Of a Confcience void of Offence. 163 pliance with lull: and paflion, as fome wick- SE R m. edly do. VII. From what has been now laid it appears, that nothing can be of greater importance to men than to have their minds well in- form'd concerning the meafures of their moral condu &, and rightly to underhand the practical principles of religion. Mon unhappy, furely, is the condition of that mind which is thoroughly poffefs'd of per- nicious errors, and the more earnehly it pur- fues its own judgment the farther fl:ill it goes affray. But, this, at lean, in points of the greaten moment, is certainly not inevitable ; for then our worn errors would only be our infelicities, and our actions agreeable to them could not properly be called our fins. But, indeed, God has made the great truths con- cerning his being, his perfection, and par- ticularly his moral character, fo manifeft, that every man muff difcern them who ap- plies himfelf to the inquiry with unpreju- diced and careful attention, which is un- queftionably the duty of fuch creatures as we are, and for want of it our hearts will fome time or other feverely reproach us. The principal parts of our religion being plain inferences from the divine moral attri- M z butes,
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