Eft nee fary to the attaining of if 110 nothing. We ought to examine our pious S E R M. inclinations after this manner, what is it VII. they terminate upon ? Is it the beauty holinefs ifelf ? And are they more prevailing in the mind than other inclinations ? idly, Love naturally fheweth itfelf in the complacency which the mind taketh in the enjoyment of, or even in meditating upon, the beloved objes: Thus the love of wif- dom is teftified by delighting in it, and this Solomon requireth as the neceffary condition of obtaining it, and partaking of its happy fruits, Prov. ü, to, f i. When wifdom enter- eth into thine heart, and knowledge is plead ¡ant unto thy foul, difretion (hall preferve thee, underflanding (hall keep thee. We may obferve that this is one ingredient in the fentimenfs and difpofitions of the pious, David often exprefreth his great fatisfaí`.tion in the way of Gods teßimonies, which are the ways of wifdom, he rejoiced in them more than in riches. Pfal. cxix. 14. And made them his fangs in the houfe of his pilgrimage. yob alfo maintained his integrity by this plain evidence of it, that he delighted in God, which he could not do without delighting in his law, nay, he faith expref ly that he eJleemed the divine precepts more than his ne- r, far, food. And though the pleafures of N z religion
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