n his creatures, and hate the opposite.

_Practical Reflections._ (1.) How odious selfishness must be in the
sight of God. (2.) Sinners directly opposed in their characters and
feelings to God. Exod. 20:5, l.c. Rom. 8:7. (3.) The exceeding great
evil of sin, as committed against infinite benevolence. (4.) The
ingratitude and baseness of sinners. (5.) What the goodness of God
should lead them to. Isa. 30:18. Rom. 2:4. (6.) What emotions the
contemplation of the goodness of God should excite in the hearts of his
children. Ps. 118. Isa. 63:7. Eph. 5:20. (7.) How we may apprehend the
goodness of the Lord. Ps, 107:43.

6. _The Justice of God._ (1.) What justice is: _First_, as exercised by
intelligent beings, whose relations will admit of mutual giving and
receiving; _Second_, as exercised by a ruler towards his subjects;
_Third_, as relates to all actions, with reference to the general good.
(2.) Which of these relations God sustains to the universe. (3.) The
disposition which would lead him to act justly in all these cases. (4.)
How God is just as respects himself (5.) As respects his creatures. (6.)
How the justice of God may be seen from the light of reason, and from
the system of his providence. (7.) How from the Sacred History. (8.) The
positive declarations of Scripture. Deut. 32:4. Isa. 45:21. Zeph. 3:5.
_Rev._ 15:3. (9.) From the revelation of a future day of righteous
retribution. Eccl. 12:14. Acts 17:31. 2 Cor. 5:10.

_Practical Reflections._ (1.) How, by this attribute, God is qualified
to be the Supreme Governor. (2.) How terrible this renders him to the
wicked. Exod. 34:7, l.c. Heb. 10:20-29. 12:29. (3.) How suffering the
guilty to go unpunished, without satisfaction and reformation, would be
doing injustice to the universe. (4.) Why we ought to look with
complacency and delight upon this attribute.

7. _The Truth of God._ (1.) His _veracity_; or a disposition always to
speak according to the real state of things. (2.) _Faithfulness_; or a
disposition to conform his actions to previous declarations of his Word.

(1.) How the truth of God may be proved by reason. _First_, from his
Benevolence. _Second_, from his Independence and Immutability. _Third_,
from the excellence of truth and the turpitude of falsehood. _Fourth_,
from the estimation in which truth is held by the intelligent creatures
he has made.

(2.) How proved from the Scriptures. _First_, by direct declarations.
Exod. 34:6, l.c. Ps. 117:2. 146: