The Life of Faith. Should prove miltakcn s Therefore z. J.eGge not of your (elves by the by as of felf-love ; bat, if it be poffible, lay by partiality, and judge of your [ewes a: yt.0 do by others, upon the like evidences. z. Hearken what other men judge of you, who are impartial and wife, and are neer you, and throughly acquainted with your lives, It's pôfble they may think bet- ter or work ofyou than you are: but if they judge worfe of you,than you do of your tèlvcs,it thould flop your confidence, and make you the more f.Ipicious, and careful to try left you fhould be miftaken. 2. And remember alto that you are obliged to agreater modeffy in judging ofyour own verrues, and to a greater(eve- rity in judging of your own faults,than of-other mens; though you mutt not wilfully erre about your Hiles, or any others, yet you arc not bound to fetch out the truth about the faults of another, as you are about your own. Weare commanded to prefer one another in honour, Rom. so. 2z. And verf. 3. For I fay, through tbegrace given to one, to every man that is among you, not to think ofhimjelf more highly, than he ought to think; but to think joberly, according as God bath dealt to every man the meafure of Faith. 2 Another cloak for Pride is, the Reputation of our Reli. gion, Profeon or Parry, which will teem to bedifgraced by us, ifwe teem not to be fomewhat better than we are. If we thould not hide or extenuate our faults, and fet out our graces and parts to the full, we thould be a difhonour to Chrifit, and to his fervents, and his caufe. But remember z. That the way by which God hath ap- pointed you to honour him, is, by being good, and living well, and not by feemtug tobegood, when you are not, or teeming better than you are : TheGod of Truth, who hateth Hypo- critic, hath not chafen lying and hypocoifie to be the means by whichwe mutt Seek his honour. it it damnable to fcck toglo- rifie him by a lye, Rom. 3. 7,8. We muff indeed caufe ourlight fo to Thine before men that they may fee cur good works, andglore our heavenly Fatbcr, Mat. 5. 16. But it is the light ofSincerity andgood Works, and not of a diffcmbled profeffion that mutt fo thine. a. And the Goodnefs of the pretended end doth greatly aggravate
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