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judgment-day, heaven's joys or hell's horrors, Rom. ii. 1 - 10. 2 Peter iii. 14.

Upon the whole, - How shall man be just with (or justify himself before) God? If he contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand, Job ix. 2, 3. So that every mouth must be stopped, since all the world is become guilty before God. Being justified (if ever) freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ; whom God hath set forth (in the most illustrious manner) to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, &c. Rom. iii. 19 - 27.

Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken of in the prophets: Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish, Acts xiii. 40, 41. Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves; know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? 2 Cor. xiii. 5.

SELF-JUDGING FOR SIN. THE EVIL NATURE AND EFFECTS OF SIN.

Thus having by God's holy law found out your sins, you must arraign and accuse yourself, as it were at the bar of God's tribunal; representing your sins to your mind as they are, in their heinousness and mischievousness, according to their several aggravations.

First, Consider sin in its nature. It is a moral evil, an irregularity in the soul and actions, and enmity to God the chief good; it is the worst evil, worse than the devil and Satan, he had not been a devil but for sin; worse than hell, which, as it is a torment, is caused by sin, and is only contrary to the good of the creature, whereas sin itself is contrary to the good of the Creator. It is such a distemper of the soul, that the Scripture calls it wickedness of folly, even foolishness of madness, Eccles. vii. 25.

Secondly, Considering from whence sin in man had its original, even from the devil, John viii. 44. Gen. iii. who is the father of it; it came, and comes from hell, James iii. 15; therefore is earthly, sensual,