r¢ lZeligion and llirlue, S R R M. whole, appeareth to be the jufteft and dad I. beat. From which it is a plain confequence, that the more calm and fedate, the more deliberate and free our minds are in aling, our conduft is the wifer and the better. For a man to Rumble into the right road, or be hurried with vehemence, without con fadering whether he goeth, or what he is doing, is not worthy to be called either wife or good. A contrary accident or imó pulfe, for any thing in him to prevent it, might as well have driven him the oppofite way. And in this confifteth the folly of a wicked courfe of life, that the unhappy fanner, as the prophet fpeaketh, Ifaiah xlvi, 8. doth not flew himfelf a man; he doth not aft, according to the privilege of his nature, as the refult of a calm inquiry into the motives of alion, but rather is afted upon by external objefts, driven by his ap- petites and paons, the weight which moves the brutal kind, or as if human na- ture were meerly a piece of mechanifm. Solomon's account is this, chap. xiv. 8. That it is the wifdom of the prudent to underfland his way ; and ver. i ç. The (ample believeth every word, but the prudent man looketh well to his goings. Therefore he giveth this di- re&ion
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