SERMON XXI. fí97 Mack catalogue of sinners, who are doomed to everlasting des- traction; Rev. xxi. 8. the name of liars is put in with a peculiar remark, the unbelievers, the murderers, the whoremongers, the ,sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with tire and brimstone, which is the second death. As if he had said, whosoever escapes hell, no liar shall escape it, and it is repeated again io the next chapter, Without thegates Of heaven are dogs, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever lovetle and moketh a lie; Rev. xxii. 15. Whensoever therefore we find a temptation- to falsehood, let us set ourselves under the immediate eye of God our Judge, God who shall bring to light the hidden thingsof darkness, and shall judge the Secrets of every heart one playby Jesus Christ our Lord i 1 Cor. iv. 5. Rom. ii. 16. If we did but always place ourselves as in the sight of the great and dreadful God, whose eye beholds every falsehood we practise, and all the hidden hypocrisy, the lurking deceit ,of the soul, whose ear attends to every word of falsehood we spcal., and records it all in his book against that ,great and terrible day ofaccount ; surely we should find a more effectual influence of it upon our spirits, to guard us from such words and actions as are inconsistent with the sincerity of a christian. And let our hearts be melted into repentance for our past iniquities of this kind, and moulded into the love of truth by a delightful meditation of the faithfulness of our Lord Jesus Christ to us, in performing his kind and dreadful undertaking to suffer for our sins. Let us dwelt upon the thoughts of his faithfulness to all his promises, and think thus with ourselves, that he has engaged us to truth of every kind by the.strong:: pst bonds of duty and love : And if we are false and unfaith- ful to him in this world, how justly may he cut us off from all our glorious hopes and expectations in the world which is to come. But this leads me to the fourth general head that I proposed ; which was to lay down some directions how Christians may bp preserved in the ways of truth, bow they may secure and main- tain this blessed character of integrity and uprightness which I have described. And I think this may be better performed py distinguishing truth, or integrity, into those three distinct parts, under which I treated of it before, namely, veracity, faith- fulness, and constancy, and by giving seme rules for the preser- Nation of each. 'Pipe rules to preserve veracity, or to keep our words con, formable to our hearts, are such as these : I. Be persuaded in your own minds; that no circumstances whatsoever can make a lie lawful. Though when a question is
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