30¢ Of acknowledging God in all our Ways. SERM. all imported in Solomon's comprehenfive ex= XII. hortation here, in all thy ways acknowledge `./whim, which I (hall endeavour to explain in the following difcourfe ; and then I will con- fider, Secondly, the confequent great advantage which is faid to attend our thus acknowledg- ing God in our ways, namely, that he will direct our paths. Firji, the exhortation is, in all thy ways acknowledge God, that is, in ail thy defigns and affairs, all thy deliberate actions and courfes of action, for that is the meaning of our ways, morally confidered, and accord- ing to the Rile of the fcripture. If the hu- man life contains a variety of powers capable of being exercifed with defign, if we can refle& upon this fo as to difcern the ends of our nature, with its various parts, and the dependence it has upon God, that our powers are wholly derived from him, and preferved by him in a condition of exerting themfelves, for he works in us to will and to do, of his good pleafure, that he has interpos'd by his law to direél our manner of acing, thereby intending wifely and molt effekually to carry us on to our highefl perfe&ion and happinefs, and that the divine Providence fuperintends the
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