L s$] SERMON III. The Ways of WISDOM, Ways of PLEASANTNESS. PROVERBS III. 17. Her ways are ways of pleafantnefs, and all her paths are peace. S E R M. A S the main fubjeft of this book is III wifdom or religious virtue, the au- ` thor ufeth many arguments to engage men to the Rudy, the choice, and the pra &ice of it ; one argument I very lately explained in a difcourfe on the 6th verfe of the 8th chap- ter, that the things of wifdom are excellent and right things : Another is contained in the text, which I (hall now confider : Her ways are ways of plea fantnef , and all her paths are peace. This properly followeth the other, and between the two there is a connexion, for pleafure naturally followeth efleem ; and whatever is apprehended to be excellent, yieldeth delight even in the con- templation, much more in the poffeffion. If
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