3c:1$ Walking with Trip Ment, . SE Rm. and feel it in ourfelves ;- the things to which XII. we were merely indifferent, perhaps difin- ""v"--' dined, or thought them fcarcely praticable, when we fee them done before our eyes, we are immediately inflamed with a delire of doing them ourfelves. As to the practice of virtue, in particular, the influence of exam- ple may be thus accounted for ä it is ren- dered familiar to us, and appeareth very amiable when fet before us in fuch a lively and affefting, manner. As a good pi&ure ííriketh the mind with a greater force, and giveth a more lively idea of the objeét re- prefented by it, than any defcription by words can do;. fo to reprefent religion in pre cepts, Both not fo powerfully move the af- fe Lions as when we fee it delineated in life.. The beauty of holinefs mutt appear very great to any one who underftandeth it, and power- fully attract the defires ; but in the pre - fent imperfection of human nature, and when . we have fo many contrary inclinations, this prejudice lieth againft it, that it feemeth extremely difficult, which prejudice is re- moved by example ; for we are thereby convinced, that it is not a lovely phantom made to entertain a curious imagination, but that there is a reality in it, and that it is praéticable in human life. The example of God
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