t á Of acknowledging God in all our ¡Pays. SERM. rifled, the d( obedient, and to good works re. XII. probate, that, though they profefs to know 4t`ß God, or in words acknowledge him, yet, in reality and in works, they deny him. The notices of his will or the work of his law is written upon our hearts in fo plain characters, that it is utterly imppfl'ible to reconcile a wicked courfe of life to an áffehionate and lively fenfe of him upon our minds. But, the man who would praftically and ponftantly acknowledge God in his ways, fo, as to enjoy the approbation of God and of his Own confcience, ought to çonfider the extent of his law both in its precepts and prohi- bitions : That it not only requires an ab. ftinence from grofs crimes, and the regularity of our external ations ; but enjoins alfo a heavenly, a pure, a fpirituall a virtuous tem- per of mind upon all occafions; to preferve which a conftant and careful attention to our hearts, the courfe of our affections and our thoughts, will be neceffary. The law of God is alfo exceeding broad or extenfive in another refpe&, that is, it takes within its dire &ion all our affairs, every important ar- ticle of bufinefs, all our cbunfels, our deli - berat e defigns and meaíùres. Whatever the articular objeç of our defires and purfuits be,
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