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Justice in his intercourse with mwn & all wh. is barely external & yet do it altogether fr. a principle of selfrighteousness & a supreme desire to promote his own private happiness, in wh. case t. Apos. in addition to what Ct has sd declare there is no religion at all 1 Cor. 13 1t & onward: Though I speak with the tongues of men & of angels & have not charity I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal: & tho I have t gift of Prophecy; & understand all misteries & all knowledge: & tho I have all faith so that I could remove mountains & have no charity I am nothing X and altho I bestow all my good to feed t. poor & give my body to be burned & have no charity: it profitteth me nothing XX These words bring to a settlement & conclusion one point and this is that t. shirlest attention to & fulfilment of moral duties toward each other & even to suffer martyrdom itself would be of no avail, towards a mans. salvn if they were done with a heart distitute of true love to G.; & for any one to pretend t contrary is to throw aside t. Bible X Nor are any to conceive that good works are any part of t ground of a justifying righteousness before G. I mean unclear works go Ctins perform