Of acknowledging God in all our Ways. 321 employs their anxious thoughts ; becaufe they SERM. know their own weaknefs, their liablenefs to XII. error, and that multitudes of thofe who join L"m"" with them in the fame religious profeffion, yet are really felf-deceived, being difòbedient, habitually infincere, to good works reprobate or difapproved, as not fulfilling them, and at Taft, come fhort of the rill which remains to the people of God, through what the apoftle calls unbelief; that is, a prevailing hardened uncompliance with, and unfubmif ion of heart to, the laws of God and his terms of acceptance. But it is not only the intention of a good man fo far to walk in the path of righteoufnefs as to fecure his felicity in a fu- ture Bate ; he loves virtue for its own fake, and afpires ílill to higher meafures of it, as the increafing glory and perfection of his na- ture ; and by all the motives of religion he finds himfelf determined, not to reft con- tented with low attainments, but after the example of St. Paul*, forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forth unto thofe things which are before, preing towards the mark, for the prize of the high calling cf God in Chill `7efus. Now, fuch direction God has graciaufly given his fervants encou- * Philip iii. 13. VOL. II. Y ragement
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