Of Knowledge. z25 praftife what we have difcovered to be our SERM. duty. V. But I propofed in the 2d place to confider `"'"'"' the reafonablenefs of our endeavouring to attain knowledge, and make daily progrefs in it. And this is, in a great meafure, evident from what has been already faid. If know- ledge be abfolutely neceffary to our doing our duty acceptably, then all the arguments which prefs us to the one, the performing of our duty, do alto oblige us to the other ; that is, to ufe our confiant fincere endeavours, that we may underftand it. If our acceptance with God, and our eternal falvation depends on faith, and the fruits of it, virtue, tempe- rance, patience, godlinefs, and charity, and none of thefe can poffibly have a being, nor can we grow in them, without knowledge, I don't fee that a greater necefl'ity can be laid on any thing. Itis true, the immediatemoral obligation that lies upon men, is to pradife what they know, and themolt heinous kind ofwickednefs is to fin againft knowledge ; yet fence the knowledge of the will of God is placed within our reach, and fince he has indued us with capacities, and afforded us means in order to attain it, there muff be an obligation on us to improve thofe capacities, and to ufe thofe means
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