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that for these two reasons; because no other Being can make a right judgment of us, and esteem us according to our merits; and because we can procure no considerable benefit or advantage from the esteem and approbation of any other Being. In the first place, no other Being can make any right judgment of us, and esteem us according to our merits. Created Beings see nothing but our outside, and can therefore only frame a judgment of us from our exterior actions and behaviour; but how unfit these are to give us a right notion of each other's perfections, may appear from several considerations. There are many virtues, which in their own nature are incapable of any outward representation: Many silent perfections in the Soul of a good man, which are great ornaments to human nature, but not able to discover themselves to the knowledge of others; they are tranacted in private, without noise or shew, and are only visible to the great Searcher of hearts. What actions can express the intire purity of thought, which refines and sanctifies a virtuous man? That secret rest and contentedness of mind, which gives him a perfect enjoyment of his present condition? That inward pleasure and complacency, which he
