?8o Chrft the only 'judge of Píá1.13 him to take any notice of. Well, faith he, fear not ; I know thy poverty whereof thou complaineli ; but thou art Rich ; That is my judgement, Teflimony, and Sentence concerning thee and thy condition. Such will be his yudgement at the lafi day, when both thole, on the one hand, and the other, Grail be fuprized with his fentence, the one with Toy, at the riches of his Grace ; The other with terror at the feverity of hit Jufice, Math. 25. 3`7, 38, 39. and :1.4, 45. This cafe is direct- ly lived in both the places mentioned in the entrance of this difcourfe ; as in that for inflarse, Ifs. 49. 14. Zion faid, the Lord hath forfrken me. That is Zions judgement ofher felt, and her fiate and condition ; a fad report and conclufìon. But cloth Chri ¡it agree with Zion in this fentence ? The next verle gives us his Refolution of this matter ; Can, faith he, a Wnsian for- get her fucking Childe, that the (hould not have compagion otì the Son of her wombe; Tea they may forget, yet will not I forget thee. The fiate of things in Truth, is as much otherwife as can poi fibly be thought or imagined. To what purpofe is it for men to be paffing a judgement upon themfelves, when there is no manner of certainty in their determinations; and when their proceeding thereon will probably lead them to further entanglements, if not to eter- nal ruine. The Judging of S u's as to their fpiritual flare and condition is the work òfJcfus Chrifi ; efpecially as to the End now under Enquiry. Men may, men do take many wayes to make a judgementof themfslves. Sume do it on flight and trivial con' j:Elures ; Come on bold and wickedprefumptions ; fome on delperate Athe.ftical notions; as Deut. c29. 17. fome with more fobriety and fence of Eterni'y, lay downprinciples, it may be good and true in themfelves ; from them they draw conclufi- ons, arguing from one thing unto another; and m the end oft-times either deceive themfeives, or fit crown no lets in the dark, than they were at the entrance of their felf-debate aid Examination. Amans judgement upon his owp ;teafonings is feldom true, more feldomprma?ent. _ I (peak not , e cxami- .nation, with a due difcugion ofGraces and Actions ut of the final fentence a to fi<ate and condition, wherein the foul is to :acgt,láefc.e, This belongs unto Chrifl., rtitti Now
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