2o The Life if GOD irikindled within, and awakened unto the fenfe and relifh of fpiritual things. There is a JPirit in man, and the injpir&tion of the Almighty giveth this underflanding. The power and life of religion tnay be better expreffed ic actions than in words; · becaufe actions are. n1ore lively things, and do better reprefent the inward prin– ciple whence they proceed: and therefore we may take the beft meafure of thofe . graciouS' endown1ents ·from the deport– ment of thofe in whom they refide; efpe– cially as they are perfectly exe1nplified in the holy life of our bleffed Saviour; a main part of whofe bufinefs in this world, was, to teach by his practice what he did re· quire of others, and to n1ake his own convcrfation an exact refemblance of thofe unparallelled rules which he prefcribed: fo that if ever true goodnefs was vifible to mortal eyes, it was then- when his pre– fence did ·beautify andi llufirate this lower world. I That fincere and devout i)ffeetion D . . 1 wherewith his bleffed foul did, tvme ove exemplified confiantly burn towards his· in our Savi- heavenly Father, did exprefs. o~r. itfelf in an entire rcfignation to his 'will. It was this was his very tneat, to .do the will, and ji1ti}h the work of him - that
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