Psalms 15

REFLECTIONS UPON PSALM XV.—Professors of religion have great need to examine themselves. Many have a place in God’s church below, who will never be admitted into his holy heaven. And, if we would know our true state, God’s word must be the sole standard, and his Spirit the great director and manager of our trial. It is not fair words, nor high pretences, but uniform obedience in heart and life to God’s law, that will prove the reality of our grace. We must exercise ourselves to keep a conscience void of offence towards God and men; to keep good company; and to have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather to reprove them. Though our holiness and virtue be not the foundation of our unchangeable happiness, they are the marks of our being rooted and grounded in Christ, our infallible establisher