judgment, the more intimate and exaa infpe&ion of our Hearts and Anions the more deeply we are affeaed with our Defer}s and Defilements. How does Agur (whole Wifdom and Holinefs ap- pears in his choice of a Mediocrity be- fore Riches) vilifie himfelf, Surely I am more brutifb than any Man, and have not the underfianding of a Man ; I neither learned Wifdom, nor have the Vnderftand ing of the holy. With what an emphafis does he exprefs it, Surely I havenot It was not a fuperficial acknowledgment, but proceeded from the depth of his Soul. How does the Pfalmift aggravate b
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