' P of e A choice lieu. i f ulnas. reality of the eilate of grace. So our frequent fufpitions that we are hypocrites, does not cut us off from the title and right of promifed comforts. Chriflians muft carefully di- fl-inguith between the pretence of hypocrify, and the pre- dominancy of hypocrify. In the moll upright hearts that are in the world, there. is more or lefs hypocrify remaining in them : All the Saints that ever were m the World, have found more or leis of this root of bitternefs fpringing up in them ; tis not the prefence of hypocrify, but the reign- of hypocrify that damns the foul ; that hypocrify that is difcer- oppoted, and mourned over, will never make a Chriftian miferable. Where the Handing frame and gene- ral bent of a mans heart is upright, there the prefence of by- pocrify cannot denominate a man an hypocrite All men mull Hand and.fall for ever according to the Handing frame and general bent of their hearts ; if the Handing frame and general bent of their hearts be fincere, they are happy for ever ; but if the Handing frame and general bent of their hearts he hypocritical, they are miferable for ever. But, 7 Rom. 12,,23. lieb. /2, r ."he Fourteenth Maxim or Confideration. EOurteenthly, Confider you mutt never judg your felVet unfoiand).or hypocrites for fuck 'things,or from fuch-con- 'erajons, or by [lien Arguments or teafonings,' which be- ing admKted and granted to be true, will neteffarily and un- avoidably. prove the whole generation of the faithful; the whole body of them that fear the Lord, to be unfound, and to be a pack of noriotis hySpoites he that judg o'nfonn4 or an hypn;rite, ibecaufe ,hiS thoughts and inrginations are, thx he Isrint fincere, for nbccanfe-i-,e is-thus aid thus tempted or becaufe he is at particutir times. afid.in priricialar cafes thus and thus wortied.and captivated ..by notwithilanding all the refinance that he is able t Make again( ity and notwithftanding,his hatred "Ofit, and h: ng fa. 5 S' 7,B,9.
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