SECTION VIII 3g to God for them may expect and receive ; wherebyvice shall be subdued in their natures, and their irregular appetites and pas- sions shall be mortified ; whereby moral and divine things shall be set before them in so powerful a light, as to persuade their wills to become religious and holy. Thus between these clear instructions, these powerful, religious motives, and these divine assistances which the gospel proposes, virtue gains a vast advan- tageby christianity. To conclude ; though there are eternal fitnesses in things, and reason may findout the general rules of virtue, and the chief boundaries between good and evil ; yet a sufficient obligation to practise them cannot be established without thesupposition of a God : And even after this supposition we must confess, that the knowledge of these rules amongst the bulk of mankind, will be very dark and dubious in a thousand instances, and obligations to practise virtue will be feeble, and have little effect without the divine revelation of the law and the gospel. Blessed be God for ever for his holy bookof scripture ! O when shall it be read in every language, and be made known to the ends of the earth! 7B
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