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SERPA.
XXI.]
TRUTH, SINCERITY,
&C.
35.1
and
in all the
prosecutions
of
those
divine
and
eternal
purposes
in
heaven and on
earth.
No alteration of cir-
cumstances,
no
change
of
place, from a cross on
earth
to
a throne
in heaven,
can change
his
compassion and love
to
his
saints.
And shall
we
suffer
our petty
changes
here'
on
earth,
from a
higher
to
a
lower
part of
a
little mole-
hill, to
make such a shameful
alteration
in
our conduct to
our
friends,
as
too
often
endangers our truth,
and disco-
vers
our inconstancy?
Let us
consider
that
by
our
profession
öf
christianity
we
renounce deceit
and falsehood, and
all
the hidden
things
of darkness
:
We are children
of
the
light,
then
let
us walk in
the
light,
and
do
the truth, and let
our
deed's
be made
manifest,
that
they are
wrought
iri
God
;
that
is,.
in
the faith and fear
of
God,
John
iii.
21.
Why should
a christian
be
a
deceiver, when
he.
bears
the name
of
Christ
the faithful and
true:
How
inconsistent
a
cha=
racler
is
it
for
a christian
to be
a
liar
:
For
a
christian
to
be
false,
and violate
and break
his
word
:
How dis-
honourable
is
it
to
the
holy
name
we
bear.
Let
the children
of
Satan, who
is
a
liar
from the begin-
ning,
delight
themselves
in
falsehoods,
and
sport them-
selves in
their
own
deceivings
:
Let
those:who
renounce
all
hope
in
the promises
of God,
imitate the
devil, who
is
the
father
of
lies
:
But let
us who
trust
in
the
God
of
truth,
who believe
in
Jesus
the Saviour, and make
hi's
truth our
hope,
let
us
imitate our heavenly
Father
and
our
blessed
Lord.
Let
us
speak the
truth
and
practise
it.
It
was
by
a
lie
of
the devil
that
our
first
parents
were deceived
and ruined
:
All
our
sin
and misery
sprung
from
that
falsehood
Ye
shall
not surely
die.
And it
is
by
our
faith
in
the
truth
and promise
of God
that
we
hope for salvation, While
we
therefore remem-
ber either
the spring
of
our ruin, or
the means
of
our re-
covery,
we
should
love
the
truth,
and hate
lying.
But there
are motives
of terror,
as
well as
arguments
of
grace
and
love,
that
should ever influence
us
to since-
rity and truth. We should remember
that
Christ
our
Lord
has eyes
like a
flame
of
fire,
that
lie
searches
the
hearts
and
the reins,
and
will
render
to every one
accord-
ing
to
their
works,
Rev.
ii.
23.
We should
remember
the dreadful threatenings
that
Christ
the faithful and
true
Witness,
Christ
the Lord
and
Judge of
all
men,
hath
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