i 302 The Path of the yui, S E R M. a growing fatisfaction. The apoftle teaches XII. in 2 Corinthians iii. 18. that our progrefs in true religion, which he calls the image of God, is from glory to glory, every flee we advance in it tends to enoble and dignify our nature, and brings an addition of true enjoyment. The conclufion, is, that we should en- gage our hearts to the love, the Rudy, and the pradtice of virtue. Her own native charms are fufficient to allure every rational being. They muff be the molt defpicable kind of living creatures, and have the leaft relifh of life, who ihun the light of Day, and choofe rather to dwell in darknefs. How degenerate are thofe minds ? Are they worthy to be called intelligent, who do not difcern the beauty of holinefs, and have no tafle for the pleafure of religious wifdorn ? Yet fo corrupt, fo infatuated are multitudes of mankind, fo loft to a juft fenfe of the true dignity and glory of their nature; even profefs'd chriftians, many of them, have contracted this infenfibility, above all others unexcufable, becaufe God has held out a clear light from heaven to guide them in the wav of righteoufiìefs ; he has mark'd out the shining path of the juft, difplay'd the progrefs
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