i z 88 Perfect Love gives Boldnf S E R M. have taken deep root, are fo confirm'd as to VIII. be fuperior to all temptations, and operate `'1"-j with fuch eafe and pleafure that the mind cannot but be fenfible of, and rejoice in the teflimony of confcience concerning its fin - cerity. I hope it may not be amifs to mention fome particular inflances of virtue or dili- gence in duty, the eminent degrees whereof are in fcripture, particularly call'd perfeftion ; fuch as, a confiant attention to ourfelves, to our hearts, our tempers, and the principles of action in us, that we may fulfil our obe- dience to God, and be kept from offending him. This was the charge which the al- mighty, when he appeared to Abraham, and made a covenant with him, gave him, Gen. xvii. i. Walk before nie, always, as under my infpection, always fiudying to obtain my approbation, fo (halt thou be perfèc`i. A mind habitually rais'd above the world, hav- ing its affeEtions not fet on things on earth, but things above, with a prevailing tafle for religious exercifes and entertainments ; this is not what every chriftian finds in himfelf, but wherever it is found, I think it may well be allow'd to belong to a character of eminence in piety; and fo does a cuftomary vigilance
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