confidered under the Notion of W fdom. 15 re ±ion, chap. iv. 20. My fon, attend to my S E x m. words ; incline thine ear to my fayings. A I. rafh, inconfiderate, thoughtlefs condu ±, `'t muff come fhort of religion, becaufe it is unworthy of wifdom ; for, it is plain, by all the notions which our reafon fuggefteth to us of the Deity, he will molt approve his reafonáble creatures when they ad the mofi deliberately, and have impartially confidered all things which ought to determine them, . in order to their making the belt choice they can. It followeth then, that the more precipitately we ad, Rill the lefs religiouíly, if religion be indeed wifdom and always when we find ourfelves vehemently prefect to any defigns or meafures, fo as to exclude confideratìon, which is often the unhappi- nefs of men, we have the more reafon to fufpet that our minds are under an undue influence, and in a tempted Rate ; for con federation leadeth to virtue and religion, but the views of 'fin and folly fhun it as a mortal enemy. The fecond obfervation from the account which this book giveth us of religious vir- tue, and the light in which it places it as wifdom, is, that a good man ufeth forefight, . and looketh to the laft iß'ue of things, that fa
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