32 a Of acknowledging God in all our Ways. SERM. ragement to hope for ; as their defire of it it XII. certainly agreeable to his will, and all men tin who even by the light of nature had worthy and becoming notions of the Deity, thought he would and did interpofe in human affairs for that end, fo we are aßùred exprefsly, that it is the defign of the gofpel to guide our feet in the paths of peace. It is an important ar- ticle of the new covenant he has made with his people, that he will caufe them to walk in his flatutes and keep his judgments, which ftrongly reprefents the kind affiftance he gives them for that end. Another capacity in which we may con- fider ourfelves is that of rational creatures in- tending and purfuing our own happinefs. This, as I obferved before, has a connexion with the former ; for furely our greateft hap - pinefs depends on our moral charaé}er, and virtue is the folid foundation, indeed, the immediate fource of our higheft enjoyment; yet they admit of a diftint confideration, and the Taft is more extenfive. The human life comprehends a great va- riety of powers and affections, to every one of which there is a fuitable enjoyment an- nexed. The fenfes, the imagination, the un-, derftanding, have all their lèveral pleafures belonging
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