Ito Of acknowledging God in all our trays'. GERM. though not at all inconfiftent, but conneéted XII. together, yet they may be confidered fepa- X--v'rately, and both make the right direction of our paths highly neceffay. We may, I fay, confider ourfelves as moral agents, and as ra- tional beings determined to intend and to purfue our own happinefs by all proper and reafonable methods in our power. The for- mer is the higheft character of man, whereby he is difinguifhed from other fenfitive crear tures. We have naturally a fenfe of right and wrong, of moral good and evil, and find ourfelves under an obligation to avoid the one and do the other; the original of which obli- gation I íhall not now inquire into, but fup- pofe it known to us all, and that it is our purpofe to fatisfy it, particularly, according to the chriftian laws and profeßîon. Now, to every one who is fo convinced and fin- cerely difpofed, it mutt appear of very great moment to have our paths well direEted, that is, to be put and kept in fuch a temper of mind and tenor of converfation, as to amount to true virtue and religion, or intitle us to the cb .railer of ChrUl's fincere and approved dif ciples. This is to good men the object of their careful and confiant attention ; there is nothing fo high in their efteem ; nothing fo employs
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